Robert Hawkins

On that particular repair, has it been finished yet? I didn’t catch that part, the dialogue earlier, but has it been finished yet? Has the scope remained the same from the original tender?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. There was just one more thing I had forgotten to mention and I could be mistaken on this particular situation and I have no energy to run upstairs to go research it quickly, but I’m sure I read in the newspaper an advertisement, a position for some type of project officer or manager on the Inuvik-Tuk highway to be posted in Inuvik, and I did think that that was a little advanced in full consideration that the project hasn’t been approved yet.

Again, as I said earlier, I certainly supported the project description and sort of some of the environmental work that needs to...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As I said in my Member’s statement today, clearly there are a lot of examples of how early childhood education can be implemented and certainly it’s a program that can start a phenomenal difference into a young person’s life. If we build that foundation it means a lot.

I say to this McLeod government, don’t just heed the warning from us. I mean, there are many parents and experts that will tell you this is such a critical part for the development of our children and the future of our children in our education system. We all know good education is the backbone of a solid...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I, too, wish to acknowledge those three wise ladies sitting at the top there. That would be Yvonne Quick, Barb Hood and Sandra Taylor. Most notably, Sandra Taylor, of course, is a constituent of Yellowknife Centre and she’s also the president of the Yellowknife Seniors’ Society and she does a great job there.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’ve got a few people to recognize. First up I’d like to recognize Margaret Marshall. She’s a constituent.

As well as Liz Wyman, a constituent who is also the chair of the Yellowknife Health and Social Services Authority, and of course Liz Wyman is no stranger in the business community. She’s a very successful lady.

As well, the next two people I would like to recognize are Michele Letourneau and Annemieke Mulders. I believe they’re sitting up front here. For many of you, you may recognize their names. They’ve been rightly fighting for fair and safe access to their...

Would the department be willing to supply that to all Members?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I wanted to quickly rise today and make note regarding yesterday’s debate. When you interjected yesterday, I should have sat down and not commented further, a rule I know, and know well.

I wanted to take this chance because I’d reflected upon it yesterday afternoon, approached you last night to talk you about my error and I wanted to make note on the official record. I want to thank you for your guidance and your ear last night on this particular issue and I appreciate your leadership in the House. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I’m trying to get some details on a particular problem that’s highlighted at a number of schools. I’ve been an MLA for nine years and I hear this repeatedly as a significant problem, not just from parents but other MLAs and other ridings and regions. That particular problem is social passing. I wonder what the department is doing to stop social passing and making it prevalent within our school systems out there. Kids need a fair shot, obviously, but if they’re being passed under the guise of social passing, then they’re not really being set up properly with all the...

That’s the kind of answer I’m looking for. Thank you.

I thank you to the staff for somehow miraculously getting this thing working. The fact is, the money is taken out of my budget, by way of example, and so it’s aggregated out through the normal process but it shows up here as income. I’m not going to argue semantics here, but the fact its income should show up somewhere other than on one particular page such as 7-26. It should show up as a revenue line within the department’s revenue and it doesn’t show up there. I did look for it. Unless, of course, I missed it. But I see great money rolled in under electrical permits, boiler, gas, but I’m not...