Robert Bouchard

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Next week we will be having the Energy Charrette. The charrette is meant to look at the cost of power and costs of energy in the Northwest Territories, probably one of the biggest costs that most of our constituents currently have. The government is touting this as the opportunity for us to look at all the solutions for the cost of living, but I’m very concerned.

We had an Energy Charrette a couple of years ago, with limited successes. We talked about a power supply system that would link all our grids together, which we know is now ineffective cost-wise, as well as the...

Page 22, forest management, infrastructure investment, $8.720 million. Mr. Dolynny.

Thank you, deputy minister. Committee, we’re on general comments for Environment and Natural Resources. Committee agrees we’ll go to detail?

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Minister Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen. Minister Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Minister Miltenberger.

Thank you, Minister Miltenberger. Next on my list is Mrs. Groenewegen.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I just have a few statements concerning the biggest project on this budget, which is the purchase of the 802 air tanker fleet replacement. I guess coming into this Assembly, I know they talked about these replacements for a while, so it’s kind of a process of us new MLAs starting and looking into the process of replacing these units. It’s replacing an older fleet that I think we got for minimal dollars. I guess the high cost associated to the purchase of these newer planes, and I know the department’s been looking at this for years because I know the department did some...

Thank you, Mr. Campbell. Mr. Dolynny.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I understand that Cabinet is proud of this program and I understand that Junior Kindergarten is going to be a good thing for some of the small communities that don’t have anything. The question that I have is, it’s being rolled out now, it’s being implemented. Some of these organizations, some of these small communities already know those concerns.

Will the Premier commit to doing some sort of general meeting on Junior Kindergarten with all those people that are being affected, a Junior Kindergarten charrette let’s call it, will the Premier commit to that?