Norman Yakeleya

Madam Chair, I would like to ask the Minister…I have met with some of my constituents, specifically the people in Norman Wells. In terms of the airport studies and feasibility studies on the extension of the runway in some of the small communities in the North, I didn’t see any type of initiative here. Is this something that has already been undertaken in terms of the year 2010. That’s the deadline that NAV Can has given us in terms of complying with the regulations for airports. I want to ask that to the Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, again I would ask if the Minister would work closely with the Sahtu health board in terms of seeing some of these conditions being met in some of the communities who do not have these air conditioners. It is a basic service for health centres. You can go ahead with the bridge. Certainly, we can go ahead with putting air conditioners in some of our communities. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, to shape the Minister’s response to this issue, some of these areas are similar to other communities that do not have RCMP in their communities. They don’t have air conditioners in some of these small health centres. In terms of this simple situation here to be resolved for people in the small communities, this is fixable. It is reasonable. It is also doable. It is a crying shame that, in this day and age, these health centres do not have air conditioners, Mr. Speaker. What does the Minister plan to do to improve the situation like this in the health...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, there is no doubt that the Deline team will win the Franklin Cup in London, England. Does the Minister think that Ottawa will win the Stanley Cup?

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, as the Minister of ITI is aware, I have been working hard with other Members, especially with the community of Deline in the Sahtu, in terms of having Deline being recognized as the birthplace of ice hockey in Canada. I wanted to ask the Minister of ITI what type of exposure is he working on in terms of getting this recognition as a significant historical event in Canada, especially for ice hockey? Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I want to confirm my support for these hard-working people that deal with family violence in our communities. We need every type of support. We need to work with the family, the children, the abuser and victim. They have to work with the whole community on this issue. Family violence is a very powerful, very sensitive, we have to be very careful to work with the family on this issue here.

What I want to say, Madam Chair, is some of the family violence workers are underpaid. Sometimes they are in term positions and sometimes they have to leave their job early because...

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, the family violence survey in terms of collecting baseline data to residents in the Northwest Territories and the 750 respondents talking about information. I think there is already existing information within the system that could be used already. I haven’t seen the survey myself, so I am not sure what type of survey it’s going to be. Is this a matter of collecting baseline data? There is data already in the system on family violence. I am not sure about that one.

I want to ask the Minister regarding the family violence conference and the use of this...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I’ll be very brief. I thank my colleagues to speak their minds in terms of this motion. Mr. Speaker, as I said before, I come from a community that has a high cost of living to the people there. Mr. Speaker, the community that we recently visited, as Mr. Lafferty indicated, was Colville Lake and we talked about some of their costs in that small community and the generator there that powers the community and their power bills being $2.66.6 cents a kilowatt and their store in Colville Lake also has a huge power increase.

Mr. Speaker, the question I had for...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

WHEREAS electric power is an essential service;

AND WHEREAS a majority of our communities throughout the NWT continue to rely on costly diesel-generated power;

AND WHEREAS residential and commercial rates vary across the NWT;

AND WHEREAS the Government of the Northwest Territories has implemented a Territorial Power Subsidy Program which pays the cost differential between Yellowknife rates and those of other communities for the first 700 kilowatt hours of monthly private residential consumption, and the first 1,000 kilowatt hours of small business consumption;

AND WHEREAS...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I give notice that on Wednesday, May 16, 2007, I will move the following motion: I move, seconded by the Honourable Member for Frame Lake that, notwithstanding Rule 4, when the House adjourns on May 17, 2007, it shall be adjourned until Wednesday, August 15, 2007; and further, at any time prior to August 15, 2007, if the Speaker is satisfied after consultation with the Executive Council and members of the Legislative Assembly that the public interest requires that the House should meet at an earlier time during the adjournment, the Speaker gives notice...