Bob Bromley

Mr. Chair, thank you for those comments. I appreciate the Minister’s comments there. I am glad to see he is still focused in on those things. Those sound like important opportunities to me.

I just want to acknowledge that the department is playing a very important role extending geographically the opportunity to use wood pellets for our residents and businesses by being such a good customer of wood pellets. I know there is a very new supply of wood pellets in Norman Wells. The action we are taking to take advantage of that supply and also to start considering the opportunity for generation of...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to follow up on my questions the other day in my Member’s statement on early childhood development with the Minister of ECE. I’m wondering, are the new family resource centres that are going into place this year meant to be a flash in the pan program, or do they actually recognize, I think, the intent and the need for a long-term comprehensive approach here? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. It’s been a good discussion. I’m not sure; I guess I would like to reply to Minister Miltenberger’s comments there. I don’t want to repeat everything. I think the obvious gains, the win-win-wins are clear here. This is not news to the Minister, so I know he is not surprised. We will be looking forward to how we can get this in the budget.

The Minister claims that people here are speaking against the subsidy. Clearly, that is not the case. There is a history here. The 16th Assembly, against the wishes of many of us, made some really bad decisions and left us with the...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise today to mark the sudden passing of Dr. Clyde Hertzman. Clyde Hertzman became well known to NWT health professionals and educators through his role as an advisor to this government in the development of the first Early Childhood Framework. He has since been a continuing resource and inspiration to our territorial early childhood community. Dr. Hertzman was with us only last month at the Early Childhood Development Round Table in Yellowknife. I know many Members were there and Ministers, where, with his usual high energy and discerning understanding of his...

I move that this committee strongly recommends that the Government of the Northwest Territories identify additional funding to implement a program to replace electric hot water heaters with fuel-fired hot water heaters in communities that depend on thermal generation of electricity. Thank you.

Thanks for that information. I assume that has to be done, sort of, this fiscal year. I don’t know where we’re at in terms of getting all the entities up and running of the number that we have, but I’d appreciate that information. So any more details before I ask my last one here. Thanks.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Is this the activity within which the WSCC is controlled? Would workplace safety with WSCC be considered in this activity?

I appreciate the Minister’s comments there. I don’t have anything specific here, but I imagine the Minister knows what I’m talking about and could try and get his finger on the pulse when he’s in communities, or his staff are in communities and so on. So it might be interesting to develop a bit of a sense there and see if there’s an opportunity for helping out in that front and letting us know what his impressions are. Thank you.

Thanks for the comments from the Minister. It sounds like he is acting on this. I’m glad to hear that. I hope it works. When there’s a wishy-washy line of authority, you often get a wishy-washy result. It sounds like there’s some firming up happening if it’s actually explicitly stated in revue standards for deputy ministers and so on. I appreciate that. It sounds like a reasonable compromise to try out.

I’d ask that the Minister keep us apprised on that and maybe the Premier to report if that has to be implemented, if there is – I forget the Minister’s term for pay and benefits – action that...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. A few quick comments here. I want to start off by adding my voice to the congratulations to the Minister and all his staff for the Canada’s Top 100 Employers Award. That’s really great.

So, briefly, I have similar concerns to what the Minister has heard on whistleblower, and I’m looking forward to that legislation being brought forward. Succession planning, I’m very interested in that. I’m finding myself sort of in that category here. What’s been done to date we’ve been talking about since the 16th Assembly. How do we change the statistics would be good to know.

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