Kevin O'Reilly

In favour.

Merci, Monsieur le President. I want to put it on the record that I support this extension. I believe that, as I understand it, the department requested this extension and it will also give the department more time to go back and work with the professional associations representing some of the medical professions that have expressed a number of concerns as there's work to be done with the committee, but the department also has a lot of work to do, I believe, with medical professionals, and I look forward to the results of those consultations. Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.

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Merci, Monsieur le President. I want to thank the Minister for that. I think that was a yes, and I'm more than happy to take that as a commitment from the Minister, and I think it's a positive contribution I've made to help mining in the NWT.

So there is no requirement, though, in the for applicants to disclose whether they are in debt to GNWT or other governments or have unpaid taxes. While GNWT may be able to check some of this internally, the onus should be on the applicants for full disclosure, and those in debt to government should not be funded. Again, can the Minister commit to make...

Merci, Monsieur le President. This is the infrastructure supplementary appropriation, and I voted against this at second reading but there's a couple of items that really cause me a lot of concern in here, is the use of fish habitat compensation funds for a bridge replacement in a completely different ecosystem. I just don't believe that that's appropriate, and I don't want to be seen as supporting use of fish habitat compensation funds in this manner

And secondly, the $2.75 million regarding the dispute around the letter of credit replacement fund for the Deh Cho Bridge, I believe that there...

Merci, Monsieur le President. My questions are for the Minister of Industry, Tourism and Investment.

In my statement, I mentioned that Cabinet says that a review's been conducted of the Mining Incentive Program. Can the Minister confirm whether that has been done and explain why it has not been publicly released nor the response from the department. Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.

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No, that's thanks, Mr. Chair. That's all I've got on this one. Thank you.

Merci, Monsieur le President. My questions are for the Minister of Justice responsible for the maintenance enforcement program.

My statement outlined the complexities of adjusting the amount of maintenance enforcement payments and the difficulties of enacting these changes. The Minister told me that an automatic adjustment regime would be coming into place at the beginning of the year. Can the Minister tell me the status of this improvement? Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.

Thanks. Maybe I'll take another try at this. Okay, so there are staff presumably in this activity, and I'm just going to turn the page over to seven. So I would have thought that there would be at least a collective agreement increase but what we actually see is that the budget for this activity actually going down at a time when a collective agreement increase should be here. So where's that money being found, and why is it this activity getting less money in 20222023 than the year before? Thanks, Madam Chair.