Wendy Bisaro

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I seek unanimous consent to waive Rule 44 to deal with Motion 7-16(6) which I gave notice of yesterday.

---Unanimous consent granted

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It’s my pleasure to recognize a Frame Lake constituent, Ms. Yvonne Quick.

Thanks to the Minister. So with the resources that you currently have in the Department of Justice, I’d like to ask the Minister, will he be able to hire the 11 students that they hired last year. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions are addressed to the Minister of Justice, and it’s no surprise there’s a bit of a theme going on here. My questions are also related to summer students. It’s well known that summer students can start to submit their resumes anytime, basically anytime after Christmas and into January. So I would assume that there are an awful lot of students who are well prepared and who do have their resumes in in January, February and March, but at this point in the year we’ve only hired about maybe not quite two-thirds of what we hired in total last year. It seems to be a...

I now have to ask the Minister, we’ve decided that it’s too expensive to remove anything, so what’s the next step. Are we going to leave those assets there until they totally rot into the ground 300 years from now? What’s the plan of the department to clean up this mine site?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you to my colleagues. Some may consider this a somewhat unusual motion and feel that perhaps it isn’t necessary as often the various departments will recognize particular weeks. I think it’s really important that we as legislators and that this Assembly makes this motion and passes this motion, because it indicates the importance that we as legislators give to our seniors.

I’ve often heard Members speak and say that part of our culture is that we respect seniors and honour seniors, and that elders are a very important part of our culture and our society...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions today are addressed to the Minister for Municipal and Community Affairs. In October of last year I asked some questions of the Minister with regard to the removal of assets at the Treminco mine site and the clean-up of that mine site. He advised me in December that they were developing an RFP for the removal of assets and that we would have the results of that RFP by mid-April 2011. I would like to ask the Minister first off what the status is of the work in terms of removal of assets at the mine site.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I seek unanimous consent to waive Rule 44 to deal with Motion 7-16(6) which I gave notice of yesterday.

---Unanimous consent granted

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I want to use my Member’s statement to comment on an article from the Globe and Mail regarding health care that recently caught my eye. In Canada it’s generally assumed that universal health care -- and that means timely access to affordable health services -- improves the health of socially disadvantaged groups. Research performed at the Institute for Clinical Evaluation Services tested that assumption, but as published in the journal Health Affairs, the results of the study contradicts the assumption.

The research team found that people with low income and/or low...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I give notice that on Thursday, May 19, 2011, I will move the following motion: now therefore I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Sahtu, that the Legislative Assembly resolves to formally observe June 12 to 18, 2011, as NWT Elder Abuse Awareness Week.