Floyd Roland

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the area of Arctic sovereignty is of great interest to us here in the Northwest Territories. In my brief discussion with the Prime Minister, I referenced the Throne speech. It is good to hear that the Arctic is playing such a prominent role in it. I look forward to working with his government in coming up with how we can be a part of dealing with Arctic sovereignty. In other areas, I have also mentioned that Arctic sovereignty, we are here, we are living here. One of the things they can do is support us in securing the sovereignty piece by helping us...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I definitely will work with the Member and try to move this project along and how we work together with ourselves as a government with the Inuvialuit, with companies. We’ve got to come up with some potential solutions of how we can proceed forward with this project. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, that area would take a fair bit of work as we work with the federal government in collection and remittance of our personal income tax in the Northwest Territories. I am sure there are ways of looking at our portion to see if we can make something like this happen. As we know, there are other ways already. If you have a small business, you can remit receipts for certain areas and have an impact on your taxation side. I would have to look at that if that is already available to people in this area, but that’s something we can look at working at.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I wasn’t intending to respond to comments. I’ll give all Members opportunity to speak towards this sessional statement, then maybe I can also speak at the end of that process. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I thank the Members for making their comments on this. A number of comments saying they would liked to have seen more to this. Purposely it was as it was because we have yet to complete the work of the 16th Assembly and in the spirit of working together, I felt, and my Cabinet colleagues felt, it wouldn’t be appropriate if we started to say this is where we think we need to go. We do realize there are 11 votes on the other side of the floor that has a significant impact on us in the decision-making we make. We are 19 Members of the 16th Legislative...

No, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I don’t have a musical note in my body. I don’t know if it will sound like music, but, as I said in the sessional statement, the environment will play a huge role in the Northwest Territories in how we proceed, whether it is the environment in this Assembly, our people, our children, the land, the water. Like I said in my speech when I sought this position, my father walked this land; he lived on this land; it provided for him and he is now part of this land. I intend to be a part of this land as well as raising my family, so we do need a healthy environment to do...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I’m aware that a municipal inspector can do those inspections and make those requirements, or orders in place, as well as the fire marshal’s office. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I don’t have that information available. I will have to contact the department to get that information and make it available to the Member. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, that question, I don’t have that detail; I’ll have to work with the Minister of Justice in that area to see where things are, if there have been additional requests. Again, I point out that our arrangement with the RCMP is one through a contract that sets up the number of officers that are required. Thank you.