Caitlin Cleveland

Member Kam Lake

Minister of Industry, Tourism and Investment
Minister of Education, Culture and Employment

The Honourable Caitlin Cleveland was first elected in the 19th Assembly as the MLA for Kam Lake in 2019, and has served as the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment, and Minister of Industry, Tourism and Investment since 2023 after being acclaimed to the 20th Assembly. 

In addition to owning and operating a northern business for over 20 years, Minister Cleveland worked in a variety of communications and policy roles in both the public and private sectors before entering politics. 

Between 2019 to 2023, she chaired the Standing Committee on Social Development, fulfilling a goal to be a part of the discussions and decisions affecting social programs in the Northwest Territories. Her noteworthy work on the Committee included guiding the considerable review and input into recommendations on housing in the NWT, suicide prevention, and improvements to caring for children in care and building supported families. 

Within the scope of her portfolios, Minister Cleveland is focused on helping children grow into successful NWT residents that recognize opportunities and develop successful careers that contribute to a growing economy. She advocates for new approaches to sector diversification and innovation, and ensures the North is welcoming both skilled foreign workers and investment in the critical mineral resources across the territory. She persistently explores solutions for efficient and equitable access to programs and services, upholding a shared vision of an NWT where people are supported in the ways they wish to live, work, and grow. 

Minister Cleveland is a lifelong resident of Yellowknife where she lives with her husband and their three children.

Kam Lake Electoral District

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Minister of Education, Culture and Employment Minister of Industry, Tourism, and Investment

Statements in Debates

Debates of , 20th Assembly, 1st Session (day 24)

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I'd be more than happy to commit to the Member to sharing the schedule of Mining Week on my Facebook page to ensure that people have access to it. But there's everything from virtual events so that people can participate across the territory. There's also rock walks happening so people can get out and hold some cool rocks, and believe me, there's a ton of them out there. There are also site tours for lift and lithium, which is a pretty big deal in the North Slave region at the moment and one we definitely want to make sure that people have the...

Debates of , 20th Assembly, 1st Session (day 24)

Sorry, Mr. Chair. Can the Member be more specific about what he's looking for. At ITI, we don't do mine training, per se, you know, as ECE might, and don't have mining positions, but this is the section that houses our Pathfinders if that's what the Member is looking for.

Debates of , 20th Assembly, 1st Session (day 24)

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, the primary driver of that is we have a visitors centre that's actually located outside of the Northwest Territories in the Yukon. It's the Dempster Delta Visitor Information Centre. It is in a -- on a piece of land in a building that we leased, and the Indigenous government on whose land that sits would like that facility back. And so that facility is going to be no longer. And ITI is looking at other ways that it can ensure that visitors to the area and to the region have access to information about the Northwest Territories. So, for example, in the...

Debates of , 20th Assembly, 1st Session (day 24)

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. So, Mr. Chair, the line item that's towards the top of the page, the Canadian Agriculture Partnership, the GNWT was able to renegotiate that deal and it resulted in actually an increase which is now found at the very bottom of the page under the Sustainable Canadian Agriculture Partnership. And that agreement is to the tune of $7.6 million over the lifetime of the agreement, and you can see here that it has gone up from the -- what was allotted under the Canadian Agriculture Partnership. So for 2024-2025, it's sitting just over $1.5 million. Thank you.

Debates of , 20th Assembly, 1st Session (day 24)

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Yellowknife.

Debates of , 20th Assembly, 1st Session (day 24)

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, of course I couldn't speak directly to the correlation, but what I can say is every year while the mineral incentive policy is fully subscribed that not every year are all of those dollars spent. Sometimes at the end of the year companies have to give those dollars back because they weren't able to spend them how they originally anticipated. But I would say the best thing that we can do to continue to increase exploration in the territory is continue to have good conversation like this, continue to make sure that we are participating in events...

Debates of , 20th Assembly, 1st Session (day 24)

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. So, Mr. Chair, microclusters are these basically, like, individual business entities that kind of grow and generate themselves within different communities. So, for example, you know, if I travelled to community X, Y, Z, and they're saying, you know, we're really interested in getting agriculture going, we really see the potential, and that starts to generate and you end up with this microcluster of an agriculture industry within that one community that grows and supports itself and evolves from there, and Hay River is a great example of that where, you know...

Debates of , 20th Assembly, 1st Session (day 24)

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, it's all assessment work that gets reviewed by our professional geologists, and there are specific reporting requirements that they have to adhere to at the end of their program. And so because the geologists are well versed in the sector and aware of what costs should come in at, there's a natural vetting that takes place in that process. Thank you.

Debates of , 20th Assembly, 1st Session (day 24)

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. So, Mr. Chair, in 2024-2025, the main estimates are $500,000 investment for the contributions for the film rebate program. And in the following year for 2025-2026, the investment would go up another $500,000 to $1 million investment. Thank you.

Debates of , 20th Assembly, 1st Session (day 24)

Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I don't have that level of information. But I'm going to look to my colleagues here. And can I pass it to the deputy minister. Thank you.