Katrina Nokleby

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Well, for once, that's great news to hear in this House. I'm always glad to hear that we're getting more federal money than less. I guess given that we've had these back to back years of quite terrible environmental conditions for our growers who are predominantly in the South Slave, you know, I just want to sort of reiterate that it is becoming quite concerning. So can the Minister or the department do they track the amount of, say, community gardens and greenhouses that are present throughout the territory? Like, how is the department supporting that initiative...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the territory desperately needs to strengthen and diversify our economy. Our residents must have access to healthy and affordable food, and the need for mental health supports is at an alltime high. There is one sector that can help us improve in all these areas. The agrifood industry provides residents with opportunities to grow their own healthy produce and to open small and mediumsized economic ventures while reducing stress and improving mental health.

Mr. Speaker, our infrastructure gap and limited supply chain leave us vulnerable to food insecurity as...

Thank you, Madam Chair. Is this the end of the work for the North Arm Park, or is it expected to continue into 20252026? Thank you.

Thanks, Madam Chair. Can the Minister or department tell me how much of this money is staying with northern businesses? It is my understanding that the engineers on this project are not BIP'd or northern businesses. Can the Minister or department speak to that. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I think I just wanted to ask a little bit about the Canol Trail and the emergency shelters. I am not super familiar with where this is at, but I did know at one point there was a lot of remediation that was still left around the Canol Trail. Without, you know, asking for too much detail, is that coming to completion to the point where the Canol Trail is going to be more of a tourism destination or, you know, have more areas opened up as a result of remediation? I know there was a lot of challenges remediating it because it's very inaccessible to heavy equipment so a...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm just, sorry, trying to franticly scroll through my notes here. But I just wanted to talk a little bit about the Inuvik airport, the Mike Zubko air terminal building, the runway extension project, and the adaptation for climate change. It's my understanding that these projects have come in under sorry, I'm just looking, the trade corridor no, these are the DND. Can the Minister confirm that these are all being 100 percent funded by the federal government? Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Yeah, I guess it's just one of these areas where I don't see it like as being kind of one department or the other. Given that most of the parks do come off of the main transportation routes or evacuation routes, it makes sense that we would be looking to double up and put that kind of infrastructure in those locations.

I'm not sure if this is where it would fall under, but I know that over time in the chair, your own region, there's been questions around the pullouts and such along the InuvikTuk Highway and whether or not there was going to be any sort of facilities or...

Yeah, that would make sense. I guess my concern is what is our contingency plan should NTPC, in all of their infinite wisdom, struggle to find a solution here to what is going on and then we have all these supply chain challenges that are only continuing to get worse as we have disruptions to services through fires and other and flooding and other events? I'm very, very concerned that this is being left in NTPC's hands and that at some point, the diesel plant will fall into the river, or at least become unusable and unsafe, and there will be no LNG plant to replace it. So are we going to then...

Thank you. The Minister has my empathy with that as I worked at Giant Mine and dealt with the houseboat that was sitting in the mouth of Baker Creek for over a decade as well as we are all aware of the ones that were off of the point there at Rotary Park. So I'm hoping the city's going to get that harbour plan going that's been talked about for the last decade but that's not this Minister's problem. So thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair; it's been a long week. That's pretty broad, in 2022, and just makes me think that perhaps it was not communicated to us properly in the last sitting, what was actually going on with this project. I struggle to see why we are continuing to waffle or go back and forth on what's happening here given that, really, our increased flooding and climate change driven emergencies are likely going to mean that that diesel plant where it is now is no longer going to be useable. Can the Minister or the department speak to the fact of why a decision was made not to move to full LNG...