Robert Bouchard

Thank you, Mr. Blake. I’ll go to the Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Bouchard. Minister Lafferty.

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. We’ll continue after a short break.

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Thank you, Mr. Bouchard. Minister Lafferty.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I give notice that on Friday, October 2, 2015, I will move that Bill 69, An Act to Amend the Legislative Assembly and Executive Council Act, No. 2, be read for the first time. Thank you.

I didn’t catch the last part of Mr. Stewart’s comments. Sorry.

Again, Mr. Speaker, the comments are “monitor, we’ll look into it.” Let’s just commit to getting Northerners back here. This government has a mandate to get 2,000 more people into the Territories. We need to figure out how to do that. Whether it’s the legislation or it has to be brought to this House, let’s bring it to the House. Let’s get that changed. We know it’s an issue. We know students go out and see the world after they are done high school. They are gone for a year. Those are the type of people we are dealing with as well. The Minister is giving the example of one person. We need to...

I appreciate that commitment to communicate with Members if their projects are getting dumped back. I would recommend that to all the Ministers when they’re coming forward on this discussion. I think that’s going to be a factor I’m going to bring forward, because we’ve seen that in this deliberation of the capital budget when we’ve reviewed it, that some of those projects, those dates seems to switch and some Members are saying, when did that happen, we didn’t hear that, I didn’t hear that. If we could start to communicate that when that does happen.

Obviously, I’m concerned about, as I...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions will be following my statement about northern students and student financial assistance, questions for ECE. The first question I have is I know we are dealing with students who have lived in the Northwest Territories, grew up in the Northwest Territories, have left their jurisdiction for a period of time and now have to re-establish their residency. We aren’t talking about some person coming from the South who has nothing to do with the Northwest Territories; we are talking about Northerners coming back. I want the Minister to commit to changing that...

Thank you, Minister Miltenberger. Next on my list I have Mr. Moses.