Debates of June 4th, 2014

This is page numbers 4649 – 4690 of the Hansard for the 17th Assembly, 5th Session. The original version can be accessed on the Legislative Assembly's website or by contacting the Legislative Assembly Library.

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Topics

Oral Questions

Members Present

Prayer

Minister’s Statement 78-17(5): Healthy Food For Schools

Community Emergency Preparedness

NWT Public Service – National Public Service Week

Junior Kindergarten Facts

Municipal Services In Fort Mcpherson

CKLB Radio Revenue Stabilization

NWT Track And Field Championships

GNWT/fort Providence Forest Industry Development Memorandum Of Understanding

Inuvik Fire Department

Stabilization Of Fuel Pricing In Small Communities

Premier’s Proposal For A Women’s Parliament

Benefits Of Hydro Grid Expansion Into The Deh Cho Region

Value Of Traditional Land Use

Fiscal Strategy

NWT Health Care Cards

Recognition of Visitors in the Gallery

2014 NWT Outstanding Volunteer Award – Elder Award – Edward Oudzi

Supporting Traditional Way Of Life

Hamlet Of Fort Mcpherson Deficit Reduction Plan

Proposal For A Women’s Parliament

Leave Options For Community Volunteers

Northern And Aboriginal Broadcasting

Update On The Regional Recruitment Strategy

Hydro Grid Expansion Into The Deh Cho

Format Of Health Care Cards

Junior Kindergarten – Fact Sheets

Canol Heritage Trail

Written Question 18-17(5): Resources Spent On Wildlife Act Consultations

Committee Report 8-17(5): Report On The Review Of The Auxiliary Report Of The Chief Electoral Officer On Issues Arising From The 2011 General Election

Motion To Receive Committee Report 8-17(5) And Move Into Committee Of The Whole

Tabled Document 101-17(5): Results Report (2013-14), 20/20 A Brilliant North, NWT Public Service Strategic Plan

Tabled Document 102-17(5): Inter-Activity Transfers Exceeding $250,000 For The Period April 1, 2013, To March 31, 2014

Tabled Document 103-17(5): Establishing An Office Of The Ombudsman For The Northwest Territories

Tabled Document 104-17(5): Sample Photo Health Care Cards

Tabled Document 105-17(5): Environmental Impacts Of Shale Gas Extraction In Canada – Executive

Summary, Council Of Canadian Academies

Tabled Document 106-17(5): Annual Report Of The Office Of The Northwest Territories Languages Commissioner For 2011-2012 Tabled Document 107-17(5): Annual Report Of The Office Of The Northwest Territories Languages Commissioner For 2012-2013

Bill 32:

An Act To Amend The Pharmacy Act

Public Review Of Horizontal Hydraulic Fracturing

Recorded Vote

Bill 29: Human Tissue Donation Act

Bill 30:

An Act To Amend The Public Service Act

Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters

Report of Committee of the Whole

Bill 8: Write-Off Of Debts Act, 2013-2014

Bill 9: Forgiveness Of Debts Act, 2013-2014

Orders of the Day

The House met at 1:31 p.m.

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Prayer

Prayer

The Speaker

Jackie Jacobson

Good afternoon, colleagues. Item 2, Ministers’ statements. The honourable Minister of Education, Culture and Employment , Mr. Lafferty .

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Minister’s Statement 78-17(5): Healthy Food For Schools

Ministers’ Statements

Jackson Lafferty

Monfwi

Mr. Speaker, healthy, educated people are a priority for this Assembly and our government continues to investigate ways to support our children’s development and give them the right start in life.

We have many strategies across the GNWT that work together to provide supports for northern children, families, residents and communities. One of these is Building on the Strengths of Northerners: A Strategic Framework toward the Elimination of Poverty in the NWT. This framework addresses five priority areas: children and families, healthy living, safe and affordable housing, sustainable communities and better integration of services.

I am extremely pleased to announce that with funding provided in support of the Anti-Poverty Strategy, we have identified $650,000 to contribute to a new Healthy Food for Schools Program. With assistance from the NWT Bureau of Statistics, we have established the formula for distribution, taking into account food cost indexes, school student populations and median incomes of communities.

Mr. Speaker, research clearly shows that children who eat nutritious food are more physically active, alert and attentive. These children have better school attendance and are more successful at school.

The Health and Health-related Behaviours among Young People in the NWT report from 2012 identified that many of children and youth in the NWT often go to bed hungry because there is not enough food at home.

Providing healthy food through universal programs is one of the best ways to reach those who need it the most. These funds will allow schools to build on existing programs and potentially expand them to increase the number of serving days and increase the age range of students they support.

In addition to the Food for Schools funding, the Anti-Poverty Strategy is also providing $150,000 for the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs’ Active After School Program. This funding will be used to provide healthy snacks for children and youth participating in MACA’s after-school programs.

Funding for these important initiatives will help support children and youth to access healthy and nutritious food in both school and in after-school settings.

Research and best practices show that partnerships are the way to build the strongest school meal programs. Our government continues to do its part and we encourage schools to continue to use existing partnerships and seek new partners, where possible.

Mr. Speaker, we are on the right track. With every investment our government makes in children’s health, well-being and development, and in families’ ability to ensure their children can access opportunities for healthy growth and learning, our collective future becomes brighter. Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.

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Minister’s Statement 78-17(5): Healthy Food For Schools

Ministers’ Statements

The Speaker

Jackie Jacobson

Thank you, Mr. Lafferty . The honourable Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs , Mr. Robert McLeod .

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Minister's Statement 79-17(5): Community Emergency Preparedness

Ministers’ Statements

Robert C. McLeod

Inuvik Twin Lakes

Mr. Speaker, two years ago the 17th Legislative Assembly made supporting

sustainable, vibrant, safe communities one of its goals. Today I wish to advise Members on Municipal and Community Affairs’ efforts to help achieve that important goal. I am referring to efforts that are underway to help ensure the safety and security of Northwest Territories residents by assisting with community emergency preparedness.

Communities in the NWT have experienced natural, technological and human-caused hazards in the

past and will continue to do so in the future. Emergencies related to these hazards can occur at any time and in any place, with or without warning. Planning for and responding to emergency events is an ongoing process involving all levels of government.

Over the past several years, community governments have made considerable progress towards improving their emergency response capabilities.

Eleven communities have created new emergency response plans since 2011, while eight have updated their existing plan. MACA will continue to work with communities to assist them in updating or creating emergency response plans, and last month MACA delivered its first table-top exercise in Whati, which is now available to all communities to help validate current plans.

Mr. Speaker, emergency preparedness involves continual planning and capacity building. Our collective efforts need to help ensure all communities reach a suitable level of readiness. To this end, MACA is engaged in several important initiatives that will help lay a foundation with which to support and strengthen community efforts.

This summer, MACA’s School of Community Government, in partnership with the Department of Transportation, will begin delivery of first responder training to community volunteers and staff. These skills are critical in responding to emergencies outside medical facilities and at remote locations.

Mr. Speaker, the department recently completed a territorial hazard identification risk assessment which provides community governments with guidance concerning risks that pose the greatest threat to people, property, environment and the economy. This tool can be used to update community emergency plans, develop municipal disaster risk mitigation plans and guide development of emergency response exercises. These tools are especially important as we enter into this year’s forest fire season.

MACA has also started work on modernizing the Civil Emergency Measures Act to ensure it provides the Government of the NWT and community governments with effective tools to respond to hazards in our current environment.

This year MACA will begin updating the Northwest Territories Emergency Plan, which has not been thoroughly reviewed since 2001. It is time that we ensure the plan provides the GNWT and its partners with proper guidance to implement an effective territorial response when necessary.

As clearly demonstrated, keeping residents safe in our communities involves a number of key elements all working together. Success is achieved by partners coming together to ensure effective planning and capacity.

Mr. Speaker, I wish to commend community governments for their continued efforts in this important area, and once again, I encourage their continued support and participation in the work ahead of us. I would also like to remind all residents of the NWT that emergency preparedness is everyone’s responsibility. Every household should have a plan for an emergency ready in case of an emergency. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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Minister's Statement 79-17(5): Community Emergency Preparedness

Ministers’ Statements

The Speaker

Jackie Jacobson

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. The honourable Minister of Human Resources , Mr. Beaulieu .

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Minister's Statement 80-17(5): NWT Public Service – National Public Service Week

Ministers’ Statements

Tu Nedhe

Tom Beaulieu

Minister of Human Resources

Mr. Speaker, June 15th to

21th is National Public Service Week. This year’s

theme is “Proudly Serving Canadians.” National Public Service Week provides an opportunity for us to celebrate the contribution and accomplishments of public service employees across Canada and especially here in the Northwest Territories.

