Robert Bouchard

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. A motion is on the floor. The motion is being distributed. To the motion. Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you. I will now rise and report progress.

I will call Committee of the Whole back to order. Committee, we’ve agreed to review Committee Report 14-17(5). To start, I will go with the chair of Gov Ops, Mr. Nadli.

Question has been called. The motion is carried.

---Carried

Does committee agree we have concluded consideration of Committee Report 14-17(5)?

As I indicated, there are many examples. I’m just wondering what the Department of ITI is doing to collaborate with all the departments to buy products and services to make sure that we’re supporting northern manufacturers?

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. The motion is on the floor. The motion is being distributed.

To the motion. Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It’s hard to get all of the questions in because there are a lot of issues that we deal with as Regular Members here on this side. I guess my question would be concerning funding.

Has the department or the Minister looked at the funding that we give to seniors, whether it’s through senior groups, whether it’s through fuel subsides? Are we looking at expanding funding that we give to seniors?

I could have asked this question to several Ministers, as the Minister indicated, but my question to the Minister responsible for Seniors is: What is the connection? Is there a committee that gets all the departments together that are linking seniors together that have seniors issues, whether it’s the Department of Finance for taxation, whether it’s Health, whether it’s MACA, whether it’s Housing? Is there a group of people who get together and discuss seniors specifically? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today I’d like to talk about one of the Northwest Territories most valuable assets. I’d like to talk about seniors. I’ll have questions for the Minister responsible for Seniors. That’s correct. We have a Minister responsible for Seniors. We have so many issues in this area that we need a Minister responsible for it.

This is an expanding part of our population. The cost of living affects this group greatly. We need to work on how we can reduce the cost of living for seniors. We know that there is elder abuse out there. We know that there is a lot of need for the seniors...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to recognize Ted Blondin, a Lethbridge alumni and a good friend from going to university in Lethbridge. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.