Michael Nadli

Sorry about that. Whereas non-timber forest products, including wild mushrooms, can offer wide-ranging health and economic benefits; and whereas, world-wide demand for gourmet mushrooms…

I give notice that on Monday, March 10, I will move the following motion: now therefore I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Weledeh, that this Legislative Assembly strongly recommends that the Government of the Northwest Territories take the steps… Again, is this the right motion? Sorry.

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I wish to table Dehcho First Nations leadership resolution and the attachment from the February 4 to 6, 2014, winter leadership meeting held in Fort Providence. The resolution calls upon the GNWT to honour long-standing commitments made in 2006 by the forest management division of ENR to develop regulations and policies in support of the non-timber forest product industry. The resolution insists that these measures be in place prior to the 2014 harvesting season. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you. Will the department work with NWT Tourism to assist their work to promote the waterfalls highway and the Twin Falls Gorge Territorial Park? Mahsi.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions are for the Minister of Industry, Tourism and Investment. Is the Minister aware of the Alexandra Falls recent designation as one of the top three waterfall destinations in western Canada and what is being done to recognize this award? Mahsi.

Hopefully, by next session, in June, we’ll have a reply and report from the government. Mahsi.

Thank you, Madam Chair. In terms of moving towards devolution and the target date of April 1st, this government is assuming several contaminated sites. Of course, that relates to mines and oil and gas sites that have been decommissioned or are no longer in use. What that leaves is a legacy of industrial footprints that are sometimes just not repairable, so it’s usually the practice to try and at least remediate the site so that it could go back to the state that it was before it was disturbed.

There’s a real need for, at least on an annual basis, an updated schedule and timetables for these...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Standing committees of the Legislative Assembly are where the Regular Members of the Legislative Assembly roll up their sleeves and get down to work on behalf of the people of the NWT.

As the chair of the Standing Committee on Government Operations, I’m pleased to advise the public and the House of the work that is underway in this committee. The committee just completed an extensive public review of the GNWT’s public accounts for 2012-2013 and tabled its report on that review in the House just a few weeks ago.

We have also just completed our public review of the Annual...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have no further questions.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just an observation in terms of this section of the budget, it seems rather high, but I realize that patients that have serious injuries in some circumstances have to be sent down south because we don’t have the specialized care here in the NWT. I just wanted to get the Minister to perhaps share his vision in terms of trying to curb the costs but at the same time looking at perhaps a concept of at least a legacy in terms of ensuring that we have homemade solutions here and we have institutions that are tailored to deal with industrial-type accidents, whether that is...

Thank you. I think the point is in the realm of expenditure control, but at what point do we reckon with the fact that we do need a facility or an institution of some kind here in the NWT, rather than sending patients down south that require specialized care? Say we have an increasing rate of resource development on the scale of industrial activity and thus our labour force is perhaps highly susceptible to serious injuries that involve perhaps special brain injuries that require specialized care. At what point do we look at the concept of perhaps studying the idea of a facility or institution...