Rylund Johnson

Yeah, thank you, Madam Chair. I've long had issues with the formatting of the way we present the capital estimates, largely because it's an accounting document, but I you know, I think you could go to any single municipality and see how they do their capital planning. They essentially have a get chart that shows you what year a project will start, what year it will finish, the total cost of that project, and you can kind of look through time what's planned weekly. We do not provide the total costs of projects in our capital estimates. We believe that that it will affect procurement. I don't...

Mr. Speaker, I move, seconded by the Member for Thebacha, that the Committee Report 6519(2), Standing Committee on Government Operations Report on the Review of Bill 83: Liquor Act, be received and adopted by the Assembly. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Mr. Speaker, your Standing Committee on Government Operations is pleased to provide its report on the review of the 20202021 and 20212022 Annual Reports of the Northwest Territories Human Rights Commission.

Mr. Speaker, I move, seconded by the Member for Thebacha, that Committee Report 7319(2), Standing Committee on Government Operations Report on the Review of the 20202021 and 20212022 Annual Reports of the Northwest Territories Human Rights Commission be deemed read and printed in Hansard in its entirety. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Your committee would like to report on its consideration of Bill 92, An Act to Amend the Petroleum Products and Carbon Tax Act, No. 3.

Bill 92 received second reading in the Legislative Assembly on June 1st, 2023, and was referred to the Standing Committee on Government Operations for review. The committee held a public hearing with the Minister of Finance on June 27th, 2023. On July 28th, 2023, committee held a clausebyclause review.

Mr. Speaker, the committee reports that Bill 92, An Act to Amend the Petroleum Products and Carbon Tax Act, No. 3, is ready for...

Mr. Speaker, your Standing Committee on Government Operations is pleased to provide its report on the review of the 20212022 Annual Report of the Languages Commissioner.

Mr. Speaker, I move, seconded by the Member for Thebacha, that Committee Report 7219(2), Standing Committee on Government Operations Report of the Review of the 20212022 Annual Report of the Languages Commissioner be deemed read and printed in Hansard in its entirety. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Yeah, Mr. Speaker, I just find it completely unreasonable we're having this debate with no sense of how much this project is going to cost. It's clear this will be the largest infrastructure project this territory has ever built. It's a 60-megawatt expansion. Currently, between Blue Fish, Snare, and existing Taltson, we have about 50 megawatts of hydro. So we are more than doubling the amount of power we need to sell in this territory. That is a giant project. It is a multibillion-dollar project; I feel confident saying that. Unlike nothing we have ever done. So can we answer some basic...

Mr. Speaker, your Standing Committee on Government Operations is pleased to provide its report on the review of the 20212022 Annual Report of the Ombud.

Yeah, I understand what a business case is, Mr. Speaker. I understand you need one in order to justify spending billions of dollars. I didn't quite get an answer there of whether so I'll try again. Has the business case been developed and if so, can we release it? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Halfway, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, your Standing Committee on Government Operations is pleased to provide its report on the review of the 20212022 Annual Report of the Information and Privacy Commissioner.

Mr. Speaker, I move, seconded by the Member for Thebacha, that Committee Report 7019(2), Standing Committee on Government Operations Report on the Review of the 20212022 Annual Report of the Information and Privacy Commissioner, be deemed read and printed in Hansard in its entirety. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In today's Minister's statement, the Minister of Infrastructure tried to paint a rather rosy picture of our energy future, and I'm quite at a loss of why we would do this because, Mr. Speaker, I think we need to be honest with the public that our energy future is looking pretty grim. I think the statement should have started with, the first thing, we subsidized our power corp $15 million this year because of a record low water year and an underestimation of the cost of diesel in current rates. Mr. Speaker, those problems are not going anywhere. The reality is is that...