Floyd Roland

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It is an honour to introduce in our gallery Premier for the day, Ms. Erin Nadli, who has come to watch our session and been involved in a number of things today, accompanied by her mother, Paschalina Nadli, and her aunt Edith Squirrel, and also accompanied by our intern at our press office, Victoria.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I wish to table the following two documents entitled Northwest Territories Power Corporation 2009-2010 Annual Report and Northwest Territories Hydro Corporation 2009-2010 Annual Report.

I don’t have any of that information available to me at this point, so I’ll have to take the question as notice.

Thank you. We will, as we’ve done our own work in this, and being supportive of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission process, we’re going to be working with them to see how we can pool this together and come out with some process, documentation that we can, whether to showcase, put on display, have a historical record of it. We will work with them to see how we can pool that together. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. There are a number of ways we’re supporting the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, their work in helping the healing process. Through our workforce, we’re setting up for the volunteer basis that those who volunteer, we will support that initiative. Those who are attending as clients or those who will be attending as delegates, we’ve provided a process for that to occur. In a number of cases, whether it’s office space in kind, as well as trying to help with dealing with the 1,000 potential delegates that will be in the community, we’re helping in a number of ways...

We have, as I was just saying, had a discussion with the chair of the Power Corporation, and through that board and the NT Hydro Corporation looking at the grid connections and if there’s an economic base for that, that work is starting to be reviewed. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Hydro Strategy is one that encompasses the whole of the Northwest Territories. The Taltson is a piece of it, Bluefish and others. We’re looking at new areas of development. NT Hydro is working on their portion. We’ve been funding this work through the Ministerial Energy Coordinating Committee. NT Hydro, for its part, is working in partnership, for example, with the Yellowknives Dene First Nation to evaluate the hydro potential at Beaulieu River, and initial reporting we’re hoping will be completed this spring.

We’ve also hired a firm to help with the land...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In July 2009 the Northern Leaders’ Forum was created as a means for all leaders in our territory to work collectively to advance the interests of our territory and its residents. As a foundation, we set out the task of developing a common vision and roadmap for the future of the NWT.

In varying ways, members of the Northern Leaders’ Forum engaged their respective constituents asking them to describe the future that they envisioned for themselves and their territory; to identify areas of common importance and concern and to articulate the direction and growth that they...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I wish to table the following document entitled Report Respecting Benefits Paid to Ministers under the Ministerial Benefits Policies for the Fiscal Year Ending March 31, 2011.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I wish to table the following document: Forging the Future – Anchored in Our Past, Building on Our Present: Summary of People’s Perspectives on a Vision for the Northwest Territories and Planting the Seeds to Achieve It.