Katrina Nokleby

Thank you, Madam Chair. Now I'm in the right place to ask about the Fort Simpson LNG and such.

In a presentation we were given, it was told that the relocation of the diesel plant was changed but it had a $3 million price tag. I'm a little bit confused as to where the two different projects are at. Are we still relocating the diesel plant? Is that not happening now? Sort of what's going on; could the Minister maybe speak a little bit more to that situation. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I note that this money, the $750,000, is for the Robertson Drive dock rehab, which is in my riding. It's my understanding it is through the ICIP fund, which means at this point it's been 100 percent funded by the federal government, which I think is great. I do note, though, that it doesn't show up anywhere in the parks area. So my guessing, then, or my question for the Minister is the dock money or this money earmarked just to repair the dock that's there, or will this be an expansion to sort of the day use and other area around that? Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I have to say that this bill, and our taking it on the road, was probably one of the more impactful ones that I have had in the last while, or has struck me in the last while, was that just how deeply and passionate the people in the territory are about the education system and really where the state of it is when you look outside of Yellowknife. I didn't expect to hear the stories that I heard I guess, really. And I do want to like I my colleague said, express my thank you to those that shared with us. A lot of it, and you know yourself, Madam Chair, as being part of...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I would be remiss if we were talking about bridges and I didn't bring up the Great Bear River bridge. It has, I have to say, would have been a disappointment for me to not see this project advance at all, really, in the four years considering I had actually tried to be part of the team to build it in 2018 or 2017. So knowing the money has been sitting around for that long, it's quite concerning to me that we are not advancing that. And I guess just to kind of get a little bit of a plug in for anybody listening that may want to sit in the 20th, to me I can't stress an...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The beautiful autumn season is upon us. This is a time for harvesting, storing away our summer items as we prepare for colder months ahead. It is a time of wrapping up projects, to make room for new work and new stories. We end one season with a sense of gratitude for the memories we have created and look forward to making more over the coming months. However, for many, the fall season is a stark reminder of the time when children's voices full of play and laughter ceased to be heard in their community. Fall was the time when children, as young as three years old, were...

Thank you, Madam Chair. And I appreciate the Minister's commitment. I would like to better understand the process through which the assessments are made, including any standard operating procedures that are given to assessors to use.

I guess the last thing that I feel the need to comment on is the conversation around the money that is going directly to Indigenous governments. And, you know, I, again, sat here and listened time and time again to this Cabinet talk about their great relationship with Indigenous governments but then when push comes to shove and it's time of actually sharing...

Thank you, Madam Chair. That's fine. I would like to just ask a little bit about the Redknife River Bridge replacement. It's my understanding that this comes the money for this work will be coming from De Beers in exchange for some sort of a regulatory offset that they were doing. Can the Minister speak to whether that is the truth, and how much that project is going to bring in? Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I just wanted to first reiterate a bit what my colleague for Kam Lake said regarding the way that this is all presented to me. Whenever I look at the housing budgets, I'm always wondering like well, where are the houses, you know. I keep hearing for four years we've built this, we've built that and all of this. So then I look at this that we have, and it's all this $13 million is just retrofits and a bit of, like, some boiler stuff. Now that being said, I have since then heard the assistant deputy minister make the comment that the hundred units have already will be...

Thank you, Madam Chair. First off, I just wanted to note again that something I had said in the opening remarks for the capital estimates is that we see a lot of 100 percent dollars this time around in the Investing in Canada Infrastructure Plan, which is a huge chunk of these large capital projects that are $82 million here. So that being said, it's great to see that this is not even though it's an $82 million sum, the majority of it is not our money, which is great. It's going to be an influx into our territory and our communities, which is sorely needed.

When I look at all the highway...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I guess I don't want to let it go because I just find it to be such a frustrating topic. You know, I want to ask the Minister, well, then what is the plan to accommodate in the meantime as students can no longer stay in these conditions of these schools. Like, you know, as someone was saying, you know, the paint, the lead paint in the gymnasium and then, of course, someone's friend, you know, popped online to say well, that's not a problem; it's at these limits. Well, yeah, that's when it's on the wall and it's not being, you know, flaked off and degraded and inhaled...