Kevin O'Reilly

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. It is time to mine the 2015 Environmental Audit for some issues to bring before this House. Members will recall that this audit is the legitimate, legally mandated way to improve integrated resource management systems for the Mackenzie Valley as established in constitutionally entrenched agreements. Today, it is another one of my favourite topics, participant funding. Canadians south of 60 degrees are entitled to participant funding in federal environmental assessment processes. If you live north of 60, you are treated as a second-class citizen. I appeared before a House of...

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Thanks, Mr. Chair. There’s the female facility replacement, Fort Smith. It’s a $15-million expense that’s been carried over. Can someone from the department explain what’s going on there? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I’m just trying to understand the mechanism. If the department wanted to move forward with expansion of the school in 201617, would that have to be done through another supplementary appropriation? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I’m just looking under Education and Culture, I’m just wondering if there’s any funding? Or how would the expansion of Ecole Allain StCyr be funded, presumably not through this supplementary estimate? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

I appreciate the response again from the Minister. The federal government has now indicated they are ready to repeal sections of some changes that were made to Yukon environmental assessment legislation. Has the Minister received any assurances from the federal government that they are going to be repealing the changes to the Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act, and is there a timetable for those changes?

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. Earlier today I spoke about the recently announced federal review of the environmental assessment processes. While I welcome this initiative to rebuild public confidence, there is no place for residents in the Mackenzie Valley to participate in this review. Can the Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Intergovernmental Relations shed any light on why we have been excluded from this review and whether this was discussed in his meeting with the federal Minister for Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada? Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. Yes, this is something important that we need to move along, so I’ll agree. Thank you.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. The first item is $274,000 for security administration processing system. Can someone from the department explain what that is all about? Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. The contract is in place, that’s good. The work is not going to be completed until 2018-19? Is it going to start in 2016-17? Thanks, Mr. Chair.