Kieron Testart

Monsieur le President, a court ruling requires this government to provide fair and equitable access to gymnasium space for Ecole Allain StCyr in Yellowknife [English translation not provided]… Ecole Boreale [English translation not provided] Hay River… What is the status of the spacesharing agreement that the government has been working on for quite some time now?

Merci, Monsieur le President. Monsieur le President, the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment made a commitment to revise the ministerial directive concerning admissions to the Commission scolaire des Territoires du NordOuest. Can the Minister today provide an update to where that work is to date? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Merci, Monsieur le President. Monsieur le President, last Friday Northerners celebrated Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day. Today I would like to show appreciation to the vibrant francophone community that calls the NWT home. The Franco-Tenoise have a long and storied history in our territory. To start with, the first person of European descent to reach the Great Slave Lake was a francophone, Laurent Leroux. In 1786, Leroux built the trading post at Fort Resolution, and in 1790 he founded the original Fort Providence trading post, just 20 kilometres from our modern-day capital. The Franco-Tenoise have...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Court services, there’s a courthouse retrofit in Inuvik, $320,000 and courthouse, Hay River $263,000. What is the nature of the $263,000 appropriation for the Hay River courthouse? Is it a retrofit or something else? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. How much federal investment is coming from these leveraged funds? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Merci, Monsieur le President. The Minister may be paying attention, as I don’t like the word “hope” when people are looking for certainty. There has been a number of complaints from the Commission scolaire about this issue that things are not rolling out in a timely fashion. Can the Minister assure this House that the spacesharing agreement will be in place for both schools in the fall and will be done in a timely manner and any delays will be clearly communicated with the district education authority in Hay River, the school districts in Yellowknife, and the Commission scolaire?

Monsieur le President, when can the Commission scolaire [English translation not provided] expect this matter to be resolved and some change to this directive come forward?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just had questions for the consumer affairs division. Are we on page 334 or still on… No? Okay. I’ll wait. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I heard that there is one vacancy planned. Is it expected that vacancy will be filled in, let’s say, this fiscal year? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I appreciate that I don’t think anyone in this House has an interest in picking winners and losers when it comes to community infrastructure funding, and it is a cautious process. My concern with relying on federal funding is that fluctuates from government to government, from year to year, and it’s not a guarantee, whereas we can have more control over how the funding flows through this government. This is a real priority for our communities and it has real economic impacts, if infrastructure dollars are being spent in local economies. I strongly encourage the Minister...