Rylund Johnson

Thank you. I'm not in favour of this motion. Right now when Committee of the Whole has to deal with their business, the chair calls it, and then we have a vote, and then sometimes Cabinet has to, you know, get something on the agenda we saw it today and last couple times over the last while. I don't know why adding this extra step would occur when it doesn't occur with anything else. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. If someone over there, who knew, would just tell me the price of the estimated building the Taltson Hydro Expansion Project, I would vote for this capital budget. I've been asking for four years. This House has approved tens of millions of dollars on that project never knowing how much it's going to cost. I think it's embarrassing for all of us that we're doing this. So one number, and I'll vote in favour of this. I don't even care if I like the project; I just want the number. Thank you.

No further questions. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have a question for the witness. Clause 1 is the one that requires this Act to be effective December 1st, 2025. I heard a lot of talk about, you know, the importance of dental work, and the Minister agreed there's work to be done with Indigenous Service Canada. No one's disputing that. Can I just get the Member to speak a bit more how we landed on December 1st, 2025. The conversations she had with committee in accepting the committee's motion to amend this and then any conversations she had with the department about this date. I'm just kind of wanting to get a sense of...

That's good.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'd like to recognize four Yellowknife pages who have been helping us out. We got Liam Kincaid, Zachary Mandeville, Sula Ray, and Kya Little Kim Wickens. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Sorry, this is a question. I think that's a 2014 number, but well, now I'm talking about a confidential document and trying to get clarification on it in a public sitting as we vote, which we're not allowed to do according to our rules. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I won't try to answer that. Maybe I will. I think what the Minister said is that if this bill is passed and the date is not met, then you are all of a sudden under a new Act requiring regulation but they don't have regulation, so then you're just in this noman'sland. But anyway, it had nothing to do with the specific motion or my understanding the whole bill as a whole.

My only comment was going to be, you know the GNWT is full of action plans and commitments to finish regulatory work and then we blow by them, and we don't get them done. We all know there's limited...

Yeah, thank you. This somewhat gets to the very confusing nature of Private Member's bills where, you know, it's your bill but the committee has it but it's actually above the department.

Can the Member just inform me whether she had any discussions with the department or the Minister about this date? Thank you.

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