Deputy Premier
Statements in Debates
Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, I would suggest that asking about the contingency plans for GNWT's, and really the NWT's energy security, is probably a reasonable question for every community in the Northwest Territories. I don't know that there's anything particularly more or less urgent here. You know, the current plant does still have life. It is still functional in that regard. It is at least at the planning stage to move forward for a more secure long term and sustainable location. We, you know, again are taking that message to the federal government because any projects that we had...
Thank you, Madam Chair. Well, it would depend. And it would depend, again, if I mean, and, really, there are other steps that we could take to ensure that we remain in compliance. If the advance from the federal government were to come in, if other anticipated transfer amounts come in, and that offsets, you know, the outlays of cash that are going out by bringing in more, then we may not find ourselves in as difficult a position. Right now, that's our projection is that over the course of this fall, we will need something extra and if we didn't have that something extra then, yes, we wind up...
Thank you, Madam Chair. I don't think there's any limitations to doing so under cover of confidentiality subject to being corrected. But assuming that that's fine.
Thank you, Madam Chair. I in the last few years of sitting here, I have not seen anything come across in the capital plans that would have considered as a ferry option, so I don't know what the full history of that might be. But I can tell you with respect to the other part of the question and public consultation, there actually have been some recent public consultations in the region around specifically the land and the access and the lead points on the bridge. Thank you.
Mr. Martin, please.
Yes, I do, Madam Chair.
Thank you, Madam Chair. I don't have a Fort Providence campground in the capital plan. So there isn't anything anticipated for Fort Providence in the 20242025 plan. I'm not sure if there was maybe a surrounding area campground, if that's what the question was about. But nothing for the community of Fort Providence. Thank you.
Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, I'm going to go to ADM Brennan one more time and it certainly can yes, let's do that for now, please.
Thank you, Madam Chair. So let me first start with respect to the idea of there being about the borrowing limit, because that is a term that generally is associated to the federallyimposed borrowing limit of $1.8 billion. This is different. So we're not seeking any change to the federallyimposed borrowing limit and, in fact, what we did when we changed the Fiscal Responsibility Policy is rather than kind of you would see over the course of many years, and long before this current government, you know, the Assembly would see sort of creep up towards whatever that federallyimposed borrowing...
Thank you, Madam Chair. I mean, there's transfer from lands to ITI I can say, I believe, was within the last five years. Where and when it became a GNWT asset before that point, I don't know.