Alfred Moses

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In regard to my general comments on the home ownership program, sometimes we find, well, in my constituency we’ve had some issues where we’ve had a single person trying to get into a unit but there were no units available for them. There’s always just a two-person household or multiple and vice versa. Sometimes we’ll have families but only have a two-bedroom available. They’re told to come back and wait until there’s an open unit for them. Meanwhile they get approved for the home ownership program. I just wanted to ask the Minister if he’s got any action or any ways to...

Thank you, Madam Speaker. Today is a very important day for the Inuvialuit people of Inuvik and the Beaufort-Delta region.

During the Aboriginal rights movement which originated in the 1950s, the Government of Canada had signed treaties with many Aboriginal groups, but the Inuvialuit had never entered into such an agreement. The Inuvialuit realized that if a claim was not made, they might not get a voice in deciding their future.

In 1974 they established an organization called the Committee for Original People’s Entitlement, COPE, to resolve the matter. Acting as a collective role for the...

I have no further questions. I just wanted to see if there was a commitment that that funding did come back because of all the good work of that program. Thank you, Madam Chair.

When he gets the stats, I was wondering if he could give us a breakdown of the types of complaints that he does receive, the regions that the complaints come from and, even more specifically, which communities those complaints come from. It allows us to offer a little bit more insight on policing in the communities as we move forward. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. There are some areas of concern obviously with the omnibus crime bill coming down, the path in front of us and the Minister tabling the effects of that bill of the NWT, we are going to see an increase in a lot of areas. Nothing was addressed in these main estimates, but hopefully in the next business planning session, budget session, we’ll get to look at those.

I think not only is it a concern for us, but on the news lately it’s a concern for the Government of Nunavut because they have an MOU where they have 20 spaces in our facilities. Whether or not the Minister will...

I’m trying to rephrase this one question here. No. No further questions. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I’m glad to hear that the Minister wants to take a look into this. In this sense we get the young families who want to start out a family yet there’s no investment for them. I know some of them say they’ll take a two-bedroom house and even though they say they’ll accept it, under the policy they’re still not able to take it, even though they’re willing to say they’ll make do with what they have, just to get out of paying market rent and money just going into the rental area.

On the same side, we do get some singles where there are two-bedrooms available, but with some singles they say that they...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Before I begin I will just apologize and just reiterate anything I said yesterday just to kind of speed up the process.

Looking at the opening remarks, I just wanted to make a comment on the expenditures that were put forth for the budget here in the amount of $43.9 million. I do recall in previous discussion we talked about the lack of arrears. When arrears are not being collected, it does affect the maintenance program because that money actually goes directly into maintaining the units. When we do these expenditures and if we’re looking at putting some new units in the...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just have concerns here, again, back to my opening comments about the decrease in the amount of dollars committed to energy. We do have two communities here that are going to be in dire need. Inuvik is one of them, and it’s going to be sooner than later. Who knows when that’s going to happen? Then we’ve got Norman Wells coming up in a couple years. To have the amount of money that’s contributed to it, there’s already been discussions of due to the budget address that we had earlier in the year where it was mentioned that it was $100,000 for the wood pellets and the...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Obviously, first and foremost on my list in a few of these departments is the Inuvik gas situation. When I look at the opening address and the money allocated to helping out the residents of Inuvik. I always said it time and time again, that it’s a bigger issue than just the community of Inuvik. This is something that’s going to affect the economy as a whole for the NWT, the rippling effects should Inuvik run out of gas and the high cost of living.

As mentioned again, we were just there this past weekend for the graduation ceremonies and there’s a lot of discussion of...