Vince McKay

Yes, thank you. This program is designed to basically support, you know, critical infrastructure for housing. It's not for -- it's not actually for houses but it's designed to, like, build subdivisions or water works and everything like that. Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, again, going forward, you know, there's been more clear communication. There have been more working amongst departments with the ICS system. There's been more communication between departments and, just to highlight, communication has always been an issue and it's still an issue on many emergency scenes, and communication is usually highlighted in every after-action review. So it's definitely something that needs to be worked on, you know, all the time, just to understand that. So although, you know, the review explained about Enterprise, you know, there was a lot of things going...

Yeah, this program it will.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Again, so some of the line of questioning is related to the after-action review and the recommendations, and what we've done is that those recommendations have been actioned and are being actioned, so we are moving ahead. So although some of the after-action review has said we're not doing some of this stuff, it may have changed already, and we are actually doing some of this stuff.

For an example, you know, with the unified command. So back in 2023, there may have been that confusion on how to operate with the ICS and unified command. Going to today, there's a lot more...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. A lot of this stuff, again, is related to the type of funding that they've applied for, the type of projects they have going on and what funding can be applied for it -- or applied to it. And this particular funding, there is no project in the community that the community's applied for to allocate it in this pot. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Yeah, thanks. I'll ask the deputy minister to answer that for me. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I could go through every community and give out every community's capital plan. This fund is divided up to the communities to fund their projects within the communities. So a lot of this -- like, the investing in Canada infrastructure program that she's speaking of is all distributed to the communities. We don't hold on to any of that. It's all part of their capital plan and all their developing within the communities. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Yeah, thank you, Mr. Chair. So the $51,000 under small capital projects for the small sport utility vehicle is more of a safety liability thing for the vision for sports and rec. You know, they have to run around, they have to, you know, do their business within the community also and also travel around the region, but they also -- like I said earlier, they also deliver Western Canadian Lotteries things to the post office, to venues across Yellowknife and the region and, yeah, get it out to the communities. So not so much just a -- you know, a wonderful purchase of a new vehicle, it's more of...

Great comments by the Member. Noted. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Again, a lot of the community governments receive funding for their operations in their own communities, so Deh Cho riding has a few communities and they've already received -- or they have a lot of their funding already allocated through their planning. So I can share that information also with the Member if they like, but it's more of a community operations line of questioning that I couldn't answer for the communities. I'll also maybe just ask the deputy minister just to share a few things there. Thank you.