David Krutko

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In regard to my Member’s statement, I mentioned the lack of respite care services in a lot of our communities. In the communities I represent -- Aklavik, Fort McPherson and Tsiigehtchic -- in Aklavik alone I have 24 people identified as disabled; Fort McPherson, 10, and one individual in Tsiigehtchic. Mr. Speaker, that’s 35 individuals in the Mackenzie Delta riding that are disabled. These individuals are asking for nothing less and nothing more than what’s being provided in the larger centres.

I, for one, sit here listening to the discussions here in the House. Mr...

Mr. Menicoche.

The motion is in order. To the motion.

What? Five? I was just getting started.

Again Section 15(11) and 15(12) talks about resource revenue sharing agreements which they talk about setting aside 50 percent of those royalties.

The other issue that people have raised is the issue of what happens to the $500 million that the federal government was going to set aside for training for the duration of the pipeline and into future years. What effect would that have with the exclusion of the 50 percent set aside in royalty revenues for those type of royalty trust so we can fund those types of programs? More importantly, the transitional...

Thank you Mr. Chairman. In reviewing the report and the government’s rejection of the 28 recommendations, I think it is like anything else; it is just like reading a book and you take out 28 pages and you say continue to read the book and you’ll get the whole story, but I don’t think you can get the full story with these 28 recommendations being rejected by governments. I think, if anything, it basically eliminates the whole process of due process, allowing people the opportunity to speak their minds, raise their issues, and more importantly, ensure that the public would have an opportunity to...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In regard to the Minister’s comments, a lot of times in the House, I think sometimes we lose the perspective of the territorial health care delivery system we have in the North. A lot of the time the focus is on the Yellowknife delivery system. I think that we have to ensure that the people outside of Yellowknife are being taken care of and that we are ensuring that their issues are being dealt with. So I’d like to ask the Minister, at some point can you make a statement in this House clearly identifying the delivery service that your department provides to the...

Again, in my Member’s statement I talked about the lack of services in a lot of our communities. I think the importance that we talk about here, we talk about respite care, we talk about home care, we talk about supplementary health, but a lot of the times people in a lot of our communities don’t have those fundamental services. Like the communities I represent, a large portion of the population are elderly. We want to keep our elders in our home communities. We want to keep our elders close to their families, but, again, they need that important delivery and service and care, regardless if it...

It gives me great pleasure to recognize my dad, Mike Krutko, along with his friend Ed Jeske in the gallery today.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Do I get an extra 10 minutes for that?

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to table a letter from Ron Irwin to Minister John Todd.