Katrina Nokleby

Thank you, Madam Chair. And, yeah, I'm going to maybe make the advice that any of these campaign schools being run include some accounting training in them, because it is really hard sometimes for us to figure out where the money has gone. So I'm glad to hear that it hasn't disappeared. And I just want to confirm that that now means that that test can be offered here in the North and they do not have to travel, and I see the deputy minister and Minister nodding their heads yes. So that's great, because I have heard that has been a problem in the past.

I guess the next one I just wanted to maybe...

So will the Minister, then, commit that when they come back needing more money as projects ramp up in the Beaufort Delta that he'll find that money within the Department of Justice and not come back and take it from our social programs or housing? Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm just looking at the line item around Skills Canada. I note there was the and it's quite small. But it's important to me. I've been a power up mentor before for the programs, and I think they do a lot of really great work. I know it's been a struggle for them during COVID because a lot of their stuff is going in to schools and dealing with children and youth and not being able to do so has been hard.

So I guess my first question is the extra $20,000 or $21,000 that was there in the 20212022 Actuals, was that a COVID bumpup?

And then could the Minister speak to...

Thank you, Madam Chair. Does that mean that the department would be looking to come back for more money from us, or would be looking to find that money internally? Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I guess just to ask a little bit further about the Minister's comment regarding that we are the second highest funded in Canada, I guess my question is is that an overall second highest amount, or is that sort of a per capita fund? Because I my point or the reason I ask is that if I think it's harder to deliver this type of work in the North, like everything else that we do. So if it is just a sole amount, I don't know that that necessarily makes up for the difficulty maybe for our people to execute programs or a lack of capacity for executing programs and services in...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm just also looking at these in the same area, the energy efficiency incentive program. It's at a hundred thousand. At one point, we had given $200,000 there. I'm just wondering if that's a COVID spike, or if we're looking to put more money here in coming years. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I appreciate that. I do hear good things in amongst the arts community, the ones that do reach out to me. I guess I would like to reiterate a concern I guess I think we raise often, and that is the multiyear funding and that these are the types of organizations that can benefit from having guaranteed funding for several years versus having to always apply for this funding. This way they can hire staff. They are more guaranteed to be stable. And I do believe now that the NWT music does have a paid position, where before it was all volunteer, but maybe the Minister could...

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, this is an area with a lot of money going out to different organizations, which I think is great. I'm just looking at the sorry, I just wanted to ask some questions around the biomass energy and just where we're at in looking at diversifying our dependence on diesel, and could the Minister or the department speak a little bit more to perhaps if we would be seeing more money needed there, or there's not a change from last year to this year's? Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I guess I'm just curious with the change that my colleague was mentioning to the new curriculum, are we going to need to see a better or an increase to communications costs in other words to like get this messaging out there, to to assure parents that, you know, their I guess why we've made this change, assure the public why we've gone to this expense? I think there would be sort of I think there's going to be a lot of questions, and I guess I'm just wondering if we need more money for comms. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I thank the Minister for that answer. I hope that there's an opportunity to at least break down the contract a bit then to get the work started if need be. I guess my next question is that because there is a bit of a delay now in this project, and I'm guessing because the Minister answered that we're going until 2028 with the funding that we're not in any sort of danger of losing that federal funding if we're a little bit slower with the project than planned? Thank you.