David Ramsay

The ongoing negotiations between our government and the federal government over resource revenue sharing and devolution continue to come with a hefty price. There’s something fundamentally wrong when a territory with a finite amount of resources such as the Northwest Territories is left having to pay the tab chasing what basically is our money. There is something that is absolutely fundamentally wrong with how this works and I don’t agree that we should have to use what little resources we have chasing the money. We should actually go back to the federal government and demand that they pay...

Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Madam Chairperson. I know one of the better educational tools that I’ve seen is the Don’t Be a Butthead campaign and that the department and the anti-smoking advocacy groups have come up with in the past few years in trying to educate young people about the dangers of smoking. Perhaps that’s something the department could look at. I don’t know if you go out and find a super hero for safe sex like “Condom Man” or something like that, but you could look at doing something like that, Mr. Minister, in trying to educate young people on safe sex and try to get a handle on where our...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’m going to try this question again, but I’m trying to understand how a government could be working on an MOU for one area in one department and then in the other department is granting access to build a housing development. How does that happen and the Minister is responsible for both of them? Really, I haven’t heard a really solid answer as to what’s going on out there. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mrs. Groenewegen.

Thank you, Madam Chairperson. The question that I’d have in terms of when a woman becomes pregnant if she’s from one of the regions, what kind of help does she get in determining her options? Is it the social worker, is it the doctor, is it her pastor? Who helps this young woman out in terms of what she’s going to do with her pregnancy? If they get pregnant and they’re not getting the support or advice that maybe perhaps they should look at keeping the pregnancy and seeing it through, or is it just the fact that the doctor or whoever they are consulting with is telling them to have an...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I’m concerned that the Minister has a bunch of different conflicting interests at play with that parcel of land. On the one hand, as the Minister of Transportation, he’s got the airport to be concerned about, he’s got this access road to be concerned about; but then, with his other hat on as Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs, he can grant access to Deton'Cho Corporation to that parcel of land for a housing development. I am wondering where his responsibility lies. Where is it? Is it with Deton'Cho Corporation? Is it with this access road?...

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Mrs. Groenewegen.

Yes, thanks, Madam Chair. I certainly wouldn’t want to downplay the work that our staff does out there. I know they do a yeoman’s job out there and they should be commended for doing that. I guess what I am trying to get at here is not necessarily the staffing. That’s another issue. What I’d like to get at is a dedicated ward for palliative care where the atmosphere and the surroundings are much different than they are in the long-term ward or any other ward in Stanton for that matter, because it needs that extra nice touch, I guess, Madam Chairperson, that people should be afforded and...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my questions today are for the Minister of Transportation, Mr. McLeod. I know the Minister knows how important the issue of an access road into Kam Lake Industrial Park is to me. I am wondering, from his role as the Minister of Transportation, how the granting of access to the Deton'Cho Corporation to access the sandpits is going to impact any future development of an access road into Kam Lake Industrial Park. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.