David Ramsay

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Drugs are reaching the North from the highway system and the dealers are attracted by the high prices they can sell crack cocaine for in the North. The going rate is $120 per gram. That’s $40 to $50 more a gram than it sells for down south. Mr. Speaker, apparently we have become a Disneyland for drug dealers. Our drug use is going through the roof, but we have very little to offer those who are addicted and those who need help. We have to be able to help addicts when they need help and we need to do it safely, humanely and effectively. We need a medical detox...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I just wanted to thank my colleagues for their support of this motion. I know the Finance Minister yesterday did make reference to us, and I didn’t want him to take it personally that we were questioning how this money was spent or why it was spent. We understand the government has a role to play and that’s to run the government. They’re going to need to spend money, Mr. Speaker, but we’d just like to know about it. We’d like to know how it’s happening and I think that’s the crux of this motion. I thank my colleagues for their support here today on ensuring that we do...

Thank you, Mr. Premier. Mr. Villeneuve.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to use my Member's statement today to tell my colleagues in the government about an individual who is an employee at North Slave Correctional Centre. This story, Mr. Speaker, epitomizes the concern that many have, that something is definitely wrong with the way in which human resources are handled at North Slave Correctional Centre. I have heard the Minister of Justice stand up in this House time and time again and defend his department and insist that nothing is wrong. He is still not ready to admit that there are problems at North Slave Correctional...

Thank you, Mr. Premier. Mr. Villeneuve.

Mr. Speaker, just out of fear of retribution I am going to vote in favour of this bill today and because the government will try to blame this side of the House when something has to get cut here or something has to get cut there…

Thank you, Madam Chair. I wanted to ask the Premier a little bit about the work that the territorial government is going to be working on or doing with the federal government in terms of developing this northern strategy and we can go back a lot of years, Madam Chair, to even the 12th Assembly, the 13th Assembly when they had the road map. In 1998, the Premier at the time said in this House from Hansard in 1998 that the federal government has committed to working with the Yukon and Northwest Territories in developing an economic development strategy. Where is the EDA? It’s six years later...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Your committee has been considering Ministers’ statements 70-15(3), 48-15(3), 49-15(3) and 54-15(3). I would like to report that Ministers’ statements 70-15(3), 48-15(3), 49-15(3) and 54-15(3) are concluded. Mr. Speaker, I move that the report of Committee of the Whole be concurred with.

Thank you, Madam Chairperson. The next thing I just wanted to mention, I’m not sure exactly what happens when the Premier and the Finance Minister go to Ottawa and I haven’t been part of those meetings, but if they get an opportunity to have a face-to-face meeting with the Prime Minister himself, or is it his staff, how does that work exactly? Thank you.

Does the committee agree that consideration of Minister’s Statement 54-15(3) is concluded?