David Krutko

One of the main components of the land claim agreements is that we knew at some point we were going to come to this situation. In the future, going forward, under the land claim agreements there’s a section that talks about the total allowable harvest that has to be considered before you make a decision to take anyone’s harvesting rights away. There is a certain process of who gets excluded first, second, third, fourth, but the last person that you exclude is the aboriginal harvester in those authority areas. Has this government done an evaluation regarding the allowable harvest levels in this...

Just on that, I know we have had some challenges in collecting from different organizations, territories, in regard to Nunavut, we’ve had challenges collecting from the federal government. So how successful are we in collecting from those jurisdictions when we submit an invoice in regard to those individuals who come here from other jurisdictions? Have we been paid or are there any outstanding amounts that are out there that we should know of? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Following up on my statement earlier, the main estimate in regards to managing wildlife in the Northwest Territories is no longer the Government of the Northwest Territories. It is the Wildlife Boards which have been established under land claim agreements. For those areas where there are no land claim agreements, they still have the right under National Resources Agreements with Ottawa to ensure their fundamental rights are there.

Mr. Speaker, I also want to follow up on questions from my colleague Mr. Menicoche. He mentioned certain sections. Is there a specific...

Yes.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I seek unanimous consent to conclude my statement.

---Unanimous consent granted.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, colleagues. An issue that has come to my attention, especially for residents out of Inuvik and the Beaufort-Delta region, apparently they won’t have an orthodontist in Inuvik. Apparently there are a lot of children who require dental care, braces and whatnot. Without having an orthodontist in the region, a lot of them are having to expend a lot of their own dollars to fly their children to Yellowknife so that they can be seen by an orthodontist here in Yellowknife. As a department which is responsible for primary care, especially in the different regions...

Mr. Speaker, I didn’t hear anything in regards to the meetings held between the Minister of Finance and Nancy Sothern. Was that a pitch for Nancy Southern to come up with $6 million to basically kick-start the Taltson proposal?

Mr. Chair, in regard to the Minister’s earlier comments, right now you spend something like 14 weeks in the community during breakup and freeze-up, so you already fill that gap during breakup and freeze-up, so why couldn’t you fill the gap for the rest of the year using that same type of a scenario? I’ve been talking about this issue for so long that I’m starting to feel like a broken record, just keep asking the same question and getting the same answers. I think that, at the end of the day, we have to find a resolution to this problem. I think that knowing there have been nurses or locums...

Mr. Yakeleya.

Minister Lee.