Statements in Debates
One of the concerns I have about the rollback is what we’re finding statistically is an aboriginal income in the Northwest Territories is around $18,000. We’re expecting them to pay anything more. It’s a question of affordability and I don’t think a lot of aboriginal people can afford to pay for coverage. There was the issue around income testing, looking at that opportunity and people getting third-party insurance. I’d like to ask, are those options still on the table and also looking at using the format that it would be some sort of wage parity in regards to how this program is going to be...
Total department, not previously authorized, $15 million.
Minister of Finance.
Environmental protection, not previously authorized, $259,000.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Your committee has been considering Tabled Document 98-16(5), Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 4, 2009-2010; Tabled Document 99-16(5); Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 5, 2009-2010; Tabled Document 100-15(6), Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 2, 2010-2011; Tabled Document 101-16(5), Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No, 4, 2010-2011, and would like to report progress with four motions being adopted and that consideration of tabled documents 98, 99, 100 and 101 are concluded, and...
Total department, not previously authorized, $787,000.
Mr. Miltenberger.
Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 4, 2010-2011, Public Works and Services, capital investment expenditures, asset management, not previously authorized, $1.078 million.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As I stated in my Member’s statement, this issue is more than simply a transfer of power from one government to another. It is a transfer of responsibility to indigenous people in the Northwest Territories by this transfer and the affects it’s going to have on the indigenous population under treaty rights, land claim agreements, and Section 35 protection rights. I’d like to know if we have an aboriginal lawyer or aboriginal legal counsel to look at it from the aboriginal perspective on aboriginal rights and inherent rights. I’d like to ask again if that issue is going...
Total department, not previously authorized, negative $15 million.