Denny Rodgers

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I thank the Ministers and the deputy minister, assistant deputy minister, for those answers. Certainly appreciate that. And wish Mr. Loutitt good luck in his retirement when he's not having to sit here and deal with us anymore. No more questions, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. And thank you for that. I appreciate that work is ongoing, and I appreciate the -- as the deputy minister said, that there's a firm commitment to getting this work done, and I'm sure a lot of contractors and a lot of builders in the territory would be happy to see that.

Just switching for a minute on some of the capital work, and I -- again, if I'm stretching, that's fine, someone can tell me. But on the -- at MTS, I know we did have that one-time contribution, $14 million. I know that that's not budgeted now. Are we happy; are we confident with the number going in...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, this may be a bit of a stretch. I'm not sure if this is the proper department -- in the House in my Member's statement around the new -- a new buildings standards code for the Northwest Territories or a -- not a new one, a one, because we don't have one. And I thought that I guess it is kind of a -- is delivering capital, Mr. Chair. So I don't know if the Minister or not if she has her A-Team here with her would like to maybe elaborate a little more on the -- on where we are with that and anticipating getting that work done, funded and done. Thank you, Mr...

That's disappointing, Mr. Speaker. We had hoped given that, you know, this has been ongoing for quite some time that we had understood that all invoicing would be paused until such time as this work can be completed. Having said that, Mr. Speaker, can the Minister commit to when they're going to finally get this issue put to rest, a timeline on when we can see this proposed change put into place. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, previous Member statements, myself as well as other colleagues, have expressed concerns about cabin leases. Specifically for me, Mr. Speaker, cabin leases on Crown lands in the Inuvialuit settlement region. It's my understanding that in the Inuvialuit final agreements that permits are required on Crown lands that will be provided at no cost. Can the Minister of ECC please give us an update on what's happened with those. I understand, Mr. Speaker, that people are still being invoiced for those cabins. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you for that; that is excellent news. Can the Minister tell me in the meantime, I guess any guidance that is offered if you do have a developer certainly in one of the regions that are reaching out, looking for that kind of information, is there anything currently set up in place that can offer some guidance to contractors or even individuals looking to build. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yeah, and I appreciate that. And, again, and I know from conversations I've had the Premier, with his staff, that it's not -- not that we're not doing any work here, because I -- and I appreciate and I realize they are. And I don't need a response but I'll just read the -- what the Yukon security advisory council had sent out in their press release: A strong and secure North is critical to a strong and secure Canada. The Yukon is at the forefront of issues related to Arctic security and, accordingly, the Government of the Yukon remains committed to working with the...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, as I know the Premier is aware, the Yukon territory has set up an Arctic security advisory council. They've assembled a fairly impressive team there to work on issues around Arctic security. They've got a major -- a retired major general there, Joyce on there, who was -- his career included appointments to the privy council office as a military advisor. They've got Dr. Ken Coates who is chairing that committee. And I think, given what's happening nationally, given the -- you know, we heard today -- I think Minister Blair announced ten NOSH sites, northern -- I...

Thank you. So I guess my second question will be then, so based on the Minister's answer would she commit to certainly having a -- reviewing that design to ensure that that important piece is included in there? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you for the promotion.

Mr. Speaker, we've seen the news articles and we've seen the press releases that there's a change in ownership of Canadian North Airlines, no longer being owned by an Indigenous -- to Indigenous organizations, rather, but now a publicly-traded company. Mr. Speaker, we've yet to see what feffect that will have on the scheduled service, particularly up the Mackenzie Valley into Inuvik where, of course, I live, and it may, Mr. Speaker, invite competition, it may not, but we do know that currently the airport in Inuvik does not have security...