A strong territory needs a strong society. All residents of the NWT should have the chance to enjoy the benefits of living in a prosperous, well-governed territory and to participate fully in a healthy, just society. The GNWT is committed to helping our residents achieve their aspirations for themselves, their families and their communities by providing the right support, programs and services, and we rely on a dedicated and engaged public service to deliver those programs and services.

Providing quality programs and services to our residents requires an engaged public service. Employees who are engaged not only in their daily work but also in communities of interest help make the public service the best place to work. Our employees are interested in the environment, diversity, Aboriginal relations, health and safety, and work together to offer solutions to improve programs and services for residents and employees. Our employees are involved in charitable and social activities which contribute to community well-being where they work and live. These actions tell us our public service employees are engaged in contributing to the quality of life here in our territory.

Mr. Speaker, earlier today the Premier recognized employees and individuals who contribute through their efforts and actions to the success of the public service in helping residents achieve their aspirations. The 2014 Premier ’s Awards recipients are: • Award for Excellence Individuals – Tom

Wasylyshyn with the Department of Justice in Fort Smith;

• Award for Excellence Employee Teams – the

Devolution Implementation Team, the Accountability Framework Development Team and the “NWT Days” Team;

• Award for Collaboration – the Aboriginal Cultural

Awareness Training Group, the Northern Sustainable Housing Project Design Team and the Wildlife Act Working Group;

• Dave Ramsden Career Excellence Award –

Warren St. Germaine with the Department of Finance.

I invite you to join me in congratulating the recipients of the 2014 Premier ’s Awards presented this morning.

Mr. Speaker, it is an exciting time for the NWT. Our new authority and responsibility for public lands, water and resources bring significant changes. Northerners are now making decisions about the things that matter most to them: about our economy, about our environment and about the kind of society we want to be. On April 1st , in

addition to the devolution of new authority and responsibilities, we were very pleased to welcome 131 former federal public servants into the GNWT who bring experience, expertise and enthusiasm for these new responsibilities.

Under our NWT Public Service Strategic Plan, work continues so we can enhance the capacity and effectiveness of our public service. We continue to build and maintain a representative workforce. We reaffirm learning and development as an ongoing priority in the GNWT public service. We work to ensure occupational health and safety. We build understanding and awareness of diversity, particularly an appreciation of the rich cultures upon which our territory is founded and which inform our programs and services.

Mr. Speaker, in April the Government of the Northwest Territories was honoured to be acknowledged as one of Canada’s Top Employers of Young People for 2014. This national award recognizes our employment, culture and career management initiatives as being some of the best across the country in supporting younger workers to advance in their careers.

The 2014 Internship and Summer Student programs are underway, providing young Northerners with unique work experience. I am pleased to advise that as of May 29th , 228 summer

students have been hired with approximately 49.5 percent being indigenous Aboriginal and 48.2 percent being indigenous non-Aboriginal. Summer student orientation sessions started earlier this week, providing these youth information on their opportunities and responsibilities as GNWT employees as well as information on diversity, cultural awareness and occupational health and safety.

Mr. Speaker, the public service has accomplished a lot in support of Believing in People and Building on the Strengths of Northerners. They have proudly served NWT residents. I invite Members to join me in thanking public service employees for a job well done. There is still more to accomplish in our term and I know that with our engaged public service we will be successful. Mahsi cho, Mr. Speaker.

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Minister's Statement 80-17(5): NWT Public Service – National Public Service Week

Ministers’ Statements

The Speaker

Jackie Jacobson

Thank you, Mr. Beaulieu . The honourable Minister of Education, Culture and Employment , Mr. Lafferty .

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Minister's Statement 81-17(5): Junior Kindergarten Facts

Ministers’ Statements

Jackson Lafferty

Monfwi

Mr. Speaker, last week I informed the Assembly that officials from the Department of Education, Culture and Employment would be meeting with officials from the two Yellowknife education authorities to compare financial numbers about junior kindergarten. I would like to advise the Assembly of the results of those meetings because I think they confirmed that there is a lot of incorrect information floating around about junior kindergarten.

Mr. Speaker, there seems to be too much opinion and not enough facts about junior kindergarten, which is why I tabled a detailed fact package in the Assembly on Tuesday. I encourage all Members, parents and the public to look at it on the Department of Education, Culture and Employment’s website. Today I would like to highlight some of these facts because I am very concerned that we are forgetting how important and beneficial this program will be for children in every community in the Northwest Territories.

Mr. Speaker, there is no question that the Yellowknife education authorities, like every other education authority, will help finance the implementation of junior kindergarten through re-profiled funds. Junior kindergarten will not be introduced in Yellowknife until 2016-17, so these two education authorities will see their budgets reduced in 2014-15 and 2015-16. However, as the fact package clearly shows, in 2016-17 both Yellowknife boards will get a significant injection of new money.

This will come from two sources: their share of the reallocated junior kindergarten implementation dollars because they will start delivering junior kindergarten, and the new money that they will get because of the 16 to 1 pupil-teacher ratio commitment that I made in this Assembly.

Mr. Speaker, working with the officials from the two boards, we have identified maximum and minimum funding estimates for this new pupil-teacher ratio money based on two projected enrolment scenarios. I would like to confirm that Yellowknife Catholic Schools is projected to receive a budget increase in 2016-17 of between $580,000 and just

over $1 million dollars, depending on their student enrolment. Yellowknife Education District No. 1 is projected to receive a budget increase of between $1.14 million and $1.25 million in 2016-17. This important fact has been missing from the debate about how we are funding junior kindergarten in Yellowknife. I believe this makes a very powerful statement that Yellowknife is not being treated unfairly, as some people might have us believe.

Mr. Speaker, it has been said that the Northwest Territories has one of the worst pupil-teacher ratios in Canada. This is not true. Our territory-wide pupil-teacher ratio is 13.8 to 1, which is right on the Canadian average and comparable to most southern jurisdictions.

It has been said that we are not spending enough on kindergarten to Grade 12 education in the Northwest Territories. Mr. Speaker, the facts say something very different. The Northwest Territories is one of the best funded education systems in Canada. We spend just over $22,000 on every student, and the Canadian average is approximately $12,500 per student. We spend more than the other two territories and nearly double the Canadian average.

Mr. Speaker, it has been said that we are going to steal money from the dedicated Inclusive Schooling funding that assists students with unique needs. This is not true. Junior kindergarten implementation will not impact the approximately $26 million in Inclusive Schooling funding that education authorities receive for this purpose alone.

It has been said that I am forcing education authorities to spend their surpluses on junior kindergarten implementation. As I have already said in this Assembly, this is not true. It is up to them how they spend this pot of taxpayers’ money that was originally provided to them to deliver the best possible education program.

Mr. Speaker, we have even heard some people say that the junior kindergarten curriculum “lacks benefits for four-year-olds” and is “harmful to some aspects of child development.” This play-based curriculum was designed by professionals to be developmentally appropriate for both four- and five-year-old children. It was also built on the foundation of our cultural curricula, to help young children be confident and proud of who they are and where they come from.

Mr. Speaker, this is not a perfect world where resources are unlimited and there are no competing priorities. Our fiscal reality demands that the government exercise prudence and look at where it spends money, to see if it could do better by re-profiling some of it. Mr. Speaker, that is our duty as a responsible government and we did just that.

Some people might say that we should just wait and deliver junior kindergarten in a year or two,

when our fiscal situation might improve. But this overlooks the immediate benefit that junior kindergarten will have for four-year-olds in many of our small communities. Junior kindergarten is an investment in the future of our children. Delaying it doesn’t just defer the expenditure to another year, delaying it deprives our children of a chance to get the kind of support now that can give them lifelong advantages. Twenty-nine communities were given a choice whether or not to deliver junior kindergarten in 2014-15 and 23 communities have now said yes. We must deliver on that promise.

Mr. Speaker, change is often difficult and some people fear the unknown. But we should not lose sight of the most important fact that has remained throughout this debate: almost everyone supports junior kindergarten and agrees that it will help families across this territory. For some it will be the only child care option in their community. For others it will save the family up to $1,000 per month. Free, safe, optional, play-based junior kindergarten is simply the right thing to do for our children. At the end of the day, that is what really matters. Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.

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Minister's Statement 81-17(5): Junior Kindergarten Facts

Ministers’ Statements

The Speaker

Jackie Jacobson

Thank you, Mr. Lafferty . Item 3, Members’ statements. Member for Mackenzie Delta , Mr. Blake .

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Municipal Services In Fort Mcpherson

Members’ Statements

Frederick Blake Jr.

