Rylund Johnson

Rylund Johnson
Yellowknife North

Statements in Debates

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 150)

Yeah, thank you, Madam Chair. I actually don't know. Is there somewhere I can look publicly and see the pay scale for all doctors? Thank you.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 150)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Department of Lands is currently running an ad campaign on the benefits of leasing. And, Mr. Speaker, I want to talk about the main benefit of leasing, which is one we all tend to ignore in this territory, and the main benefit is that at the end of a lease, a lessor can take the land back, Mr. Speaker. And, in fact, in the Northwest Territories, not only do we take the land back, we require the lessee to tear down any structures and remediate the land, Mr. Speaker. And yet everyone I talk to who has a lease does not seem to think this is at all a possibility.

So, Mr...

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 150)

Yeah, I guess 2025 for online map staking. You know, at one point, perhaps naively, I thought we were going to have that done, well, very quickly in this Assembly. I get, perhaps that this is a bit of a custom piece of software. Is there is it not possible to perhaps get online map staking a little faster? At one point, I believe there was suggestions about using other registries that, you know, exist everywhere else in Canada. Yeah, is there any way we can speed this up? Thank you.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 150)

Thank you, Madam Chair. Bill 63, An Act to Amend the Official Languages Act, received second reading in the Legislative Assembly on November 2nd, 2022, and was referred to the Standing Committee on Government Operations for review.

Committee engaged with stakeholders and the public in its review of this bill. The committee held a public review of the bill on January 18th, 2023, and received five submissions with stakeholders. On February 15th, 2023, the standing committee held a public hearing with the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment and completed its clausebyclause review of the...

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 149)

Yeah, thank you, Madam Chair. Yeah, I guess I don't fully quite understand it. One of the complaints I know we have heard is that a manager over at the health authority will identify a candidate and want to hire them and then they have to quick it over to, I assume someone in HR I don't know if it's actually specifically the recruitment unit and then there's this turnaround time. And I believe, you know, we've actually been improving it so perhaps that is the question. Can someone just tell me how quickly HR is now processing, especially for health and I know there's multiple different...

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 149)

Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm looking at page 159, and I see that human resources unit within Finance is adding eight new positions. Can someone just tell me what those positions are? Thank you.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 149)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This weekend is my least favourite day of the year, Mr. Speaker. And that's the day the clocks go forward. And, Mr. Speaker, it's not just me who hates the time change. Every single year the day after the time change there's a spike in car accidents, Mr. Speaker. People hate the time change so much they are crashing their cars in protest.

Mr. Speaker, the day after time change, the economy loses millions of dollars in economic productivity, and the Monday following time change is the Number 1 sick day consistently in the GNWT, Mr. Speaker. People awake and, in protest of...

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 149)

Thank you, Madam Chair. Can someone just try to explain to me whether there how this unit has changed over time with health hiring? My understanding is prior to the amalgamation, the health authorities were doing all of their hiring themselves and they had their own HR officers. That's no longer the case. And I think now we have we still have a bit of a hybrid model where there are some hiring being done in health with the assistance of this unit? Can someone just try to explain it to me. Thank you.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 149)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Is the Premier going to listen to the people of the Northwest Territories and get rid of the time change?

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 148)

Thank you, Madam Chair. And then I guess there is, you know, there is to me, there's the goal of reporting on the quality and condition and all the work that we're doing with all the assets everywhere that we own, the multibillion dollars worth, and then I'm wondering if the dashboard would speak to kind of tracking ongoing infrastructure projects or whether that would be another initiative. What I picture is, you know, we often pass these capital estimates and they and some community says they're going to get a small local project done and then it gets carried over and carried over and it...