Kieron Testart

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So I think these kinds of benefits, these tax benefits, are really effective mechanisms for the government to get money into the pockets of the people and to allow those people to spend back into the local economy. So we have several new forms of taxation that we know are going to come down; well, two, I should speak to directly, cannabis and carbon. Both of those have a stated public policy objective. The revenues we use from that in many jurisdictions, especially in the context of carbon, they've created new tax benefits to put some of those revenues back into the...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So is this going to be managed on kind of a casebycase basis, or is there an estimate of how much MTS will require for labour relations support? Do we have an estimate at this point of what percentage of the $400,000 appropriation will be going to support MTS? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to the Minister. For the NWT Child Benefit, now that it has been increased, which I greatly support, the data that has been increased, we see that it has gone up to $2.2 million, and that number is again staying consistent. Is all of the cash going out to as many people as it can, or are there some people who are not benefitting from it because they are not filing taxes? Do we have an uptake problem, or is this just as good as it is going to get for lower income people out there? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. In the Minister's opening comments, he spoke to a $400,000 appropriation to enhance capacity to deal with labour relations issues and ensure that the GNWT is wellpositioned in an increasingly complex environment. Can the Minister elaborate on what that appropriation is going to accomplish? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I am looking at the cost-of-living tax credit on page 154, and the amounts look to be stable between this year and the last fiscal year, but a decrease from the actuals in 20162017, so I am just wondering what was the cause of that decrease? Obviously, it is fewer people receiving the benefit, but does this number only change when fewer people are drawing from it, thus representing fewer people in the Territories as a total? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. On page 143 under "activity description," the bottom paragraph speaks to shared corporate services having a responsibility for requests under the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act. How does shared corporate services function in this capacity, and how does it differ from what work is done in the Department of Justice? Thank you.

Is the Minister in a position to share his good idea of those costs today? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have a written question for the Minister of Justice. Can the Minister of Justice please advise this House on the following?

The number of land transfers per year by community in the Northwest Territories over the past 10 years for which data is available; and

The dollar value of transferred lands per year by community in the Northwest Territories over the past 10 years for which data is available.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you. Are we going to be dealing with these costs by way of supplementary appropriation when the legislation is passed? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

That is great news. Is the Minister in a position to commit to returning back to the House with an update on this work on looking into establishing a youth council? Can we get a commitment that he will bring this back to the House after he has done his work to look at this project?