Bob Bromley

Thank you. This is a phrase I’ve heard more often recently and I have constituents coming to me and asking what it means. There’s a lot of confusion about what northern tools refers to. So could we just take a moment? That would be very useful if I could get some idea about what we mean by northern tools. Thank you.

Thank you. What else will that $22.5 million be expected to cover as well as the public consultation aspect? Thank you.

Okay. All of the debt that is not self-financing is the amounts that we pay in interest the cost of that debt indicated on this page, or could the Minister tell me what it is or which ones would fall under that category? Thank you.

I think we talk a lot about development issues and the regulatory process and so on. I know we’ve contemplated a land use framework, I believe it was called, for some amount of time. We apparently have found it equally challenging internally, but does the Premier see any interim solution to this big problem in terms of… What can we do? There is so much of our country that still does not have land use plans and they are so helpful when it comes to considering development proposals. Thank you.

I wonder, could I ask the Minister to provide that. I don’t want it to be an onerous, time-consuming exercise, but if that could be readily pulled out, that would be useful.

That’s all I had. I guess I’ll be looking forward to when an appropriate time has gone by and there is enough substantial experience with this program to getting an update through committee. I appreciate the Minister’s remarks.

That’s all I have on this page. Thank you.

Just in respect to land use plans which are part of the implementation process after settlement, where are we at? I know we got pretty close with the Sahtu. Has that been finalized? If we could just get a little update on the various regions on where we’re at with the land use plans. Thank you.

Okay, so this is obviously a substantial fund. How current are we in terms of knowing what our environmental liabilities are? I imagine we’re moving steadily towards a routine sort of assessment and so on. Are we fairly current on those or are we still catching up with today’s world in that respect?

I know there are certainly lots of issues on the custody aspect of children across the Northwest Territories. There is very clear, new thinking that the emphasis needs to be in place to keep children associated with their families somehow.

In terms of a good result here, is this office helping children stay integrated in a healthy and safe way with their families, recognizing the issues that are being faced here? I think that’s the overall intent of our Child and Family Services Act review and so forth, in which Justice plays a big role.