Caroline Wawzonek

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, these are fairly small-scale projects. For example, some of the projects I was describing are under $100,000 or sitting at around $250,000, and for lighting, it's not -- those aren't necessarily projects that are, you know, significant. Heating upgrades, similarly $100,000. So my point with that simply being that while we don't necessarily have everything lined up at this point early on, this is for the 2025-2026 season which does provide a fair bit of time and a fair bit of room to still maneuver, so there will be some money that could lapse certainly but at...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I want to be quite frank that building morale and changing morale and changing culture are more difficult than simply the action plan or the specific action item in any particular framework. It is really about creating cultures of change and showing the culture of change within the public service. So I do want to acknowledge that it is critical that the public service return to a place of good morale. It's been a difficult few years in the territory for a number of reasons, and that will no doubt affect people's state of well-being in the workplace as well...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So, Mr. Chair, Taltson is contemplated to be revenue generating. Not necessarily in huge dollars but it depends. The issue is we are dependent or expecting that there would be industrial load added by having the Taltson construction. So, for instance, even right now with the overhaul that is expected to hopefully be fully absorbed, that excess energy would be fully absorbed by the Pine Point line. To do the expansion, it certainly links south and north and a significant number of communities. But to be revenue generating depends on there being at least another one, if not...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, let me see if I can kind a list (audio). I think everyone is -- the work plan for 2025-2026, Mr. Chair, we have a -- there are some items that are in Gameti, the school, then Gameti has some upgrading. Yellowknife is getting upgrading to the Tatsaoti'ne building, a district heating system. Fort McPherson, Chief Julius School, heat recovery optimization. Sachs Harbour's school is getting heating upgrades. There's some funding allotted for LED lighting upgrades in both fthe Sahtu and South Slave that's yet to be completely finalized. Deh Cho, Fort Simpson, again...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I've had a sneak peek. I can tell you that it's going to be tabled here in the House next week so certainly don't want to give too much away. But in the theme of a teaser, let's say that the number of exits by resignations is down from 523 down to 480 in 2023-2024. The number of exits down -- and generally down overall from 951 in 2022-2023 to 810 overall in 2023-2024. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, this project initially came to -- into play for the GNWT before my time even in this House. And so its initial conception did not go through the same exact processes that we have now put into place today. But understanding the kinds of potential outcomes -- and I'm just trying to get to the substantiation sheet where there's a macroeconomic analysis lens that has since been applied to the project, due to the time, to try and determine what some of the benefits would be. Sorry, Mr. Chair, I'm just looking through -- oh, Mr. Chair, look, it's coming right at me...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Those are the different funds from which they are -- to which they are allotted. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So since November of 2023, when I believe that's when the email went live, there have been three matters formally submitted all regarding different GNWT processes. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the comment about being more proactive. We do -- we did also go through the process earlier this year in seeking suggestions about more efficiency and specifically directing that to the public service and in that regard received over 1,800 suggestions about finding efficiency from about 900 individuals with different ones raised by different people. So there certainly is -- there are...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, so typically a large project like that, the planning estimates would come through the -- or sorry, this capital planning process if it gets to that stage. But, Mr. Chair, let me take a slightly different approach with this one which is to say, again, it is an MOU-based approach. And I have been very clear with the partners when I sit at that table that it is an MOU approach, that it is not a GNWT only project; it is meant to advance as a group. And, again, our next step was to try to create -- there's been a decision on a preferred route. There's been a lot of...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So, I mean, there's -- yes, I mean, I'll perhaps try one more time to direct it to the assistant deputy minister, but just to start out, I mean, there are -- projects that are coming in under the small cap fund or small -- that are under the definition of being small capital projects, so things that under the threshold of $600,000, those items would tend to be within each department which holds their own individual small capital projects. And then beyond that, at some time they do make their way in to deferred maintenance which puts them under the rubric of being an...