Mackenzie Delta

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My statement today is on municipal services in Fort McPherson. Over the past couple of years, the hamlet incurred a deficit of over $2 million. This deficit has affected the hamlet, the employees and the users of the services. My constituents continue to call, asking why they have to pay back the deficit, which the hamlet council took upon themselves for better services, only to be pulled deeper into debt.

I want to ask the Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs , where is the control? At what point does the department step up and say there’s something wrong? Where are the auditors? Who authorizes funding to council when there is such a deficit? The department needs to realize that responsibility is shared.

Municipal service costs in Fort McPherson have drastically increased and this is affecting everyone. The local housing authority is not getting any extra subsidy for the increase in water, elders are not compensated for extra costs and they have a fixed income every month. Homeowners are barely making it as it is. Now they have to pay almost three times what they were normally paying.

Is there any way that the department can work with the community to lower the municipal service bills so that community members could gradually adjust to the increase? The department should consider a five- to 10-year payback on a deficit, not recover it in one year at the expense of community members. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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Municipal Services In Fort Mcpherson

Members’ Statements

The Speaker

Jackie Jacobson

Thank you, Mr. Blake . Member for Range Lake , Mr. Dolynny .

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CKLB Radio Revenue Stabilization

Members’ Statements

Daryl Dolynny

Range Lake

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. CKLB Radio has been a prominent member of the NWT media community since the 1980s and has been a forum of news, Aboriginal issues, culture, languages, public service announcements and entertainment. The station, with a following of about 20,000 residents, produces Aboriginal language programming as part of its schedule. It plays an integral part of the Aboriginal culture, and with a wide geographic predisposition to deal with, it’s a gathering place of sorts for many.

CKLB also has many Aboriginal listeners who get another perspective on life and culture in the NWT that is provided by mainstream media. Its small revenue helps support its operation, but not much more. Luckily, it receives some core funding from Heritage Canada; however, this core model has not increased in over 30 years.

Its owner, the Native Communications Society, is always on a lean funding base and the station has struggled to keep up the maintenance of its community transmitters and, sadly, has been unable to implement new technology for communication. To draw an analogy, the station is a Timex watch working in a digital age.

There has been a long-standing relationship with the work of the society and CKLB in supporting many GNWT initiatives over the years. Some of these initiatives include promotion, use of Aboriginal languages, education, information of GNWT programs and event broadcasting.

Admittedly, the GNWT, through inconsistent community broadcasting grant programs or broadcasting contribution programs, has played a very small role in revenue stabilization. It has never contributed in ways to help upgrade CKLB to current technology. Clearly, it would be a tragic loss to all in our territory if CKLB wasn’t able to maintain operation.

Therefore, at the appropriate time, I will be asking the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment for his role in the state of northern and Aboriginal broadcasting in the NWT, with the hopes of a renewed commitment from his department and the GNWT. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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CKLB Radio Revenue Stabilization

Members’ Statements

The Speaker

Jackie Jacobson

Thank you, Mr. Dolynny . Member for Hay River North , Mr. Bouchard .

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NWT Track And Field Championships

Members’ Statements

Robert Bouchard

Hay River North

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I assume, along with myself and yourself, that all the Members here will encourage all the youth of the Northwest Territories who are congregating in Hay River tonight to be in the 24th Annual Track and

Field for the Northwest Territories.

---Applause

This event, like I indicated, has over 1,100 athletes and a couple hundred volunteers from the community that are helping to feed, to house and to manage where everybody goes. My assistant is out there working on the shot put event right now. The weather typically is either hot or cold or rainy, and this year we got cold. It’s not going to be raining, but it’s cool out there, so we can dress for that.

Obviously, this event is a fun event for the kids to go out there and compete. We have kids who are four and five years old, all the way to teenagers.

This also is an event that some of our competitive athletes use to springboard into the other national events. One of our great athletes of the Northwest Territories, Brendan Green, was a track and field athlete at these events. I commend this event as a springboard to be more competitive out there.

I’d also like to thank the Members who are travelling down with us for the opening ceremonies tonight. I encourage all the kids. Run, kids, go run!

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NWT Track And Field Championships

Members’ Statements

The Speaker

Jackie Jacobson

Thank you, Mr. Bouchard . Member for Hay River South , Mrs. Groenewegen .

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GNWT/fort Providence Forest Industry Development Memorandum Of Understanding

Members’ Statements

Jane Groenewegen

Hay River South

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This morning my colleague and I had the privilege of joining the Minister of ENR and the Premier in our Caucus room of our Legislature here to witness the signing of the Forest Management Agreement Memorandum of Understanding between the GNWT and the Deh Gah Gotie Dene Band and the Fort Providence Metis Nation.

This was an historic milestone and brings one step closer the dream of a proponent in Hay River, Mr. Brad Mapes, who has wanted to set up an operation to manufacture wood pellets in the Northwest Territories.

We know that we have a very vast resource of inventory of vegetation and forestry in the Northwest Territories. It’s a renewable resource, and when we can harvest that and put that into the manufacture of pellets, it’s a win-win for everyone.

It will certainly create a lot of employment and industry in Hay River. It will create a lot of employment and industry in the regions around Hay River as those folks become involved in the jobs that will be harvesting that vegetation.

In order to get to this milestone today, though, I want to say that we have to give some recognition to the folks at forest management under ENR, because in order to come up with this agreement, there were many hours of work that had to first go into doing an inventory of what’s out there, what can be sustainably harvested over the years to come, and also to come up with the actual Forest Management Agreement. Many, many hours of work, and compliments to the folks at forest management under Minister Miltenberger ’s guidance for getting us to this point.

I understand that there will be a celebration in Fort Providence in conjunction with what took place in the Caucus room this morning, but I just wanted to take this opportunity today to thank and congratulate all the parties to this agreement for this milestone, and we look forward to its continued and future success.

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Members’ Statements

The Speaker

Jackie Jacobson

Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen . The Member for Inuvik Boot Lake , Mr. Moses .

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Inuvik Fire Department

Members’ Statements

Alfred Moses

Inuvik Boot Lake

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to take this opportunity to acknowledge, appreciate and give a sincere thank you to the Inuvik fire department. The Inuvik fire department currently has 40 members, including the fire chief, the deputy fire chief and the dispatch. Only the fire chief and the deputy fire chief are career firefighters. All other members are volunteers, and in fact, this might be the biggest volunteer fire department in the Northwest Territories. Our longest serving volunteer firefighter has been doing their job for over 30 years, as well, so his commitment, his experience that he has is helping train all our new rookies that we get into the department.

I wanted to take this time because just recently, as Members might have seen in the news, the Inuvik fire department battled a blaze in Inuvik for over 10 hours initially, and did more hours of control throughout the night and the following days. A lot of these firefighters are family members, they have full-time jobs, they volunteer for other organizations, as well, and I think this is a great opportunity to show them our appreciation and say thank you for the work that they do.

Under the leadership of fire chief Mr. Jim Sawkins, the Inuvik fire hall is about to become a training hub for the Beaufort-Delta region, building capacity not only in Inuvik but in the surrounding communities of the Beaufort-Delta region. Hence, firefighters now

don’t have to travel to Yellowknife to get their training and they can stay closer to home.

I just want to commend the volunteer fire department on their dedication, commitment and the sacrifices that they do make protecting the residents of Inuvik, creating a safe community for the residents and also for saving lives, saving property, going above and beyond what they’re asked to do. Today the Inuvik fire department is actually participating in a very worthwhile program called the PARTY program, Preventing Alcohol and Risk-Related Trauma in Youth, in partnership with the youth centre, and they were doing work in terms of getting people who are in accidents out of vehicles.

Like I said, I just want to take this opportunity and I hope Members will join me in thanking the Inuvik fire department for all the work that they do in Inuvik and going above and beyond their jobs and being great members of society and residents of Inuvik.

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Members’ Statements

The Speaker

Jackie Jacobson

Thank you, Mr. Moses . The Member for Nahendeh , Mr. Menicoche .

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Stabilization Of Fuel Pricing In Small Communities

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Kevin A. Menicoche

Nahendeh

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Last week I spoke about the concerns that fuel prices are driving up the cost of living in the small and remote communities. The NWT Energy Plan suggests all kinds of ways to reduce fuel use over the long term, but people need immediate relief. Eliminating goods and services tax on gasoline and home heating fuel is a simple way to bring down the price of fuel in small communities to more affordable levels right away.

The GNWT helps stabilize the cost of fuel when it purchases fuel in bulk to ship to remote communities that are not on the road system, but people pay for this fuel at a fixed price and that price is never going down. In fact, this year the price has increased about 20 cents per litre over the price of last year. It’s going to force seniors and low-income earners into desperate situations. It makes even average wage earners rethink their choice to live and work in remote communities in the Northwest Territories. Our small communities need more people, not less.

