2023 NWT Election
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Kieron Testart
Candidate in the Range Lake Yellowknife race.
Kieron can be reached at info@Kierontestart.ca, or by calling 867-444-7558.
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Listen: Will the GNWT’s new Indigenous Employment Policy work?
December 20, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...NWT government in April gets it wrong. In a letter this week, seven regular MLAs – Jane Weyallon Armstrong, Richard Edjericon, Robert Hawkins, Kieron Testart, Daniel McNeely, George Nerysoo and Sheryl Yakeleya – said the new policy was being introduced despite “unresolved concerns.” A committee of...
Now is not the time to replace N.W.T.’s affirmative action hiring policy, say some MLAs
December 20, 2024
CBC North - ...since that also still plays a role in hiring processes. Other MLAs have also spoken out against the new policy, including Robert Hawkins and Kieron Testart who have both posted public statements outlining their concerns. Both say it will make it harder for northerners to obtain government jobs, and at a...
GNWT to launch new hiring policy that focuses on Indigenous recruitment
December 18, 2024
CKLB 101.9 - ...will work specifically for Indigenous,” said Mackey. The new policy has been received negatively by some northerners, including Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart and Yellowknife Centre MLA Robert Hawkins. “The Affirmative Action Policy may never have been perfect, but it has been an essential program for...
Regulate online gambling, NWT MLAs are told
December 18, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...for example, has restrictions in place for residents who wish to participate in online gaming. ‘Normalization’ concern Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart brought a representative of GeoComply to a meeting with communities minister Vince McKay in October. “Opening the market to legal online sports...
New GNWT employment policy prioritizes Indigenous hires
December 17, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...determine the qualifications actually required and identify equivalencies to address potential barriers. Testart criticizes policy Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart used social media to lambast the new policy on Tuesday. He was particularly critical of the territory’s decision to scrap the prioritization of...
NWT’s film rebate program budget doubling to $1M next year
November 8, 2024
Cabin Radio - ... The GNWT noted that budget increases had been “supported by MLAs” when they were finalized earlier this year. At the time, Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart had said the existing rebate program was “scratching the surface of our potential.” “The multipliers within the film industry in the...
How should the NWT save money?
November 7, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...of evaluating programs and initiatives to determine if they still align with priorities or are achieving their respective mandates,” he wrote. Kieron Testart. Ollie Williams/Cabin Radio Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart said he believes it’s not a matter of the territory reducing spending but spending more...
MLAs pass capital budget despite gripes
November 5, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...market and public housing units; and creating a three-year investment plan for housing with minimum funding of $50 million per year. Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart said those promises were insufficient and lacked action. He described the government’s response to regular MLAs’ concerns as “just a plan that...
How much carbon tax the NWT is paying and where the money goes
November 4, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...Taltson and Snare hydro facilities and planning for Fort Providence and Kakisa hydro facilities.” In the legislature last week, Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart quizzed finance minister Caroline Wawzonek on the $14-million surplus, which is far larger than any surplus the GNWT has previously recorded through...
N.W.T. MLAs to ask auditor general to review territory’s health authority
November 2, 2024
CBC North - ...voted Thursday in favour of the motion to ask for the audit, with all regular MLAs in support and all cabinet ministers abstaining. Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart introduced the motion, citing the Northwest Territories Health and Social Services Authority's (NTHSSA) growing deficit, the territory's increasing...
N.W.T. assembly passes capital budget despite concerns over priorities
November 1, 2024
CBC North - ...with MLAs Danny McNeely, Jane Weyallon Armstrong, Kate Reid and Denny Rodgers. Voting against the budget were MLAs Robert Hawkins, Shauna Morgan, Kieron Testart, Julian Morse and George Nerysoo. The finance minister responded to members asking for more for housing and healthcare by committing to remove...
MLAs want auditor general to investigate health authority
November 1, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...for the government to improve the financial and operational sustainability of the Northwest Territories’ healthcare system.” Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart wants Canada’s auditor general to conduct a performance audit of “all aspects of the management” of the NWT’s health authority related to...
Could a similar Stanton Renewal Project debacle happen again?
October 30, 2024
CKLB 101.9 - ...have been saddled with hundreds of millions of dollars of debt for the next 30 years,' says MLA Kieron Testart Yesterday’s bombshell report from the Auditor General of Canada showing the territorial government was oblivious to a hospital renewal contract that swelled 62-per-cent over-budget to...
Aurora College’s polytechnic transformation ‘hasn’t been halted’
October 28, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...that needs to be fostered, supported, and that needs to be able to given the time to grow.” She was responding to questions from Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart, who suggested the college needed to be taken back under direct GNWT control. “They’ve been given years to get this done, and they’re still...
Yellowknife MLAs release healthcare survey findings
October 25, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...minister says public complaints about the healthcare system are not falling “on deaf ears,” despite the concerns of two Yellowknife MLAs. Kieron Testart and Robert Hawkins hosted a healthcare town hall in Yellowknife in August and created an online survey calling on residents to share their...