Julian Morse

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the Minister's point yesterday that we don't want to waste time strategizing and focus on doing. So how does she suggest we communicate our economic plans effectively and ensure they are effective at addressing our challenges? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Sorry, Mr. Speaker, I lost my notes. I'll have to go again.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, in the past few days in response to my statements, I've had a few Ministers respond that the last thing we need is to burn up staff's time creating more strategies and reports that don't take us anywhere. We need to focus on actions. Mr. Speaker, I agree with that sentiment. So I want to clarify what I've been getting at in my statements about strategy, analysis, and planning.

The difficulty we have in taking effective action is the GNWT is a large organization with diverse and sometimes competing mandates. If we don't focus our work, we end up going in far...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I certainly don't have as colourful a speech as my colleague from Great Slave. I think that one is going to go down in history as one of the better alliterations I've heard on a budget, the outhouses to homes, or how she put it? I just have a few comments on this one, Mr. Speaker, and I am going to keep them quite brief.

The first one is that, you know, I put my comments on the record when we approved the mains last year about the housing funding that we were able to secure, that historic investment that came from the collaboration of Regular MLAs. And I...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Of course the natural follow-up is if replacement of our system to improve interoperability is what needs to be done, can the Minister give us an update on work towards that? Is there a budget ask coming? Are they working to address that issue? Thank you;

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And Mr. Speaker, I do note that in the Budget Dialogues document, again it came up that a cohesive economic vision is something that we're missing in the NWT, and so stakeholders were saying we need to establish something. So I do encourage us to put that vision forward.

Mr. Speaker, does the Minister feel that this kind of high-level economic analysis and planning belong just in plans created by ITI, or should we be taking a wider approach perhaps attaching this kind of analysis and planning to the government mandate or having finance report on it alongside our economic...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, your Standing Committee on Government Operations is pleased to provide its Report on the Review of the 2024-2025 Annual Report of the Northwest Territories Information and Privacy Commissioner and commends it to the House.

Mr. Speaker, I move, seconded by the Member for Great Slave that committee report 30- -- oh, I need to read the report. Sorry, Mr. Speaker; I'm getting ahead of myself here.

Okay, thank you, Mr. Speaker. This is the Standing Committee on Government Operations Report on the Review of the 2024-2025 Annual Report of the Northwest Territories...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And I understand the Minister's point behind strategies; however, we are still funding programming using this strategy as I mentioned in the statement. Doesn't that necessarily suggest that the strategy should be up to date? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I move, seconded by the Member for Great Slave, that Committee Report 32-20(1), Standing Committee on Government Operations Report on the Review of the 2024-2025 Annual Report of the Northwest Territories human Rights Commission, be received and adopted by the Assembly. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Premier beat me to it, but I also wanted to recognize Doreen Cleary and Gerri Sharpe who hail from the Frame Lake riding. Thank you for being here today. Thank you.