Norman Yakeleya

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the Minister, in some discussion around here, has stated clearly that it's time to make a decision, and for whatever reason that decision wasn't made four years ago, we can't really say. So today we have to think about what the people in Fort Simpson or for that Deh Cho Hall want to do. There are a number of people in that facility that's going to be impacted or affected for the next couple years. I think to do the proper thing, there was some good suggestions around the House here in terms of I guess we could have laid back and said, well, we could...

Mr. Chairman, thank you. I appreciate what the Minister is saying. These are comments just on behalf of the region. So he’s got my full support in terms of this issue here. So 110 percent from me.

Thank you, Madam Chair. For this amount here, I said it before in other meetings that it’s about time that Housing and MACA gets off the ground and gets busy because you know the backlog in our region. The need for lot development, the need for, we heard it on the radio the other day on the town of Norman Wells. Of course you hear it from my communities that I represent. This is way overdue, so I think we need to have an extreme makeover at the Housing Corporation and start putting these units in our communities, preparing them for lot development. Right now when you do lot development, you...

Mr. Speaker, I seek unanimous consent to return to item 14 on the orders of the day.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the Minister’s response and I think that’s what the people in Good Hope want to know, is that the department will bring in some people to clearly outline how the housing subsidy is being administered now, because right now they’re seeing a high increase in the rent as when it was administered by the NWT Housing Corporation. So can we stop them from moving out of their houses? Again, I appreciate the Minister to go in there and thoroughly explain, and then can he have a translator also provided at this meeting here? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my question today is to the Honourable Charles Dent, the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment. It’s regarding the public housing rental subsidy, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, one particular community in my region is having some difficulty in terms of the understanding of this new rental subsidy and it’s causing quite a chaos, havoc for some people. Actually, they’re actually thinking about moving out of these houses. I want to ask the Minister, Minister Dent, if there’s any way that his department can go into Fort Good Hope and talk to people on this...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just two questions. I was thinking about this bill here. Mr. Chairman, the Minister indicated about the safety and enjoyment. I guess we have come to this point in the Territories where we have to enforce the safety and enjoyment because people in our parks don’t respect the communities or the municipalities or the park that they are supposed to enjoy. Now we have parks officers who now have to get tough on them and adhere to the rules in our parks here.

I have two questions. The first question is in terms of the training for the protection of the parks and the park...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, with bannock and lard we live long.

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You know, the people in the Sahtu. So, Mr. Speaker, again, I ask the Minister of Tourism maybe if he can chat with the Minister of MACA in terms of can their departments get together and look at getting this…(inaudible)…sports and also tourism and come to a decision as to let’s put some money aside, let’s bring the community of Deline and the original birthplace of ice hockey on the map. It’s hockey time, it’s hockey season and it’s hockey night in Deline. Let’s do something for Deline and the people of the...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Now the gloves come off here.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Last year in Tulita, they had dust control. I think they did about 100 feet of dust control because that is all the funding they had. So everybody got into 100 feet of the air so there is no dust in that area. If the Minister can come into Tulita this summer or in the Sahtu communities and see for himself the kind of funding that goes into dust control programs so that the whole main streets in each of the Sahtu communities are adequately funded and to have proper dust control measures in there. Thank you.