Katrina Nokleby

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my questions are for the Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs.

As we apply the learnings from the pandemic and the flooding events that occurred in 2021, could the Minister comment on how lessons learned from the past will affect our future collaboration with the Canadian Red Cross in the Northwest Territories? How will the Red Cross work with this team during our next emergencies? Thank you.

At risk of sounding like a broken record, I do echo my colleague's comments around the importance of sport. I know I played sport a lot as a child, various ones, and I yeah, I can't stress the importance of it.

I do have a question, though, besides just saying how wonderful all this is.

I note that in the that we have the Nongovernment Organization Stabilization Fund, and we see this one we see a general one, and this one is one geared towards sports, youth, and rec. It hasn't had an increase over the last while, and I'm just wondering would these organizations have been able to apply for...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I guess my next question is around emergency management such and given that everything that's happened this weekend, is it that the RCMP does all search and rescue operations in the Northwest Territories or does some of this fall under the purview of the department? Thank you.

Thank you for that. And again, sometimes I realize I probably should know how some of these things work, but there's a lot of details floating around in my head.

I guess I'm wondering if perhaps through the Minister and the department that we could maybe have a I hate to say this to my colleagues but a briefing or have a meeting with both of these community organizations in order more to because I know we've had them come and present to specific committees on on certain items, but I think, for me, it would be useful to understand them as an organization as a whole or how they interact and...

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, does the Minister commit to coming back to committee before a decision is made whether to increase that levy? Thank you.

Thank you. I appreciate that clarification. I think I knew that at some point in time and then sort of had this other vision because LGANT was always putting on or had for a while put on sort of events in the North. There was a fun disaster relief training one where everyone had to get together and figure out I think it came about because we were talking about a berm around Yellowknife if there had been a fire.

So I'm just curious to know is there more of that type of a thing being done with LGANT? It seemed like a great opportunity because then it's not just, you know, them getting together...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. That's exactly my point. I don't understand why this government, if they are being notified by the RCMP, cannot turn around and utilize social media and other methods in order to inform residents. This is not a silo. This is a multidepartmental and multiagency function. And for this government to yet wash its hands yet again or the disadvantage of our citizens is not acceptable. I would like to ask that the Minister do a lessons learned here and improve the communications around emergencies, whether they be environmental disasters or whether they be social ones. He...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm just looking at the website for A Brilliant North Program, and I note that it was the action plan was developed in 2010, and a lot of the targets and such are from around that time. So I'm just curious to know what the $565,000, what sort of phase or stage of this project is it in? Is it just continuing on with the work that Brilliant North did, or is there a new action plan since 2010? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I did ask about a general communications matrix, not about this specific incident. It doesn't seem that the Minister can explain that to me so maybe he can explain why residents went for 12 hours between Friday and Saturday with no update. The RCMP are busy doing their job. Why couldn't the government put out communications to reassure residents that things were still ongoing and they couldn't leave their homes? Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Is the Minister and the department seeing any sort of uptake with the federal government and the recognition of how rapidly the North is changing? It was really impressed upon me being at COP with my colleague that, you know, this is happening at a much greater rate and accelerated rate in the North, and we had you know, had the federal government making all these commitments. So I'm just wondering, you know, is that going to change where maybe we are going to start to see 100 percent dollars here as well, like maybe the DND funding that we get for Arctic sovereignty...