Jackie Jacobson

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Looking back, I guess I try to cross the whole Northwest Territories, I think we should be talking to Canada now in regards to the carbon tax and why do we have to pay? We're small enough in the territory. We have 35,000 people. It's just going to draw more hardship on our families, our young mothers in social housing in regards to and our elders that are private homeowners. There needs be more money given out instead of being starting to try to claw back. Can the Minister commit to talking to Canada in regards to working with them to see if we could, you know, not...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the GNWT, CRA provides a cost of living offset to individuals in the program to offset the costs of territorial carbon tax. Can the Minister of Finance look into implementing the cost of living to offset that IT provides Nunakput residents in the Beaufort Delta with the same assistance because it recognize their higher cost of living in a tiered system? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Make a statement, Madam Chair; we're failing. All the stuff that we're doing in all the major retrofits and stuff like that, like I asked them in regards to taking units the out, giving them to clients so we could get CMHC funding to get more units put into the community. Nothing. We tried to work with them. Nothing. All the stuff that we do with this Minister, we wear it as just like in the communities that she said she come to visit. I'm still waiting on numerous, probably three or four things that need to be done from those visits. So all this stuff that we're talking about right now, you...

No, thank you, Madam Chair. Just in regards to I find a comment on that just, I guess we got to find a way in regards to seeing what the federal government's doing in regards to settled land claims holding up projects, putting it into screening. You know, it's if the Minister would I guess work with her colleagues and our Premier to take a look at that, to make sure that this this shouldn't be happening. And so if she could just commit to that. Thank you, Madam Chair.

No. Just in regards to the to the Tuk M18 natural gas well and the support that I guess we're having a little bit of issues with the federal government pushing it into review when it was it's a 71A land from Tuk, people of Tuk. And it's our land claim and it's our basically our right. So where does your government sit on this in regards and what are they doing to assist the Inuvialuit Development Corporation or Inuvialuit Regional Corporation and the community of Tuk in regards to this project and the holdup that we're having being pushed towards screening. Thank you.

Madam Chair, I move that the Government of the Northwest Territories provide the response to the recommendations contained in the report within 120 days. Thank you, Madam Chair.

I move that the Government of the Northwest Territories make the report as described in section 68 of the act publicly available, including details not limited to a number of permits issued and in good standing, a number of approvals, orders issued, prosecutions, fines, and inspections, etcetera. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair, I move that the Committee Motion 30219(2) be rescinded. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we live climate change every day where we are from. I have shoreline erosion programs. I have so much going on. We have colder winters, more a lot less snow but colder, longer periods of time. You know that, you live up back in the Delta with us. Mr. Speaker, at the end of the day this carbon tax has to be really looked at and either make it help me help you. Put a tiered system in. Tier one Yellowknife, tier two Sahtu, tier three Beaufort Delta. Pretty simple. If they could do that and then talking again to talk to Canada, why do we have to pay? We're the...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And yeah, no, I'm just wondering if the Minister could work with our Minister of ECE to explore expanded home heating subsidy program for our Arctic region for our elders and people, private homeowners, that are in that system. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.