Kevin O'Reilly

Thanks, Madam Chair. Yeah, it's not so much "me" I might have some interest but I'd understood committee was interested in getting some calculations or, you know, the value of the lost revenues to this government from things like political contributions as a tax credit. So I'm going to leave this to committee, but I think there's a commitment from the Minister there to ask Canada Revenue Agency for that information if committee wants it. And probably in the interest of full disclosure, that kind of information should start to appear in the full accounts in a more transparent and fuller...

Thanks, Madam Chair. So the other matter that I raised was clearly going back in time now several years for some of these provisions. I just want to get the Minister on record that we didn't actually lose any revenues as a result of these delays or changes or whatever. Thanks, Madam Chair.

Merci, Madam la Presidente. The committee wishes to deal with Bill 62 and Committee Report 3919(2). Mahsi.

Merci, Monsieur le President. I want to thank the Minister for that. And I've got some of the numbers that he was talking about here. As I understand it, there are 840 students in Yellowknife and 135 in Hay River that are rights holders for French first language education. And that doesn't include immigrants, other nonrights holders that are already in the system, and of course there's caps on all of that. But if all these students and their parents exercised their constitutionallyprotected rights, we'd be in real trouble in terms of meeting their educational needs given current facilities.

So...

Thanks, Madam Chair. I move that the chair rise and report progress. Mahsi.

Merci, Monsieur le President. My question is for the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment on Francophone education in the NWT. And probably to the Minister's and my own relief, I am going to be doing them in English.

So Ecole Allain StCyr in Yellowknife is at 90 percent capacity with a trend of increasing enrolment fueled by GNWT supported immigration and retention of students. Can the Minister tell us what triggers planning for a new or expanded school and whether discussions have started with the Commission Scolaire Francophone Territories du NordOuest? Merci, Monsieur le President.

Thanks, Madam Chair. Yeah, why this is important is under our watch, we had the Cantung Mine go into creditor protection, and the federal government had allowed them to put up the Mactung property as financial security. How crazy is that? But our government didn't change that when we took over the site as a result of devolution. Management of or at least environmental management regulation of the site postdevolution. So that's why our government had to go through all of that mess and eventually try to sell Mactung, get some money back. I'm not convinced we're ever going to recover all of our...

Merci, Monsieur le President. My Member's statement is about Francophone education in the Northwest Territories, and I'll deliver it in French so people may want to change to the right channel there. [Translation unavailable]

Yes, thanks, Madam Chair. I just want to highlight what this institutional control program is all about.

In Saskatchewan, the mining that takes place is generally in the northern part of the province. They've got a bunch of abandoned uranium mines there that I guess were federally owned, operated, or regulated and so on; a few gold mines here and there too, but. So they had this problem of these abandoned mines and no way of really trying to deal with them or find funding and so on. So what they did was they thought long and carefully about this, and they talked to people in the mining industry...

Thanks, Madam Chair. Yes, I want to make sure that we have some very hardworking enforcement staff in place now, and I want to make sure that this is not perceived in any way as a criticism of the work that they do. What this is, is a reflection of findings from the environmental audit that took place in 2020 that wanted you know, that pointed out that we want to make sure that there's an adequate inspection, and I'm going to quote here, "ensuring adequate inspection capacity as well as timely and transparent inspections, reporting, and follow up." So in no way is this is a criticism of our...