Glen Abernethy

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...

Thanks to the Minister for that. Is this program, the Domestic Violence Treatment Option, starting off as a pilot or is it a fully established program? The Minister did say that it’s going to be rolled out here in Yellowknife. Violence doesn’t just occur in Yellowknife. Can we expect to see this program rolled out into other communities throughout the Northwest Territories so that we can get some people who are committing these violent acts the treatment and the support they need to break this cycle of violence? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions today are to the Minister responsible for the Department of Justice and are a follow-up on my Member’s statement.

I talked about V-Day North today, where a local organization over the last two years has raised $25,000 to help increase awareness on violence against women and also to help break the cycles of violence in the Northwest Territories. Clearly, prevention and treatment are critical to helping break the cycle of violence. To that end, V-Day North has actually asked me to ask the Minister of Justice today: what is the Department of Justice doing to...

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Mr. Yakeleya.

Bill 16, An Act to Amend the Dog Act.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have three letters to table today. The first one is to Minister Sandy Lee from Samuel Gargan, the grand chief of the Dehcho First Nations. The second is to the Honourable Sandy Lee from Nick Sibbeston, the honourable Senator for the Northwest Territories. The third one is to Minister Sandy Lee from Chief Joachim Bonnetrouge from the Deh Gah Got’ie First Nation. All of them are requesting an independent external investigation into the events leading up to Allisdair Leishman’s injuries within Stanton Territorial Hospital.

Can we now proceed with the clause-by-clause review of the bill?

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Second motion. Mr. Jacobson.

All those opposed?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I seek unanimous consent to return to item number 6 on the orders of the day.

---Unanimous consent granted