Jane Groenewegen

Thank you, Mr. Moses. Minister Beaulieu.

Thank you. I’ll ask the Sergeant-at-Arms to please escort Mr. Beaulieu’s witnesses to the table.

For the record, Mr. Beaulieu, please introduce your witnesses.

Thank you, Ms. Desjardins. Mr. Bouchard.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In a brief preamble in follow up to some of the discussion today on post-traumatic stress disorder, I myself experienced a traumatic event as a child which has carried over into adulthood. I’m almost 60 years old and I still have claustrophobia because I was in a building that was struck by a tornado when I was a child, and I did not see it coming. I heard it but I did not see it. To this day, I want to see what’s happening around me, and that’s why I don’t like being closed in and that’s why I sit beside the door. No, seriously, these kinds of things, at the time, my...

Thank you, Ms. Desjardins. Mr. Beaulieu.

Thank you, Minister Beaulieu. At this time I would like to ask the Minister if he would like to bring witnesses into the Chamber. Minister Beaulieu.

Thank you, Ms. Desjardins. Mr. Bouchard.

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. Minister Beaulieu.

Thank you, Minister Miltenberger. Any further general comments? No further general comments. Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Mr. Bouchard. Mr. Beaulieu.

HON. TOM BEAULIEU:

We are actually working with the Department of Education, Culture and Employment in predetermining from the students to indicate that they have no issue with officials or politicians like ourselves coming down and meeting with students, and that’s something we think is going to have some merit and will bear fruit.

When we attended NWT Days, three of us had an opportunity to meet with eight students down in Ottawa: five students from Yellowknife, one from Hay River, one from Fort Providence and one from Simpson. They were very excited. The...