Frederick Blake Jr.
Statements in Debates
Debates of
, 17th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 6)
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The communities of Aklavik and Fort McPherson have been struggling for the last two years with providing housing for their teachers. My questions are for the Minister of Education. Are there plans to increase the amount of funding of $25,000 available to the communities to provide staff housing for teachers? Thank you.
Debates of
, 17th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 6)
Thank you to the Minister for that. I look forward to that response. Mahsi.
Debates of
, 17th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 6)
My next question is: Will the Department of Education be willing to sign a long-term lease with the communities to provide staff housing for teachers?
Debates of
, 17th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 5)
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to recognize the former Member for Mackenzie Delta, who has left very big shoes to fill here.
Debates of
, 17th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 5)
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As the moratorium on evictions draws near, I’d like to ask the Minister of Housing what is the success rate for people in public housing with arrears to set up payment plans.
Debates of
, 17th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 5)
My next question is: Will the Minister of Housing be willing to extend the deadline?
Debates of
, 17th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 4)
I’d also like to recognize two Pages that are here with us today: Laura McLeod and Jessi Pascal from the community of Aklavik.
Debates of
, 17th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 3)
At this time I have no further questions.
Debates of
, 17th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 3)
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions are directed to the Minister of Health and Social Services. How does moving elders from the Mackenzie Delta communities to Inuvik for long-term care fit with the government’s priority to foster healthy and independent communities?
Debates of
, 17th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 3)
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It is almost a year since the government closed the Joe Greenland Centre in Aklavik to elders who cannot live independently. Now there is a lineup of elders waiting to go to the facility in Inuvik which serves the entire Beaufort-Delta region. I am not convinced that the Inuvik facility can handle all the elders who need care. I am not convinced that sending the elders to Inuvik from the communities is the best way to care for them.
In my riding alone of the Mackenzie Delta there are more than 300 elders over the age of 60. They wonder what will happen to them if they...