Caroline Cochrane

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It's a shame to hear that the reserves in the Northwest Territories do not get treated the same as reserves in the south. It's something I do not believe is fair. I will commit that if Salt River Reserve bring forward their questions, their requests for the federal government in this regard, I will carry that forward, as I've carried forward to other Indigenous governments that I've met at the intergovernmental council table and said, let's work together. Tell us what your asks are for the federal government and if it falls within if it's not unethical, immoral or...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'm hoping there aren't any roadblocks at this point. I do know that there was contention over it in previous governments in previous years, and maybe even a bit now, about whose responsibility services are on reserve, because reserves have a special category versus selfgovernments in the NWT. But I think the Member is well aware when she was the Chief, and she brought it to my attention in the last Assembly, and said we've never got a housing program in our reserve since the conception, 50 years Minister Chinna said today. So 48 years then, or something, 46 years. And...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'd like to direct that to the secretary to Cabinet.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. That is my hope, that we have it (audio) Assembly however we're getting some flack on that as well at the working group. It's a matter of and we may have to we're looking at maybe the possibility of bringing in a facilitator to help.

They don't understand the process of the Legislative Assembly. There a lot of the members that are part of the working group believe that they can just say this is what we want and it's a done deal. We experience that at the last Assembly when we did the land and water as well. So we're still going through that. But we're committed to...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm always looking to build relationships with anybody that's willing to bring help us with our economy. However, in saying that, Mr. Chair, I'd like to remind Members that we do have time for oral questions when we sit in the House but this is actually a review of the mandate of these items and that item was not in the mandate. So respectfully, ask me that question in the House so we can focus on this and try to get through this. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'd like to turn that to the secretary to Cabinet. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. When we began this Assembly, we did not sit down and say these are the two agreements that should be concluded. We said instead of trying to do all agreements, we will shoot to make sure that two agreements are finalized. So which ones they will be were not defined at the beginning. And so we're hoping for more. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Okay, thank you, Mr. Chair. I'd like to transfer that to the Minister of ECE.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. That's for the Minister of ENR, Minister Thompson.

ECE.