David Krutko

Okay. So we’ll begin with Bill 12 after the break.

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I call Committee of the Whole to order. Items in Committee of the Whole today are: tabled documents 4, 30, 38, 62, 75, 103, Bill 4, Committee Report 3-16(5), and Minister’s Statement 65-16(5). What is the wish of committee? Mr. Abernethy.

Mr. Miltenberger, I’d like to thank you and your witnesses. Sergeant-at-Arms, please escort the witnesses out. Mr. Abernethy.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to ask the Minister if I can get a quick turnaround on this. The family is waiting for my phone call and they are wondering what the status is they are in, because they were supposed to be out of there yesterday. Again, they’re just wondering what their situation is and I think the sooner we deal with this problem, I think it will also hopefully bring resolution to this ASAP. I’d like to request a quick response on this one. Thank you.

To the bill as a whole.

Mr. Speaker, hopefully this is not the practice right across the board in regard to the corporation, because the whole idea of the HELP program is to help people transition from social housing to eventual homeownership and the idea is that those people will, basically, at some point, be able to acquire that unit through paying a mortgage or whatnot down the road, but get them transitioned from social housing to homeownership. I’d like to ask the Minister, in light of these circumstances, could he also check and make sure that this practice is not across the board throughout the Northwest...

Ms. Birch-Rideout.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to ask the Minister responsible for the environment if he could formally write a letter to the planning commission regarding the Government of the Northwest Territories’ position on where we stand with regard to the planning commission report so that the people of the Northwest Territories from Fort McPherson and Aklavik, the people that I represent, will get an understanding where this government stands on this important issue.

Minister of Finance.

Also in my Member’s statement I made reference to the implications and major effects of resource development on the headwaters, which will have a direct affect on the communities in the Northwest Territories, particularly Fort McPherson and Aklavik all the way to the Arctic Ocean. I’d like to ask the Minister with regard to our Water Strategy and looking at the implications we’re seeing at Fort McMurray and the downstream affect that is having, does the government have a position regarding the Water Strategy and the implication of these developments downstream on the waterways?