Julian Morse

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Appreciate that tip from the Minister, and I will save my questions for then. Thanks.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. And I appreciate the thoughtfulness and caution on the part of the Minister. But I would also just note that, I mean, in conversations like this I think there's trade-offs to consider and people's cost of living is probably the thing I hear about the most and is one of the areas that us politicians, I think, struggle the most to address but it's certainly one that I get at the doors any time I go out. And I think the public would appreciate us, if nothing else, just having the conversation, putting ideas out there, considering the pros and cons of expanding a reservoir or...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the city of Yellowknife continues to face a significant shortage of available land for development, a challenge that has become increasingly visible in recent years. Municipal leaders and residents alike have voiced concern that the city currently has little residential land available for sale and existing developed parcels are insufficient to meet the community's housing and growth needs. The city is actively working to develop the few available parcels it currently holds, but these are not nearly enough to meet expected demand. The difficulty they are...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. And that certainly is a good clarification to have. And I want to be clear, it's work that I support. We definitely want to keep youth from entering the criminal justice system. If these programs are helping to do that, which I am looking forward to seeing in the reporting that we've asked for, I'd be happy to see that. But I think that residents would probably be interested to hear about what police are doing about -- I know that there's been a lot of news stories, at least in my community over the past number of years, of, you know, criminal -- organized criminal...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. And can the Minister help us understand, is the Snare resiliency study something that is going on right now, is it yet to occur, or has it already occurred?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Is the reporting under this fund something that Members have access to publicly? Is there somewhere we can find this on the justice department website or are they simply able to provide us with reporting? Thanks.

Thank you, Mr. Chair, and I appreciate that answer. And can the Minister maybe help us better understand -- and this is something she can follow up later if she wants to, but what are the line items involved in that? So $11 million is a fair amount of money for having discussions. Can the Minister help us parse out what exactly the money is being spent on. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I appreciate that that work is being done.

Just on the point that the deputy minister made about the issues that we have with data collection, I mean, what is being done to -- I wanted to say streamline but streamline isn't the word I am looking for -- to better coordinate that data collection? I mean, this seems like -- I am always blown away by how difficult it is in this country with the various different things that we regulate. Every single jurisdiction does things differently. Anyways, focusing on this issue, is there an effort to streamline that data collection...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. No, there was no question there for the Minister, simply a comment and just expressing support for the Minister finding funds to continue that program. And certainly if he has to come to Legislative Assembly, he'll get my support. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair; I appreciate your indulgence.

Mr. Chair, I wanted to turn now to the Taltson expansion pre-construction. I know we spent $7.1 million on it last year. We've got $11 million to spend this year. Similar to the question I asked about the Mackenzie Valley environmental assessment, does the Minister have offhand how much we've spent on Taltson expansion pre-construction to date.