Kevin O'Reilly

Merci, Monsieur le President. My questions are for the Minister of Industry, Tourism, and Investment, who seems to have the lead on the management of the Cantung and Mactung properties.

When I look at the list of creditors, I see that GNWT's owed $5.528 million from this operation. Can the Minister tell us how much North American Tungsten actually owes us, for what, and when we expect to recover that money? Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.

Okay, yeah, thanks, Madam Chair. We'll I guess we'll have a discussion about that.

But I think that's all the questions I have on this section. I'm just going to look at my notes. Thanks, Madam Chair. That's it.

Thanks, Madam Chair. Given that I don't think there's anybody else on your list, I move that the chair rise and report progress.

Okay, thanks. I think I'm going to have ask some questions of the Minister of Finance, then, when we get to that department about how our government approaches the issue of occupational health and safety across the whole government because, you know, with different departments are having these occupational health and safety officers of different, they only serve one department, and they it's kind of doesn't seem like there's a coordinated approach, so I'll just leave it at that. I'll have questions then for the Minister of Finance when we get there.

But on the highway transportation officer...

Thanks for that. There's just a couple of smaller changes on page 42 under grants.

The early childhood program grants going up $35,000 while the early childhood scholarships are going down by $15,000. Normally we don't really see a lot of movement in these sections. So is there an explanation there? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Thanks, Madam Chair. So maybe I'll just start with the occupational health and safety position.

Look, I love Hay River, but why is the position located in Hay River? Are there existing occupational health and safety positions throughout Department of Infrastructure in all the other regions? Why Hay River here? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Yeah, thanks, Madam Chair. And I know that we had a supplementary appropriation, a couple of them tabled earlier today. One contains some information about the new federal agreements so I'm not going to ask any questions about that here because I think they're more appropriate for the SUP. But I do have a few questions about what's forced in the main estimates.

On page 41, it's about a hundred thousand dollar increase in purchased services, and can someone explain to me what's going on there? Thank you.

Yeah, thanks, Madam Chair. We're just not going to make the target at this rate. There's no way. It's impossible for us to make the target especially when we're stuck in this strategy. And, you know, the federal government has to be watching this, and should be watching this, the money that they're giving us, because part of the reason we you know, the last Cabinet, it took a lot for them to actually sign on to the PanCanadian Framework in the first place. And the only reason they did that was because they said that if we're going to reach that target, you got to give us some money. So the...

Thanks, Madam Chair. Yeah, just my disappointment with not seeing any changes here about this after developing the art strategy.

Can the Minister tell me if there's any increases in funding for the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre in here? Thank you.

Thanks, Madam Chair. Yeah, I look forward to a supplementary appropriation to support Arctic Energy Alliance and the good programs that it offers.

But I want to switch gears and move to probably some higher level questions around energy and strategic initiatives. I raised this with the Minister of Environment and Natural Resources and was told that this was something that he wasn't really responsible for.

So when I look at the GNWT energy initiatives report for 2021 and the forecasts of greenhouse gas reductions, by the year 2025 we will have only reached 20 percent of the target that was set...