David Krutko

Mackenzie Delta

Statements in Debates

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 28)

Mr. Speaker, your committee has been considering Tabled Document 62-16(4), NWT Main Estimates 2010-2011, and would like to report progress. I move that the report of Committee of the Whole be concurred with.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 28)

I believe your question comes under contribution, so can we... Mr. Bromley, do you have a question under grants?

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 28)

Moving on to page 6-13, Municipal and Community Affairs, activity summary, operations expenditure summary, directorate, $4.244 million.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 28)

Minister of MACA.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 28)

Ms. Bisaro.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 28)

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I believe that MACA still has a very important role to play, especially helping communities. As he noted in his opening comments, there are communities struggling out there with regard to taking on their own rules and responsibilities as community governments. He identified the area of capacity and that’s one of the biggest challenges we face in some of our communities.

Mr. Speaker, I think it’s crucial that this government has to not only identify those areas, but demonstrate how they are working with communities to improve that situation, especially in...

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 28)

Mr. Bromley. Okay, we’re on page 6-17, Municipal and Community Affairs, activity summary, operations expenditure summary, public safety. Mr. Yakeleya.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 28)

We’re on page 6-33, Municipal and Community Affairs, sport, recreation and youth, operations expenditure summary, $5.617 million.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 27)

General comments? Detail. Okay, we can turn to page 5-41, financial summary. At this time I’d like to suggest we defer that page. Agreed?

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 27)

Just in regard to the latest report on the needs surveys, how soon is the department going to get back to us on how they’re going to deal with some of these statistics indicating core need, adequate housing, and stuff like that? I know that we’ve just concluded the allocation of units, because I was pointing out to Mr. Beaulieu that Colville Lake is getting $375,000 yet they’re at 95 percent core need. For that amount of money I don’t think we can really solve the problem. Hopefully this department will be able to identify those areas of intention, especially now that we have a needs survey...