Kevin O'Reilly

Thanks, Mr. Chair. Maybe I'll try it one more time. So are we looking for volunteers do this, or is this going to be across the whole industry? Or how's this actually going to get piloted, and will it get piloted this summer? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Merci, Madam la Presidente. I want to thank the Minister for that and, of course, probably have a few more questions this afternoon about where it's found in the main estimates. But it's not clear what the longterm plan is for the financing of the Housing Corporation, whether its governance model needs adjusting. Can the Minister briefly discuss the lessons learned from the NWT CoInvestment Fund carve out? Mahsi, Madam Speaker.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. Thanks for that. Yeah, this work has been underway for at least a couple summers. I think that it might have been slowed down by COVID. But I didn't actually get a response to my question. When will we actually see changes that require mineral exploration, in particular, to actually shut down whether there's caribou around their property? That's what these measures would do. Right now, the diamond mines do it because it's best practice; it's consistent with ESG that our Minister of ITI keeps talking about. We don't do that in this jurisdiction, though. It's voluntary. So is...

Merci, Madam la Presidente. I want to thank the Minister for that. Of course it's good news, but I wonder about the cost of these units. The average cost of the units appears to be about $520,000. Can the Minister explain how this compares to previous new builds undertaken by the NWT Housing Corporation. Mahsi, Madam Speaker. And I gave a head's up to the Minister so she got these ahead of this afternoon's proceeding.

Yeah, okay, thanks, Mr. Chair, and thanks for that. If I could get the detailed list with absolute numbers beside it, that would be great.

I just want to know whether also whether any of that funding is actually for habitat protection, which has not happened during my six years here, really, and is the one part of caribou management that is yet to be addressed. Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Merci, Madam la Presidente. On January 25th of this year, there was another announcement about funding for 29 houses being built in small communities. That’s all good but it got me thinking about that federal coinvestment carve out for $60 million that was set aside for the NWT.

After the last Cabinet failed to make housing a priority, we got very little under the National Housing Strategy, but that’s another story.

Recently I got an accounting of the funds spent and used under the NWT coinvestment carve out. $25.5 million of this amount was allocated to the NWT Housing Corp to assist with the...

Thanks, Mr. Chair. Nice try by my colleagues. I move that this committee defer further consideration of the estimates for the department of Environment and Natural Resources at this time. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. So in the Minister's opening remarks, he said that there's an extra $1.03 million for work on the Bathurst and Bluenose East caribou herds. I don't want the Minister to tell me right now, but I want an itemized list of what this money's actually for. So can the Minister commit to provide that and actually make it public? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thanks. No further questions. But I do want to thank them for getting on this. It's been a longstanding issue for Yellowknifers. Thank you.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. While I appreciate the opportunity to get a technical update but I'm going to be asking the Minister questions before the end of this sitting on this matter because the public deserves to know whether the provincial government is going to allow us to sit on this committee or not. So that's a heads up to the Minister that I'm going to be asking for answers in public about this.

I want to move on, though, to a couple of other areas here if I can, Mr. Chair.

I believe this is the part of the ENR budget where inspections for water licenses are conducted, and if I've got that...