Hay River South
Jane Groenewegen
Statements in Debates
Debates of
, (day 18)
Clause 5.
Debates of
, (day 18)
Clause 37.
Debates of
, (day 18)
Question is being called. All those in favour of the motion? All those opposed? The motion is carried.
---Carried
Debates of
, (day 18)
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, today I would like to table a petition, 650 letters asking this government to do what they can to expedite and resolve the labour issue at Nats’ejee K'eh Treatment Centre. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Debates of
, (day 18)
Clauses 266 to 285.
Debates of
, (day 18)
Clause 20.
Debates of
, (day 18)
Thank you, Mr. Lafferty. The motion is in order. To the motion. Ms. Lee.
Debates of
, (day 17)
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I don’t really know what else to ask. I just was going to ask, for the benefit of the people in my constituency who are anxious to hear an answer to this question, I was hoping that we were going to hear something earlier than this spring. Let me be clear. Is that when the Minister is going to share with us the recommendations or is that when this matter might be resolved? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Debates of
, (day 17)
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, today as I said earlier, my questions are for Mr. McLeod, the Minister responsible for Municipal and Community Affairs, and it’s about the senior citizen and disabled persons tax relief program. The municipal council of a tax-based community can, by passing a bylaw, exempt the eligible property of a senior citizen or disabled person from part of the taxes where the senior citizen or disabled person is the owner or part owner of that home. The bylaw sets out the percentage of taxes to be exempted up to a maximum of 50 percent.
The Minister of Municipal and...
Debates of
, (day 17)
Thank you. The Minister beat me to it by saying I brought this up before. I’ve got a very thick file on this subject here, Mr. Speaker, and the correspondence goes back to letters to Mr. Antoine in the previous government even. I mean it’s been at least 10 years that I’ve been talking about this. This is a good program, the concept is good, but the actual working out of it is kind of untenable. It has for some people who are the would-be recipients of this support to take drastic measures. Like, in instances where one person who is on title is disabled and the other isn’t, where they’ve...