2023 NWT Election
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Caroline Wawzonek
Candidate in the Yellowknife South Yellowknife race.
Caroline can be reached at caroline@carolinewawzonek.ca.
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NWT government has no plans to develop accessibility act
June 4, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...trying to attract residents to move here and stay, this is one more thing we can do to help make the territory a more attractive place to live.” Caroline Wawzonek, the territory’s infrastructure minister, responded that she had tasked her department with looking at a building standards framework for the...
Taught to be advocates: N.W.T. midwives protest proposed cuts to Yellowknife program
May 31, 2024
CBC North - ...implemented. There have been intermittent periods of midwifery service in the capital but never an established midwifery team. Finance Minister Caroline Wawzonek said that's why she proposed the cuts. "If the money is sitting there, $900,000 for something that's not been fully implemented, that's not the...
‘Look outside the box.’ MLA calls for changes to barging service
May 29, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...we are good at government. That doesn’t necessarily mean we’re good at managing businesses,” Rodgers said. ‘Creative solutions’ Caroline Wawzonek, the territory’s infrastructure minister, said the department’s review of MTS will not consider splitting operations. She said the review is,...
NWT’s new budget is ‘a financial Frankenstein’s monster’
May 28, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...territory’s newly proposed budget “represents difficult choices” to achieve fiscal goals, not everyone agrees those are the right choices. Caroline Wawzonek unveiled the first budget of the 20th Assembly late last week, which she described as “not a ribbon-cutting budget.” Asked to explain what that...
N.W.T.’s 2024 operating budget gets mixed reviews from MLAs, advocates
May 25, 2024
CBC North - ...were mixed reactions to the newly-proposed N.W.T. operating budget on Friday at the territorial legislature. Finance Minister Caroline Wawzonek tabled the 2024-25 operating budget earlier that day. She characterized the $2.2-billion plan as one that includes "difficult choices" to ensure the territory is...
Minister Wawzonek unveils 2024-45 budget focusing on financial sustainability
May 24, 2024
My Yellow Knife Now - ...Finance Minister Caroline Wawzonek unveiled the 2024–25 budget, focusing on fiscal sustainability, aiming to increase operational surpluses, decrease short-term debt, realign health spending for greater sustainability, allocate funds to key priorities, and enhance fiscal capacity, ensuring that the GNWT is...
MLAs wonder who’ll benefit if NWT makes carbon tax changes
April 9, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...tax is perceived in the Northwest Territories. In effect: what is this tax actually achieving? But McNeely wasn’t questioning finance minister Caroline Wawzonek, who usually bears the brunt of these concerns. This time, he was asking Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart, who is proposing legislation that would...
NWT carbon tax public meeting planned as rates go up
March 30, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...is spent,” he told Cabin Radio in February. From February: Kieron Testart outlines what he believes his bill would do. NWT finance minister Caroline Wawzonek says that’s not remotely her understanding of what would actually happen if the bill passed. “The minute we stop collecting carbon tax, which...
NWT’s new ministers face community leaders’ annual ‘bear pit’
March 6, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...community, and maybe the funding will be a little better.” This year’s bear pit didn’t quite feature the full cast of cabinet members. Caroline Wawzonek and Lucy Kuptana, the infrastructure and housing ministers respectively, were unable to attend. Deputy infrastructure minister Steve Loutitt and...
Bill that would switch N.W.T. to federal carbon tax program moving forward
February 28, 2024
CBC North - ...territories have opted for the federal government's version of the carbon tax — which would take effect in the N.W.T. as well if Finance Minister Caroline Wawzonek's locally tailored carbon tax is removed. Kieron Testart has proposed making the switch because he wants Ottawa to be responsible for the tax. He...
Bill to repeal NWT’s carbon tax clears second reading
February 28, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...with the current program, and come forward with conclusive recommendations,” he said. Wawzonek wants focus on alternatives Finance minister Caroline Wawzonek, who is responsible for the territory’s carbon pricing regime, said cabinet would be abstaining from the vote as the carbon tax had already gone...
Meet Prosper NWT, an attempt to confuse you less
February 28, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...think it’s a great thing,” added then-MLA Kevin O’Reilly, who complained that the name wasn’t the subject of any public engagement. Caroline Wawzonek, the minister who oversaw most of BDIC’s rebranding process, defended the choice in October last year. “I am confident that the new name is a...
MLA introduces bill to repeal N.W.T. carbon tax
February 28, 2024
CBC North - ... When MLAs voted in favour of the N.W.T. carbon tax system it was marketed as a "made-in-the-North" option. The territory's Finance Minister Caroline Wawzonek said at the time that passing the N.W.T. carbon tax would allow the territory more flexibility to adjust how the tax is applied — including...
Testart, Hawkins launch bill to repeal NWT’s carbon tax
February 23, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...system returned to the NWT where they were collected.” Bill reaches House next week Testart said he had pitched the bill to finance minister Caroline Wawzonek in a “not-extensive discussion” in which he’d outlined how, in his view, the bill allows the NWT to keep its rebate system – in particular...
Live: MLAs pass motion calling for wildfire public inquiry
February 22, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...inquiry. Six cabinet members opposed the motion. Two MLAs weren’t in attendance – Inuvik Boot Lake’s Denny Rodgers and Yellowknife South’s Caroline Wawzonek, the finance minister. While the motion passed, cabinet has said a yes vote does not automatically trigger an inquiry and ministers will work with...