Alfred Moses

The mobile treatment unit sounds like a great idea; however, if the mobile treatment is going to the community of Inuvik but we have somebody, say, in Norman Wells or Hay River that needs that treatment program, we need that one facility, functional facility that’s stabilized that will provide the services that will bring people from across the North to a place that’s safe, a functional facility.

If the mobile unit is going to Hay River, you know, why do people in my community have to wait for that mobile unit to get to Inuvik to get the treatment that it needs? Can I ask the Minister, is he...

Mr. Speaker, I MOVE, seconded by the honourable Member for Great Slave, that, notwithstanding Rule 4, when this House adjourns on June 5, 2014, it shall be adjourned until Thursday, October 16, 2014;

AND FURTHER, that any time prior to October 16, 2014, if the Speaker is satisfied, after consultation with the Executive Council and Members of the Legislative Assembly, that the public interest requires that the House should meet at an earlier time during the adjournment, the Speaker may give notice and thereupon the House shall meet at the time stated in such notice and shall transact its...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. When we talk about the federal government, we have this program with CanNor, and CanNor has done a lot of great projects throughout the Northwest Territories. One of the issues and challenges for Northern Communications Society is their community transmitters. As Mr. Dolynny stated yesterday, they’re operating on a shoestring budget, but he was talking about we’re a digital watch society and, so, Timex and digital. You know, get the information out a lot sooner than later.

Would the Minister lobby, on behalf of the Northern Communications Society, with CanNor to lobby...

I recall maybe a couple sessions ago, or maybe a few sessions ago, I did bring up some questions about funding to the NCS. I know one of the challenges that occurred was their reporting. Yesterday in the House the Minister stated that the reporting was good and that they were getting reporting on time.

Can I ask the Minister, just for clarity for myself and clarity for the staff at NCS, what are those challenges and what kind of challenges are keeping us from giving this organization the funding to get our information from the government into the communities through five of the Aboriginal...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to recognize Ms. Margaret Miller, this year’s recipient of the Outstanding Volunteer Award for the elder category.

They say that time is the most precious thing we can give to others as we only have a set amount of it. If we give someone our time, we give away a little bit of our life that we’ll never get back. Giving our time is the simplest contribution we can make to help others and to make our community a better place.

Ms. Margaret Miller is one of the most dedicated and hardworking community members in Inuvik. It would be hard to find an organization...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. You’ve heard a lot of comments here from my colleagues. You’ve heard them for the last two weeks on junior kindergarten. You’ve seen it in the news reports, we’ve seen it by e-mails and heard it on the radio.

On November 17th this Legislative Assembly collectively as 19 Members did outline in our priorities that early childhood development was going to be one of our priorities. It took a while to get started, but on May 30, 2012, we passed a motion to get this early childhood development implemented. We’re just over two years now and we’re still waiting to see what...

Knowing full well that this government does support the Aboriginal languages and that this organization in particular does broadcast in five Aboriginal languages, this government should take some responsibility in ensuring that information is given out to residents of the Northwest Territories through this media opportunity. We’re making decisions, waiting for funding from the feds when the feds might not even know how this organization is operating and the effectiveness of this organization to get the messages out.

I think the big problem with the NCS is that bridge funding from the end of the...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’m just going to follow up from some questions yesterday that were brought into the House, asking the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment about the Northern Communications Society. I’ll switch it up here a little bit and give him a break from answering these junior kindergarten questions.

I recently had some meetings with some of the individuals from the Northern Communications Society and they informed me that there was a proposal given to the Department of Education, Culture and Employment back in December. As Members know, we didn’t go through a business...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Over the last two weeks here we have been coming down hard on the Department of Education with some of the programs they’ve been implementing, and it’s also people from the public and other organizations, but sometimes we have to draw attention to and we can’t overlook some of the successes that we see with these guys, the department, and the support they give to our students.

Tomorrow is going to be a big day in the community of Inuvik as we graduate our second graduating class from East-Three Secondary School. At this time I’d just like to congratulate the 36 graduates...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I agree with my colleagues here that this is a pretty big topic of discussion. I have to give points on both sides; there are a lot of pros and cons. I thank Mr. Bromley and Mr. Nadli for bringing the motion forward and speaking so well to it and speaking about making reference to the Elders Parliament and respecting our elders and our land.

When I think about this, these are discussions that we’ve had almost since we started hearing about possible fracturing going on in the Sahtu. If you think, in hindsight, if we had started doing these regulations that we’re going to...