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Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen. Mr. Minister.
Thank you, Madam Chair. The stats don’t lie and they’re something that the Minister and the department can track on an ongoing basis and I think education is the key thing here. I know the Minister spoke of what really is happening out there and maybe we aren’t doing enough to promote the healthy lifestyle, the safe sex and the like. What are the plans from hereon, from today? We know our rates are at least 25 percent higher than the next closest jurisdiction. What type of performance measurement are we going to use to see if we’re making any headway here, because obviously we’ve got a...
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. How will the Department of Transportation, who is currently trying to work with the city on an MOU to pay for this road and to build this access road -- and that’s a known fact, that’s currently at play -- but then the Minister grants access to Deton'Cho Corporation to look at a housing development in that area. Is it an access road or is it a housing development, Mr. Speaker? That’s a legitimate question. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen. Mr. Minister.
Thank you, Madam Chairperson. I don’t know if the Minister has had a chance, but he probably knows this information anyway and maybe Mr. Murray as well, but the abortion rates are the highest in Canada in the Northwest Territories and this causes me some concern because Yellowknife is the only place in the Northwest Territories where women can get an abortion. I would hate to think that some women may be using abortion as a form of birth control and when you get up to the five, six and seven abortions, then you have to start to wonder if that’s the case. It’s costing the people that live...
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The access road would go right through the land that was granted access to to Deton'Cho Corporation by the Minister in January. Does the Minister agree that an access road into an industrial park answers the issue of public safety currently at play here in the city of Yellowknife with truck traffic on roads in residential areas? If a residential housing development is put in at the sandpits, that access road would go right through it with truck traffic. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. Yakeleya.
Thank you for that, Mr. Murray. I’ll move on now to another issue I brought up with the Minister last year when he was here and that was the issue of a palliative care unit at Stanton. Currently people live their entire lives paying dearly in terms of taxes and other things that they pay to the government throughout their whole lives. I think it’s important that when it is time to go and some people get diagnosed with a terminal illness and they know that their days on this earth are numbered, I think it’s very important that we have a place where people who are terminally ill can go and...
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I will take this opportunity to withdraw my remarks. If I came close to the line yesterday with those remarks, I apologize to the Premier and to the government for doing that and I guess I will leave it at that. Thank you.
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Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. Yakeleya.