David Krutko

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I wish to table the following document Workers’ Compensation Board of the NWT and Nunavut 2007 Corporate Plan. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

So with that, I'd like to thank you very much. Enjoy your trip home and I wish you all the best. Thank you.

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Thank you, Mr. Chair. I’ll refer that question to Mr. Voytilla.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. With regard to looking at consultations and the aspects around compensation, again the corporation, Deze, has just formed a couple of weeks ago. It will be that agency or board who will be the ones doing consultation in the communities through our partnership with the Metis and the Akaitcho. We feel that allowing that agency to do the consultation and filing and application to the environmental regulatory boards will now open it up to public scrutiny where the public now has a format where they can ask questions, they can debate issues, they can talk about the...

Yes, Mr. Chair.

Mr. Speaker, I wish to table the following document entitled Biomass Heating System Project Report: North Slave Correctional Facility, Yellowknife, NT. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we are going through the Town of Inuvik because they have the lease on the existing ball field. In order for us to acquire that field, we will have to replace it with another field somewhere else. That is the reason we are going through the Town of Inuvik and allowing them to facilitate. We are willing to enter into an agreement with them by way of a written agreement and have it clearly spelled out that any resources needed for a new ball field…We will be able to approve that by way of building it into the budget of the new high school. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Suffice to the Member, I will do up a letter, cc it to all the communities, direct it to the president of the corporation to ensure that they have these consultations, inform the communities when they are going to release any water from the Taltson hydro facility which may affect the water levels downstream. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, it gives me great pleasure to recognize Anne Clark, the new president and chief executive officer of the Workers' Compensation Board of the Northwest Territories.

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Along with Anne is her husband, Ryerson Clark, who is also accompanying his wife. Also I'd like to welcome them to the Northwest Territories. They have relocated from Nova Scotia. I wish them all the best and success in their time here and, more importantly, working with the Members of the Legislative Assembly in regards to workers' compensation issues. Along with them is Clarence...

Yes, Mr. Chairman. There will be two acts tabled, one dealing with the Hydro Corporation Act and one dealing with the Northwest Territories Power Corporation Act. So there will be two separate filings at the same time.