Denny Rodgers

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, committee wishes to review Committee Report 29-20(1), Standing Committee on Social Development Report on Committee Project: Housing as a Human Right. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'm certainly happy to hear that given the importance of sovereignty and the conversations that are happening around our sovereignty, Mr. Speaker.

Can the Premier speak a little to our engagement strategy as it stands today, initiatives around our engagement strategy on sovereignty with the federal government and the Department of National Defence. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I'd like to draw attention to the House of an event happening next week in Yellowknife, the Arctic security working group being held in Yellowknife at the Joint Task Force North on November 5th and 6th, Mr. Speaker. To build relationships, nurture partnerships, and identify opportunity for collaboration is their aim, Mr. Speaker, to continue discussion around Operation NANOOK and continue information sharing between member stakeholders and the Arctic security working group.

The theme for the two days is shared infrastructure with DND, especially in the...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I move the chair rise and report progress.

Thank you. I haven't moved. Music to my ears, Mr. Speaker. Infrastructure partnership, sovereignty. And, listen, I know that this Premier's keen to that. I know there's work being done. A lot of the information I get, Mr. Speaker, is from the mayors in my region, mayors in other regions, and from the Indigenous leaders. I wonder can the Premier commit to providing some information to this House -- even a one-pager, Mr. Speaker, I'm not asking to write a full presentation -- around the work that's been going on and continues to go on around Arctic sovereignty, something that I can share with my...

Me first out of the gate. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, following up on my Member's statement, my questions are for the Premier. Can the Premier confirm that we have departmental representation at the Arctic security working group that's happening on November 5th and 6th. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I move that consideration of Tabled Document 388-20(1), Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 2, 2025-2026, be now concluded and that Tabled Document 388-20(1) be reported and recommended as ready for further consideration in formal session through the form of an appropriation bill. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I move that consideration of Tabled Document 386-20(1), Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 3, 2024-2025, be now concluded and that Tabled Document 386-20(1) be reported and recommended as ready for further consideration in formal session through the form of an appropriation bill. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, the committee wishes to consider Tabled Document 385-20(1), 2026-2027 Capital Estimates, Industry Tourism and Investment; Tabled Document 386-20(1) Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures) and Borrowing Authorization, No. 3, 2024-2025; Tabled Document 387-20)(1), Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 2, 2025-2026; and, finally, Mr. Chair, Tabled Document 388-20(1), Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 2, 2025-2026.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And I certainly appreciate the Minister is passionate about this. We've had obviously several conversations around this, Mr. Speaker. But when it comes to working shoulder to shoulder, when it comes to reconciliation, Mr. Speaker, this is low-hanging fruit. We should have this work done. This is now the second Assembly, and what I don't want to see is this moving into the 21st Assembly. Mr. Speaker, can the Minister give me a timeline on when we anticipate this work will be done and ready to proceed? Thank you.