Kevin O'Reilly

Merci, Monsieur le President. I want to thank the Minister for that. I asked for that study last week. I'm still waiting. But the engagement to date done by the department has been done very selectively with the mining industry with secret meetings where information is shared internally and not made available to other interests. So can the Minister tell us what, if any, public or industry engagement is going to take place from now until a new Assembly is elected on November the 14th? Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.

Thanks, but this is part of the overall P3 approach on this thing. So NorthwesTel's building the thing for us or something and going to operate it for 30 years or whatever, and then we're left with it afterwards, is that how this works? And maybe I'm, you know but I'll yeah, I'd like to hear what the Minister has to say. Thanks.

Merci, Monsieur le President. My questions are for the Minister of Industry, Tourism and Investment. There are no new mining regulations, so we're stuck with what the federal government gave us for mining, as bad as that was. The Mineral Resources Act was passed four years ago that gave the Minister extraordinary new powers, but not much of anything has been completed or implemented. Can the Minister tell us the status and the development of the mining regulations? Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.

Thanks. If I remember correctly, though, I think I've seen this now over two or three different capital budgets. Has this work actually started and when is it going to finish? Thanks.

Yeah, okay. I don't want to go any further on this, but I'm probably going to have some questions tomorrow in the House about this afteraction review because I think there's an RFP about it right now. Thank you.

Yeah, thanks, Madam Chair. So I see that there's it looks like there's a new air quality monitoring trailer in Norman Wells and something called a gas chromatograph which, I guess, can be used to identify the gases that make up samples. But I'm just kind of curious what's our monitoring air quality monitoring network look like now, and are we contemplating any changes as a result of the horrendous fire season we had? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Yeah, thanks. Yeah, so the offsite storage, for anybody who's listening, is actually the government warehouse over on Byrne Road, has no climate control whatsoever. The records that are there, as I understand it actually, you know, they take in a significant part of the history of this government moving to Yellowknife, all of the work that's been done on devolution, negotiations of agreements, really important records. They're sitting over in a government warehouse without any temperature control. That's just not a good idea. I doubt that we're actually in basic legal compliance with the...

Thanks, Madam Chair. So I see there's two items here, the Hay River library sidewalk. I've been to the library. It's a nice one. I'm glad to hear they're going to fix the sidewalk; that's great. I guess the Minister probably knows that I love the archives. It's been I actually go over there and spend time. So what's the money here for the archives? What's that all about? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Thanks, Madam Chair. We need to do third reading on a bill. I think this is sorry, a good place to cut this off so that we can move. So that's why I'm going to move that the chair rise and report progress.

Yeah, thanks, Madam Chair. I do have a few questions if I can, and then a few comments. I'd like to know how much of this is carryovers from the previous fiscal year? Thank you.