David Krutko

Mr. Speaker, your committee has been considering Minister’s Statement 1-16(1), Sessional Statement, and I would like to report progress and, Mr. Speaker, I move that the report of Committee of the Whole be concurred with. Thank you.

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

I’d like to call Committee of the Whole to order. On our business list today we have Minister’s Statement 1-16(1), Sessional Statement. What is the wish of the committee? Mrs. Groenewegen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, again I would like to thank the Minister for that. Again, the stress is on the Fort McPherson detachment. I believe they have been understaffed for the last couple of years. They have been short of officers and also with regard to recruitment and retention. I would like to ask the Minister is there any way of increasing the amount of individuals in the Fort McPherson detachment so you can have an officer designated to serve the community of Tsiigehtchic, which is only half an hour down the road, so they can be there three times a week or twice a week...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Justice with regard to the community of Tsiigehtchic. As we all know, Tsiigehtchic doesn’t have a police presence there. As I mentioned earlier with the Minister of Health, the medical emergency they had in the community again, without having the key positions in place such as the nurse, police and whatnot, the community has to bear the stress of finding ways of dealing with these emergencies. I would like to ask the Minister of Justice what are we doing to put policing in communities such as Tsiigehtchic in light of what...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we do have a crisis in the Northwest Territories when we have communities that don’t have policing, don’t have nursing, don’t have mental health positions, don’t have social workers, don’t have anything, yet we can talk about million dollar health care facilities and clinics that people can walk into. We don’t have that. So I’d like to ask the Minister, along with her staff, along with her regional staff, if she can make an effort to establish some timeslot on your agenda to go into the community of Tsiigehtchic with myself and meet with the community to...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Health, Ms. Lee, and it’s in regards to the community I represent and regards to Tsiigehtchic. Right now there’s no permanent nurse in the community and yet, Mr. Speaker, they have had situations where they had emergency responses by way of trying to deal with incidents in the community, but yet there’s very poor dialogue or basically who do you call or where do you go and what to do in emergency situations. I’d like to ask the Minister of Health exactly what is she doing in response to the concerns from the community of...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In regards to the Premier’s response, I’d like to ask the Premier, if this is a temporary fix where we know we’re not…It’s been quite a while before these positions have been filled. So I’d like to ask the Premier if he’s willing to sit down with myself, with individuals from the foundation, different communities that are supportive of this effort to move forward on trying to find a way that we include these types of organizations in the existing policy that we have in regards to community empowerment.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Environment and Natural Resources is responsible for coordinating the GNWT’s participation on the environmental assessment process under the Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act. But yet, Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask the Minister exactly can he tell me how many preliminary screening processes have been conducted through the Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act over the last three years? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak about the recent announcement in regards to regulatory reform in the Northwest Territories by the Minister of Indian Affairs, Chuck Strahl, on November 7th.

Mr. Speaker, the Minister appointed Neil McCrank, a person from the South again who is involved with the regulatory agency out of Alberta. But yet, Mr. Speaker, I believe it’s time that the North took its place in managing its own resources, its own regulatory system, but, more importantly, looking at what we already have and seeing exactly what’s working and what’s not.

Mr. Speaker...