Tom Beaulieu

At least, I guess, in communities that are considered not to have accumulated deficit, the money stays the same? I am going to take the answer "no" as meaning that.

My question is: when you accumulate a capital deficit, it is based on depreciation, I am assuming. I am going to ask the question, though: is the capital deficit accumulation based on the depreciation of the assets you have? Thank you.

Lastly, I guess, is the more difficult of all of the tasks that I think we should be working on in post-secondary education, and that is the nursing school in Yellowknife, here, for the old Stanton. I realize that the Department of Health has other uses for that, but I still feel that there's room for that place to become a good nursing school for homecare, that has so much potential for our communities and our elders. It is also a great way to keep the elders in their home as long as possible and save a lot of money in the system by not having them go into long-term care. So I'd like to ask...

I mentioned the investment that the federal government will be making in conservation, and I agree with the Minister that ENRTP program is a good program and produces lots of good officers that are valuable to the communities.

We also have other areas of land that need protection, with some of the work that we are doing in this House about improving some legislation for protected areas. I would like to ask the Minister if the Minister could start working with Indigenous governments to maybe look at the Indigenous guardianship programs, the Canadian Rangers, or even park officers, for that...

Marsi cho, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would like to recognize a Page from Tu Nedhe-Wiilideh, April Sangris-Hardisty Beaulieu, and, also, I would like to take this opportunity to recognize our interpreters that are from Tu Nedhe-Wiilideh, Maro Sundberg and Tommy Unka. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Marsi cho, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, today I would like to speak on two ideas I have for post-secondary students in the NWT. On February 7 and again on May 31, 2018 a Member states turning the idea of the old Stanton Territorial Hospital into a nursing school as it transitions into a long-term care facility for seniors. Mr. Speaker, this idea is still relevant today and remains to be an idea which contains a lot of potential for the NWT. This is also an idea where I get more and more positive feedback as I talk about it. Therefore, Mr. Speaker, today I would like to reiterate some previous...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I move that the chair rise and report progress.

Like, when the Minister referred to core infrastructure, I was wondering what that included. For me, core infrastructure are all the roads, ditches, dumps and docks -- no, not docks, maybe trucks and heavy equipment. Just a clarification of what would be outside of core infrastructure?

[Microphone turned off]…turned capital, but I could also say infrastructure. Now, if there is a community, such as Yellowknife, which has lots of infrastructure, and there is a depreciation on that infrastructure, then, every year, when they replace water lines, I know that there is little depreciation the first year, but as soon as it goes into use after one year, there is a depreciation. That depreciation would be considered a deficit in the infrastructure. That is what I am trying to get at.

In the small communities, we have very little infrastructure, a few warehouses here; most of our...

Mr. Speaker, did the results of the 2007 family-violence survey have an impact on policies of the Department of Justice? If so, what specific measures or policies to date are a direct result of this survey?

Marsi cho, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, today in the House we are bringing attention to the issue of family violence. First off, I would like to begin by reading the definition of "family violence" as per Canada's Department of Justice website. It reads that "family violence is when someone uses abusive behaviour to control or harm a member of their family or someone with whom they have an intimate relationship [...] It may include a single act of violence or a number of acts that form a pattern of abuse [...] There are many forms of violence, which include physical, emotional, financial, sexual...