Michael Nadli

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Reading the newspaper a couple of weeks ago, I saw some startling images: photographs that showed a skinny moose with tufting fur and grey patchy shoulders crossing Highway No. 3. This didn’t look like a healthy animal. In fact, tufting hair can be a sign of ticks. While moose can carry a few hundred ticks without serious harm, major infestations can cause discomfort and over-grooming, leaving moose underfed and vulnerable to weather and predation. This should concern us.

The moose, Alces alces, is an important animal for Aboriginal people in the NWT, including the...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

The consultant’s report (p. 12) points out what may have been a drafting error in Bill 37, with respect to Section 77. This section, as drafted, provides for the comptroller general to charge an expenditure to an appropriation, even if that results in the appropriation being exceeded. Section 77 provides that the excess shall be a deemed appropriation. As the consultant notes: “This is a very significant departure from previous provisions in this area that restricted such authority to the recording of year-end expenditure accruals, and made provision that any overage was...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The Standing Committee on Government Operations was pleased to present its Report on the 2014 Review of the Official Languages Act to the House on Wednesday, March 11, 2015.

The report was read into the record, received by the House and moved into Committee of the Whole for further consideration.

The mandate of the committee’s review comes directly from the Official Languages Act. Members will recall from the report presented yesterday that the standing committee’s approach to the review was to pick up from where the last legislative review, which was conducted in 2009...

Previous efforts to bridge the gap. Right now the gap is getting wider as our discussions take place, or lack of discussions on the fundamental differences in terms of the jurisdiction, the ownership and also the sovereignty of the Dehcho First Nations asserted territory.

Previous efforts were to mandate a federal ministerial envoy to help facilitate that gap between the Dehcho First Nations and the federal government.

Does the Minister agree to a mediator as an option to help facilitate getting beyond the current impasse? Mahsi.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Yesterday I raised some questions in terms of the Dehcho Process negotiations. We seem to be at an important juncture between the negotiations with the federal government, GNWT and the DFN. What’s at stake is the fundamental divide seems to be getting greater daily, and yesterday the Minister of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs and Intergovernmental Relations stated that the GNWT never left the table.

So I want to ask a question to the Minister of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs and Intergovernmental Relations whether he can clarify whether his officials have...

The Housing Corporation has a number of homeownership programs geared to low-and modest-income residents.

Can the Minister describe what type of monitoring and evaluation are being done to find out what’s working, what’s not working, and why? Mahsi.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Buying and owning a home is the largest decision a person can make in their lives, and towards that goal a person has to really understand just the personal financial management of ensuring that they understand the value of money. So my questions are for the Minister responsible for the Housing Corporation.

Can the Minister describe any programs that are in place to teach residents about financial literacy and the whole homeowner obstacle course? Mahsi.

Thank you. I’m going to be very brief. Can the Minister, once again, clarify whether the GNWT officials have suspended negotiations? Yes or no. Thank you.

Thank you. The initial settlement boundary or the territory of the Dehcho First Nations is about 210,000 square kilometres, which is the southwestern part of the NWT. The negotiations between the federal government and Dehcho First Nations was bilateral for the longest time and the GNWT became a party to those negotiations recently. Now it’s a negotiations process that involves the federal government, the GNWT and the Dehcho First Nations.

Could the Minister of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs explain how he understands that, one, the federal offer to the Dehcho First Nations was a land...

Can the Minister describe what’s being done in small communities to build up the stock of private market homes for sale? Mahsi.