Michael Nadli

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, today I rise in support of this motion and in seconding the motion. I’d like to thank my colleague for developing the motion, and I encourage the House to pass this motion unanimously. Housing, of course, is a basic need apart from food and plus at the same time a sense of belonging of human people. Here in the NWT, housing is the foundation and plus the very pillar of our society. It’s become a very big issue in the NWT, and you know I think it’s about time that we come together to forge a trail to ensure that, you know, the future generations that are coming...

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.

[English translation] He shared the story in the 1980’s in the book of elders. Hey, it’s okay. I’ve provided copies to my colleagues and translation as I understand it is on channel three.

Joseph Sabourin was born in the autumn of 1920 around Kakisa. My father sent me to mission school for four years but I didn’t learn much. When he died my mother moved into a house in town. I left school and stayed with her. I was 12. We had no traps so we were given five. There used to be a lot of foxes where the airport is now, so my mother sent me to set the trap there, with fish heads...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. One of the corporate highlights in terms of the housing mission and corporate goals is to improve services that was for implementing and expanding community-based housing property management services in rural and remote communities. Would the First Nations have an opportunity to perhaps sit down with the Minister and her department in arranging at least some form of maintenance arrangement to ensure that those houses could be serviced perhaps if the opportunity exists? Or else maybe explore the opportunity to see if the services and maintenance could be done by First...

Maybe later on I will ask the Minister in terms of what he meant by full partnership. He said partners. As we all know, here in the NWT the traditional economy has been hunting, fishing, and trapping. What do residents of Enterprise need to do in order to access GNWT programs that are frequently offered through local Aboriginal governments and organizations such as the Community Harvester Assistance Program or Community Wellness funding?

Thank you, Ms. Speaker. I’d like to recognize my constituency assistant Trisha Landry who is up in the gallery. Mahsi. Welcome. Also at the same time another constituent, Rolanda Landry who originally is from Kakisa but lives in Fort Providence. Welcome.

Yes, thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just wanted to understand again. Maybe we could get an explanation from the Minister: why was ambulatory care services established as a separate key activity? Mahsi.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. If the Minister could also maybe indicate, state in terms of the timeliness, in terms of the full implementation of recognizing the Dene fonts and its use in the vital stats. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. This will be my last question. Perhaps in the future, a community decides for the purposes of bringing better services to their communities, how would they remove themselves from the authority perhaps to join other authorities, say, from the Deh Cho to perhaps the Hay River Health Authority. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I’m just going to figure out at what point I could ask the appropriate question. My question is in regards to the transformation efforts in terms of centralizing or getting the health authorities together under one umbrella, that was via Bill 44. I just wanted to get a sense from the Minister in terms of providing reassurance especially for small communities that have at the ground level, at the community level an input in terms of decision-making of their healthcare needs and, you know, their aspirations to ensure that we bring good quality care to people that live in...