Vince McKay

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I appreciate the motion brought forward and the continued focus on strengthening emergency management in the Northwest Territories. Although it might be strange to have a Minister who is trained and then has the background in emergency services for over the past 30 years, but the government of the Northwest Territories remains committed to improving our emergency preparedness and response system.

Mr. Speaker, I would like to begin by clarifying the structure and responsibilities of emergency management organizations, or EMO, as it currently operates in the NWT.

The EMO is...

Yeah, everywhere our fuel services division operates, essentially, 13 communities. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

2 million $600, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. It's an ongoing maintenance program. I mean, one section of the road might be good one year; the next year it's not, or, you know, the ground's not stable. So general maintenance, chip seal breaks apart so, yeah, it's an ongoing thing. We don't always have a rough estimate of -- well, we have a rough estimate but it could change. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Mr. Chair, so the section from -- is improvement from kilometer 59 to 61.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. That is correct.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. This is scheduled for the next two years essentially, this year and the next. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. With all this funding that flows through, the communities establish their priorities, and the department just supports them. So the department has the staff that support the communities with all the, yeah, infrastructure challenges they may have and capacity challenges. Thank you. Oh and deputy.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. A lot of it relates to reporting from the communities and capacity and the timing of projects. Like, sometimes communities may not be able to get them started right away. So these funds are all allocated. It's just a matter of reporting to transfer the funds to the communities and being able to -- yeah, essentially being able to get them reported in order to get the funds out. It's not that the funds go away. They're spoken for, and they'll get transferred to the communities once everything's in line. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yeah, so just so the Member's aware, again all these -- all the community funding goes out to the communities which they allocate through their funding -- or their capital planning, and we document it here as part of their -- as part of the large capital for the communities. But every community has their own large capital spending which we have broken up, but if we want to go by community or region for the Member at what she would like to know, yeah, we can share that. Although if you will recall, and I can do it again, but last year I sent out community fact sheets that...