Jane Groenewegen

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. What we have been hearing here this afternoon are, truly, general comments, not specific to this particular capital budget but very general. That’s a good discussion to have and I think it’s a good discussion to have in public, so that people can really kind of hear where we are coming from.

A few things I want to touch on, we talk about our infrastructure deficit here in the North and we talk about putting a few more millions of dollars, $50 million extra into the infrastructure capital budget. I don’t know how we compare to other jurisdictions, but might I be so bold...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am pleased to advise the House that the newly created Northern Farm Training Institute, short form NFTI, in Hay River celebrated a successful year on September 22nd with its first ever graduating class, and I had the pleasure of attending that graduation at the Hay River Golf Course and partaking in a delectable array of locally grown and prepared food.

This innovative program was developed in response to numerous requests received from across the Northwest Territories to the Territorial Farmers’ Association that conducts sustainable gardening workshops and seminars.

Th...

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Mr. Premier.

Thank you, Mr. Moses. Premier McLeod.

I would like to ask the Sergeant-at-Arms to escort the witnesses to the table.

Premier McLeod, for the record, please introduce your witness.

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Minister Miltenberger.

Agreed, thank you. I’ll ask the Sergeant-at-Arms to please escort the witnesses to the table.

For the record, Minister Miltenberger, please introduce your witnesses.

Thank you, Minister Miltenberger. I’d like to ask the Minister if he’d like to bring witnesses into the Chamber.

Alright. We will resume with that after a short break.

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I’d like to call Committee of the Whole to order. What is the wish of committee today? Ms. Bisaro.