Wendy Bisaro

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In this case I don’t think it did work. The family had three weeks’ notice to try and pay off a $700 debt, give or take. It simply was not possible. The father was in school, the mother was on income support. I really need to ask the Minister, when an application comes forward, do the staff not look to find solutions as opposed to finding a way to deny the application?

I have to confess, I don’t know a lot about the Freshwater Fish Marketing Corporation, but I thought I understood some time ago that we were dealing with them in Winnipeg. If this is a territorial marketing corporation, are the employees northern or is it an organization that operates outside of the North? If that’s the case, why are we supporting it? Thank you.

I’d like to give the Minister a bit of a scenario which, unfortunately, occurred. A family was offered an apartment with Yellowknife Housing Authority. They ended the lease in their current place. Then a policy intervened and three weeks before the end of their current lease they were advised that, no, they had arrears and they had to pay the arrears before they could move into their new place. The response basically from Health and Social Services was that policy did not allow them to go into this place.

I’d like to ask the Minister, if this is a program of last resort, should staff members...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have a question here related to fisheries. I noted fisheries is mentioned on page 12-28 where it talks about programs to support fisheries and then it talks about commercial fisheries here in a contribution. In that fisheries is a federal responsibility and waters are a federal responsibility, can I get an explanation as to how we are involved in fisheries, why we are involved in fisheries if it really is the feds who ought to be looking after this? Thank you.

On the occasion of Education Week, I would like to salute the Commission Scolaire Francophone on their achievements, and I have to highlight and salute Ecole Allain St-Cyr, which sits in the riding of Frame Lake and provides excellent francophone education to the residents of Yellowknife. Thank you.

Okay, I wondered if that was why, but the Minister said most of the revenue. So if there is some revenue from parks, do we just sweep it under the mat, or is it recorded elsewhere? Thank you.

That’s great. Thank you to the Minister and thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Thanks to the Minister. I wasn’t actually asking about monitoring, although I am very glad to hear that we will be doing some monitoring, I was asking about an evaluation of the new system. To me, those are different things. Monitoring is seeing how things are performing and gathering facts, which is what I heard the Minister say. Evaluation, to me, is looking at the system, looking at the facts, and determining whether or not this is what we want to continue to do. We have a two-year period right now in terms of the money that the GNWT is putting into the system. In the two-year time period...

Thanks to Mr. Bohnet. I guess my next question then, would be, and maybe I missed the answer already, but when is this review going to be done and when might we see the results of it? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I want to tell a bit of a sad story today. Once upon a time there were a group of seniors and elders who wanted to ensure that NWT residents stayed in the North as they aged. They wanted to ensure that our elders would be well looked after and to preserve an appropriate quality of life for all of us as we age. So they banded together and formed a society to work on their goals.

Seniors are a tenacious lot and this group was no exception. They petitioned the government-of-the-day for funding for their group and kept on petitioning until the government, bless them...