Thanks to the Minister of Finance. To the Member.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. No further questions.
Thank you to the Member of Yellowknife North. Any further questions?
Seeing none, Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures) No. 1, 2025-2026. Department of Industry, Tourism and Investment, capital investments expenditures, minerals and petroleum resources, not previously authorized, $714,000. Does committee agree?
Agreed.
Thank you, committee. Infrastructure expenditures, tourism and parks, not previously authorized, $2,465,000. Are there any questions? Seeing -- to the Member of Frame Lake.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just very quickly, why did so many of these projects have to carryover? It just striked me as a large number of projects as opposed to -- I mean, it's a fair amount of money, but just so many of them and so many across the territory, why so many? Does the department simply not have the capacity to complete the number of projects it's budgeting for, or what's going on? Thank you.
Thank you, Member. Minister of Finance.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. So, Mr. Chair, again, just so that we're clear as a get-go, a project can request a carryover only under specified circumstances, and that is specifically if either there is already substantial work underway or if a contractual obligation exists. So on -- you know, there's different reasons why different projects can see particular carryovers and, you know, they can range from anything from a contract being signed, you know, right at the line and such that they then end up, you know, requiring a carryover because they didn't quite meet the cutoff for having, you know, the timing begun or the funding expended or there can be -- certainly over the last few years, starting, as I said -- and I don't like to go back to COVID, but there are still projects we're seeing here that are facing carryovers because their original budgets were begun at the time of COVID. And then following from there, floods and wildfires that have affected different projects in different communities. So there certainly are some then, too, that have suffered from an opportunity of from perhaps a lack of -- a lack of as robust planning as we would like to see which is where, you know, I can certainly say that I've been quite pleased at the department and all departments have been quite, you know, ready, willing, and eager to see the changes in capital planning over the last sort of roughly two to three years. That does hopefully provide a greater degree of oversight to the plans before they come forward so that they are, in fact, ready.
With respect to the IT plans, Mr. Speaker, I'm going to give a plug for listening to the Minister statements again because I've also gone to our OCIO office that has been an area we are quite challenged to deliver tech projects, and they have done a fair bit of work to try to improve that system for how we planned. They're involved earlier with departments. Yeah, Mr. Chair, I think this -- it's a good question. It's just difficult to answer as a collective question as opposed to having to maybe sit down and look at some of the bigger areas one by one by one because trying to improve the planning is going to mean sometimes looking at the individual problems. There will be one-offs on big projects. Like the Member specifically mentioned that there are times where we are stuck as a government, we have to provide a school or a health centre, but there's other times where, you know, there's things that we could try to increase in our own systems about even respond -- having responsibility contractors, having vendor performance management, having contract monitoring, all of those things. So, again, all -- I'll be mindful of the Member's time, Mr. Chair. It's a topic I'm actually quite happy to talk about because a lot of our projects do come in on time and on budget, but the ones that don't certainly make the headlines. Thank you.
Thank you, Minister of Finance. To the Member.
Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures) No. 1, 2025-2026. Department of Industry, Tourism and Investment, capital investments expenditures, tourism and parks, not previously authorized, $2,465,000. Does committee agree?
Agreed.
Thank you, committee. I will call the Member, Inuvik Boot Lake.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I move the chair rise and report progress.
Thank you to the Member of Inuvik Boot Lake. There's a motion on the floor to report progress. The motion is in order and non-debatable. All those in favour? Thank you. All those opposed? The motion is carried.
---Carried
Members, thank you. I'll go to the Member from the Sahtu. May I have the report of the Committee of the Whole.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, your committee has been considering Tabled Documents 340-20(1) and 341-20(1) and would like to report progress with one motion carried, that consideration of Tabled Document 341-20(1) is concluded and that the House concur with those estimates and that an appropriation bill will be based thereon to be introduced without delay. And, Mr. Speaker, I move that the report of the Committee of the Whole be concurred with. Mahsi.
Thank you. Is there a seconder? I'll go to the Member from Monfwi. The motion's in order. To the motion.
Question.
Question has been called. All those in favour? All those opposed? Motion carried.
---Carried
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Orders of the day for Wednesday, May 28th, 2025, at 1:30 p.m.
Prayer or Reflection
Ministers’ Statements
Members’ Statements
Returns to Oral Questions
Oral Question 666-20(1), Legal Aid Commission of the Northwest Territories
Recognition of Visitors in the Gallery
Acknowledgements
Oral Questions
Written Questions
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Replies to the Commissioner’s Address
Petitions
Reports of Committees on the Review of Bills
Reports of Standing and Special Committees
Tabling of Documents
Notices of Motion
Motions
Motion 57-20(1), Supplemental Recommendation of the Integrity Commissioner on Costs in the Complaint Against the Member for Tu Nedhe-Wiilideh
Notices of Motion for First Reading of Bills
First Reading of Bills
Bill 28, An Act to Amend the Student Financial Assistance Act, No. 2
Bill 29, First Responders Workers’ Compensation Amendment Act
Second Reading of Bills
Bill 27, An Act to Amend the Protection Against Family Violence Act
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Tabled Document 340-20(1): Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures) No. 1, 2025-2026
Report of Committee of the Whole
Third Reading of Bills
Orders of the Day
Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Mr. Clerk.
This House stands adjourned until Wednesday, May 28th, 2025, at 1:30 p.m.
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The House adjourned at 8:01 p.m.
