Kieron Testart

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I'd like to recognize my constituent Nicole Spencer. She is the executive director of the SPCA for the Northwest Territories, does great work with animals, and is also a neighbour. So thank you for being here today, Nicole. It's lovely to have you watching our proceedings.

Yeah, thank you. And I think that's the number in question that Members are taking issue with continuing to provide to the college. So I'd like to know it for sure.

Now, the mandate letter that the Minister provided to the college is adult education -- I don't have the benefit of having it in front of me, but is adult education in that mandate letter? Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, I'd like to ask about the NWT child benefit. It's currently, I think, condensed into the income assistance line here. Can we have actual -- how much is budgeted for the benefit in detail? Thank you.

Thank you. We sit too close to each other. Anyway, confusing people. So I also have questions of Aurora College.

The Minister just said that one of the -- sorry, when looking at adult education and the closure of the community learning centres -- not just, but earlier said that we need to make sure that their programming meets the needs of ECE. Can she explain what she means by that. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And thank you to the Premier for pulling out the book. This is a question I get asked all the time. Our streets are increasingly a dangerous place for our residents.

We passed a piece of legislation in, like, two days using extraordinary force of will from this Assembly. We can move very quickly if we want to. Can the Premier commit to bringing forward all these LPs within this sitting of the legislature. Thank you.

Thank you. And I acknowledge that, and it is a decision that was made unilaterally and has earned the ire of many provincial governments and territorial governments. But, you know, one of the problems we have is that we have -- we only have just hit our quota whereas the Yukon has been hitting -- has made good use of that quota over time, and before they -- they're cut down to 400, but they were operating at 800. So the Maritimes have a different system where they pool their allocation. I think it's around 5,000 applications that's split between all the provinces. Is there a -- so there's...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, is there -- can we start thinking about a contingency plan with the GNWT's resources should there be a very likely situation of this appropriation being defeated in the upcoming session of the House of Commons? Can we have our own money put into this, start talking to the equity partners and see what we can salvage if this does go down? Thank you.

Thank you. So is that policy, then? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I'd like to ask the Minister of Environment and Climate Change more about the project permanence for financing trust that was established by this House. It's a little troubling to hear the money is not actually flowing. There's -- every opposition party, I think it's on record right now, saying they'll bring the government down when the House of Commons resumes. So what is the Minister going to do to ensure that we actually get the $300 million to put into this fund? Thank you.

Thank you for the clarification. Were those commitments made -- how were those commitments made? Was it, like, on an individual basis for each person who applied from the departmental level, or was it a political commitment? If the Minister can jog my memory. I'm not sure if it was made in the House, but just what level of commitment was this? Thank you.