Caroline Wawzonek

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Part of the projects -- and, again, there are -- there's a couple of aspects to the work that's happening with respect to the 9-1-1 system and certainly one component of the second project really is to try to increase the integration with third party software as well as to integrate more with, you know, ensuring that -- yeah, that the systems do speak better to each other and can rely on GIS. At some point -- I'm hesitating only in that at some point does need to be work done with the NorthwesTel, or whoever the telecom provider or say cell phone company might be, and...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. On my left, Bill MacKay, deputy minister of finance. On my right, Dave Heffernan, the assistant deputy minister and government chief information officer.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I can certainly say that the power corporation already does keep in touch with both the GNWT's energy staff, who are also involved in this issue, and together they then in turn keep in touch with those at the IRC or IDC advancing the Inuvialuit energy supply project. And certainly happy to say that I'll re-enforce to them that we want to be working together to have domestic energy supply as much as we can, increases resiliency, is certainly lower carbon than the current diesel that is often used in those communities, and we want to make sure that we're...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to have the chance to speak to this again. There was an announcement that went out not too long ago. We have transitioned now from what was before a board that was made up entirely of senior officials from the government who were doing this in addition to all the other work they had to do. We've transitioned now to having seven public members, two GNWT senior deputies still involved. We are, of course, still the sole shareholders of the corporation. But those seven members were chosen based on a matrix where there's a skill set that we want to...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So on this project, there would be the time for July and then after that, our public hearings would be held. And again, our hope certainly being that if we are in advance of that, spending time with the communities who are affected and impacted, that these public hearings would go fairly smoothly, that there will be no, again, that people are hopefully well versed in the project by this point. One of the things we are hoping to see happen in the immediate future is that a working group readiness or a project readiness working group can be set up for those communities...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. No, not yet, Mr. Chair. And there have been studies done really over the last few years of quite a large number of routes. There have been -- and with varying degrees of technical research on each. For instance, some have had geological analysis to understand what potential geology is in the regions. And some have had further than that, also more environmental analysis and more design analysis. But Mr. Chair, the stage that we're at right now, we have -- there's the YKDFN and Tlicho who I think are -- who I understand are looking to find a path to work together in order...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, those conversations certainly have begun, but I can't say that they are -- I'm not going to suggest they're far advanced at this point. This is a project that does continue to move as a partnership. The GNWT is but one member of the steering committee, and then there's a working group that's established with staff and officials from ourselves, as well as from all of Indigenous governments around the watershed both north and south of the lake at the landing points as well. And that is one of the items that's sort of next in line, if you will, for a key item that...

Oh, my witnesses. Oh dear. Just -- you know, Mr. Chair, let me just get my notes out because I have a problem with names when I sit in this chair.

Gaeleen MacPherson associate deputy minister, Strategic Infrastructure, Energy and Supply Chains. And on my right, Kim Wickens, assistant deputy minister, energy and strategic infrastructure.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I am more than happy to come back again. I mean, every year before and as part of the budget process, there's a fairly lengthy set of papers that get produced. Also this term, there would have been the fiscal update that was provided to give the public a sense of where we're at in terms of a government and our fiscal situation, and the fiscal responsibility policy, and a lot of the indicators that go with it. So I'm pleased to -- that people want to hold those documents. I also want to hold those documents. They are available -- generally, they're made...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So Mr. Chair, I do want to be quite frank about this, but that this was always expected that what was originally known as the Lockhart All-Season Road would be moving to an environmental assessment in the coming fiscal year. I think there has been a bit of a dialing back of that language and really a shift in a positive way to take advantage of the attention that we are seeing on a national scale to see an all-season road through this region. And so that shift in name has also come with a shift in approach, which is to say that this would not be a singularly GNWT-led in...