David Ramsay

Thank you, Madam Speaker. Given the fact that we haven't had any information, I would like to ask the Premier what information was available to Cabinet Ministers when they made the decision. We haven't seen any information. I would like to ask the Premier what did they see? Where was the research if they had any research prior to making that decision? Thank you, Madam Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. McLeod. Mr. Villeneuve.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. The Premier and some of his Cabinet colleagues are also Yellowknife MLAs. Does it bother the Premier or bother the other Cabinet Ministers that the information that myself and colleagues of mine have asked for from the Minister about where the research is, what type of studies were conducted into moving the TTC from Yellowknife to Hay River, we just haven’t got it? I know the Minister has responded that he’s going to get it to us by the end of session, but, Madam Speaker, that causes me a great deal of concern that that information isn’t readily available to...

Thank you, Madam Speaker. Madam Speaker, your committee has been considering Ministers’ statements 1-15(4), 3-15(4), 4-15(4) and 5-15(4) and would like to report progress that Ministers’ statements 1-15(4), 3-15(4), 4-15(4) and 5-15(4) are concluded and, Madam Speaker, I move that the report of Committee of the Whole be concurred with.

Thank you, Mr. Premier. I have Mr. Villeneuve next on the list.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. I am wondering if the Minister can also tell me if he is at least considering making these CPAP machines part of the NWT insured services for clients that require them. Thank you, Madam Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Premier. Does committee agree that we have concluded Ministers’ statements 1-15(4), 3-15(4), 4-15(4) and 5-15(4)?

Thank you, Madam Speaker. I do not want to see any apprentices held back because of some desire to support Thebacha Campus, at the apprentice's expense.

Madam Speaker, there is no logic in forcing apprentices to wait sometimes 10 to 12 months in order to receive training. Delaying an apprentice's training for this long means falling a year behind in your training and maintaining the same lower wage for yet another year.

Madam Speaker, I will be asking the Minister of Education some questions about his department's organization of the Apprenticeship Training Program and his commitment to...

Thank you, Madam Speaker. I’d also like to ask the Minister why this office wouldn’t better coordinate the trades training with a partner school down south so that if classes are full here or they are cancelled for no apparent reason that students can be routed down south so that they can continue their education. Thank you, Madam Speaker.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. Picking up on my Member’s statement from earlier today, I’d like to say that the Minister and the government are saying all the right things about apprenticeship and the need to develop a skilled workforce here in the Northwest Territories. Madam Speaker, the reality is that’s not the case for all the apprentices, and where there is smoke there is fire. I know the Minister received an e-mail yesterday outlining some difficulties a constituent of one of my colleagues was having, and the scenario that I outlined for him earlier today is not one that I haven’t heard...