Kevin O'Reilly

I would be delighted to help the Minister with this. I will be tabling the report later today. It includes all kinds of details of how the LIC enabling laws are dealt with in other jurisdictions. Would the Minister commit then to have her staff review this report and use that as a basis for developing amendments to the City, Towns and Villages Act for this purpose?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I do not have a problem with this, but does the corporation have the budget reduction number handy, just so I have got that for reference so that I know what our contributions is, how it is being declined or reduced for next year? The fiscal strategy, what that total amount is. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Merci, Monsieur le President. The City of Yellowknife has explored innovative ways to improve energy efficiency of our housing, reduce the cost of living, create local employment, and help fight climate change. Their focus is on reducing use of space heating energy, and the proposal is expertly researched in the excellent Pembina Institute Report, "Loans for Heat: Towards a Yellowknife Energy Savings Program." I will be tabling that document later today.

Energy retrofits could include installing wood or pellet stoves, improving insulation and air sealing, and switching to more efficient...

Thank you very much. I appreciate that commitment from the Minister, and that is all the questions I have. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I appreciate the information about it being a pilot project. Does the corporation have any initial results of this pilot project? Is this something that we would look at continuing on our own? What happened there? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. So the reason why our contribution is less: the federal government is getting out of this; the project is finished, or projects are finished? I am just trying to understand the reduction a little bit better. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. Again, my appreciation to the Minister and her staff for putting that together, and the sooner she can provide it to us I think the happier I'll be. So thanks again. No further questions, Mr. Chair.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I'm looking at a motion that was passed in the House back in June of last year that called for the government to develop a comprehensive and fully costed strategic plan to get our housing out of core need at 2 per cent per year for four years. The response that came in from the government, the motion ended with a request that the government provide a comprehensive response to this motion within 120 days. That comprehensive response was four paragraphs; there were not any dollars mentioned in there.

That was tabled in the House in October, so here we are four months later...

Thanks, Mr. Chair. Thank you for the response. I guess it is all pretty much good news. In the highway, air, marine project management line, there is about a $300,000 reduction. Can someone from the department explain that between the 201617 and 201718 mains? Thank you.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I am not going to try to duplicate what my colleagues have said, but I will just bring out a couple of new points, if I can.

The amalgamation of the two departments, that was not part of the mandate document. This came as news to us. The number of positions that are being cut as a result of this amalgamation is 29, just to get that on the record.

The other item that is in the former transportation budget is the changes to the Yellowknife Airport and getting the operations and maintenance cost of that off our books. That has been described before as low hanging fruit in an...