Calvin Pokiak

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. Mr. Dent.

Thank you, Mr. Dent. Mr. Menicoche.

Page 7-37, activity summary, community justice and corrections, grants and contributions, contributions, total grants and contributions, $1.704 million.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have a few comments with regard to the policing situation in Sachs Harbour. Yesterday, the Minister responded to Mr. Menicoche’s comments that it’s going to require three personnel to open up a new detachment, not two as previously mentioned. Having said that, I wonder how that is going to affect the small communities? Labour standards says they requested a two-person detachment and now they are looking at three-person detachments. How is the department going to respond to that? Thank you.

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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I will work closely with the Minister and MACA right now in regard to these erosion problems both in Paulatuk and Tuktoyaktuk. I want to touch on the petroleum products division, Mr. Chairman. You can recall about two years ago the petroleum products in Tuktoyaktuk was privatized to a local company in Tuktoyaktuk. There have been a lot of private homeowners that have seen a lot of increase in their heating fuel and also the use of gas for their vehicles. Can the Minister give me a sense of how you determine or what you take into consideration when you decide to...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, your committee has been considering Bill 19, Appropriation Act, 2005-2006, and Committee Report 11-15(3) would like to report progress and, Mr. Speaker, I move that the report of Committee of the Whole be concurred with. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Ms. Lee, are you making a motion to report progress?

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Mr. Dent, would you like to comment?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just a couple of quick general comments. With regard to law enforcement again, as the Minister knows, yesterday we had…(inaudible)…a justice team, and again I would like to reiterate, Mr. Chairman, that a student liaison officer by the RCMP in Yellowknife schools is unthinkable. Like I said yesterday, Mr. Chairman, Sachs Harbour is a community that requires a presence in their community.

Having said that, I’ll go on to my next general comment with regard to legal aid services. It’s good to see -- well, I hope it is -- that the law services office is open here in...