Bob Bromley

Thank you. I would ask the Sergeant-at-Arms to please escort the witnesses into the House.

I would ask the Minister to please introduce his witnesses.

Let me just read out the specs, I guess. Environment and Natural Resources, activity summary, corporate management, grants and contributions, contributions, $65,000. Agreed.

Thank you, Mr. Krutko. Minister Miltenberger.

Thank you, Minister. I would like to ask you if you would like to have witnesses join you in the House.

Mr. Speaker, the Minister is the lead Minister here for this strategy and participants. They’ve held workshops. Participants have brought forward these very measures. They have said we need better energy efficiency standards and building energy efficiency standards provided as a tool in this Greenhouse Gas Reduction Strategy. Is the Minister proposing to include that and what work is he doing to measure what that will get us in greenhouse gas reductions? Thank you.

Last question, again I’m wondering what the mechanism is for capturing those lessons. Presumably some of them could be transferable to other regions and communities. Is that something that’s passed along through the NWT association, for example? I’m wondering what the mechanisms are for that.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just wondering what the plan is for the additional expenditures in contribution funding for NWT Association of Communities, Local Government Administrators and the Arctic Energy Alliance.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We need to establish territory-wide building standards to meet the cost and climate changes of today. Currently, this government builds to a standard 25 percent better than the national model building codes. The GNWT’s Good Building Practices for Northern Facilities 2009 guidebook establishes this standard as a condition of RFP for all territorial government construction.

Under its municipal authority, the City of Yellowknife has set similar high energy-efficiency standards. That’s the extent of mandatory energy efficiency standards in the NWT. Outside Yellowknife, all...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just want to reference the latest amendment to the Commissioner’s Land Act. I note that regional land staff assist community governments with community land administration planning activities and administer leases for Commissioner’s lands. Has all our regional staff been brought up to speed and what is the mechanism for informing staff to make sure that they’re up to date on our legislation? Thank you.

Mr. Chairman, does every LHO get some support from the stabilization fund or is it just sort of those that have these specific problems?