Norman Yakeleya

Thank you, Mr. Chair. One question to this part here. In terms of the funding, it seems that it’s going up almost every year. Is there some type of control in terms of the Technical Services Centre in terms of the expenditures? Is it going to level out in terms of the increases that we’re seeing every year in terms of this piece of work here?

Mr. Speaker, I seek unanimous consent to conclude my statement.

---Unanimous consent granted.

Thank you. I think that’s a real good thing the department is doing with the thermo-scan on buildings like that. So it’s a plus.

I want to ask the Minister on another subject in terms of the coordination of granular material planning for different departments. The Minister I think has taken the lead, or I’m making the presumption that this department is taking the lead, in terms of bringing together various departments to see what type of granular materials are going to be needed in the community that year for projects for the next year. Is this something that is working very well and that’s a...

I thank the Minister for his clarity and his consistent message to me here, so I can take it for what he is saying.

I want to ask the Minister on another subject here in regard to asset management. The Norman Wells Mackenzie Mountain School, I know they had an assessment done on the energy, and I want to know if there is going to be some work done because of the amount of use of energy that school is going through. It’s costing quite a lot. I know there are other schools that have been looked at in terms of putting together some energy initiatives for facilities such as schools, and I want to...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just on the asset management, just for the record, I just want to let the Minister know I said the facility in Tulita, it looks like it was built in the 1600s. I didn’t say it was built, I said it looked like. Perceptions. So I just wanted to tell the Minister that I just wanted that to be for the record here and that I will certainly look forward to seeing if, when this facility could be put on the list for demolition, and seeing if they can consider building a new one for the workers there. This is quite an old building here.

Thank you. Just on the Rare in Nature we have main estimates of $250,000 and then you go down to $100,000. I’d like to ask the Minister the reasons for the decrease in those numbers.

Mr. Chair, I’m very encouraged by the Minister’s comments in terms of the possibility of this being a discussion at a Cabinet level and coming back to the community for a look at this issue here. I certainly appreciate the Minister’s support, I guess, from all around to increases. This is very important for our communities, to increase the funding for this type of project. So I want to say to the Minister that he’s done a good job in this area here. He has certainly listened to the people in this area here.

Mr. Chair, I want to speak to the Minister about the Mackenzie Valley Highway and the...

Mr. Speaker, as I said in my Member’s statement in terms of this government concluding its time in this Assembly here, is this a big enough decision? If we are going to make some changes into how we do the review of the rental of public housing, is it a big enough decision to leave it for the next government or can we make this decision within this government to go forward in terms of the next Assembly?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just a follow up to Mr. Krutko’s questions. I want to talk about the energy policy. I understand that there is a hydro symposium planned in Deline to look at the different possibilities of the hydro. Hydro has a lot of potential in the Northwest Territories. Actually, in the GNWT’s website it says that the promise of hydro power in the Northwest Territories is estimated to be over 12,000 megawatts. That’s a lot of power that the Northwest Territories could tap into. So I want to ask the Minister here in terms of hydro potential in the North here. I’ll talk a little bit...

The Oscar Bridge has been there for a number of years and now the Minister is saying that’s going to be part of a PDR report that will take another couple more years, so it seems that this bridge is just being shuffled on to different areas. So I want to just leave it at that.

I want to ask about the Bear River Bridge that has been an issue with people in Norman Wells and Tulita. I know the Minister has tried several approaches to see how funding could be secured to the Bear River Bridge. People are quite upset that they didn’t get support from this House to put the Bear River Bridge in the...