People will no longer be able to afford to live there. Cost to government will only increase, putting even more pressure on our programs, plans and services. We must take action to reduce costs immediately. I urge the GNWT to negotiate with the federal government to eliminate GST and bulk fuel purchase for small communities, much like the break small communities were getting when we had the food program.

We must reduce energy costs. That should be the main priority for the remainder of this Assembly and set a clear direction into the next. Thank you.

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Jackie Jacobson

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche . The Member for Frame Lake , Ms. Bisaro .

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Premier’s Proposal For A Women’s Parliament

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Wendy Bisaro

Frame Lake

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Not too long ago the Premier made a public proposal presented to the NWT Status of Women Council to establish a mock women’s parliament, similar to the Elders and Youth Parliaments that we currently have every second year.

The Premier ’s intent was to provide an event that would create interest in and motivate women for territorial politics, and heaven knows we need more women to be elected to this Assembly.

The idea has generated a lot of opinion and discussion since. Many people, both men and women, have expressed their disappointment and, yes, disgust at the idea of such a parliament. Others have defended it.

To the Premier ’s credit, he has recognized a void in the elected leaders in our Assembly and has put forward a strategy for change. Like the idea or hate it, contemplation of a women’s parliament has started a much needed conversation, one that asks how we go about electing more women to this territorial Assembly.

A women’s parliament could be a tool to affect some of the necessary change, but I feel there are many other things which we could do instead, which we should do first and we could have a much greater impact. At the outset is the matter of missing resources.

The NWT Status of Women Council operates on a shoestring budget, more so since the federal government cut funding to status councils all across Canada. The GNWT could properly resource the NWT council so that organization could expand their activities, could be proactive in evaluating programs and services for gender equity and equality in government actions. They could look at gender issues across government and across our cultures. When was the last time our NWT council researched and produced a report on the equitability of women in any NWT organization or business?

When was the last time that they made a presentation to a public policy forum or environmental assessment hearing? A long time ago, no doubt the result of minimal staff and reduced funding for this type of work.

We could fund them to do an analysis of gender in board appointments. I suspect it would show a disproportionate number of men appointed to our NWT boards and agencies. The council could be

funded by the GNWT to run a campaign school every year, not once every four years.

Mr. Speaker, I seek unanimous consent to conclude my statement.

---Unanimous consent granted

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Wendy Bisaro

Frame Lake

Thanks to my colleagues. I must point to the British Columbia Women’s Campaign School held annually with high-powered presenters, expert women speakers, drawing participants from all over BC and even across Canada. The school is open to women running for any office and to women interested in working on or for a political campaign. The NWT Status of Women Council could be mandated and funded to reach out to do work to increase the participation of women in elected positions, something that happens in Newfoundland. They could establish a mentorship program and/or set up online resources for potential candidates, for example.

The possibilities are many and we have to look no further than other Canadian jurisdictions for ideas and strategies. The conversation has been started. Is there will within this government and this Assembly to keep it going? Is there the will to make some changes and achieve one goal: more elected women MLAs? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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The Speaker

Jackie Jacobson

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro . The honourable Member for Deh Cho , Mr. Nadli .

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Benefits Of Hydro Grid Expansion Into The Deh Cho Region

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Michael Nadli

Deh Cho

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Over the last week, Members and I have spoken to the issue of high costs of living in NWT communities. The high cost of living is directly linked to the cost of fuel. It has become clear that the only way to reduce fuel cost is to reduce fuel use.

The NWT Energy Plan was an important piece of policy work for the 17th Assembly. It lays out a

framework for how we will supply energy to our communities and industry. The planed proposal ties Kakisa and Fort Providence into the hydro grid and expanding hydro power to create the NWT grid.

Mr. Speaker, I strongly support these actions. With the opening of the Deh Cho Bridge, the GNWT has new options for extending a transmission line to Fort Providence, Dory Point and Kakisa. For too long, these communities have paid for diesel power while their neighbours just a few hours to the south have cheaper, cleaner hydro power.

One option is to run a low voltage line from the Taltson power plant directly to Kakisa and Fort Providence. Another plan would be to run a high voltage transmission line around the west side of the Great Slave Lake to connect the Taltson and

Snare power systems. A low voltage “step down” line would reach Fort Providence and Kakisa.

There are many benefits to developing a grid. The major challenge is cost. A transmission line to Fort Providence is estimated to cost between $20 million to $30 million. This sounds like a lot of money, but we must consider the long-term payback of hydro power. Hydro dams don’t have the gigantic environmental footprint that fossil fuels do. Once diesel is burned, it’s gone forever. Water, properly managed and protected, can supply energy as long as the river flows.

The Kakisa and Fort Providence transmission line appears in the Energy Action Plan but not in our budget. We need to earmark some dollars for future development. We must seek opportunities to partner with industry wherever possible. We need to get industrial customers online while projects are in the review process, ensuring no opportunities are missed, even opportunities we have yet to discover. Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.

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The Speaker

Jackie Jacobson

Thank you, Mr. Nadli . The honourable Member for Sahtu , Mr. Yakeleya .

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Value Of Traditional Land Use

Members’ Statements

Norman Yakeleya

Sahtu

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This spring I’ve had the opportunity to go on the land with my family. I brought my little boy out there. He’s 12 years old. Being out on the land for 11 days, I truly believe that the land is alive and well, and the land is the boss. The land has certain laws that when we’re in a certain type of environment that we really don’t understand. I know that when I was with my son, we were talking about walking with his grandparents on the land. His grandparents from my side of the family are not alive anymore, but they have put a place where we can go and fish, hunt and trap and enjoy a good life.

All over the Sahtu, there was excitement that people were going out on the land. Close to 300 or 400 people went out and they used the modern technology of a helicopter for the business they have with the helicopter companies. A lot of them took advantage of that. Historically, there are a lot of trails in the Northwest Territories and in the Sahtu region. Even in our land claim,

Chapter 12, it states we are going to strengthen the traditional way of life and the people.

I want to continue that and support the traditional use of our lands. It’s stated clearly in our land claims and our hearts that that is given by our elders. Our Sahtu Land Use Plan states that, traditional knowledge states that. Spring hunts are exciting times. Ninety-four percent of people in Colville Lake use traditional foods and the other areas, about 7 percent. We have a high number of harvesters in our area, 112 trappers and 60 percent

so far that we’ve identified have cabins in the Sahtu area. Over 400 sites have been identified. Take a Kid Trapping is powerful.

This summer we are going to hike the Canol Trail. So far there have been 87 hikers on that trail in the past eight years.

I seek unanimous consent to conclude my statement.

---Unanimous consent granted

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Value Of Traditional Land Use

Members’ Statements

Norman Yakeleya

Sahtu

I want to thank Members and colleagues and say, in my grandmother’s words, when I asked her about her husband, Chief Albert Wright, about the future, Chief Albert Wright said, “Go onto the land. In the future it’s going to be very valuable.” That’s where I take my inspiration when I hike – in the past years there have been 87 hikers on the Canol – is to go on the land, live on the land. You know what? If we continue to go on the land and teach our children the value that anything in life that you want, you need to practice it first. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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The Speaker

Jackie Jacobson

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya . Member for Weledeh , Mr. Bromley .

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Fiscal Strategy

Members’ Statements

Bob Bromley

Weledeh

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As spring arrives and the trees leaf out, it’s clear that money is not growing on those trees. But perhaps our Minister of Finance has a different view.

Our government is deeper in debt than it has ever been, yet the Minister wants a spending spree that will put us another billion dollars in the red. We continue to aggressively pursue more and more massive and expensive infrastructure projects that we can ill afford, while seeking ever-increasing debt limits. We spend big on infrastructure for large private sector projects that never materialize, stranding us with unaffordable costs and few benefits. Some might call this living beyond our means; others, perhaps, dreaming in colour.

Unfortunately, added to the financial costs of these so-called investments are the cost of foregone investment in truly sustainable development; increased, rather than decreased, cost of living; and impacts which often run counter to the intent of our Land Use and Sustainability Policy.

The government refuses to come to terms with reality with what projects, policies and directions are actually environmentally, socially and economically sustainable. Growth in the number of migrant workers snapping up jobs more suitably filled by the unemployed and skilled workers of the NWT continues unconstrained, fuelling the leakage of $500 million in wages and over $33 million in tax dollars from our territory every year. This grows annually.

Meanwhile, our soaring debt builds up on the backs of fewer and fewer people. This demands a revenue response, of course, so there’s no surprise that government is bent on aggressive resource exploitation that will service this black hole.

It doesn’t have to be this way. We know what is required for truly sustainable development, development that strengthens our social fabric, supports our different cultures, creates local and lasting jobs and real economies, and is environmentally benign or restorative.

