Glen Abernethy

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I look forward, like I said, to seeing the results of this program. It sounds good. Between that and the Victim Notification Program, I think some good work has really been done in the department. But as I talked in my statement, the V-Day North has been rolling money into the community to help break the cycles of violence and one of the organizations that they have been giving some money to help them break that cycle of violence is the Centre for Northern Families. I know that many departments in this government are supporting the Centre for Northern Families in...

I listened, with interest, to the Minister’s statement today and I’m very happy that this Victim Notification Program is going to be implemented. I didn’t catch the title, but it’s the Domestic Violence Treatment Option Court that’s going to be rolled out later this year. Can the Minister tell us how that is intended to help break the cycle of violence? What is the value in that program in breaking that cycle? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. For the past three years V-Day North has been working in Yellowknife to run fundraisers for and increase awareness about the issue of violence against women in the Northwest Territories and around the world.

V-Day North is a grassroots movement and over the past two campaigns they’ve raised over $25,000, 90 percent of which has stayed here in the Northwest Territories in the form of donations to the Alison McAteer House and the Centre for Northern Families. For that I applaud them.

The Alison McAteer House and the Centre for Northern Families are organizations that offer...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

WHEREAS on Wednesday, November 4, 2009, Mr. Allisdair “Azzie” Leishman was brought by ambulance to the emergency department at Stanton Territorial Hospital suffering from hypothermia and experiencing a psychiatric episode;

AND WHEREAS while under the care and attention of Stanton Territorial Hospital, Mr. Leishman exited the emergency room and made his way to the kitchen, where he took a knife and inflicted serious injury to himself by stabbing himself in the chest twice;

AND WHEREAS Mr. Leishman remains in extended care at Stanton Hospital to this day;

AND WHEREAS this...

We will defer the title and the bill number and we will begin our clause by clause. Clause 1.

---Clauses 1 through 3 inclusive approved

Thank you, Mr. Jacobson. A motion is on the floor. The motion is being distributed. The motion has been distributed. The motion is in order. To the motion.

All those abstaining? Thank you, committee. The results of the vote: seven in favour, nine against. The motion is defeated.

---Defeated

We’re on clause 4.

---Clauses 4 through 12 inclusive approved

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d just like to recognize a few people in the gallery with us today: Margaret Leishman, Judy Desjarlais, Susie Tsetso, Beverly Bagnell, Faith Embleton, Lynn Doan, Darrell Beaulieu, and even though he’s already been recognized, I’ll recognize him again because I love him, my dad, Dick Abernethy.

Thank you, Minister McLeod. On that, I will open the floor to general comments on Bill 16. Detail? Is committee agreed that there are no comments on Bill 16?

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. A motion is on the floor. The motion is being distributed. It looks like the motion has been distributed. The motion is in order. To the motion.