Charles Dent

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As I just previously said, that commitment was made by Mr. Roland, but I will make it again. Yes, that information will be shared with Members. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I have raised the issue with the chairs of the two Yellowknife boards, but the department does not get directly involved in deciding who should be hired by which board. We make sure that all of the boards are aware of people who are looking for positions and are interested and at this point we are confident that there are positions available if teachers are prepared to take them, but we can’t guarantee what community the positions will be available in. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I will commit to provide all of that information to the Regular Members. I will do that within the next two or three days.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would like to recognize some people who are in the gallery for the Northern Teachers’ Council. Amanda Mallon is president of the NWT Teachers’ Association.

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Mr. Dave Roebuck is the executive director of the NWTTA.

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Mr. Ian Oostindie is president of the Yukon Teachers’ Association.

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I understand he is also the Premier’s brother-in-law.

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Dennis Rankin, the executive director of the Yukon Teachers’ Association, is with us.

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Lou Budgell from the Nunavut Teachers’ Association is in the gallery.

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Jimm...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I wish to table the following document entitled Annual Report on Official Languages, 2003-2004. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, as I said already on the one report, I don’t believe that there is any way to sever the personal information from the one report and bring anything forward from it. On the courts, the one the Member has referred to, I’m not aware of that report, so I will have to look into it and find out whether or not anything from that report can be made public. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I don’t believe that can be made available. I don’t think that there is any way that that report, the way it was written, that the information could be severed to protect the individuals involved. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the Coalition Against Family Violence was a large number of groups that included federal agencies as well as territorial and non-government agencies. The response that I brought forward last week was our response to their report. So the response did not have everybody from the coalition at the table. It was developed as a government response, so it wasn’t exactly the same group that was involved in developing that response. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The response to the report, which we just released last week, was largely done within government. It was done with representatives from Justice, Education, Culture and Employment and Health and Social Services with the special advisors to the Minister responsible for the Status of Women. Outside agencies were brought in. For instance, the executive director of the NWT Status of Women was offered on many occasions an opportunity to be briefed and comment on the public education plan, but, unfortunately, that did not get responded to, so that briefing never took place...

Thank you, Madam Chair. The direction to the Minister so far was to come back with a plan that would recover the money over 10 years.