Kevin O'Reilly

Merci, Madame la Presidente. I want to recognize my good friend Chris O'Brien, who splits his time between Yellowknife and Toronto. He and I filed the first and only successful request for an investigation under the Environmental Rights Act on April 22, 1991, into air pollution from Giant Mine. Mahsi, Madam Speaker.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I'm just wondering, the Minister's in kind of a funny position here with regard to the OROGO budget. Is this prepared by the staff of OROGO, and then, provided to the Minister for review and/or approval? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I don't need the Minister to read it out, but I want the information made public. If the Minister would like to table that as a return to oral question, that would be great. It sounds like the money is kind of being spread out amongst maybe around eight or 10 communities. Will there be consideration of additional increases to Victim Services once the department has had a chance to review the evaluation? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. Now I've got the schedule for the Integrated Case Management evaluation. What about the evaluation of the Victim Services program? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. The difficulty is that we're dealing with this line item now, in this part of the budget. We can't wait until we hear from the Minister of Lands on this. I'm going to move to delete two of these positions from the budget, and I'd like to get some advice on how we go about doing this. Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I do have some questions on Integrated Case Management and Victim Services. There are increases in the budget, as the Minister mentioned in her opening statement, and I agree with that. I have heard about the value of these programs, but we need to see the evaluations. I know this is something the Minister keeps promising, but when are we finally going to see the evaluations of these two programs? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. Look, I'll be the first to agree with the Minister that the federal government didn't do a very good job when it came to squatters. This is what this is about, quite frankly. We're trying to pick up the legacy of federal mismanagement. The GNWT wasn't all that great, either, when it came to squatters, as well, but I think I've heard the Minister say that there is going to be some policy related to this that needs to be developed. Why are we springing forward so that we're going to have three positions as of April 1st going to court to get eviction orders when there is no...

Life is complicated, but this is a simple one. This is a win for us all. Just transfer the subsurface lands. Get this done and over with. Here's a great way to show some respect and start to build a better working relationship with the Dehcho First Nations. When will this government transfer the subsurface and allow this protected area to be established and get guardians on the ground working?

Thanks. The story of my life. I'm running out of time. Yes. What I'm interested in is the number of applications they received; they've reviewed; the number of inspections they carried out; the amount of material posted to their active and suspended licences, permits; all of that kind of stuff. That's what I think we want to know is what the workload is and whether it's changing over time. I really look forward to getting that out of the Minister and the regulator. Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Merci, Madame la Presidente. My questions are for the Minister of Lands. I know he made a statement earlier today about the Conservation Network Gathering, with a different hat on, but I would just like to know what the status of the Edehzhie proposed protected area is? Mahsi, Madam Speaker.