Tom Beaulieu

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would like to just make a comment and ask another questions. My comment was: it would be good for if our government has gone to the federal government and asked for a complete exemption from carbon tax considering that between ourselves and Nunavut, we probably spend most of the year heating our house. I know that it is August here. I think we are in the middle of August. Our furnaces are on. We are starting now in August, and we are heating our houses until May. That is not normal.

I talked to a guy today who was putting a new fuel tank in my house, and he said to me...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I guess I was close to the business of hauling fuel into small community as the Minister of Public Works in the last government. A large cost of heating fuel was the hauling of the heating fuel. In addition to that large cost of hauling the heating fuel, sometimes they get a pretty good price buying, I think it is called purchasing off the rack or something. I can't remember the exact term. The hauling of it, the transportation of the diesel fuel was substantial.

I wonder, if we are going to rebate heating fuel at the point it is purchased, each of us, if we are on...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. That is correct. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Marsi cho, Mr. Speaker.

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Marsi cho, Mr. Speaker. Today I rise to speak about the passing of yet another long-time Yellowknives Dene elder, Isadore Tsetta. Isadore was predeceased by his parents Antoine and Monique Tsetta; his wife Elise; his siblings Benny and Rosanna; and his goddaughter Adeline. Isadore is survived by his children, Fred, Ted, Charles, Peter, and Isadore and Elise also raised Peter Charlo. His grandchildren are Valerie, Aleisha, Trisha, Tyler, Corbin, Laken, Kylie, Tamra, Billie and Karsen. His great grandchildren are Courtney, Noah, Nolan, Chaylee, Tyshanyah, Tadeh and Alexis. His godchildren are...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The reason that I asked the last question is because public housing takes people out of core need. I suppose that is what public housing is all about. Individuals that can't afford adequate and suitable housing end up in public housing. We have 2,400 public housing units, I understand, across the territory. I just wanted to get an answer for the House from the Minister to see if the Housing Corporation considers the 2,400 families that are in public housing in core need currently. Thank you.

Often, individuals who have perfectly good housing units, suitable and adequate units, because they have an affordability issue identify as being in core need for housing, so I would like to ask the Minister if he could give the House a definition of "core need."

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise today to speak about an unfortunate recent passing of two residents of Ndilo, Muriel Betsina and JR Abel, both of whom were related as grandmother and grandson.

To begin, I would first like to talk about Muriel. Muriel has been a long-time resident of Ndilo, but she was born in Tulita on May 25, 1944, and passed away on July 22, 2019, at age 76. Muriel is survived by her seven children; Ernest, Eileen, Norman, Dianne, Allan, George, and Frank Jr.; her 40 biological and adopted grandchildren; and more than 10 great-grandchildren, as well as her siblings Be'sha...

I would like to ask the Minister if the Minister feels that people who currently reside in public housing are in core need.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. On Monday I made a Member's statement on the Housing Corporation, the core need housing programs, and so on. I have questions more specifically towards the core need of the social housing in the Northwest Territories. I would like to ask the Minister responsible for the NWT Housing Corporation when the new needs survey for determining the core need numbers across the NWT will be released. Thank you.