Kate Reid

Member Great Slave

Kate Reid was elected to the 20th Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly to represent the constituency of Great Slave.

Ms. Reid was born in Oshawa, Ontario in 1981, and has called Yellowknife home since 1989. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism (Toronto Metropolitan University, 2003), and a master’s degree in information studies (University of Toronto, 2009).

After completing her master’s degree, she was grateful for the opportunity to work at the NWT Archives for nearly a decade, where she cultivated a deep appreciation for preserving and sharing the stories that define the territory and its government. Transitioning to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in 2018, Ms. Reid focused on conservation and sustainable development issues in legislative and policy work prior to being elected.

Ms. Reid volunteered as President of YWCA NWT from 2021 to 2023 and served as UNW Local 40 President in 2019 and from 2021 to 2023. Her leadership extends to the cultural realm as a past director for Folk on the Rocks, Yellowknife’s long-running and beloved music festival. Ms. Reid has also contributed to community events such as NWT Pride and Yellowknife Pride, and the past springtime art spectacle, Burn on the Bay.

In her personal life, Ms. Reid is married and finds inspiration in an array of hobbies. She loves music, art, burlesque, drag, film, weightlifting, and travel.

Committees

Kate Reid
Great Slave
Member's Office

Yellowknife NT X1A 2L9
Canada

P.O. Box
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Statements in Debates

Debates of , 20th Assembly, 1st Session (day 78)

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I think I am lost. So can the Minister or staff provide like a tangible example of we bought this asset, etcetera, and the accounting book error meant that in fact we were in the red instead of the black; I am kind of lost here. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Debates of , 20th Assembly, 1st Session (day 78)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am sure committee will look forward to that scoping and work together with the Minister. Mr. Speaker, will the proposed medical travel case management initiative with the three proposed positions focus solely -- their work solely on identifying cost savings, or will these positions also be looking for trends in patient experience and suggest improvements? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Debates of , 20th Assembly, 1st Session (day 78)

Thank you, Mr. Chair. And I will speak slowly and let the Minister and his staff flip pages because I also get into that administrative snafu myself sometimes. The question is this: The Yellowknife airport revolving fund is projected to have a surplus of just under $52 million at the end of year, and what are the plans for that surplus? And I understand the surplus is based on assets so how do you measure a surplus by physical assets, I guess is my question. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Debates of , 20th Assembly, 1st Session (day 78)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, can the health Minister please tell me how the methodology and the survey questions for the 2025 Patient Experience Questionnaire and previous questionnaires, as I understand as it tracks the same metrics over time, were selected. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Debates of , 20th Assembly, 1st Session (day 78)

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I am hopeful I can ask about the airport revolving fund considering airport operations are under this activity. The YK airport revolving fund is projected to have a surplus of just under $52 million at the end of the year. What are the plans for this surplus? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Debates of , 20th Assembly, 1st Session (day 77)

Thank you, Mr. Chair. And, yeah, not to put this all on the Department of Environment and Climate Change; this is a recurrent cost throughout many departments. I believe it's in the range of $3.5 million in TSC chargebacks across government in this supplementary estimate. Can the Minister tell me if this is representing good value for money, or what can be done to maintain and manage these costs? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Debates of , 20th Assembly, 1st Session (day 77)

Thank you, Mr. Chair. And sort of my last question on this topic. Can ECC provide an update on the ongoing work to update the community wildfire plans, where we are with that work. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Debates of , 20th Assembly, 1st Session (day 77)

Thank you, Mr. Chair. And that's good to hear. But how does ECC plan to balance this decrease for a growing need for climate adaptation and cumulative impact monitoring? I am happy to hear that some of the funding is being redirected to Indigenous governments, but do they feel that they are adequately addressing these needs going forward? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Debates of , 20th Assembly, 1st Session (day 77)

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I would love to understand more about what sped up the Tulita health centre project and how we can maybe mimic that success to other projects. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Debates of , 20th Assembly, 1st Session (day 77)

Thank you, Mr. Chair. And, you know, I will note that I was excited to see the regional operations ADM out of Fort Smith be created a few years back. I am hopeful that, yeah, consistency of effort throughout the regions and throughout compliance actions is top of mind for the Minister and that all officers are sort of –- I realize there's standard operating procedures and there's how they do their jobs, and enforcement is very regimented and appropriate but how they educate maybe perhaps not as much. And that's really what I am looking for today is sort of a -- for the Minister to take away...