Norman Yakeleya

I look forward to the Minister’s proposal or discussion here. The emergency search and rescue needed some walkie-talkies, other equipment for ground search, water search, and that’s the type I’m looking for from this Minister. If he could work with his colleagues and look through his department and say, what can we commit to this emergency search and rescue kit that we have in any one of our communities in the Northwest Territories. Will the Minister look at that?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In my Member’s statement I talk about emergency search and rescue effort in Tulita last summer and the help of many people across the Northwest Territories. I want to ask the Minister of MACA if his department has this type of initiative that they can go forward in helping communities like Tulita where people just got together and did the right thing and people later on joined helping out with funding and other sorts of things. We need some help in our small communities. Is the Minister willing to look at some of these kinds of concepts that the Tulita people are asking...

Thank you. I appreciate the Minister being straightforward and clear with me. So thank you very much. I have no more questions.

We look forward to it once that day arrives, and the Minister and his staff will be prepared to start dealing with the Deline self-government. I know they’re close to organizing themselves to have the final vote, and then we’ll see what we can do within the Legislative Assembly.

I guess, just to say that it’s quite exciting to talk at this level, talking about the Tlicho Government. They’ve come a long way and I just want to say that I never thought that in my day and age that we would come to this type of realization where we’re talking government to government. I look forward to the Minister...

That’s all fine. That’s what we do here through our budgets and that. I’m asking about the leader here, looking forward to the Northwest Territories. I think as leaders around here, we are to inspire people to look at what’s ahead. I have a son who is 11 years old and it’s something he would look forward to and look at. Is that something they can look at and say, yes, one day, in five or 10 years? Is that something that the Northwest Territories can look at to be part of the Confederation of Canada through the means of constitution?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. On March 5, 2013, Sister Celeste of Tulita was honoured with the 2013 Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal. She is truly an inspirational woman whose impact on families in the community of Tulita cannot be understated. She established the Fort Norman Child Development Centre in 1981 and in the 31 years since it has been open, she has given several generations of Dene and Metis community members a head start towards successful personal and working lives. A growing number of her former students are finishing up their high school and pursuing further education, and showing...

Has it been projected by the Department of Health and Social Services? Is this a cost that we will incur every year in our budget? Hopefully these people can get well. That’s the ultimate goal here and something that is not a fault of anybody. Is it something that we project to see other people in the Northwest Territories that will have this type of disease and we need to take care of them?

Okay, the Minister has his earpiece on now? To provide funding to reflect the impact of projected shortfall for costs of blood and plasma protein products. I’m trying to figure out how many people or how much is that initially in the North here. It’s quite a high number.

I look forward to the discussion and having discussion in the House here. My colleague Ms. Bisaro has indicated we’re pretty well in the hole here, so I hope we have some reserves left over for that type of discussion to support the town of Norman Wells on their conversion to what source of energy that we’re going to direct our funds to. I look forward to the discussion. I think the Minister has pretty well answered my questions.

The town of Norman Wells, through the public housing, I guess the Public Housing Program, there shouldn’t have any glitches in terms of the conversion and the way it’s working out.