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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MLAs bring Missing Persons bill to Beaufort Delta for review
April 12, 2024
CKLB 101.9 - ...Committee on Social Development were in Aklavik and Inuvik this week to gather feedback on Bill 2, The Missing Persons Act. Committee member Kieron Testart, who is MLA for Range Lake, told CKLB the committee heard passionate and emotional presentations, including the Gruben family. “The committee...
What MLAs heard about Missing Persons Act in Aklavik and Inuvik
April 11, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...for all of those people that are still missing and are likely murdered, as there’s many in the Delta.” MLAs George Nerysoo, Danny McNeely, Kieron Testart, Sheryl Yakeleya, Jane Weyallon Armstrong and Shauna Morgan travelled to the two communities. In Aklavik, Kerr said speakers included Status of...
N.W.T. MLAs hold Missing Persons Act meetings in Aklavik and Inuvik
April 11, 2024
CBC North - ...of Frank Gruben last spring. Gruben, a 30-year old Gwich'in Inuvialuit man, was last seen in Fort Smith, N.W.T., on May 6, 2023. Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart said the meeting in Aklavik was well attended and members of Gruben's family were there to ask questions and hear about the act. "It's been very...
MLAs wonder who’ll benefit if NWT makes carbon tax changes
April 9, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...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 change how carbon tax works in the NWT. Testart wants to re-engineer the tax so that the federal...
NWT carbon tax public meeting planned as rates go up
March 30, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...a bill that would repeal the territory’s current version of the carbon tax if it passes. The bill, proposed earlier this year by regular MLAs Kieron Testart and Robert Hawkins, would not get rid of the carbon tax but would place many elements back into federal control, rather than maintain the current...
Assembly update for February 29
March 1, 2024
CKLB 101.9 - ...do we support smaller communities.” Other issues touched on during the last Oral Questions session for a while were: Land leases (Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart), diabetes rates and treatments (YK Centre MLA Robert Hawkins); the Slave Geological Province development (YK North MLA Shauna Morgan); and crime on...
NWT’s MLAs pass Israel-Hamas ceasefire motion
February 29, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...neither abstain nor vote against a “motion of peace.” Reid, Morgan, Hawkins and Rodgers were joined by fellow regular MLAs George Nerysoo, Kieron Testart, Julian Morse and Danny McNeely in supporting the motion as amended. Earlier, when first asked to write to the federal government regarding the...
Bill that would switch N.W.T. to federal carbon tax program moving forward
February 28, 2024
CBC North - ...the Legislative Assembly — meaning it'll now be reviewed at the committee level. Yellowknife North MLA Shauna Morgan voted against Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart's Carbon Tax Repeal Act. One of the issues she raised about the bill in the House on Wednesday evening was its name. "I fear that by sending it to...
Bill to repeal NWT’s carbon tax clears second reading
February 28, 2024
Cabin Radio - ... The NWT government opted to design and implement its own tax and rebate system, following rules set by the federal government. Now, Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart and Yellowknife Centre MLA Robert Hawkins have introduced a private member’s bill that would scrap the NWT’s carbon tax system, reverting the...
NWT Assembly thinks pink against bullies today: Your Daily Update
February 28, 2024
CKLB 101.9 - ...Pink Shirt Day. It was not too surprising that many of the statements and questions were directly and indirectly on the topic of bullying. MLA Kieron Testart called proposed Alberta legislation that will change health-care options for youth “transphobic and atrocious” to the 2SLGBTQI+ community. ...
Legislative Assembly Debating Housing as a Human Right
February 28, 2024
My Yellow Knife Now - ...major bill is coming to the tables of the 20th Legislative Assembly this week. Two MLAs, Sheryl Yakeleya and Kieron Testart, will be presenting two motions to the Assembly to try and establish housing as a human right in the NWT. These motions are aiming to help the NWT’s housing standards become...
MLA introduces bill to repeal N.W.T. carbon tax
February 28, 2024
CBC North - ...discussed in the N.W.T. legislature as some MLAs seek to repeal the territory's "made in the North" legislation in favour of the federal backstop. Kieron Testart, MLA for Range Lake, introduced a bill Tuesday to repeal the territory's Petroleum Products and Carbon Tax Act. "My bill will put the...
Two MLAs Introducing Bill to Repeal Carbon Tax in NWT
February 26, 2024
My Yellow Knife Now - ...MLAs will be bringing a bill to the Legislative Assembly that aims to repeal the carbon tax in the Northwest Territories. The two Members are Kieron Testart from Range Lake, and Robert Hawkins from Yellowknfe Centre. Their bill, called the “Carbon Tax Repeal Act,” would amend the current “Petroleum...
Does the NWT’s Lotteries Act need to change?
February 25, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...Speaker, if there’s one thing northerners love, it’s a good bingo.” So began Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart’s statement to the Legislative Assembly on Friday morning. Testart wants changes to the NWT’s Lotteries Act that would allow new opportunities such as land-based casinos, arguing more...
N.W.T. MLAs disappointed by cabinet’s vote against wildfire inquiry
February 24, 2024
CBC North - ...has said that a public inquiry would be costly and cumbersome, and that the reviews being done for MACA and ECC would yield a similar outcome. But Kieron Testart, MLA for Range Lake, said he doesn't see how that could be possible. "If what we're proposing on this side of the House is going to be too...