Caitlin Cleveland

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, the Standing Committee on Social Development has advocated for improvements to education in the Northwest Territories over the life of the Assembly. While Bill 81 represents just phase 1 of the department's proposed improvements to education, which focus on operational and administrative amendments, the committee, along with overwhelming public concurrence, was disappointed in the phased approach. The phased approach lacked a thorough engagement process in which to inform meaningful change to address the uneven and poor state of education in the territory.

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Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, your Standing Committee on Social Development is pleased to provide its report on Bill 75, Council for Women and Gender Diversity Act.

Mr. Speaker, I move, seconded by the Member for Great Slave, that Committee report 7219(2), Standing Committee on Social Development report on Bill 75: Council for Women and Gender Diversity Act, be deemed read and printed in Hansard in its entirety. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

A short question. Would the approval of this create room to pay for additional resident and business supports for people who are evacuated from the territory? Thank you.

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. So if one of the things that we're relying on in order to meet our targets is for mines to actually shut down but, on the other hand, we're going out, and we're proactively trying to get mines to open up and do more in the Northwest Territories, how are we ultimately going to reach this goal if all of a sudden one of our hands gets what it wants and it has a direct impact on the other hand? So I'm wondering if the Minister can speak to how we're actually going to support both development in the Northwest Territories and our energy and climate change goals and...

Thank you very much, Madam Chair. The Minister spoke briefly to conversations with the federal government, and I'm wondering if some conversations with the federal government are occurring and hopefully gaining some success in giving us some advanced payments on some of the dollars that we've spent that they know that they're going to be reimbursing us down the road. I know that it sometimes takes years for those payments to catch up. And are these conversations progressing, and would those dollars actually help this situation that we find ourselves in now so that our purse strings aren't...

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my questions today are for the Minister of Environment and Climate Change. Mr. Speaker, I'm wondering to start off if the Minister can confirm what GNWT department is ultimately responsible for climate action mitigation here in the Northwest Territories? Thank you.

Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, so I'm wondering if the Minister can explain in greater detail why we have a need for like, this is different than our normal sups that we get. Normally when we get a sup, it's to pay for something. And this one here, it expands our increases our borrowing limit, and so I'm wondering if the Minister can speak to, in more detail for the public, what that is, why it's needed, and then I'll have more questions after that, please, as a start. Thank you.

Madam Chair, I move that the chair rise and report progress. Thank you.

Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, I've got about a minute left, and so I'm wondering there's about a hundred units here out of the stock of 2,700, how many are still waiting or in need of major retrofits in order to bring our housing stock out of core need? Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, Bill 81, An Act to Amend the Education Act, No. 2, received second reading in the Legislative Assembly on March 30th, 2023, and was referred to the Standing Committee on Social Development for review. The standing committee held a public hearing in Yellowknife on May 31st, 2023. The committee then travelled to Inuvik, Norman Wells, and Deline from June 6th to the 9th, 2023, for further engagement on the bill.

The public hearings in communities were very well attended with empassioned concerns expressed from residents. The committee met with the chief and...