Bob Bromley

Thank you, Mr. Beaulieu. I would like to thank the Minister and his witnesses and ask the Sergeant-at-Arms to please escort the witnesses from the House.

Thank you. I appreciate the openness and commitments of the Minister here and I guess I would ask him that he commit to even further discussions on this outside the House. But what will the Minister do to ensure that the interpretation of the legislation goes the distance to consider and meet government responsibility to provide for all citizens the opportunity to use and enjoy wildlife? I’m thinking here of, for example, the interpretation of priority access to mean exclusive access. Case law clearly has indicated that’s not the case and we’re talking interpretation of the legislation. Thank...

Agreed. Page 8-38, Health and Social Services, information item, work performed on behalf of others, continued. Agreed?

Thank you, Minister. Next on my list is Mr. Hawkins.

Thank you, Mr. Daniels. Ms. Bisaro. Thank you. Committee, we’re on page 10-9, Education, Culture and Employment, department summary, information item, revenue summary.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions today are for the Minister of Environment and Natural Resources. I want to follow up on my Member’s statement.

The good management of any issues requires the balanced input of all stakeholders. With wildlife, this is at least, if not more, critical than in most areas, because it is a very limited resource that is vulnerable, as we know, to overexploitation. Those with Aboriginal and treaty rights are squarely at the management table, with representatives comprising half of management board members while those without these rights have only representatives...

Thank you, Minister Lee. Mr. Beaulieu. We are on page 8-36, Health and Social Services, information item, work performed on behalf of others. Agreed?

Thanks to the Minister for those remarks. I have had occasion to visit with clients who did have access to midwifery in the NWT, visited this weekend and they certainly pointed out the benefits of the program and one of them is still going through the process of finding herself using the emergency services and stuff the second time around without midwifery services and comparing and contrasting the cost that that must be on the system to the first time through with midwifery services. I’m very happy to see there is strong interest from the Minister in pursuing this. It overlaps I think with my...

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Mr. Lafferty.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Draft amendments to the Wildlife Act are not there yet. It has been a long road, and a pressing need to update the act into the legal reality of today is clear. The draft bill does go some distance towards recognizing Aboriginal and treaty rights but fails on our additional responsibility for bringing those without these rights into a cooperative management future.

As I have said repeatedly, whole management is the only approach that will work, but workable whole management requires that this bill also provides for wildlife users without Aboriginal and treaty rights to...