Clearly, a new approach to territorial financial planning and a move to development versus exploitation at all cost are needed. It ain’t rocket science, as attractive as such rocket science might seem.

When will the Cabinet come to us with fresh, new proposals based upon sound and effective policy and focused on truly sustainable development? People in the Northwest Territories are waiting. While we enjoy spring, we know fall will be here soon enough and even the leaves will disappear. Mahsi.

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The Speaker

Jackie Jacobson

Thank you, Mr. Bromley . Member for Yellowknife Centre , Mr. Hawkins .

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NWT Health Care Cards

Members’ Statements

Robert Hawkins

Yellowknife Centre

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’m going to use the opportunity here to return to a subject I’ve raised in this House before and it’s the health care card issue.

In the past I’ve raised with the Health Minister , more accurately the former Health Minister , about the need to move towards photo ID cards. As many of us will remember, and certainly want to forget, the last health care card renewal was no thrill with any standard we should be looking back to as a benchmark. So we should use this opportunity to be planning forward with better health care cards.

The recent issue of cards, I believe, are good for about three years. That would certainly give us substantial time to proceed at a very smart and strategic way to copy other jurisdictions such as Ontario and even British Columbia.

A photo health care card comes with many incredible advantages, security certainly being the first. We have to recall that many photo cards can carry substantial basic information such as things like bar codes that show valid information, indicate a person’s wishes if they choose to be an organ donor. They even have a person’s signature on these.

Of course, in talking to seniors, they will all tell you a health care card is just like gold. Nothing is more important than your health care opportunities,

because the NWT’s health care system is second to none, so it must be protected.

There are opportunities here to proceed in a manner that makes a lot of sense, and in some ways it could eliminate our general I.D. card. Now, we could find ways to work this out for those who can’t show up and have their photos taken, but there are many opportunities that could help here. We could blend this nicely with our Electronic Health Record system. Regardless of what language you carry, there could be a bar code on the back and they can scan it and know everything they need to know about you.

A photo health care card issued to our residents proves that they are residents, because they have the picture to match who they are, and if they’re done under a secure situation, just like our driver’s licence, we could ensure that all residents can have them.

May I remind you it was only a few short weeks ago we were listening to the federal government talk about taking voting opportunities away from our citizens because they didn’t have photo I.D. The opportunities of photo health care cards are endless, and now is an opportunity.

Let me finish with this. A few years ago we had found that we had over 4,000 extra health care cards. This would give us a great chance to audit them properly and ensure that when we are giving health care to our citizens and supporting them in the way that they are meant to be supported, we can guarantee that they are who they are.

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NWT Health Care Cards

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The Speaker

Jackie Jacobson

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins . Item 4, returns to oral questions. Item 5, recognition of visitors in the gallery. Mr. Lafferty .

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Recognition of Visitors in the Gallery

Recognition of Visitors in the Gallery

Jackson Lafferty

Monfwi

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. First and foremost, I’d like to recognize all the Pages that are here today working for us, and it has been a long session as well. I’d like to thank them for their services. More specifically, for two Pages from Wekweeti, they are Autumn Football and Laylu Judas who are with us today. I’d like to say mahsi for your services.

I’d also like to recognize my former constituents, but they’re still from Behchoko in my view. That’s Debbie Lemouelle and also Stephanie Lafferty who are here with us. Welcome.

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Recognition of Visitors in the Gallery

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Jackie Jacobson

Thank you, Mr. Lafferty . Ms. Bisaro .

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Recognition of Visitors in the Gallery

Recognition of Visitors in the Gallery

Wendy Bisaro

Frame Lake

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. You’ll notice we have a group of young people in the gallery today. I’m very pleased to welcome the Grade 6 social studies class from William McDonald School. Ecole William McDonald School,

pardon me. I’m going to ask them to stand when I read their names so you can be recognized. Your name will go into our Hansard, which is a recording of our proceedings for the day, so you’re going to be forever marked in our register. My apologies if I get your name wrong, but I’m trying very hard to follow the rules in front of me. Chasity Atigikyoak, Kameron Burt, Dustin Caisse, Cameron Chambers, Brayden Christofferson, Logan Doyle, A.J.

Lawrence, Siad Mohamud, Kenny Neyelle, Drayton Pagonis-Friesen, Mason Saunders, Cerynn True-Jewell, Kathy Truong, and accompanying them are teacher Paul McDonald and student-teacher Paige McDonald, long-time residents of Yellowknife. Welcome to them. I would also like to say welcome to Frame Lake resident Mr. Byrne Richards who is here watching us.

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Recognition of Visitors in the Gallery

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Jackie Jacobson

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro . Mr. Hawkins .

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Recognition of Visitors in the Gallery

Recognition of Visitors in the Gallery

Robert Hawkins

Yellowknife Centre

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I, too, wish to welcome Byrne Richards, certainly a community advocate and very well known to all of us. I want to also use the occasion to recognize Paul McDonald. I used to be a neighbour of his, and a little known talent of his was he was a clown, so all the students there with him here today… No clowning around. He was a professional clown. He may have been both. I’ll leave it with the students to see if they can get some gags and tricks out of him, but he’s quite the gentleman.

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Recognition of Visitors in the Gallery

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Jackie Jacobson

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins . Mr. Moses .

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Recognition of Visitors in the Gallery

Recognition of Visitors in the Gallery

Alfred Moses

Inuvik Boot Lake

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I, too, would like to recognize Mr. Byrne Richards and all the work that he has done in the mental health and addictions field and his consideration for people with addictions. Welcome to the House.

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Recognition of Visitors in the Gallery

The Speaker

Jackie Jacobson

Thank you, Mr. Moses . I’d like to welcome everybody here in the public gallery. It’s so good to see our youth in the House today. Thank you for coming and taking interest in our proceedings here today to all.

Item 6, acknowledgements. Mr. Yakeleya .

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Acknowledgement 9-17(5): 2014 NWT Outstanding Volunteer Award – Elder Award – Edward Oudzi

Acknowledgements

Norman Yakeleya

Sahtu

Mr. Speaker, I would like to congratulate our elder Mr. Edward Oudzi from Norman Wells on being selected as the territorial recipient of the 2014 NWT Outstanding Volunteer Award for the Elder Category.

Mr. Oudzi is a well-respected elder and is especially known for his traditional knowledge,

spirituality and his tireless volunteering in the town of Norman Wells.

On behalf of the Sahtu region, I pass on good wishes to Mr. Oudzi for his outstanding volunteer efforts, and all the best to him, his family and his community. Mahsi cho, Mr. Speaker.

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Acknowledgement 9-17(5): 2014 NWT Outstanding Volunteer Award – Elder Award – Edward Oudzi

Acknowledgements

The Speaker

Jackie Jacobson

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya . Item 7, oral questions. Mr. Yakeleya .

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Question 354-17(5): Supporting Traditional Way Of Life

Oral Questions

Norman Yakeleya

Sahtu

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I want to ask the Minister of ITI … I talked about the activity of the Sahtu people who still continue to use the land through different methods, different avenues we have today. I know that I did ask a question at one time, I’m not too sure if it was to Mr. Ramsay , on the support that’s given to people who want to continue to strengthen and pursue their traditional way of life in the year 2014.

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Question 354-17(5): Supporting Traditional Way Of Life

Oral Questions

The Speaker

Jackie Jacobson

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya . Minister of Industry, Tourism and Investment , Mr. Ramsay .

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Question 354-17(5): Supporting Traditional Way Of Life

Oral Questions

David Ramsay

Kam Lake

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We have a number of supports through the Department of Industry, Tourism and Investment that help people get out on the land through the CHAP funding, also the Take a Kid Trapping Program that we have. We’ve also got some other programs that we’ve got up and running – Take a Kid Gardening Program, that’s run by the regions around the territory – we’ll also encourage people to get out on the land and pursue traditional-type activities. Thank you.

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Question 354-17(5): Supporting Traditional Way Of Life

Oral Questions

Norman Yakeleya

Sahtu

Thank you. In the Sahtu region, there is a high rate of families that are not working today that are looking for work. A lot of these families would love to pursue a lifestyle on the land.

I ask the Minister, has he had any type of discussion yet as to what type of activities or programs could be looked at to support young families who are not working, who want to go on the land? Is there any type of family harvesting assistance program for these young people?

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Question 354-17(5): Supporting Traditional Way Of Life

Oral Questions

David Ramsay

Kam Lake

Thank you. I talked of some earlier and the issue the Member brings up, of course, runs across the numerous departments with the Government of the Northwest Territories, Health and Social Services, Education, Culture and Employment, certainly ITI. We have initiatives, the Healthy Lifestyle Initiative, that encourages people to pursue activities and certainly that’s a discussion that we have to continue to have on how to get people out on the land pursuing their traditional activities.

