Rylund Johnson

Rylund Johnson
Yellowknife North

Statements in Debates

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 125)

Thank you, Madam Chair. I recall last year when we were doing this, Lands actually had to carry over a truck because there was a bit of an international supply chain shortage with obtaining trucks. And I also we call at some point during COVID, a few of the dealerships got mad because they were unable to deliver trucks and we ended up going down south for tenders. But I'm just wondering if the department is feeling confident of its ability to now purchase new trucks and hopefully locally if possible. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 125)

Yeah, thank you. Okay, I'm glad to hear well, I don't know if I'm glad to hear but I heard a number. We're spending $40 million on the planning. Sorry, but I heard the Minister say estimated completion 2024, and then I'm looking at the page 55, and it says 20272028 so can I just for environmental assessment and planning, when can we expect completion for the first phase to Lockhart Lake? Thank you.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 125)

Thank you, Madam Chair. I think I kind of understand that. I guess, does the Housing Corporation have a bit of a I mean, there's I'm looking at, you know, $100 million being spent this year and $35 million for next fiscal and, you know, maybe they'll even be more money. But do we have some sort of public facing other than this page capital plan of where things are going. I admit that I think many MLAs have been confused at times with the different funding pools and what's being built where, but is there a bit of a fiveyear outlook of what we're going and how much we're spending. Thank you...

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 125)

Yeah, thank you, Madam Chair. And I think where I find this especially frustrating is sometimes it's public. The Minister released a news release saying the Frank Channel Bridge cost $50 million, and we got 75 dollars from ICIP, and then, you know, that happens, and now I look at that you know, I heard the Minister say that, you know, we're going through this process and we're going to work with Tlicho, but it's not now clear to me whether that $50 million is a true number and whether we're actually going to be higher. So, you know, I think once it's definitely some sort of public...

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 125)

Thank you, Madam Chair. So I remember sitting here last year, and there was quite a big fight that the Housing Corp was only spending $10 million on capital. And that's kind of the same number that has appeared in every capital budget. And now I see for the first time revised estimates of the current fiscal we're in, and we're spending $104 million. So it probably would have saved us a lot of time and effort if we knew we were spending $100 million and not $10 million. But can someone just update me on where that money came from. You know, I know this I know we had that $60 million carve off...

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 125)

Well, I feel like I don't have any more questions other than waiting to see this dashboard. I'm very, very excited about that. I guess well, I'm going to ask some questions about this potential dashboard.

I know that a lot of jurisdictions publish a fiveyear capital plan where it kind of breaks down what's being spent over five years and the year to year amount and kind of what's in the future. We don't presently do that. We don't presently even say how much we're spending in an individual year. Is that the kind of information I could expect in this dashboard? Thank you.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 125)

Yeah, and I have raised this with the office of the chief information officer, and I know they're looking into it. And if the lines get blurred, I know as Health goes out and obtains new software, it may or may not be served on our physical servers, or it may be the lines get blurred yet we spend tens of millions of dollars in this area. I guess my next question is considering the money that Infrastructure spends every year on what I consider IT, or what is actually labelled IT, has there been further consideration about whether this should be rolled into Finance? It seems that the overlap...

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 125)

Yeah, thank you, Mr. Speaker. I recognize that there's three parties but, you know, there's 17 tables and I think getting two agreements out of 17 seems well, I'm hopeful we can at least get there.

I guess the Premier is still hopeful too that we're going to get two. I'm wondering if she would inform this House, or if she's willing to hint at what two she thinks that would be. And I'm also curious whether in that counting that the Premier is including agreementsinprinciple because I know we've signed a number of agreementsinprinciple that are well, they're over 20 years old now at this point...

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 125)

Yeah, thank you, Madam Chair. I'm looking at page 58, and I see information technology projects is $2.5 million. So can I just clarify that we spend $2.5 million a year evergreening our current TSC servers, networks, and storage infrastructure? Thank you.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 125)

Yeah, thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'm going to try this again. I heard the Premier hoping that soon we will have an MOU. But my understanding was that that was an MOU of how to go about and create an action plan which seems quite a ways off from the actual plan. So when can we expect to see an actual UNDRIP action plan, and will it be in the life of this Assembly more importantly, Mr. Speaker.