Calvin Pokiak

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Before I start, I would like to extend a birthday greeting to my daughter in Nanaimo, B.C. Thank you.

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Mr. Speaker, my Member’s statement today is about the need for gravel for maintenance of roads, driveways and pads for further development in Tuktoyaktuk. Mr. Speaker, access to gravel sources accessible are only during the winter months, mainly because of the distance and sensitivity of the terrain. We all know, Mr. Speaker, the weather has been extraordinarily warm, which means construction of ice roads to nearby communities will probably be in late...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The bill we have before us will modernize the practice of pharmacy in the Northwest Territories. It provides pharmacists with their scope and regulation of practice, and further clarifies the roles of doctors, pharmacists and nurses in issuing and…(inaudible)…prescriptions.

It also moves the drug schedules from legislation to regulation, which will allow the department the ability to add and de-list drugs from the schedules as required, and respond to emerging health care crises by temporarily moving drugs to a lower schedule in order to increase availability.

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No, I'm fine with that, Mr. Chair. Thanks.

Yes, thank you. Just one quick last one here. Will the Minister sit down with the land administration, or his regional office in Inuvik ...(inaudible)…and Tuktoyaktuk to go through these new regulations? Thank you.

Thank you. I'd just like to ask the Minister, how are you going to monitor that? Inuvialuit might want to do a tourism operation, commercial operation on 7(1)(a) and 7(1)(b) land. How would the Minister ensure that in order to monitor correctly, how will that be done? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen. I’d like to recognize my sister Julia Trennert up in the gallery. Thank you very much.

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Deh Cho, that Bill 6, Engineering and Geoscience Professions Act, be read for the third time. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just want a clarification regarding appointment of a tourism officer. Will they be employees of ITI, or can you just take somebody off the street and appoint them as a tourism officer? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I appreciate the Minister’s response. I will keep him informed in regard to the beluga whales that are still stranded in Husky Lake and I will continue to work with him. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today is an important topic we’re talking about, resource revenue and devolution. Since the 15th Assembly started we talked about this government trying to get a fair deal for the Northwest Territories for resource revenue. Apparently, like Mr. Ramsay said earlier, we’re into year three now and we still haven’t gotten close to a deal.

The Premier on occasion has travelled to Ottawa and spoken with the Prime Minister and the Minister of Indian Affairs, Jim Prentice, on issues such as this. Most of the time we hear on the radio that oh, the meeting went well. How well is...