Kevin O'Reilly

Thanks for that. Yeah, when this was being discussed in the last Assembly, it was very interesting because all of the Yellowknife all the Regular Yellowknife MLAs voted against establishing a Yellowknife Airport Revolving Fund because we could never get any commitment for accountability, representation on these committees. There was no accountability. Nothing. And then, you know, to have now it's being reestablished, that's great. But a little bit of more input from this side of the House would be appreciated. The last bunch were appointed by the deputy minister rather than the Minister. So...

Merci, Monsieur le President. I want to thank the Minister again for her response.

The Cantung and Mactung saga is another example of postdevolution mismanagement of our resources. Can the Minister explain what lessons have been learned from our mismanagement of the Cantung and Mactung properties? Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.

Yeah, I look forward to that, and I think there's a lot of people that use the airport that are anxious to know what's going to happen as well.

But earlier today, the Minister made a statement in the House about restarting the economic advisory committee. I'd understood there was a couple of different committees that were supposed to be set up to provide a little bit more input from the public and airport users and so on. And I don't think they ever were if they were established, they never really got going, and they never really did anything, and there was no reporting back to the public...

Merci, Monsieur le President. I want to thank the Minister for that. I'll be happy to send her the list of creditors from the courtappointed receivers website, so.

But as I understand it, GNWT has decided to try to market the Mactung property and the Cantung mine site with the feds but there has been little to no interest over seven years. Can the Minister explain what is going on with proposed sale of the Mactung property and when the taxpayers of the NWT can expect to recover their socalled "investment"? Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.

Thanks, Madam Chair. The Yellowknife Airport Revolving Fund, I know I've been after the department for some time to start to spend money at the airport. And I understand they're supposed to be completing their third version, or third different contractor to produce a master plan, by the end of this month apparently. So what can we actually expect to see any of this money expended in the 20222023 for the airport, and for what? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Merci, Monsieur le President, that's a tough act to follow.

Another day, another contaminated site mismanaged by our government. This time it is the Mactung exploration property in the former Cantung Mine. Cantung and Mactung are mining properties in the Mackenzie Mountains. The Cantung Mine was a tungsten producer from 1962 until it closed in 2015. The owner, North American Tungsten, went into creditor protection on June 9th, 2015 after we agreed to take on this operation under the Devolution Agreement.

Somehow the federal government let that company put up the Mactung property as part of its...

Okay, thanks, Madam Chair. Is there any possibility that this position could be located in Edzo? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Madam Chair, I don't have anything further but yeah.

Thanks, Madam Chair; yeah, you can give me a promotion.

Yeah, look, I think I understand something of what these folks do and it is important work and we have to make sure that there's a safe workplace for all our employees. But I just wonder how we approach this as a government. You know, do these people only serve and work with Infrastructure staff, or do they serve other government departments as well and how and if not, how do other government departments meet the needs in terms of occupational health and safety for their employees? So yeah, I guess that's a question for the Minister here...

Thanks for that, Madam Chair, and thanks to the Minister for that. What do we get for the hundred thousand bucks? Thank you.