High cost of living on MLAs’ minds as legislative assembly returns: House leader
Fall sitting of legislative assembly to open Thursday, scheduled to last 3 weeks
Government house leader David Joanasie says MLAs will introduce nine new bills during the fall sitting of Nunavut’s legislative assembly. It begins Thursday at 1:30 p.m. ET. (File photo)
Nine new government bills are expected to be introduced by members of Nunavut’s legislative assembly during its fall sitting, which opens this week.
The fall sitting is scheduled to open Thursday and conclude three weeks later on Nov. 9.
In an interview, house leader David Joanasie said that of the nine government bills that will be introduced, four are budget bills and five are non-budget.
Ministers will be introducing each bill on the first day and will explain what the bills are about, Joanasie said.
Joanasie said there should also be reports tabled throughout the sitting, including reports from the standing committee on Oversight of Government and Public Accounts and the auditor general’s report on Child and Family Services.
The fall session will be the first time Nunavut’s MLAs and ministers have gathered since the federal government began work on addressing soaring grocery prices across the country.
“Just to be in line with what’s going on in the country, that’s something on our radar as well,” Joanasie said. “Not just food prices, but the cost of living as a whole.”
He said the main topic of the fall agenda will be GN’s capital plan for 2024-25.
“That’s the bulk of the work that we anticipate will be dealt with over the next two or three weeks,” Joanasie said. He did not say which projects could be included in that plan.
As well, Premier P.J. Akeeagok will table the GN’s mandate midterm report.
Nunavummiut can tune in to live streams of the legislature proceedings through the legislative assembly’s website. Thursday’s sitting will begin at 1:30pm ET, while sittings on Fridays begin at 9am ET.
Cost of living today is unbelievable not much disposable income to spend, spending only on high priced foods and skipping the bills and other expenses 🙁
Yes high cost is going out of control with all government levels including our own NU,Government and waste of over giving away with biulding materials and not been thought of well to home owners in Iqaluit that we cannot afford anything to renew anymore,
Opened to public and have new people to pick up as much and leave out the real iqaluitmuit not able to get help dumb move IHA must have asked the Government affiliates just give them away,
We as Inuit asked for our government to help us to run our own Government and the elected forgets us with no ears and no eyes but comes up with bunch of difficulty applications to fill out and not approve,
Some home owners have seen double cost of living just two years of utilitie cost when will they ask home owners do you need help ? Never,
Banks interest rates gone double as well,
I don’t know what to do anymore soon why same people say they will help for change and never helped us and I’m many of struggles in bills bills that will never stop ….
Home owner
Biggest infrastructure today are running. That thing that keeps avoiding individuals, that is creating walls to Inuit heritage, just like becoming new.born Nunavut should be ready, instead of being avoided, they should include.whole of Nunavut communities. It is not nwt anymore, it is only Inuit in Nunavut, not nwt natives.
What??? tukisignitunga
High cost of living.
If you can find a place to live in Nunavut.
We have so much land. More than anywhere else in Canada.
But government won’t let us build our own house.
Only southern businesses are allowed to build houses in Nunavut.
Thats not why we made Nunavut.
To make southern businesses rich.
Now that Iqaluit has a sea port, food, lumber and other stuff should cost just a little more than in the south.
Big rip-off going on.
Time to investigate.
How about a bill to let us build our own house on our own land?
Got to stop the nurses from abusing the medical travel system like their own personal travel agency.
The Minister is planning to introduce a Bill in the Legislative Assembly next week to rename the Department of Health to
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Department of Airline Subsidy.
Might as well not work and just get welfare checks and get free housing at this point