Kevin O'Reilly

Merci, Madame la Presidente. I wish to table the following document: A news release from Moody's entitled "Moody's Downgrades the Northwest Territories to Aa2, Outlook stable" dated March 9th, 2022. Mahsi, Madam Speaker.

did we vote on the first one? We didn't vote on the first one.

Merci, Madame la Presidente. I want to thank the Minister for that. For some years now, we've been in this interesting situation where the board of directors of the NWT Power Corp are made up of deputy ministers from our government. So can the Minister tell us whether there are any plans to return the utility to a publiclyrun entity, maybe before the end of this century. Mahsi, Madam Speaker.

Yeah, thanks, Mr. Chair. I never thought that a bill about elevators and lifts could get this exciting but, you know, when I actually did read the bill and, you know, there's going to be a registry set up in there and an annual report. It looked like during the drafting of the bill that somebody had just kind of taken somebody else's legislation kind of off the shelf and we had kind of redrafted it. And there wasn't anything in there about any of this kind of being public. And so I want to urge my Cabinet colleagues before you bring forward even something as mundane as an Elevators and Lifts...

Merci, Madam la Presidente. My questions are for the Minister responsible for the Northwest Territories Power Corporation, and I'm not above giving compliments. So my statement detailed the September 11th experience of Yellowknifers beset with a daylong series of six electrical outages. So can the Minister say whether a detailed investigation can underway into this major collapse of electrical supply in our largest community? Mahsi, Madam Speaker.

Nothing further, thanks. But I look forward to raising the issue with the Minister of Infrastructure on her day. Thanks.

Merci, Madame la Presidente. Sunday September 11th may stand out in Yellowknifers' minds as the day of six separate and lengthy power outages. The power blips turned off freezers, ruined dinners, and shut down consumer purchases in stores across the city. It's difficult to assess the damage or impact on expensive electrical appliances, although we know power jolts don't help. The outages even caused the loss of the city's Yellowknife River water intake, due to multiple on/off cycling failures in pumping equipment electronics.

We later learned that power supply from the Snare system was likely...

Yeah, thanks, Mr. Chair. Yeah, I'm anxious to hear more about when that debate/discussion is going to start because it hasn't so far, and can the Minister tell us when it's going to begin. Thanks.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. So is this thing going to be run on a costrecovery basis? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. So can I get a breakdown from the Minister of who's done what and how much it's cost us for this project and right through to the end of it if there needs to be projections. Thanks, Mr. Chair.