Bob Bromley

Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. I have to know that the environmental review of the MGP did not follow the process that we laid down on the MVRMA. It was cooked up completely separate from the processes that we established. Had we followed those processes, I think things would have happened a lot more effectively.

Let’s consider some concrete examples of the environmental protection we will consider essential once we take on resource management. Yesterday over 150 citizens turned out to express their revulsion at the regressive agenda of the federal government on the social environmental front. I had...

From that I conclude that obviously there is a high potential for hiring people with more than one language, if that was the interest of the department. I see that as an opportunity and I’m sure the Minister is aware of that.

My last question is just in follow up to my colleague Mr. Dolynny. What is our benchmark in terms of waiting period? Is there a number of months? Do we aim for three months or two months or four months? It sounds like there might be a national standard for that. Some details there would be good.

I hope maybe the Minister would be willing to update committee on this project. It sounds like an interesting one. Maybe after the fall when the data starts rolling in.

My last question is with regard to the debt repayment. We have a long-term debt of $52.3 million to CMHC. I’m just wondering for my own background here what the source of that debt is. I know this is something we’ve been paying on a long time and we will be paying for it for awhile. Are we simply paying on it or are we also adding to the debt from time to time? Is it a balance that we’re paying off as fast as we can but at the...

I think there is another one that is early intervention for nonviolent and the divorce proceedings towards the best options for the children. I think those things are really great programs. I am very happy to see them going forward. I think committee remains very interested in any results as those accumulate on all of those. I’ll leave it at that. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Madam Speaker, I enjoy receiving more detail if the time permitted on that, but quick versus slow, easy versus thorough… In his statement the Premier said that devolution is about having more accessible, accountable and responsive government making important decisions around land and resource management will bring those decisions closer to the people most affected by those decisions. Would the first one, a delegated authority imposing the existing legislation that we have complained about vociferously for the last several decades, be consistent with his stated goal of bringing decisions and...

There is a word to explore someday. Just with respect to my colleagues bringing up the issue of translation and whatnot, I know that in the past, court workers have played an important role there when they happen to have that talent. Is there an attempt to hire court workers that have more than one language to help deal with that issue, which I believe is a real one I’m sure the Minister would agree.

I think I understand the band can offer a BCR, but it has no authority without approval from Ottawa. Got ya. Okay, is this something that our government is taking to Ottawa? We’re following up every chance we get and that sort of thing? I think that’s important, Mr. Chair. There’s just a comment there.

I’d like to move later in this same section here, infrastructure services division to the new housing technologies and perhaps get an update on, I don’t remember the name of it in Inuvik, the super energy-efficient duplex there, where we’re at with that. Are we learning lessons from it yet? Is it...

Son of a gun. I’ll skip those questions.

I would like to talk a little bit about the Family Violence Action Plan funding. I assume that is relevant on this page. At least I see a reference on the next page of this subtext to this. I’m assuming family violence funding is indeed in this. What is the department doing in response to the 19 recommendations for phase 3 of the Family Violence Action Plan? Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. I congratulate the government on our steady progress towards a greater environmental sustainability to the Waste Reduction and Recovery Program as reflected in the annual report for 2010-11 tabled last December. The report is a catalogue of good news. With beverage container recycling, NWT citizens achieved an 82 percent rate of return or about 25 million of the 30 million deposit containers sold. Twenty-seven locally operated depots, three satellite depots and three processing centres are providing 12 full-time jobs, 30 part-time jobs and five seasonal jobs, plus...