David Ramsay

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is for the Minister of Justice.

How many inmates on remand at North Slave Correctional Centre are awaiting professional psychiatric assessments?

Thank you.

I thank the Minister for that. We haven’t had a clinical psychologist on staff at North Slave Correctional Centre for at least the past 18 months. I’d like to ask the Minister, the decision to not have a clinical psychologist on staff, was that a budget decision or an operational decision that was made?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions today are for the Minister of Justice and it goes back to my Member’s statement where I was talking about the need for a clinical psychologist at our largest correctional facility in the Territory, the North Slave Correctional Centre, which happens to be located in my riding.

It doesn’t take long to understand that if you do not have the required services of a clinical psychologist on staff at that centre, eventually what that is going to do is compromise public safety. I’d like to ask the Minister today why we do not have a day-to-day clinical psychologist...

I’d like to ask the Minister if perhaps, and I’m not sure when the new licence plates are coming in, but maybe we’ve ordered new stickers for new licence plates and we’re trying to use new stickers on old licence plates. I’d like to ask the Minister if that might be the case.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Seeing that this is Education Week, I wanted to speak today about educators. I have two schools located in my riding -- N.J. Macpherson and Ecole St. Joseph School -- both of which provide excellent learning environments for children in this city. Mr. Speaker, I would put these two schools up against any school in southern Canada for quality of education.

I want to thank all the educators at these two great schools for all the work they do on educating and growing our students. Also, Mr. Speaker, I’d like to thank the administration of both Ecole St. Joseph and N.J...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to acknowledge the work of a constituent who is working here as a Page, Mr. Tommy Jorge. As well, I’d like to thank the rest of the Pages for all the hard work they’ve done for Members this past week and for their service to this House.

If these new stickers are actually intended for the new licence plates and are different than the ones previously and are causing our residents issues when they go to put them on their old licence plates, I’m wondering if the Minister will commit to not charging residents $20 to get a new sticker if the one they get should be destroyed by trying to apply it to their plate.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions today are for the Minister of Transportation. I’ve received complaints about the 2011 registration stickers that people put on their licence plates. I know living in the harsh climate that we do, that the stickers that go on licence plates have to be durable in nature. I have a constituent that was in the office the other day and one actually fell apart while he was in the process of getting his registration changed. The Department of Transportation replaced it. He took his sticker outside and it immediately folded up on itself and was not useable. So he...

Thanks, Mr. Chairman. Bill 11, An Act to Amend the Workers’ Compensation Act, makes two amendments: to create a presumption that certain diseases which occur more frequently in firefighters than in the general population have been caused by the firefighter’s exposure to conditions at the scene of fires. A further amendment extends the period of time that a Minister may reappoint a person to the Governance Council.

The Standing Committee on Economic Development and Infrastructure held a public hearing on Bill 11, An Act to Amend the Workers’ Compensation Act, on February 23, 2010. The committee...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I seek unanimous consent to return to item 5, recognition of visitors in the gallery.

---Unanimous consent granted.