Kevin O'Reilly

Merci, Monsieur le President. The GNWT has set a target of reducing its GHG emissions by 30 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. As we know, the NWT is heavily dependent on burning nonrenewable fossil fuels to meet our transportation, space heating, and other needs. Switching to a renewablysourced liquid fuel is an obvious way to lower our greenhouse gas output and, with it, our contribution to climate change. That’s a key part of the plan that the Yukon government has developed.

Investigating those possibilities prompted the GNWT to commission a report by the Saskatchewan Research Council on...

Thanks. Let's stop dancing around here. Look, clearly, there's a reduction made in this activity area which is supposed to be arm's length from Department of Justice, probably even arm's length from our government to some extent. And I just can't figure out where the money that was cut here actually goes, whether it just stays within the department and is treated as sort of money within the department and is picked up somewhere else and used. I don't think that that's a fair representation of what should be an independent regulator. That's not what I think is a fair presentation of the...

Thanks. And any changes then from last year? Thanks, Madam Chair.

All right. Well, I don't believe I heard and as I said, I don't have the Minister's opening remarks in front of me and I don't have they're not available on Lootle. I don't believe the Minister said there was any reductions anywhere in the Department of Justice budget. Can the Minister confirm that there were no reductions according to the FMB classifications, because I don't think that was in the Minister's opening remarks. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thanks, Madam Chair. I move that this committee defer further consideration of the estimates for the Department of Education, Culture and Employment at this time. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Okay, thanks. I guess where I'm going with this is that, you know, even in the Minister's opening remarks, and I don't have them in front of me, I can't access them on Lootle. There was not one mention of reductions in the department. And so how was this actual reduction in the main estimates, how does it appear in what the Minister said in classifying the changes in the departmental budget from his opening remarks this morning or earlier this afternoon? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Yeah, thanks, Madam Chair. Yeah, I'd like to get that information from the Minister. I think several of or some other MLAs would be interested in getting that as well.

And while the Minister's putting that together, could he also put together statistics in terms of how many were granted or how many were rejected for the last couple of years? I just would like to get a sense of that, because if there are a number of students that have and if that, you know, we have an increasing number over the last couple of years and more of them are getting rejected, that's grounds for changing the...

Thank you, Madam Chair. So the review that was done, has that been made available to the public? And if not and if there needed to be some redactions in terms of personnel matters or whatever, I could understand that, but is that a publicly available document? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Thanks. I love Hay River but I'm from Yellowknife but thanks, Madam Chair.

Can the Minister tell us whether any jurisdictions in Canada have looked at providing some flexibility in terms of student eligibility for financial assistance, given COVID, postsecondary education students? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Thanks. I don't have anything further.