Paul Delorey

Thank you. Just one more area I would like to touch on, Madam Chair, and that is on maximizing northern employment or job training, whether it be in apprenticeship programs or getting people into the trades. It's an area that I've addressed a number of times over the last four years with the previous Minister of Education. At that time I got the same answer more than what I wanted to hear about. If we do it in one place we can't do it in the other. We have to do it right across the Territories. In an area such as Hay River if there's a huge interest in promoting the trades in the school...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my questions today are for the Minister of Finance as well. They are to do with my Member’s statement in regard to the federal budget. Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask the federal Minister, I don’t know if he heard our MP, Ethel Blondin-Andrew, on the radio this morning really bragging up how good this federal budget was for the North. When she mentions territorial formula financing for $150 million, it’s health support, $60 million; economic development, $90 million; northern oil and gas, $75 million; contaminated sites, $3.5 billion. How much of that...

Thank you, Madam Chair. Could I get the Minister to expand a little bit on the second paragraph on page 3 where, for example, the department is preparing an aboriginal language and culture-based directive that it will be sending to all education authorities outlining program requirements and criteria for expenditure? Could you expand a little bit more on what directive is going to be? Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, yesterday, while we were grinding away in this House, with our lean, mean Minister of Health and Social Services -- listening to how he was going to meet the needs of the people of the Northwest Territories on what he was referring to as a shoestring budget of $250 million -- exciting things were happening in Ottawa. The federal Finance Minister was delivering the first sound financial management federal budget under Paul Martin. Although I didn’t get to listen to the budget address, I did take time last night to read through it. I don’t know if this...

Thank you, Madam Chair. When you put out a figure of 620 and 872 for enrolments in community high schools, it would probably be easier to ask which ones are not included in this figure. Yellowknife wouldn't be for sure and probably not Hay River. What schools wouldn't be involved in this figure? It would probably be far less than are not involved than what would be involved. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Pokiak. Mr. Dent.

Thank you, Mr. Pokiak. Mr. Dent.

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. I didn’t hear too many questions. Did you want to respond Mr. Dent?

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Mr. Dent.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, on that line, when we say we are going to review our tax effort, they are giving us one year off and giving us time to review it or they are willing to look at it. If they decide to readjust that what can we expect? Would it be $50 million a year if they decided to do away with the tax effort and if it did, what are the possibilities that these new revenues could maybe replace some of the reductions that the Minister has talked about for the next following two years, the $20 million each year for the next two years? Could that affect those reductions?...