Bob Bromley

That’s all the questions I had.

Thanks for those comments. I remain concerned about the $125,000 that had been allocated for the Family Resource Centre in Ndilo, apparently very recently because it’s year end. Ten of the 12 months have passed when those dollars were finally allocated. I’m concerned about the effectiveness of those dollars that are being spent for the last few weeks. So I’d like to know from the Minister, what is being done to ensure that those dollars are spent effectively, particularly given this situation this year. Mahsi.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I want to talk a little bit about the Inuvik and Norman Wells situations. I know we’ve supported work to look at biomass solutions. I’ve heard the past mayor interviewed on the radio during the recent emergency in Norman Wells extolling the opportunities of biomass in Norman Wells and the Minister has told me that the long-term feasibility of biomass in Inuvik is good. Right now, I don’t see anything in here that follows up on all of those opportunities. What are we doing to move to those?

We could obviously pursue the liquid natural gas routes and other natural gas routes...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to recognize Rick Edjericon, a resident of Weledeh and chair of the besieged Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact Review Board. I don’t know if he’s still there – I can’t see behind me, Mr. Speaker – but Willard Hagen, the chair of the about-to-be redesigned Mackenzie Valley Land and Water Board. Mahsi.

Are we able to speak to the motion in Committee of the Whole? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Once again the opportunity here is clear. I am aware that this opportunity, with such short payback time, has been proposed by the Arctic Energy Alliance in the past, and I’ve drawn on some of their analysis to make my comments. I have commented on some of this already, so I won’t repeat that.

I will note there have been a couple of changes since that work. First of all, the government now subsidizes more of the energy consumed than they used to and that’s because we’ve taken the cap from an average of 700 to...

On the workplace safety aspect, I know we’ve got the new policy. The Minister mentioned we’ve got occupational health and safety committees popping up all over the place. I missed whether we heard is it a requirement. Is it every department must have one, every division must have one? I’m wondering what the requirement is there and what the monitoring is revealing in terms of getting those established. Do they all need to be established within a year, and are we 50 percent there? What’s our status on that front? Thank you.

Nothing further. I don’t seem to know what employees’ experiences and issues are, but the Minister can probably find that out fairly easily and then focus on those areas. But nothing further. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I just want to follow up a little bit here. MLAs, of course, are fearless when it comes to telling people how to do their jobs.

I’m just wondering, in terms of recruitment, it’s often a tough experience for somebody going into a community where the culture might be quite different for them, and they don’t know anybody and so on. It’s obviously challenging. What do we do in terms of helping them with housing, helping get their kids enrolled, maybe checking in with them one month after they get there and another three months later to see what their issues are in the...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I could bring this up I suppose under Human Resource Strategy and Policy, but really I’m talking about direction here when I’m talking about the safety practices of the government and the barrier that I referred to in my general comments. I think the department is doing what it can, largely in response to the safety issues and the fines, but really what’s happening is this department provides policy to the other departments and then it’s a matter of trusting them to implement it. That’s not happening. That’s been pointed out by this Minister. He has no control over...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I give notice that, on Thursday, February 14, 2013, I will move the following motion: Now therefore I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Sahtu, that the Government of the Northwest Territories inform the federal government of our dissatisfaction both with the dismantling of the federal environmental protection regime and with the federal government’s failure to consult and inform this government on changes directly affecting our interests, the ensured integrity of our environment and the content of devolution negotiations that are currently underway;

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