Calvin Pokiak

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. Braden.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the committee has been considering Bill 8, Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 1, 2007-2008, and would like to report progress. Mr. Speaker, I move that report of the Committee of the Whole be concurred with. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Roland. Mr. Ramsay.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I would like to follow up. I heard what the Premier had to say regarding the survey and the conference. There were about 750 respondents and 120 participants for these two items. I would like to ask the Minister with regard to surveys. I am pretty sure that all the shelters that are across the Territories have intakes that they work with. Can they take those intakes from the region and the communities and say, look, if there are numbers there, it tells us that there is a problem. I am sure that, while the intakes that they have, it will show that without doing a...

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. I will recognize Mr. Lafferty.

Page 11, Municipal and Community Affairs, operations expenditures, directorate, not previously authorized, negative $6,000. Mr. Ramsay.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to thank my colleagues Mrs. Groenewegen and Mr. Hawkins for putting forward this motion. I, too, will support this motion; however, Mr. Speaker, I think it takes incidents like what happened in Hay River to bring something like this. I really appreciate that my colleagues are standing up here today to support this motion. I think the intent of the motion is well to do. We have people that we have to trust with our children, like teachers, doctors, nurses, RCMP and lawyers. These are the people that we put our trust in with our family, with our children....

Thank you, Mr. Roland. Mr. McLeod.

Page 10, Finance, operations expenditures, directorate, not previously authorized, $8,000.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Last week there was a good debate on discussion regarding the Premier’s sessional statement. When he said the government plans to move forward with the Mackenzie bridge over the Deh Cho without the federal funding, I understand, Mr. Speaker, that there’s money identified under the federal government under P3, but that’s still not determined how that’s going to be spent.

Mr. Speaker, on page 175 of the unedited transcript on May 9th the Premier said, and I quote, “there is also extra capital money, $25 million a year, in there. We don’t intend to use big chunks of that...