Yellowknife South

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Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 31)

We have a variety of delivery agents and either they’re ITI staff or they’re community transferred positions or we contract with a band or some other entity to provide the service. So what we do is if it’s a community transferred position, we review it periodically. We make sure that the funding we’ve been providing is adequate. We bring together all of our delivery agents together on a regular basis to make sure that everybody has the same information and also to communicate and market the programs that we have. If the Member feels that that’s not happening in his community, well, we will...

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 31)

That’s correct, Mr. Chairman. Those dollars have to be confirmed so that we can include it. They will probably show up next year.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 30)

Thank you, Mr. Chair. In Lutselk’e we’re making very good progress and to the extent that we’re investing more money and we’re fast tracking the project, and with regard to the three-year expenditures from ‘09-10 to ‘11-12 we’ll have invested $4 million. So we’re making good progress there.

In Whati we still have to sort out some issues with the Tlicho Government and with the change in leadership. We’re requesting meetings so that we can clarify the direction that the Tlicho Government wants to go to, but we have expended about $250,000. We’re looking at spending about $1.5 million in Whati, Mr...

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 30)

I appreciate those comments. We are reviewing the Northwest Territories Power Corporation. Once we get the report and I’ve had a chance to examine the recommendations, I’m sure that we will be looking at some of the issues the Member brought up.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 30)

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I really believe you are talking to the converted. We call it local food production. We’ve heard this from committee, standing committee, a number of times. We need to do more to develop and expand local food production, so I think you’d be pleased to know we are trying to do more in the area of agriculture. We are going to focus on design, development of small vegetable garden plots, working with community organizations, also fisheries. We want to promote northern fish here in the Northwest Territories. So we’ve identified $250,000 to promote the territorial farming...

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 30)

No, that’s not something that we’ve looked at. We’ve concentrated more on having outtakes on the pipeline that we could use for community gasification or community gas conversion projects. Also, at one time, we did look at having the compressor stations generated by hydro power, but that was a recommendation that was made by Deline and so… But specifically using residual or waste heat from compressor stations, there will be three compressor stations, from what I understand, in place for the pipeline. So depending on how close it is to the community will probably make the difference whether it...

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 30)

If I could get the detailed information from the Member with regard to the actual bill we can endeavour to respond to the couple and to provide full answers to the questions once we have the bill in our hands.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 30)

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I don’t know for sure whether anybody from ITI was there or not, but we followed up and we would certainly want to work closely with the community to continue to develop the harvest opportunities.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 30)

Thank you, Mr. Chair. With regard to the Sahtu hydro assessment, last year in 2009-10 we budgeted $100,000 for the assessment of hydro resources in the Sahtu region. This year, 2010-11, we budgeted $500,000 to work on specific hydro projects and, as the Member indicated, there is a Sahtu symposium being held in Deline this week and what we’re expecting out of the workshop is it would review the findings of the Sahtu hydro assessment. I should point out, and as the Member knows, there are multiple sites in the Sahtu region that are technically feasible to develop such as there are a number of...

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 30)

As part of our Managing This Land Strategic Initiative we are developing a land use framework for the Government of the Northwest Territories which will look at all of the different interests in Northwest Territories lands. As part of that we will ensure that morel mushrooms harvesting is included. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.