As we mentioned, we have programs and I’d be more than happy to talk to the Member and the other Regular Members about opportunities to enhance how we can get more people out pursing traditional activities on the land. Thank you.

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Question 354-17(5): Supporting Traditional Way Of Life

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Norman Yakeleya

Sahtu

Thank you. This spring, people in Deline, Colville Lake, Fort Good Hope, Norman Wells and Tulita certainly took advantage of the geese coming over into the Sahtu region and one of the advantages of our communities that show a lot of people going out on the land was because of their agreements with the helicopter companies that they have. The helicopters today are being used by community members to get people on the land. I want to ask the Minister in regard to supporting the families and the communities in regard to some traditional programs, I guess we could look at where we can do some economical activities when they’re in their areas where they’re hunting.

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Question 354-17(5): Supporting Traditional Way Of Life

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David Ramsay

Kam Lake

We do have funding that gets down to the regional level and the community level that folks can access at the community level to help them get out on the land hunting or trapping, and certainly that’s something we will continue to support. As far as providing assistance for helicopters to take folks out, that’s something we would have to continue to discuss with the Member.

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The Speaker

Jackie Jacobson

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay . Final, short supplementary, Mr. Yakeleya .

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Question 354-17(5): Supporting Traditional Way Of Life

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Norman Yakeleya

Sahtu

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Certainly, I know the communities have done a great job with the helicopter companies and have somehow made arrangements for that benefit to happen every spring, and certainly in talking to the helicopter pilot, there were a lot of hours flying into the communities bringing people out to the spring hunt and locations where they were going to spend some time. I just want to continue to support that avenue.

Is there any type of programs in ITI that will look at a youth program that will specifically teach the youth about the traditional way of life given by some of our community professors who know how to live off the land?

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Question 354-17(5): Supporting Traditional Way Of Life

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David Ramsay

Kam Lake

We do have the Take a Kid Trapping Program, Take a Kid Harvesting Program. It’s $125,000 a year. We also have the Genuine Mackenzie Valley Fur Program at $600,000 a year. We also have the Western Harvesters Assistance Program, or WHAP, that’s $15 million a year. We also support local wildlife committees. We also look at the Community Harvesters Assistance Program, that’s another $1 million that we put out there. We do also have a Harvesters Disaster Compensation Program that we run through the Department of ITI, all there to assist people as they pursue traditional lifestyles on the land. Thank you.

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Question 354-17(5): Supporting Traditional Way Of Life

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The Speaker

Jackie Jacobson

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay . The honourable Member for Mackenzie Delta , Mr. Blake .

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Question 355-17(5): Hamlet Of Fort Mcpherson Deficit Reduction Plan

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Frederick Blake Jr.

Mackenzie Delta

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions are for the Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs . At the moment, we are in the process of writing off debts to BDIC.

Can the Minister and his department write off the deficit for the Hamlet of Fort McPherson? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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Question 355-17(5): Hamlet Of Fort Mcpherson Deficit Reduction Plan

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The Speaker

Jackie Jacobson

Thank you, Mr. Blake . The honourable Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs , Mr. McLeod.

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Question 355-17(5): Hamlet Of Fort Mcpherson Deficit Reduction Plan

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Inuvik Twin Lakes

Robert C. McLeod

Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. No, we can’t, but we will work with the community of McPherson. There has been some work done already to have a deficit recovery plan. We will work with the community to see what their options might be as far as recovering some of the deficit that they are currently running. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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Frederick Blake Jr.

Mackenzie Delta

Why did the department not step in sooner to fix this problem?

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Question 355-17(5): Hamlet Of Fort Mcpherson Deficit Reduction Plan

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Inuvik Twin Lakes

Robert C. McLeod

Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs

We gave our community government funding and we are confident in their ability to administer that funding. However, in some cases, we come into situations like this and it’s unfortunate that the residents of the communities normally end up paying for it. With the new Accountability Framework, we will be able to track the community’s finances a lot better, and if we see potential red flags, we can step in a lot sooner.

As far as the Member’s community goes, we have appointed a municipal supervisor to help with the deficit recovery plan, so we are working with the community right now and will continue to do so. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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Question 355-17(5): Hamlet Of Fort Mcpherson Deficit Reduction Plan

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Frederick Blake Jr.

Mackenzie Delta

Can the Minister and his department move to a five- to 10-year plan to pay back the deficit to ease the cost of living in Fort McPherson? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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Question 355-17(5): Hamlet Of Fort Mcpherson Deficit Reduction Plan

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Inuvik Twin Lakes

Robert C. McLeod

Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs

We will have to examine our options. I am willing to meet with the council and the residents of Fort McPherson to fill them in on the deficit and some of the work that’s being done. There are other options that we may have at our disposal. We may have to look at possibly dissolving council and appointing a public administrator in the community. Again, these are options that we need to explore and I am going to meet with the leadership and the citizens of Fort McPherson, Mr. Speaker. Thank you.

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The Speaker

Jackie Jacobson

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. Final, short supplementary, Mr. Blake .

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Question 355-17(5): Hamlet Of Fort Mcpherson Deficit Reduction Plan

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Frederick Blake Jr.

Mackenzie Delta

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. That leads me to my fourth question. Will the Minister and his officials come to Fort McPherson and work with the community on a better recovery plan? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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Inuvik Twin Lakes

Robert C. McLeod

Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs

We would be pleased to come to the community and meet with them again. We want to make sure that they have all the tools at their disposal to try to deal with the deficit. So, we’ll be glad to work closely with the community to come up with a recovery plan. With the new Accountability Framework, we’ll be able to monitor our communities a lot closer and if there are any potential issues in the community, we will be able to identify those quicker and step in a lot quicker. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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Question 355-17(5): Hamlet Of Fort Mcpherson Deficit Reduction Plan

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The Speaker

Jackie Jacobson

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. The honourable Member for Weledeh , Mr. Bromley .

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Question 356-17(5): Proposal For A Women’s Parliament

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Bob Bromley

Weledeh

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to follow up on a topic that Ms. Bisaro introduced in her statement today with questions to the Premier . There are serious systemic issues that create barriers to women running for political office.

Would the Premier be able to list some of the top barriers that women face and explain how a mock women’s parliament could significantly reduce those barriers? Mahsi.

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The Speaker

Jackie Jacobson

Thank you, Mr. Bromley . The honourable Premier , Mr. McLeod.

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Question 356-17(5): Proposal For A Women’s Parliament

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Bob McLeod

Yellowknife South

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Member has made it very simple, suggesting that there’s a silver bullet that would resolve this complex issue. Suggesting a mock parliament, we were raising the issue to raise dialogue and debate and to help identify the barriers that women face in getting involved in politics. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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Question 356-17(5): Proposal For A Women’s Parliament

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Bob Bromley

Weledeh

Thanks for that simplistic answer. The lack of women here is a reflection of women’s lack of political power in our society in general. We need to enable women to represent their various perspectives in our day-to-day functioning of society. We need to support women’s organizations that represent their views and environmental assessments, economic decision-making and so on. We offer similar support to Aboriginal organizations and this is a good thing.

Rather than just funding the Premier ’s handpicked Status of Women Council for a narrow selection of topics, will the Premier commit to providing similar levels of funding and political access to women’s organizations to enable their meaningful participation in a broad range of topics on the road

to fair political representation that would benefit us all? Mahsi.

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Question 356-17(5): Proposal For A Women’s Parliament

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Bob McLeod

Yellowknife South

We should be welcoming any opportunity to focus on women’s participation in politics in a very direct and high profile manner. We’re not trying to shut it down. We need to come together as a society and have a constructive discussion on this issue and what we can do to solve it together, not just trying to score political points, Mr. Speaker.

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Bob Bromley

Weledeh

I don’t recall at all making any comments about shutting anything down. I’m not sure where the Premier is coming from on that.

One practical barrier I’ve heard is that our meeting schedules are very demanding. We compress a year’s worth of meetings and diverse, very intense activity from morning to night, that’s probably especially true for the Premier . It has been shown in other jurisdictions that reasonable meeting schedules are more family friendly and, therefore, encourage more participation by people with families, both women and men.

Would the Premier commit to studying this issue and reporting back on the possibility of a more family-friendly

schedule in this Legislature? Mahsi.

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Bob McLeod

Yellowknife South

That’s something we should all aspire to. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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The Speaker

Jackie Jacobson

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. Final, short supplementary, Mr. Bromley .

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Question 356-17(5): Proposal For A Women’s Parliament

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Bob Bromley

Weledeh

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’m not sure it’s worth it, but I’ll stand up and speak anyway. I personally was enabled to go into politics by participating in workshops arranged by the non-profit sector on how to run for office. I suppose that may be grounds for the Premier to deny my following suggestion; however, these were very helpful to me.

