Frieda Martselos

Thank you, Mr. Chair. It was quiet for so long, I promised you I wasn't going to say anything. But, you know, it's I'm happy that my colleague here thinks that everything is going to be coming to Yellowknife again, but I'm sorry. The headquarters is going to be in Fort Smith. And the president will be located there. And, you know, we've already started the transition we have a lot of incredible staff at the college already in all three campuses. And building on all three campuses with the headquarters in Fort Smith is the one thing I want to mention is about the college facilities, of...

Mr. Speaker, can the Premier tell us if she anticipates a final agreement with the NWT Metis Nation will be established before the end of the 19th Assembly? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

In favour.

Opposed.

Mr. Speaker, the finance minister has been promoting the new government renewal initiative as a means to reducing costs for our government.

Can the Minister provide any estimates, any dollar amounts or projection data, which states how much money this initiative will save the government? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

In favour.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, according to the budget address for 20222023, business investment for 2020 was down minus 34.9 percent for the NWT.

Can the finance minister tell us what the government's plan is to turn those numbers around and increase business investment for the NWT? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

So, Mr. Chair, you know, when we're putting the people, or the future generations at risk in this manner that, you know, we're building a territory for future generations, it's not going to be me that's going to be worried about if a mine's coming in or not, I don't think. But those are very serious it's a very serious way that we're looking at this. And let transboundary agreements into the territories is not okay. I don't care you can say, you know, this and that and the other and now you're in good standing with the federal government; not everybody is. I'm not used to a government that...

So the two agreements only include the harvesting? I thought I think is there only the harvesting that because once a transboundary agreement include land, there's a under section 35, there's a there's a barrier to any future development because you'll have to consult the person outside the boundary; am I correct? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The other thing I wanted to address is the homeownership program.

The homeownership program and also the we they're always there's always these thresholds that seem to be a barrier to ownership. So if you're at the very lower end of the scale, you can get ownership of because I know a couple, a young couple in Fort Smith who just started jobs and just started a new family, and they were told that they were over the threshold. And, you know, they're just starting out. They don't they bought a car and they wanted to buy the house they were in. And everything's with a...