Robert Hawkins

I'll gladly accept that update. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I'm wondering if the Minister can elaborate it says, for example, $308,000. Can she elaborate to what specifically that is. I mean, I can read it says NWT film and media sector, but is it to is it treated as a grant? Is it treated as to backfill something? Is it a position? Is it that type of so we'll start with that. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my question will be directed to the Premier of the Assembly.

Last week the Members passed a motion with respect to the wildfire inquiry question and, of course, you know, we don't have to go through that debate in my preamble, Mr. Speaker, but the ask was would the Premier be willing to table the draft inquiry establishment order on the first day of session and hence, that's the question, would the Premier commit publicly to being able to clearly do that as requested by the Members of this House? Thank you.

Is there any reason why the Minister of Justice couldn't answer that today considering he's literally a very good folded paper plane throws' away? I mean, I could, you know I mean, he's right in front of me. Is there any reason he couldn't answer that question?

Well, it's my understanding that some of these reconciliations and costs, in other words knowing exactly what it costs and then submission of the final portion of our application to get some money back from Canada, there will be an assessment and accounting of those costs. So is the Minister saying that it's fully been costed out or costed, paid for, and reconciled and submitted for the transparency of our public accounts, or is it still being worked on? I'm asking when can that when would that be available? Thank you.

Okay. So these are permanent moving forward positions, and the Minister said she'd get back to us with respect to if they're currently staffed or not staffed in that sense.

The other aspect of questioning here is if we're staffing nine new positions, that's great. That said, how many have been requested? And I assume these are the nine that are proved moving forward. So how many in total have been requested? And obviously the difference is the number that are unfunded or not being funded. Thank you.

Thank you. So just to be clear, whether just for me or potentially others, this $24 million is anticipated or sorry, is going to be used for the cost to fire fighting the fire, but the money received to date isn't applied directly to that overall cost?

It's okay. No, thank you, I think I understood it now. It's this $841,000 is intended to pay our 48 percent of the overall funding for that fiscal year for the nine new members. And I'm seeing a nod. That's fine, okay.

That said, are these permanent positions, just to clarify moving forward? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I see that there's $24 million plus earmarked for the fire suppression. This is supplementary funding. Is the so this is on top of what's also been provided earlier. Can the Minister start the this round of questioning off with clarifying how much to date has been allocated for the I'm assuming last year's firefighting season? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just wanted to follow up ever so briefly on that. It looks like we're missing a the Minister may have said it, but we got Aklavik, Dettah, Fort Good Hope, two in Fort Smith, one KDFN, one for Whati, and one for Fort McPherson. That gives us eight. Did we miss one, or is it actually eight members? That's the first question.