Ronald Bonnetrouge

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker, and mahsi to the Minister. Mr. Speaker, no one is doing anything with furs in the Northwest Territories. The Fort McPherson Tent and Canvass is not using the furs in their products. The Dene Fur Cloud Shop in Fort Providence is using rabbit pelts imported from out of territory. I see potential industries for our territory in the creation of mitts, gloves, vests, coats, hats, and the list is not exhaustive. All this with the use of furs caught in the NWT.

Will the Minister take a closer look into this possibility and develop plans to making this initiative a reality? Mahsi.

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I spoke at length of the need to assist many of our residents who don't know where to turn for income. The school students have the Take a Kid Trapping program, but many of our young adults, or the young men, who don't excel in school and didn't leave the community don't have the luxury of such a program. Can the Minister of ENR commit to tailoring a trapper training program for our young adults? Mahsi.

No further questions. Mahsi.

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. As I stated too last week that I was very impressed with the values and vision of the corporation and where they got innovation, and I was kind of excited about that, because they continue to you know, they strive to improve. They're creative, adaptable, and flexible. Some of that stuff is leading well to the energy the wood pellet boiler energy plan. And I also stated about the contract services, Mr. Speaker. We can to encourage these contract services to the LHOs, you know, the department could consider contracting out these services so the contractor would purchase...

Mahsi, Madam Chair. My question's in relation to the Early Childhood Infrastructure Fund. I believe you had an application process out earlier in the year, I believe, or last year to apply for early childhood infrastructure funding. And that one was to preserve existing centres, also to create new licensed daycare centres. I'm just wondering if this program would help an organization build a new infrastructure from the ground up? Mahsi.

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I have a return to oral question from March 29th, 2021, in which the Minister stated that they're currently developing their own threeyear energy action plan to be released in the spring. The plan would include, you know, costeffective residential biomass system investments in other NWT communities.

Mr. Speaker, I've grown cobwebs waiting for the report. This is really I'm just wondering from the Minister, because they were working on it and currently developing, it said at that time, why nothing was progressed on this file at all? Mahsi.

Mahsi for that. I'm just wondering which organizations you would work with in the communities to advance this. It sounds like, you know, a really well thought out program to really encourage speakers with languages. I'd want to know what you actually pay the mentor for their services but I'm just wondering if their you know, if you've had lots of turnovers in this and whether there was any complaints about any of the pay, because I don't know what they're getting paid right now. Mahsi.

Madam Chair, I'm just wondering if this is the section where we can discuss the curriculum change? No? I'm booted out then.

Community government retrofits, $200,000, to perform energy audits and retrofits to community government buildings. I'm just wondering if these are just government buildings, or are they available for NGOs and local businesses? Mahsi.

Okay, so the Minister's clarifying that they incorporated solar panels for their plans. It's interesting stuff.

I'm wondering if the extent of this program or look to assist the Housing Corporation and MTS in reducing? Mahsi.