Caroline Cochrane
Range Lake

Statements in Debates

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 117)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Although I heard three questions in there, I think all of them belong to the Minister of Health. I'd like to defer it to the Minister of Health. Thank you.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 116)

For.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 116)

Abstain.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 115)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I also want to acknowledge, again, and thank the Member for when he did his opening comments today in talking about the issue, talking about we can't do this unilaterally, I agree 100 percent. Nothing about us without us is a comment to be pointed with me.

We did bring the concerns to the Council of Leaders table and stated when legislation that we're getting I'm getting pushed in the House to get legislation across by MLAs and then gave them a timeline of when we could expect what work had to be done before legislation could be done to get into this term of this...

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 115)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We're always trying to improve our services, programs and services. I'm just thinking a couple of them that stick off my head right now are the Indigenous Government Procurement Policy. That has never been attempted in any government that I know of before this so that's work that we're starting now. And then of course the government already has their mandatory Living Well Together, which is an Indigenous cultural awareness and sensitivity training that we're asking every employee and every MLA to actually review. So that services people. All staff are more cognitive of...

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 115)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'd like to also recognize the officers that are here in respect, but I also want to recognize Lorne Hudson who I believe is a constituent of Range Lake, so. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 115)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I do appreciate the Member always looking at this. It's really important work, the United Nations Declaration of Indigenous Peoples. However, I keep having to remind Members that this work is done by Indigenous people in partnership with us. They're taking the lead on this. And so as when that work plan will be done, there is a working group of which the GNWT has one Member and all the Indigenous governments have membership on that. So I can't say at this point when that work will be done. It's contingent on when the Indigenous governments have said "we're done." Thank...

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 115)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Actually the request to look at the programs across to see if our programs and services align with the United Nations declaration was done by all of the departments across the GNWT. However, it was also that information was also provided to our special committee on reconciliation. I want to make sure I got the Reconciliation and Indigenous Affairs as a part of the research that was compiled to be able to provide the interim report.

I do know that the Member is part of that committee and had access to that information. But right at this moment that information is not...

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 114)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Well, I should start by saying that as Premier, I don't run the Legislative Assembly. That is the role of the Speaker. So it's not mine to address. But I do want to say as well that as long as we're elected into a system that's part of the constitutional monarchy with the Queen as the head of state for Canada, we appreciate that swearing an oath to bear alliance to Her Majesty is an oath to work diligently within the democratic system in place. It's no different than the oath that lawyers swear as part of their admittance to the legal profession of which the MLA is a...

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 114)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The final tally of the royal visit is not yet complete. The last royal tour came in approximately $180,000, and we expect that the cost of this one will be similarly the same. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.