Rylund Johnson

Yeah, thank you, Madam Chair. And I sorry, I think the Minister said that I may have to ask Finance this question, and forgive me if I am slightly confused how this all works. Like I said, we're charging back $32 million to ourselves as a GNWT here. I get that TSC has about $10 million in staff, but some of them has 20 million remaining. How much of that would be going to Northwestel? Thank you.

No further questions. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair, can I just get a bit of an update on how whether we expect this to improve internet in schools in Yellowknife? We met with a number of the school boards, and they said during the switch to online learning that at certain times it just became impossible, and they were well past, you know, any of the bandwidth that TCS was providing them. Do we expect that this improvement will allow online learning to, you know, be a bit more feasible in the NWT? Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I see here that about half of your budget, or $4 million of this budget, is chargebacks. Can I just confirm that that is the TSC chargeback?

Thank you, Madam Chair. Can the Minister just explain to me where that money is found in the budget? Was that already in the capital budget or is that coming forward in a SUP? I'm assuming that that expansion and that contract are not in the $2 million I see here for TSC. Thank you.

Yeah, thank you. And I guess, you know, my understanding is what historically has happened is that leasing has been rather decentralized, and departments just kind of tell Infrastructure what they need. And I guess I'd like the department to speak to any work they might be doing in this area to, you know, centralize it, maybe be push back sometimes and say hey, you don't need this office space; actually we're going to move you into this building because it'll save us a bunch of money. And I know there has been some new design standards to perhaps, you know, lower the total number. I'm just...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I think another area where there's quite a great divide is open beverage. And I think it's no surprise that many people, they drink their beer at a softball game in Yellowknife but when the police come we all run and we throw our beer cans away so as not to get arrested, yet then when you go downtown it's no surprise to see a bunch of people drinking in public already. And I mentioned in my statement that, you know, we mandate beer gardens presently. You can't ever have alcohol being drank around minors such as at festivals and events. I'm wondering when we go out for...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My hope in getting that change made is that in Yellowknife presently there's two liquor stores. The licence to that is in 2025, and I was hoping that in place by for 2025 when we go out to some sort of competitive process, I had some issues with the last one that well, it would be a competitive process that would allow, you know, some different options of who would run the liquor store possibly, and I was also wondering if in 2025, when we put that out under possibly a new Liquor Act, whether the possibility of an additional store in Yellowknife would be considered...

Yeah, thank you, Mr. Chair. Can I get an explanation of I see that the regional offices are responsible for maintenance, but I know that the LHOs are also responsible for maintenance. And, you know, if I'm in a housing unit and I want something want some maintenance, which one of those two should I go to in which scenarios? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. There is a lot of changes I would like to make to the Liquor Act, too numerous to list in one Member's statement, but the short form would be "see Europe", Mr. Speaker. I dream of allowing minors in pubs and, you know, perhaps being able to share some wine in the park. However, I don't think that those ideas have majority support in this House so my next compromise, Mr. Speaker, would be "see BC" where you have private liquor stores. God, how I dream, Mr. Speaker, of ending the monopoly on liquor and getting rid of the liquor commission.

Additionally, perhaps the Brew...