Rylund Johnson

Yeah, thank you, Madam Chair. I'm going to repeat myself a couple times but, you know, what kind of happens when we do capital estimates is we have a confidential briefing note that gives you a bit of an update, and then we ask question like such as can someone give us an update of what's going on here. And I get there's a debate about the total amount and procurement; I have made that clear. But could the Department of Infrastructure perhaps look at making some sort of public kind of updating that goes with each capital plan. I just find it frustrating that I have to ask what's going on with...

Thank you. Is it possible to make an estimated cost for the Whati transmission line public yet? Thank you.

Can someone just give me an update on the Fort Simpson LNG plant and whether that is on time and on budget for 20252026 completion?

Thank you, Madam Chair. I recall last year when we were doing this, Lands actually had to carry over a truck because there was a bit of an international supply chain shortage with obtaining trucks. And I also we call at some point during COVID, a few of the dealerships got mad because they were unable to deliver trucks and we ended up going down south for tenders. But I'm just wondering if the department is feeling confident of its ability to now purchase new trucks and hopefully locally if possible. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Yeah, thank you. Okay, I'm glad to hear well, I don't know if I'm glad to hear but I heard a number. We're spending $40 million on the planning. Sorry, but I heard the Minister say estimated completion 2024, and then I'm looking at the page 55, and it says 20272028 so can I just for environmental assessment and planning, when can we expect completion for the first phase to Lockhart Lake? Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I think I kind of understand that. I guess, does the Housing Corporation have a bit of a I mean, there's I'm looking at, you know, $100 million being spent this year and $35 million for next fiscal and, you know, maybe they'll even be more money. But do we have some sort of public facing other than this page capital plan of where things are going. I admit that I think many MLAs have been confused at times with the different funding pools and what's being built where, but is there a bit of a fiveyear outlook of what we're going and how much we're spending. Thank you...

Yeah, thank you, Madam Chair. And I think where I find this especially frustrating is sometimes it's public. The Minister released a news release saying the Frank Channel Bridge cost $50 million, and we got 75 dollars from ICIP, and then, you know, that happens, and now I look at that you know, I heard the Minister say that, you know, we're going through this process and we're going to work with Tlicho, but it's not now clear to me whether that $50 million is a true number and whether we're actually going to be higher. So, you know, I think once it's definitely some sort of public...

Thank you, Madam Chair. So I remember sitting here last year, and there was quite a big fight that the Housing Corp was only spending $10 million on capital. And that's kind of the same number that has appeared in every capital budget. And now I see for the first time revised estimates of the current fiscal we're in, and we're spending $104 million. So it probably would have saved us a lot of time and effort if we knew we were spending $100 million and not $10 million. But can someone just update me on where that money came from. You know, I know this I know we had that $60 million carve off...

Well, I feel like I don't have any more questions other than waiting to see this dashboard. I'm very, very excited about that. I guess well, I'm going to ask some questions about this potential dashboard.

I know that a lot of jurisdictions publish a fiveyear capital plan where it kind of breaks down what's being spent over five years and the year to year amount and kind of what's in the future. We don't presently do that. We don't presently even say how much we're spending in an individual year. Is that the kind of information I could expect in this dashboard? Thank you.

Yeah, and I have raised this with the office of the chief information officer, and I know they're looking into it. And if the lines get blurred, I know as Health goes out and obtains new software, it may or may not be served on our physical servers, or it may be the lines get blurred yet we spend tens of millions of dollars in this area. I guess my next question is considering the money that Infrastructure spends every year on what I consider IT, or what is actually labelled IT, has there been further consideration about whether this should be rolled into Finance? It seems that the overlap...