Wendy Bisaro

To the Minister, this is not a current situation. It was solved. It was not solved through any assistance through government, unfortunately. It was solved through the assistance of the community. I’d like to ask the Minister, when a person is desperate for homeownership assistance, or for home assistance I should say, so that they do not become homeless, what is it that the staff do? What do they look at to see whether or not an application should be accepted or denied?

I certainly am totally in support of local fishers and fisheries. Local encouragement of businesses is something that I am very much in support of. I do have to wonder, though, about the Freshwater Fish Marketing Corporation. Are there any other jurisdictions in Canada that have a province or a territory running a fish marketing arm? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have some questions today for the Minister of Health and Social Services. I’d like to ask some questions regarding the Homelessness Assistance Fund.

From what I know of this fund, it is a fund that is used as a program of last resort when people have lost their home or are in between homes and need some assistance to make sure that they don’t go homeless. I’d like to ask the Minister at this point if she could explain to me what, in her mind, is a definition of a program of last resort in terms of the time frame that she expects people to be able to have to apply for...

Thanks for that explanation. I did note, I think it was in the Minister’s opening remarks, he said that bookings at parks are up. Could I get an estimation of by what percentage and does it... Even though our bookings are up, we still are not obviously, from the sounds of things, covering the costs of contractors. Can I get that confirmed, please? Thank you.

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Mr. Speaker, the establishment and expansion of French first language schooling in the NWT is a success story. It shows what people can accomplish if they have passion and tenacity.

I seek unanimous consent to conclude my statement.

---Unanimous consent granted

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have a question with regard to parks and parks revenue. I noticed on the revenue page that our revenue was down considerably and I believe I heard the Minister say that it had to do with, or I think the explanation is that it has to do with interest. I didn’t see any indication in the revenue page of revenue from parks. Is there revenue and, if so, how much is there? Thank you.

Thanks to the Minister. This is just a comment but I didn’t hear the Minister say that an evaluation is planned for and I would encourage strongly the department to in 18 months, perhaps even two years, do an evaluation of this new program to determine whether or not it’s actually working. To me, as I said before, monitoring is not evaluating.

I have another question with regard to the project at Fort Simpson, the in-river hydro system. I may have missed it, I’m sorry if I have, but I know that there was some difficulty with that turbine and I just wondered where that project is at. Is it dead...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I’ve got a couple of questions here. First of all, the Minister has spoken about, and I think, certainly, Members are aware, and I think the general public also is aware, that we conducted an electricity review. We made some changes and we have reduced our power rates considerably. I know that it is recently put into place but I’d like to know from the Minister, since this is a new program and it’s some fairly major changes, some of which are still to be put into place, but what are the plans for the department to evaluate this particular system and the set up that we...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’m really pleased today to have a constituent in the gallery. Ms. Jenni Bruce is a constituent from Frame Lake. Welcome, Jenni.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I think my colleague should have asked the Minister if he was going to get his answer in the fullness of time, hopefully sooner than that. I do have a question with regards to recycling and the deposit that is paid on milk containers. This has been brought up before and I would like to ask again, whether or not, I guess maybe not whether or not but when the Minister will agree with a full refund of the deposit on milk containers to try and keep the price of milk as low as possible. Thank you.