Would the Premier commit to funding similar workshops across the NWT, aimed at encouraging more people to run for political office, not just enjoying hearing me speak? Thank you.

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Question 356-17(5): Proposal For A Women’s Parliament

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Bob McLeod

Yellowknife South

Thank you. It’s good to know that Mr. Bromley has all the answers on this issue.

We want to encourage women to run for politics. We’ve been trying to work through the Status of Women Council. I don’t think it’s only the purview of the Status of Women Council. I think this Legislative Assembly could do more in that regard. I think other groups in society could do more. To put the tail on the donkey and blame it just on an organization that is doing its best to further the advances of women, I think, is not very helpful. I think we will do whatever we can to do, as we have in the past, to put on campaign schools for women. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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Jackie Jacobson

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. Colleagues, before we go on today, I’d like to welcome to the House our Languages Commissioner, Ms. Snookie Catholique, and her assistant, Eleanor Klengenberg. Welcome to the House.

Member for Hay River North , Mr. Bouchard .

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Question 357-17(5): Leave Options For Community Volunteers

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Robert Bouchard

Hay River North

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Earlier today I talked about the hundreds of volunteers that are working in Hay River, and some of those volunteers are GNWT employees, so I have questions for the Minister of Human Resources about what leave is available to GNWT employees for volunteering for community events.

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Question 357-17(5): Leave Options For Community Volunteers

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The Speaker

Jackie Jacobson

Minister of Human Resources , Mr. Beaulieu .

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Question 357-17(5): Leave Options For Community Volunteers

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Tom Beaulieu

Tu Nedhe

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The GNWT has various leave for volunteer activities. Some of the leave is laid out in the Collective Agreement and in the Human Resource Manual. We have civic leave, where an individual employee of the GNWT can take up to 15 days to work with public boards, community councils and committees. There is other leave, as well, for something we refer to as sporting leave for people who are athletes, officially designated coaches, managers, head officials and so on, and GNWT allows up to eight days for that type of activity. Thank you.

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Robert Bouchard

Hay River North

Mr. Speaker, the next question I have is I understand this leave is something you probably have to apply for, but I’m wondering if we have any agreements or any leave in place for short-term demand or quick demands on volunteers, such as firefighters in the Northwest Territories. My colleague from Inuvik talked about his firefighters and department. In Hay River we have a strong firefighters group as well.

I’m just wondering: what agreement does a firefighter have to have with the GNWT to take immediate action when there’s a fire?

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Question 357-17(5): Leave Options For Community Volunteers

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Tom Beaulieu

Tu Nedhe

Mr. Speaker, as far as the training of the firefighters goes, for that aspect of it the GNWT will provide five days of leave. If a firefighter at work is called to a fire and needs to take leave for that day when they’re fighting a house fire, I think that is something that we don’t have specifically covered in our HR Manual, but it’s something I think that the GNWT, as the manager of that employee, allows an individual to go and fight a house fire if they’re part of the volunteer group.

However, some of the other things that may be important to this questioning is that right now the

GNWT is doing a comprehensive review of all of the planned leave, to try to determine the best way to move forward with this leave and also recognizing the fact that the GNWT has probably the best leave from most public services across the country. Thank you.

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Robert Bouchard

Hay River North

Mr. Speaker, the question about the short-term leave for firefighters has come up over the last couple of weeks when we’ve had two major fires in the community. I’m just wondering: in that review, will there be something that once you have a firefighter on staff, that basically there is no requirement; he or she can be called on demand for the firefighter services once they’ve agreed that they’re allowed to be in the GNWT and be a firefighter at the same time? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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Tom Beaulieu

Tu Nedhe

Mr. Speaker, although the operational requirements are something that is a factor in granting immediate leave for an individual to fight a fire, none of the departments or any of the managers that work for the GNWT will withhold leave when some firefighters have an immediate need to leave to fight a house fire. None of that leave will be unreasonably denied, but like I indicated, there is an operational requirement as well. Thank you.

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Question 357-17(5): Leave Options For Community Volunteers

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The Speaker

Jackie Jacobson

Thank you, Mr. Beaulieu . Final, short supplementary, Mr. Bouchard .

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Question 357-17(5): Leave Options For Community Volunteers

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Robert Bouchard

Hay River North

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. One of the other volunteer groups that have come to me recently is the Canadian Rangers, obviously a great volunteer organization, as you all know.

I guess the question is: What are the leave requirements for GNWT staff that are members of the Rangers?

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Question 357-17(5): Leave Options For Community Volunteers

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Tom Beaulieu

Tu Nedhe

Mr. Speaker, as I indicated, civil leave used for participation in community councils, public boards and other committees, other volunteer organizations around the community. The Rangers are used extensively for search and rescue, as well as firefighters. CASARA have their leave when an individual is out on the land, lost. In that case the Rangers would fall into that leave. When the Rangers are exercising, as I’m sure the Speaker is aware, then the leave will be granted under the civil leave. Thank you.

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Question 357-17(5): Leave Options For Community Volunteers

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The Speaker

Jackie Jacobson

Member for Range Lake , Mr. Dolynny .

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Question 358-17(5): Northern And Aboriginal Broadcasting

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Daryl Dolynny

Range Lake

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Earlier today I made reference to the state of northern and Aboriginal broadcasting in the Northwest Territories by pointing out opportunities in assisting our broadcast station of CKLB. I made reference that

capital funds are particularly hard to come by. The station has struggled to keep up with maintenance of its community transmitters and has been unable to implement new communication technologies. In essence, as I see it, Aboriginal media should not be a second-class citizen in today’s NWT broadcast community and it deserves better. My questions today are for the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment .

Training has always been a major component of the Native Communications Society’s work. It has been a springboard for many well-known careers woven into the fabric of our daily life in the Northwest Territories: William Greenland, Peter Hope, William Firth, Richard Van Camp and photographer Dorothy Chocolate are among the first to jump to mind. Therefore, I’m recommending that we build upon this strength and develop a fully funded training program for northern Aboriginal broadcasters, monitored and administered by the society.

Can the Minister tell me how he will assist in making this happen? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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Question 358-17(5): Northern And Aboriginal Broadcasting

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The Speaker

Jackie Jacobson

Thank you, Mr. Dolynny . Minister of Education, Culture and Employment , Mr. Lafferty .

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Question 358-17(5): Northern And Aboriginal Broadcasting

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Jackson Lafferty

Monfwi

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. As this House knows, I am a true supporter of anything that contributes to the health and strength of our Aboriginal languages. NCS, the Native Communications Society, is valuable and also contributes towards this.

Again, there is no doubt that those talented individuals have worked for the society, as well, and learned from NCS over the years. We fully support that as government, for their contributions over the years.

The Member does put in a very interesting idea about how we can move forward on providing the training to these northern broadcasters. I have instructed my department to work with NCS possibly developing some sort of a training package. Not only that but identifying those students that may be pursuing this at post-secondary. It will consist of northern broadcasters, Aurora College, Aboriginal organizations to keep the language strong. Those are the individuals that I need to coordinate with.

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Question 358-17(5): Northern And Aboriginal Broadcasting

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Daryl Dolynny

Range Lake

I’m encouraged by what I’m hearing today and I’d like to thank the Minister for that. As mentioned, core funding from Heritage Canada has not changed in over 30 years, and coupled with the meagre advertising revenue and inconsistent GNWT funding, this has created a very lean operational base in which to maintain the open doors.

Can the Minister tell me how he’s going to leverage what is possible from the GNWT as own-source funding in order to meet this growing concern, and

how is he going to act as a lead negotiator with CanNor opportunities?

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Question 358-17(5): Northern And Aboriginal Broadcasting

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Jackson Lafferty

Monfwi

The CanNor funding has got its own sources and they deal directly with NCS, but I can speak to the areas of meeting with the federal Minister, the former Minister and the current Minister of Canadian Heritage, on a number of occasions to lobby the federal government for additional funds on Aboriginal language in general. This work, obviously, is ongoing work that we’re doing between the two parties. This year we’ve entered into negotiations, as well, with the federal government on the Canada-NWT Languages Agreement. We are on the verge of negotiations with the federal government and it will be happening this fall.

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Question 358-17(5): Northern And Aboriginal Broadcasting

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Daryl Dolynny

Range Lake

I thought we were on a roll here, but it seems at a little bit of an impasse. Some of the things that I can introduce to the Minister are simply just indexing what we’re giving annually to this society so we can actually increase with the cost of living.

