Shauna Morgan

Thank you, Mr. Chair. And so these upgrades, are they set out in, say, an asset management plan? Like, is there a plan with scheduled upgrades that, you know, is justified based on expected, you know, life of certain parts of our assets, or are they expected -- you know, need for replacement and maintenance at certain times? Are these upgrades part of such a plan that, you know, has been thought through and listed what upgrades are required at which dates?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Does the department or the Minister intend to do any independent economic analysis to verify those claims that participants are reporting, especially given that if they're the ones getting the money there's definitely an incentive -- no pun intended, although there's a pun there -- to make those figures look as good as possible? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. And can you tell us what was the original budget? Therefore, you know, how much this project has gone over. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. That was going to be my next question. But can you clarify, has this evaluation been made public or is it -- is your intention to confidentially share it with MLAs? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So I will also be supporting this motion. It's well known, and certainly those of us who have been in municipal government, know how deep this cuts when it comes to the impacts on municipalities. But just to give some more perspective on, you know, where the gap -- or the size of the gap that we're dealing with. You know, according to our government's own calculations, so in terms of water and waste funding, on average, communities only get about 52 percent of what they're owed. On average, in terms of operations and maintenance funding, communities get about 74 percent...

Thank you for that. So I'm still not clear what ITI or the GNWT's role in that is, but that could be a further conversation. But my final question, so one of the specific actions that ITI has in its business plan to support housing is connecting economic analysis of the housing sector to determine whether an industry led microcluster could be fostered for the NWT Housing sector I suppose as a whole. Can you explain what exactly that would involve? I don't really understand what that action is at all. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Okay. And that is -- certainly, I think, fisheries are an important industry that we don't want to lose sight of. But probably a whole other conversation in and of itself that I won't get into now.

My next question, so the SEED program -- well, the first question -- I know that there's going to be an incorporation of arts funding all into ITI. Is the arts funding that used to be done through ECE all to come out of SEED funding, or is it coming out of somewhere else in this line? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So my first question is about Prosper NWT. And so it looks like the budget has been reduced by about 24 percent between last year's budget and this year's budget. Can the Minister explain what's happening there or the rationale behind that? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So I definitely appreciate the challenges and the dilemma that we're in. I'm just concerned that we're approving money for something that we might not be able to actually accomplish.

On the second one, in term of the acquisition of portables for Colville Lake, do we have a better news story on that one? Do we expect that that will actually be accomplished with the $2.824 million?

That's fine. Thank you for that. And that is quite astonishing to see that that specific thing was included in legislation. Thank you.