Charles Dent

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I will take a look at that report and see whether or not it is possible to do that by way of a letter to the Member. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. That must have been done before my time as Minister. I have no knowledge of that report; I’m sorry.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, it was a government response to the coalition’s recommendations, so outside agencies weren’t necessarily invited to be full partners. However, an invitation was extended on numerous occasions to the executive director of the NWT Status of Women to attend and be briefed on the status of the development of the response. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Mr. Speaker, I apologize; I don’t have a copy of the report in front of me and I can’t name off the outside organizations that were invited. So I don’t have that information in front of me right now. Sorry, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As I just previously said, that commitment was made by Mr. Roland, but I will make it again. Yes, that information will be shared with Members. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I have raised the issue with the chairs of the two Yellowknife boards, but the department does not get directly involved in deciding who should be hired by which board. We make sure that all of the boards are aware of people who are looking for positions and are interested and at this point we are confident that there are positions available if teachers are prepared to take them, but we can’t guarantee what community the positions will be available in. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I will commit to provide all of that information to the Regular Members. I will do that within the next two or three days.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would like to recognize some people who are in the gallery for the Northern Teachers’ Council. Amanda Mallon is president of the NWT Teachers’ Association.

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Mr. Dave Roebuck is the executive director of the NWTTA.

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Mr. Ian Oostindie is president of the Yukon Teachers’ Association.

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I understand he is also the Premier’s brother-in-law.

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Dennis Rankin, the executive director of the Yukon Teachers’ Association, is with us.

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Lou Budgell from the Nunavut Teachers’ Association is in the gallery.

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Jimm...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I wish to table the following document entitled Annual Report on Official Languages, 2003-2004. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I will be meeting in a couple of weeks with the board chairs for the regions. This is one of the topics that we will discuss at that time. Until the review that the Minister responsible for the Housing Corporation is talking about is completed, we won’t be advancing very far on this, but I will advise the chairs that we are interested in talking some about it after the review is complete. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.