As I mentioned earlier, CKLB is a Timex watch working in a digital age. Therefore, I’m recommending that the proper funding be provided to assist northern and Aboriginal broadcasters with, specifically, capital equipment replacement costs.

Can the Minister tell me what he’ll do to support this initiative?

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Question 358-17(5): Northern And Aboriginal Broadcasting

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Jackson Lafferty

Monfwi

This is an area that we’ve been working very close with NCS, identifying the capital projects, and they’ve submitted proposals to our shop, the GNWT, through ECE, and we’ve been working very closely with Heritage Canada, as well, because they provide the capital expenditures. Those are some of the discussions that we are currently having with the federal government on behalf of NCS. At the same time, NCS, the CEO is also advocating with the federal government, as well, so at both angles we’re pushing the federal government. We’ll do what we can to push that even further.

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Question 358-17(5): Northern And Aboriginal Broadcasting

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The Speaker

Jackie Jacobson

Thank you, Mr. Lafferty . Final, short supplementary, Mr. Dolynny .

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Question 358-17(5): Northern And Aboriginal Broadcasting

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Daryl Dolynny

Range Lake

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In order for us to make sure we do not hit this wall of worry for our northern and Aboriginal broadcasters in the future, it’s imperative that we put in place the right evaluation tools to prevent this mishap from occurring again.

Assuming we can get a new funding model in place, can the Minister indicate to the House by what measures he plans to evaluate progress after this renewed funding is made available?

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Question 358-17(5): Northern And Aboriginal Broadcasting

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Jackson Lafferty

Monfwi

Since we’ve been dealing with NCS the last few years now on the

reporting mechanism with the federal government, we’ve been talking about evaluating and reviewing of their proposals, as well, and the annual reports that are coming in. I completely agree, because we are a public government, and the way that the money is spent is essential to be a responsible government. This is an area that we’re primarily focusing on.

My department also recently discussed the 2014-15 contributions with NCS, which included an enhanced review of the outcome. This was done with NCS agreement, so they’ve also supported our government, as well, and we support them in return. The annual reporting requirement, which I’m very pleased to advise the Members that NCS has provided on time and in accordance with the requirements.

In closing, I’d just like to give the Members a heads-up that I would like to restate that this government supports NCS and, indeed, our community broadcasters in terms of their contribution in promoting Aboriginal languages across the NWT and I would like to thank them for the excellent job that they do on a daily basis.

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Question 358-17(5): Northern And Aboriginal Broadcasting

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The Speaker

Jackie Jacobson

Thank you, Mr. Lafferty . The Member for Inuvik Boot Lake , Mr. Moses .

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Question 359-17(5): Update On The Regional Recruitment Strategy

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Alfred Moses

Inuvik Boot Lake

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In the short sitting time we have here – we only have two weeks and we can only do so many Members’ statements and questions – one area that I wanted to focus on was human resources and some of the issues that have come up with human resources. I know I asked questions back in our winter session about the Regional Recruitment Strategy and how we were taking some of our employees and giving them 80 percent of their salary and 20 percent goes to training.

Can I ask the Minister of Human Resources what the progress is on that? Last I heard, there was one person that went through it when we were supposed to have numerous individuals in the program early in 2014. We’re about halfway through the year. I just want to see how many people who have gone through the Regional Recruitment Strategy are new employees or employees with advancement in their jobs.

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Question 359-17(5): Update On The Regional Recruitment Strategy

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The Speaker

Jackie Jacobson

Thank you, Mr. Moses . The Minister of Human Resources , Mr. Beaulieu .

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Question 359-17(5): Update On The Regional Recruitment Strategy

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Tom Beaulieu

Tu Nedhe

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Regional Recruitment Strategy is one where a position would be identified by a department. Of all the vacant positions that may be in the region, the department would identify a position and then determine that that position would be one that can

be filled by an individual that does not have all of the skills necessary to do that function at this point but can be trained up.

We are having some difficulties finding the key positions in the department; however, we have found some. We managed to put one individual on, like the Member said. We have five more individuals where we’re developing training plans and those ones are underway, so we’re looking at that. We have four more applicants where the department is developing a job description type of thing, one in management, so we’re looking for an individual with certainly some schooling and some skills that can be brought into a management level. We’re actually looking at a nursing position, as well, with one of the health authorities, an officer position, and a clerical position as well.

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Question 359-17(5): Update On The Regional Recruitment Strategy

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Alfred Moses

Inuvik Boot Lake

That’s definitely something that’s good to hear about. It’s a lot better update than the one we received during the winter session where there was just one individual in the program. Should an employee of the GNWT or somebody looking for a job would want to get into this type of program, how is the person able to access the department rather than the department recognizing these positions and just looking at filling them.

How can an individual approach the department, their manager or even the Department of Human Resources? What steps would an employee of the GNWT need to take to get advancement in their career under the Regional Recruitment Strategy?

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Question 359-17(5): Update On The Regional Recruitment Strategy

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Tom Beaulieu

Tu Nedhe

A good point of contact for us has been the government service officer. The government service officers who have worked in the communities that they’re responsible for put a list of individuals in the community that they feel that have achieved Grade 12, and from that list the government service officers have talked to the regional directors. It’s a standing item with the regional directors at the regional management committee meetings and they’re communicating that back to the Human Resources department.

In Human Resources, we have a regional recruitment specialist, and that individual then works with the department. Once the position has been identified and potential candidates have been identified, then we work with the human resource specialist to draft job descriptions and then we move forward with the department on that. That would be the good point of contact. You can also just contact the human resources division through our employment website.

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Question 359-17(5): Update On The Regional Recruitment Strategy

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Alfred Moses

Inuvik Boot Lake

Thank you. I’d just like to ask the Minister, under this Regional Recruitment Strategy, he mentions that managers look at filling positions.

Have any of these positions resulted in direct appointments from the managers or from the department position that didn’t go out for public

contest? Have any of these positions been direct appointments?

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Question 359-17(5): Update On The Regional Recruitment Strategy

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Tom Beaulieu

Tu Nedhe

Mr. Speaker, the reason for the whole thing would be direct appointments; it’s a direct appointment process. We go through the regular direct appointment process. The individual managers, unless they’re dealing with a person that’s affected, cannot direct appoint. Individuals affected through layoff would be the only way where an individual can go through the process back to the Minister as a Human Resources direct appointment. Otherwise, all direct appointments go through Cabinet. So there have been no direct appointments through the Regional Recruitment Program. Thank you.

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Question 359-17(5): Update On The Regional Recruitment Strategy

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Jackie Jacobson

Thank you, Mr. Beaulieu . Final, short supplementary, Mr. Moses .

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Question 359-17(5): Update On The Regional Recruitment Strategy

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Alfred Moses

Inuvik Boot Lake

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Under the new program, I was hoping that we’d see more of these jobs being filled by people that aren’t employed in the GNWT or ones that are already at GNWT and can advance to management positions. I understand that we’re also reviewing our Public Service Act that reflects these direct appointments. The reason I’m getting into direct appointments is because I have had concerns of our P1 residents of the Northwest Territories not getting jobs and losing most of the jobs to people that have been living in the North not very long.

I just want to ask the Minister, what is he doing to address that issue where our P1s are being overlooked for jobs when we have a program here that’s supposed to promote and enhance and train and develop our northern residents? Thank you.

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Question 359-17(5): Update On The Regional Recruitment Strategy

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Tom Beaulieu

Tu Nedhe

Thank you. A representative public service is a priority of this government. We have asked, through my office I have talked to the deputy minister of Human Resources and advised the deputy minister of Human Resources that I wish to see all of the human resource plans from all of the departments, that she was to talk to all of the deputy ministers across the GNWT to look at the human resource plans and determine how the departments are going to raise the level of Priority 1 candidates in each of the departments. So we are doing that.

We’re examining that to determine how the numbers look now so we have some department-by-department, community-by-community statistics. From there we will look at where we see the key issues being or the key areas where there are issues and we’ll be approaching those issues within the various departments across the GNWT.

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Question 359-17(5): Update On The Regional Recruitment Strategy

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The Speaker

Jackie Jacobson

Thank you, Mr. Beaulieu . The Member for Deh Cho , Mr. Nadli .

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Question 360-17(5): Hydro Grid Expansion Into The Deh Cho

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Michael Nadli

Deh Cho

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. Earlier I made a statement on just some of the challenges that our people have in terms of meeting their challenges to heat their homes. My question is to the Minister of the Northwest Territories Power Corporation .

Could the Minister explain how the NWT Energy Action Plan could provide immediate relief for increasing fuel prices and our dependency on fossil fuels? Mahsi.

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Question 360-17(5): Hydro Grid Expansion Into The Deh Cho

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The Speaker

Jackie Jacobson

Thank you, Mr. Nadli . Minister