Rocky Simpson

Minister, would you like to bring witnesses into the Chamber?

Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 2, 2020-2021, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, total department, not previously authorized, $58,000. Does committee agree?

Thank you, Minister. Member for Frame Lake.

Thank you. Member for Great Slave.

All those opposed to the motion, please stand.

Thank you, Minister. Member.

Thank you. The motion is in order and non-debatable. All those in favour? Motion carried.

---Carried

Thank you, Madam Speaker. The NWT's non-renewable resource economy has experienced many changes over that last several decades. The NWT has witnessed the development and closure of gold mines around Yellowknife, an oil and gas boom that we eventually saw slowly fade away and give way to diamond exploration and production which appears to also be moving in the same direction.

Madam Speaker, all these non-renewable industry activities provide the residents of this great territory with hope: hope of moving away from reliance on government as the economic driver; hope for well-paying jobs; hope for...

Can we proceed to a clause-by-clause review of the bill?

Thank you, Minister. Premier.