Rylund Johnson
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Debates of
, 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 161)
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Yeah, so essentially, we are having a debate to whether move the motion which will then have an emergency debate, emergency debate. We are given ten minutes each, and then it kind of includes there's no actual official outcome of an emergency debate or any motions or anything concluded. I was not given any previous notice of this. Reading what the emergency debate would be, would be the GNWT to ensure Indigenous governments are involved and that GNWT's response to end the current wildfire emergency. I believe no one is opposed to that occurring. That is all what we...
Debates of
, 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 161)
Mr. Speaker, will you just let the seconder speak first perhaps. Thank you.
Debates of
, 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 161)
Yeah, thank you, Madam Chair. You know, I guess at this time I'm wondering if perhaps we could get a commitment of a detailed costing breakdown to be provided. I know, I believe in our capital infrastructure the GNWT is asking for 10s of million dollars for some new planes we were buying. There was some other I think there's about 50 million or there's 10s of millions for a fire centre. There's a lot of big other ticket items. Obviously going forward, we will probably adjust the fire suppression budget and perhaps have a date about or a debate about more, you know, prevention and more...
Debates of
, 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 161)
Yeah, thank you, Madam Chair. I'll just have a couple kind of technical questions. I'm wondering if the Minister has any ability to put this kind of into how much we are spending per day or per week? I get you're asking well, it's $100 million total but, you know, if I had to wager a guess we've probably spent the vast majority of that in the last week or two. I'm just trying to get a sense of, you know, the pace at which we are spending. Is there any of that detail that could be provided? Thank you.
Debates of
, 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 161)
Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm just wondering if the Minister can provide us an update of the initial fire suppression budget and what this initial or this additional $75 million brings us up to as a total and then perhaps try to answer the question whether we think this is the grand total or whether another supplementary appropriation may be coming. Thank you.