Daryl Dolynny

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We’ve heard in this House and we’ve heard from the Minister of Environment and Natural Resources, there’s a lot of green initiatives out there, a lot of energy initiatives, but most importantly, solar. We keep hearing about solar and getting people to think about adding solar panels to their houses and really take that step forward in the 21st Century to be energy smart.

My question will be for the ENR Minister in terms of solar panels pertaining to net metering. Can the Minister explain to the House what is meant by the term net metering? Thank you.

Thank you. Obviously, these deficiencies or these temporary systems, including emergency phone, were deemed important for engineers to keep it as a permanent part of our bridge. So I’m really at odds as to what are we going to do for our first year, but that leads me to my other question.

Because we’re in a temporary state, we have temporary systems in place, we don’t have an emergency phone that will be active, we obviously have to carry insurance or liability as a department, as a government. Would these deficiencies or non-compliance to a so-called final inspection report or a final signing...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’ve had a theme of safety today, so I’m going to continue on this theme with the Minister of Transportation.

As we indicated today, the first day of November, we are hoping the opening of the much anticipated Deh Cho Bridge is going to be happening in this month. As we’ve heard in our dialogue earlier in some of our capital discussions, we are dealing with some temporary issues as we prepare to go across this bridge in a degree of safety. What I mean by that is we have temporary electrical set up, we have temporary aviation marine lights hooked up, we have temporary...

The Minister is kind of leading into my third question, which is the overarching complement of what’s called your Emergency Action Plans. The Minister did give the number, I believe, of 18.

Can the Minister indicate to me as to who is actually doing those Emergency Action Plan assessments? Is it the communities themselves or is it the fire marshals or a designate from the government who are doing those?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The weather is getting colder outside and I think it’s only prudent that we take a look at all our emergency actions both in-house and community and as a territory. For that, today my questions will be for the Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs on the theme of emergency preparedness.

My first question is: Back in April of 2012 while we were doing the business plans and main estimates, the Minister of MACA reported that seven community governments had completed their fire assessments and that at March 31st of this year that number increased to 24. Through a...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I find it odd that we spent over $60 million in the last number of years on so many different energy initiatives enticing the average person to go out there and put some solar panels, put pellet stoves in, and when we got an ability as a government, we’ve got an ability as someone who could actually give those incentives, we give them back at cost. The profit now is being made by the utility company, and the person who is actually coming forward and making those strong initiatives, they’re now losing out money. What’s the incentive?

Again, I’ll ask the Minister here...

One final question, Madam Chair. The Minister of Finance indicated if there should be any savings in design, that money should be transferred to general coffers.

Transportation, operations expenditures, airports, not previously authorized, $146,000.

Mr. Menicoche.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We have been given a gift, and that gift is our recent surge of TV films showcasing the North. I say gift because not every jurisdiction in Canada can boast of TV productions such as NWT Ice Pilots, Ice Road Truckers, Licence to Drill and the acclaimed CBC’s Arctic Air at their doorstop. Although I give credit to the NWT Film Commission for maximizing the economic opportunities for our local residents and local businesses to participate in the media arts industry, I do have to say we are far from being the ultimate production location of choice for many professional...