Jane Groenewegen

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. I’d like to ask Premier McLeod if he would like to bring witnesses into the Chamber.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. More of a comment. Premier McLeod.

I’d like to call Committee of the Whole back to over. We have before us today Bills 1, 2 and 3, starting with Bill 1, Reindeer Act. I’d like to ask Premier McLeod if he would like to deliver his opening comments. Premier McLeod.

Thank you, Premier McLeod. General comments. I have Mr. Bromley then Mr. Nadli. Mr. Bromley.

Is committee agreed?

Thank you, Premier McLeod. Next I have Mr. Bouchard.

We are a small government but big in the fact that we have a fairly large budget. We have a small constituency overall in the Northwest Territories. I would certainly support something like that. Not something to be dipped into on a regular basis, but when there is an agreed emergency I think that we should have something like that. It’s very difficult for us, as MLAs, to get back to our constituents and say, sorry, there’s nothing that this government can do for you. We all know these people. Often they’re people who have grown up here in the North and are well known to all us.

I’d just like...

Thank you, Mr. Fulford. Mr. Dolynny.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It has been a long, cold and difficult winter for a lot of people and occasionally people fall on hard times and sometimes tragedies beset people in the North. We are really one big family here. We know most of the people in our constituencies.

I’ve recently had a situation where a family that has been struggling has just been pushed over the edge, I suppose, financially by the cost of maintaining a home during this very long, cold winter. This family is supporting an adult with disabilities in their own home at a very, very minimal level of support from this government...

Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Premier McLeod.