Kevin O'Reilly

Merci, Monsieur le President. Glad that the Minister offered a free advertisement there for people interested in the CRTC and that Cabinet's willing to maybe even nominate some people. That's great.

So when this subject was last raised in this House a couple weeks ago, the Minister committed to write a letter to, quote, "comment upon or to express some concern around this decision," end of quote. So I think the Minister said that she hasn't written the letter but can the Minister actually confirm that she does intend to write this letter, and will she commit to table it in the House before we...

Yeah, thanks, Madam Chair. Well, I'm just looking at, you know, page 141 and the contributions from the Government of the Northwest Territories in 20212022, the actuals were 582. Then it went down to 444 and it stayed there. So why was it higher in 20212022. Maybe there was some extra funding somewhere? But it doesn't look like they've actually received any kind of an increase, forced growth, you know, cost of living, inflation running at 6.3 percent. What's happening here? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Thanks, Madam Chair. So there's an external advisory table for NGOs that EIA had committed to establish, it seems like a long time ago. There was a public call for people to submit names. Where are we at with this, and is this the right activity to ask questions about that? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Merci, Monsieur le President. I want to thank the Minister for that excellent explanation. I said in my statement that while I respect the authority of the CRTC, I disagree with their decision in this case. Can the Minister tell us whether Cabinet is going to do anything about this CRTC decision, and if so, what? Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.

Thanks, Madam Chair. Yeah, I'm going to take the Premier up on that offer. Thanks.

Thanks. So I'm just trying to understand this. So scientific review was probably contracted by the federal government and, you know, it's finished. So why does that have to go through some sort of process with IRC before it's actually made public? Like, the work's finished I presume, but can you shed any light on that for me? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Merci, Monsieur le President. On February 15th, the Canadian Radiotelevision and Telecommunications Commission ("CRTC") announced that it would not review Cabin Radio's application to take its programming on air with a new FM radio station. There are a number of problems with this decision, and it needs to be reversed.

First, while I respect the authority of this quasijudicial regulator, I am concerned with the lack of NWT representation on this body. The legislation establishing the CRTC states that federal cabinet appoints up to 13 members. The only requirements are that an individual must be...

Thanks, Madam Chair. So there's a big difference between a legislative proposal and a bill. Are we actually going to get a bill? Because the legislative proposals usually pretty high level shared with Regular MLAs so there can be some, you know, reaction, initial input. But are we going to get a bill? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Thanks, Madam Chair. I don't really understand why an offshore accord needs to wait for these other things. Can the Premier shed some light on that for me? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Wow, thanks, Madam Chair. I think I'm on the right one now. So I mentioned, in the last Assembly there was a promise to get all the negotiations done by the end of the fouryear life of the Assembly. And the only thing that happened was an agreementinprinciple on selfgovernment for Norman Wells Metis. And so where are we at with negotiations? Look, I fully recognize that COVID was not helpful in terms of meeting and working together and so on. And I'm not asking the Premier to divulge I hope anything that's confidential, but I think there was a mandate commitment to get two agreements. Are we...