Alfred Moses

With this new approach over two years, and it’s for seniors that live without other adults in their home, the economy is bad, there’s less jobs in the communities, high cost of living, in reality we do have adults that are staying with elders. I want to ask the Minister if he has the numbers of the percentage of seniors that are going to be affected where they will have to pay. I’m assuming that because of what I just said, that there might be a high percentage, so they are still going to be paying, getting all our seniors to pay. Does he have a percentage of adults that do live with seniors...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I guess with item one there, $105.7 million carry-over, a lot of my concerns are the same as my colleagues’ concern, whether we have enough resources in this territory to ensure that the money is being allocated for these infrastructure projects, that we do have enough adequate resources to see it through. I would like to possibly see a strategic plan developed that will allow this government to be more efficient in getting these dollars spent, and obviously it will create work in our communities and create jobs. With that money being spent in communities, it will add...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I seek unanimous consent to return to item 5, please.

---Unanimous consent granted

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I wanted to address a few different issues today, but seeing as I have only have two and a half minutes, I wanted to talk about a significant event that’s happening in Yellowknife this weekend. That’s the Relay for Life. The significance behind it is that it’s an important event that celebrates and remembers those that we have lost to cancer. In past years in Inuvik, I was fortunate enough to emcee the event the last two years in Inuvik, and participated in Yellowknife previously when I lived here.

I’d like to talk about what this event does for the people of the...

I’d like to recognize Ms. Brenda McDonald, who is a constituent from Inuvik and also one of our great female Aboriginal leaders in the territory.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise in this House to support this motion as well. First I want to thank Ms. Bisaro and Mr. Yakeleya for bringing this into the House for discussion and looking to making it a reality within our government here.

Too many times a lot of people just accept the decisions that are based from this government. In reality, our decisions that we make in the House are not always the best decisions. This gives an opportunity we are getting an independent review to make sure that there’s equality as well as transparency and fairness to the people that we represent in this House....

Keeping with the impacts of this big project, can the Minister please let me know how this is going to affect other capital projects throughout the Northwest Territories, what kind of impact it’s going to have? Thank you.

I think I’ll say on this topic here and in regard to the seniors’ independence, that’s great to see, but we’re also talking about health care and care of our seniors and the seniors that can’t live the independent lifestyles and they’re living at home with their families and putting stress on their families. We’ve had requests to find spaces for them. When we know there’s backlog and there’s no way we can do it, it just adds more to the problem. I was just wondering if the Minister had any solutions to the situation in the Beaufort-Delta region as it pertains to elders who need ongoing care at...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to welcome the staff of the Mental Health Commission of Canada. We had a really good presentation and launching of the Mental Health Strategy today. I also recognize Dana Heide, who is the associate deputy minister and board member of the commission as well.

From the needs assessment of 2009, I’m sure it might have addressed some of those concerns into which regions. We would need more long-term care facilities or extra beds. Were those results particular to those kinds of needs assessment and did the department act on those needs assessments of 2009 into which regions or communities needed the most support? Thank you.