Don Stewart

Hay River

Statements in Debates

Debates of , 18th Assembly, 3rd Session (day 84)

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I guess I want to start with that one by saying, every time you're dealing with an average, obviously, if you're a homeowner, it is going to be a different value than if you're a renter in an apartment, for example. You would have to consider the different types of tenure in a housing situation.

That said, I believe that the COLO impacts, plus the point-of-purchase fuel rebate for carbon tax on heating fuel, actually will put us close to a one-to-one. In fact, we should be able to be slightly over that in terms of the average impacts on households, where we would be able to...

Debates of , 18th Assembly, 3rd Session (day 70)

Thanks, Mr. Chair. For 2019-2020 operations funding, there will be $37,000 worth of GNWT funding for the contribution to include the federal share. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Debates of , 18th Assembly, 3rd Session (day 70)

Thanks, Mr. Chair. If there was a need to carry over, there would be an additional supplementary appropriation in the May/June session. Thank you.

Debates of , 18th Assembly, 3rd Session (day 70)

Thank you, Mr. Chair. No, I believe this amount is for both the purchase of the equipment and the installation, so there will be some carry-overs on the installation side, but this will help them to get started with getting the contractors in place and ordering equipment. Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Debates of , 18th Assembly, 3rd Session (day 70)

Thank you, Mr. Chair. $34,000 of that is from Environment and Natural Resources and $3,000 from the Department of Infrastructure.

Debates of , 18th Assembly, 3rd Session (day 70)

Thanks, Mr. Chair. The matching GNWT portion for 2018-2019 is $15,600 from ITI and $3,000 from Infrastructure on the O and M side. Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Debates of , 18th Assembly, 3rd Session (day 70)

Thank you, Mr. Chair. In terms of the O and M money for this activity, I believe it's related to a variety of activities to help prepare for the planning related to the Slave Geological Province, including some work done by ITI for economic impacts and those sorts of things, and then I think there is some work planned that may be by 20192020 by ENR related to wildlife studies as well as work being done by Infrastructure for activities that are not capitalized in terms of the Slave Geological Province. Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Debates of , 18th Assembly, 3rd Session (day 65)

Thanks, Mr. Chair. We can get a table, but I will very quickly just sort of remind the Members of some of the things that we are going to be using that money for. First, obviously, is the cost-of-living offset benefit, which will be delivered to residents to help offset the impacts of the carbon pricing. There is the heating fuel rebate so that both residents and small businesses and others will not have to pay carbon tax on heating fuel. Then there are the rebates related to the large emitters, as well, and for electrical generation, but we will provide a table that provides the detailed...

Debates of , 18th Assembly, 3rd Session (day 65)

Thanks, Mr. Chair. Part of the process that we are going through and one of the first things that we will be working on is we have a rough sense of what should be in an accountability framework and, certainly, departments are very interested to make sure that they don't lose any of the service that they are getting now. We are trying to look at this on a broader sector basis so that we can include accountability around the other components of information systems, but also that information technology and information management as well to come up with a sector-level set of indicators, but we...

Debates of , 18th Assembly, 3rd Session (day 65)

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I think the initial plan is they will be in three different locations. Some will be in the gallery building. There was already a shared service unit for Lands, ENR, and ITI, and we will use the space that was there. Some will be in the Laing Buildings, where the office of the CIO was. There may be some swapping out of space. Then the third sort of focal point will be in Northwest Tower, what I affectionately call "the green building." There is some space that we were able to get through infrastructure for a third spot there. Obviously, ideally, we would like to have...