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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is for the Minister of Health and Social Services:
From the operational review conducted in 2002, can the Minister provide the House with updates on what has been done to address all recommendations contained in the review?
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to stand on a point of order. I think I clearly heard the Minister of Health and Social Services threaten my wife. She’s an employee at Stanton Territorial Hospital. She wasn’t one of the 17 health care professionals that showed up at my constituency meeting with these concerns nor was she one of the seven that showed up at my colleague Ms. Lee’s constituency meeting, Mr. Speaker. I take great exception to the Minister threatening me and I think I heard him say my brother, who used to work at North Slave Correctional Centre. Mr. Speaker, I will go back...
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is for the Minister of Health and Social Services:
From the operational review conducted in 2002, can the Minister provide the House with updates on what has been done to address all recommendations contained in the review?
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I don’t think we would be jumping the gun by cutting off the risk of the territorial government in that loan guarantee. Why wouldn’t we just pay it out? We are going to get the information anyway. The decision from the federal government might be years away. Again, I don’t understand why we continue to bleed. What other costs is the government going to incur on this loan guarantee? There has to be other costs out there. What are they and will the Premier let us know what they are? Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I don’t think we would be jumping the gun by cutting off the risk of the territorial government in that loan guarantee. Why wouldn’t we just pay it out? We are going to get the information anyway. The decision from the federal government might be years away. Again, I don’t understand why we continue to bleed. What other costs is the government going to incur on this loan guarantee? There has to be other costs out there. What are they and will the Premier let us know what they are? Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions are for the Premier and it’s with regard to the Deh Cho Bridge and the loan guarantee to the Deh Cho Bridge Corporation. We just recently received a letter saying the loan guarantee was going to be again bumped up another $100,000. I distinctly remember saying the tap had been turned off on the Deh Cho Bridge project, so I was quite surprised to receive a letter like that. The project costs have gone from $50 million to $60 million to $140 million to $150 million. I am not sure why we continue to allow the tally to build up on this. I would like to ask the...
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, is the government currently working with industry to try to find some ways to keep people here? There has been many of us on this side of the House over the past three years who have suggested ways and means to try to attract people and retain people here in the Northwest Territories. For instance, a tax-free zone north of 60 has been suggested, tax deductions have been suggested, we talked about putting the revenue from resource royalties in trust. That hasn’t gone anywhere either. I would like to ask the Premier that question. Where is that at, Mr...
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would like to recognize chief of the Yellowknives Dene, Mr. Peter Liske and former chief, Mr. Richard Edjericon. Thank you.
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, this is a question, a group of questions that is paramount to the government in its totality. That’s why I am asking the Premier those questions. I would expect that the Premier would be able to answer those questions that I am asking, Mr. Speaker. Again, my colleague, Ms. Lee, asked the Premier, produce some evidence that you have asked the federal government and the federal government has put us on the radar. Where is the proof? Where is the evidence? We have stood up here time and time again and asked the government to suggest things to the federal...
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my questions today are for the Premier, Mr. Handley. It gets back to my Member’s statement that I made earlier in terms of what the real state of the economy here is in the Northwest Territories. For a territory of 42,000 people with an economy that’s grown 71 percent in the last number of years, to be losing people is very, very concerning to me and concerning to a lot of residents here in the Northwest Territories.
I would like to ask the Premier if the government has a strategy to deal with the migrant worker issue. The reason I ask this question is we...