Jane Weyallon Armstrong

Thank you. This is further to the Frank Channel bridge, Dehk'e. It says here the completion date is going to be 20262027. And now that we know that the contract was you know, the engineer contract was awarded that, you know, it's just been mentioned. So I just wanted to ask when is the actual work going to start for the construction of the Frank Channel bridge?

Thank you, Madam Chair. Yes, I see here North Arm. I know territory park accessible shower and electrification. I know this project has been ongoing for quite some time, and I know my colleague did ask too, do you have an estimated date of when this project will be completed? It says 20242025. I know it's not going to be this. But it's just that do we have a date and how much is it going to cost?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, many of these houses, just like she said, yes, they are over 50 years old. No social worker or nurses or teachers coming from the south would want to live in many of these condemned houses. And many of our people are living in those units, and nothing is being done. And there's a lot of boarded up houses in my community in my region as well. So that is why I'm pushing for all those units, if they can change the status from market rental to public housing unit because Tlicho government and other organizations are providing housing for many of their staff...

Mr. Speaker, thank you, Mr. Speaker. This is a question for the housing, for housing. Mr. Speaker, I understand about the process, and they are the Ministers. They can direct. We know that nothing gets done without their input or their direction. So I want to ask the Minister, can the Minister of Housing NWT explain why her department doesn't have a policy supporting the sale of market rental units. I still have currently there are some constituents who are living in a market rental housing in my region, and they would like to become a homeowner, and they have been living in those units for...

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, I know that this one, it's phase 1 and phase 2, but phase 1 was an important part of this legislation. Phase 1 is the one that, you know, that included to work with the Indigenous government. And I still feel that this Minister missed the opportunity of working with the Indigenous government to modernize the Education Act. This was a step for us, for especially with the Indigenous government and this would have been a good start to the reconciliation. And they missed that. They missed that opportunity. And that is why a lot of Indigenous government, they...

Okay, I see here there's major retrofit, two units for public housing. There's two in Behchoko and one in Whati. And I said this morning too that, you know, in all the Northwest Territories, I know there's housing crisis and even in Behchoko alone, we have a housing crisis where I have there's a family there is a family, there's it's not just this family but there are other family, but this one has seven kids. Seven children, age ranging from 13 years old to one years old that are homeless in my community. And we have lots of housing that need retrofit too as well. There's some houses that...

Thank you. Yes, I know that with it would be nice if there was a Tlicho region. All the projects that they're going to be working on within this coming upcoming fiscal year identified, it would have been great because I think I know that my the people in my region, they would like to know. And there's a lot of we have a lot of people there with their own business that they would you know, if they were aware of some of these things, I think they would plan better because all we see in this budget is a small project, not large projects. And there's no other they don't identify what is...

Yeah, another one too is that so who will be supplying all the materials for the constructions? Like, from the steel to the gravel and all that, you know, to build the to build the bridge? Like, I just wanted to know, because it should will it be supplied by the Indigenous government?

Okay, thank you. I know this year was we had some people staying in North Arm Park area this year. And same thing like what my colleague said regarding the washroom, because I did hear quite a few complaints from the local as well because people are using that area, and the outhouse is in terrible condition. And there was a lot of complaint. And I did send an email to the Minister on that that if there is a contractor, whoever's looking after it should be going out there. And we do we're aware of the fire ban and all those things, but that place was very popular this year. And, you know, to...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we lived here forever and we survived, you know. And it is not right the government determining or making you know, going directly and saying people are making a decision of who can and cannot afford the housing. So I just want to ask the Minister would the Minister consider giving existing public units to the people who live in them and use the money and use the money that's saved to build more houses in small communities. We do need more houses in small communities. We have people that are on the waitlist. I have families. There's five families that...