Katrina Nokleby

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions are for the Minister of ITI. As I mentioned in my statement, I'm hearing more and more from members of the community that are unable to properly feed themselves, especially people that are on income assistance and may only be taking home $800 a month. So given that there is a lot of money out there in the federal government, I'm also worried that we're not taking the most advantage we could of this area. So can the Minister advise me and I understand she has to get back to me on how much federal funding that we have received directly to support the growth...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, and my colleagues, indulge me for a few minutes here. I did have to speak to this bill as I have been contacted by a couple constituents, as well as an association, to express their concerns.

So the Association of Technologists out of Alberta are concerned with this bill going forward and the lack of I'm not going to say this word right autonomy. That's not the right word. But the separation for the technicians themselves from the technologists under the act.

While at this point, Mr. Speaker, it is too late to and even when we were in Committee of the...

Thank you, Madam Chair. Just to note, that is just the labour portion, not materials and supplies. And I see that the ADM is nodding his head, so it is not 80 percent of the total cost of the project for anybody listening.

I do want to come back to this comment the comment the Minister said that she has no direct say in the subcontractors used by the joint venture between the IRC and the GTC. This has come up before in other projects where, I believe, under NTPC where the GNWT sort of washes its hands of its fiscal responsibility under the Free Trade Acts, as well as under our own policies, to...

Yes, I very much agree with the Minister on this one. It is such a rich part of our history and really could be, yes, like you said a she said, a flagship for that. I guess just wanting to confirm that these two North Arm projects for that are done in the region for Behchoko, those are both done under the Tlicho Infrastructure Agreement? Can the Minister confirm that.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I recall a couple years back talking about this project, and there was a bit of back and forth around getting the project going. Can the Minister or the department please give me just a bit of an update on where things are at? Considering it's been very quiet from the people that I was hearing from before, I'm assuming things have been moving along well but if I could just get an idea of when are things progressing on time and on budget? Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Yeah, I totally appreciate the complexity of that as well because I know those pullouts and those recreational use areas will become quite quite popular with the public. So you definitely have to make sure that they're in the right spots. Just looking at some of these things here, I did have an opportunity to see the new some of the new work that had been done around the North Arm Park in the last couple of years and thought it was pretty good, and everything was looking quite good in a lot of our parks over the time. But I just wanted to point out too that not only...

Thank you, Madam Chair. With all due respect, I wonder if the Minister's actually gone out and seen the roadway and looked at the amount of erosion that has occurred at that site in the last two years. And I think it's all pretty safe to say that it's not going to get any better. You know, I just have to reiterate I have no faith in the fact that this is a department that over four years has failed to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in money to the point where the federal government has said they'll cut our funding off and we have to use pots that have already been promised to us but we...

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, I can't let the last sitting go by and not ask about outhouses. So I know that this could also follow under the infrastructure area too around highways. But I note that there are a lot of parks work that are along the highway south, and it was really highlighted during the evacuation the facilities are woefully lacking down the highway and such. And so I note that there is one outhouse construction being planned here for Fred Henne Territorial Park. But I'm wondering has anything happened with the evacuation that has made the Minister feel that perhaps we...

Thank you, Madam Chair. Okay, so that does make sense to me with what we were talking about last time. However, then, I was not aware that the plan was to reuse the existing diesel plant in the new combination one. And if there is a relocation with the $3 million, is that still happening? So we are going to be repurposing old equipment or infrastructure from the old plant rather than going to new diesel equipment? Thank you.

Thank you for that. And I do appreciate that it's a weird one with the double jurisdictions and such, but it would be a great area, I'll put the plug in again, for some sort of recreational use.

Can the Minister at least confirm that the houseboat will be removed and that it will no longer be allowed to be anchored at the dock, which really is inhibiting industry and recreational use. Thank you, Madam Chair.