Rylund Johnson

Yellowknife North

Statements in Debates

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 125)

Yeah, thank you. I guess I heard that well, there's two projects here and now they're going to be put together, and I get there was some relocation due to flooding and we actually haven't secured federal funding I heard yet. So can I just get 20252026 seems pretty ambitious to build a whole new LNG plant that we don't have money for yet. So is that timeline realistic? Thank you.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 125)

Thank you. I'll just ask one more question that illustrates my frustration with the lack of transparency. I hear we're spending $40 million. Well, maybe it won't be frustrate me, but can someone tell me how much you're presently asking for or how much we plan to spend in this next fiscal? I can't see how that has any affect on procurement for me to know how much money you're presently asking the Assembly for. Thank you.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 125)

No further questions. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 125)

Yeah, thank you. I guess I'll try and get some numbers out of the department. I'm going to ask about the Slave Geological AllWeather environmental assessment and planning, which I we're going to do I see that it's been changed to finish planning for 20272028 for the first phase to Lockhart Lake. I also see that there's some federal money there. I'm not sure that the procurement concern applies so much to planning. I can kind of not really understand it for, you know, the actual building, but is someone willing to tell me how much we are going to spend on planning and how much money we got...

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 125)

Yeah, thank you. I guess I'll ask the same question about the $35 million we're spending this fiscal. Can someone tell me where that money is coming from. Thank you.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 125)

Thank you. I'm happy to hear that. I guess I believe that dashboard will address a lot of the concerns I have about, you know, trying to find some public information on asset management planning, deferred maintenance, kind of where we're at with that money. But I'm not sure it'll necessarily address the other concern I have which is that there's a fear that if we publicly state the cost of any project before tender in this House it's going to obstruct the tendering process. So the document I'm looking at right now doesn't tell us the cost of anything we are voting on. And I'm just wondering if...

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 125)

Yeah, thank you. And I guess I'll just one last question about the $2.5 million under information technology projects here. So is the current split of when I see something in Finance and when I see something in Infrastructure just a hardwaresoftware split? Is it all of does Infrastructure ever have software show up in this IT budget line or would this well, yeah, I guess the Minister's going to get back to me whether this is all evergreening or current physical infrastructure. But is that the general split, that you guys get the hardware and they get the software? Is that what's happening...

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 125)

Thank you, Madam Chair. I guess I'll start with some comments that I find the capital plan estimates to be one of the unworkable documents ever, and I get that first and foremost it is a Finance document, not an Infrastructure document. But as an example, we require every municipality to have asset management plans we are trying to get them all to have asset management plans. And they're great documents. They tell you the total replacement cost of every single asset they own. They kind of give you a timeline for construction. And I know the department has a lot of stuff inhouse. You know...

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 125)

Yeah, thank you, Madam Chair. You know, I guess, well I would like to know how much we actually spend on our server infrastructure. I believe it's something actually higher than $2.5 million, and if not, tens of millions to replace it. But the whole point of this was leading to a question of I was wondering if the GNWT has looked into any cloudbased computing. I know that the federal government now has a cloudfirst policy after the Treasury Board did an analysis and said that, you know, getting rid of their physical servers and switching to a cloudbased model would save them tens of millions...