Jackie Jacobson

Madam Chair, just because Ottawa tells us to do something doesn't mean we have to do it. We're a local community government and legislators of the Northwest Territories. Our madeinthe North tiered system, where's the Minister at with that in the communities and like what we talked about when this was coming forward? Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Just in regards to the increase on the increases that we're getting in regards, there will never be an increase in housing because of CMHC and the housing allotment from CMHC to the communities. Is our government looking at that, to work with CMHC to get the housing allotments in the communities risen? Because when the housing allotment are if we're putting in new units into a community, we're not able they're taking one out of the previous, our old stock. So is there any way that our government and our Minister is able to try to get increases for the housing stock...

Thank you, Madam Chair. No, there is a private RV park in the community of Tuk. We have and then we have the because there's so many RVers that and tourists that come up to the community, the hamlet of Tuktoyaktuk came upon themselves to try to solve the problem because it's just been too much vehicles coming in, nowhere to park, parking everywhere. So they put allotted like, alloted from 1 to 25. They're paying for that out of their hamlet budget. So under the Hamlet Act, they fall under the Government of the Northwest Territories. They should be getting funds. Are they going to start...

Madam Chair, no, just in regards to that, you know, I think the one that we have seconded into the community, I think she should be focusing a little bit more on working with the hamlet of Tuk in regards to the RV park and getting a plan ready instead of, you know, focusing wholly on the visitors centre and trying to find funding. I think that the community of Tuk, the hamlet of Tuk is stretched to the limit already. And they're providing the service that should be provided by the territorial government as an RV park. I see we got a list here two pages long in regards to different projects...

So anyways, Madam Chair, in regards to the longterm care facility design that they have in Inuvik, again, like I brought up in this House numerous times about my elders in the communities of Ulukhaktok and Paulatuk having to be brought in from the communities when care is too hard to give for families. And, you know, they always say elders aging in place of their home community. I think that there's nothing in the books this go around in regards to a go forward for those two facilities. I mean, I went to the extent of my office, you know, getting designs and that built. But what I'm thinking...

Thank you, Madam Chair. Bill 93, Practice of Engineering, Geoscience and Applied Science Technology Act received second reading in the Legislative Assembly on June 2nd, 2023. It was referred to the Standing Committee on Economic Development and Environment for review.

Bill 93 gives the Northwest Territories Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists new powers and duties. In the committee's review period, the committee received two verbal submissions on the bill. Clausebyclause review of Bill 93 was held on July 25th, 2023. The committee proposed the amendment of legislation or to...

Yeah, thank you, Madam Chair. You know, the federal government likes to make these big grand announcements of funding that they're giving to the territory, to everywhere across our territory in regards to housing projects and other projects, but that still doesn't change the CMHC's housing allotment for a community. Until that changes, that's the biggest hurdle that we have to deal with in this government in regards to housing for the communities and the numbers. I could use another 20 houses in Paulatuk, another 20 in Ulu, same thing, 5 or 6 in Sachs maybe, and 20 in Tuk. We have no housing...

Thank you, Madam Chair. Just in regards to that, that comment, I think with the CMHC, they might give us money but they don't give us housing allotments. Who's got the authority to change the housing numbers per community? Is it the territorial government or CMHC for the funding that we're getting? Thank you.

Okay, thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you for that because it's the lack of support in the community of Tuk for that tourism. It's a lack of support our government is giving them. Using their own money that's taking away from the community for their roads, for the water, their sewage, for sporting events. It's not that we're not creating a new a new expenditure here. It's just what we're not doing. And I see two pages on this of everything else being covered but that. Tuk shouldn't the mayor and the council shouldn't be picking and choosing what they could do with what little they have. It's...

Thank you, Madam Chair. The Minister could correct me if I'm wrong. The RV park is in the hamlet of Tuktoyaktuk, in the hamlet boundaries. So in the hamlet boundaries, the hamlet falls under the GNWT. The GNWT should be providing this service. Am I wrong? Can she correct me? Thank you.