Glen Abernethy

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. For the past three years V-Day North has been working in Yellowknife to run fundraisers for and increase awareness about the issue of violence against women in the Northwest Territories and around the world.

V-Day North is a grassroots movement and over the past two campaigns they’ve raised over $25,000, 90 percent of which has stayed here in the Northwest Territories in the form of donations to the Alison McAteer House and the Centre for Northern Families. For that I applaud them.

The Alison McAteer House and the Centre for Northern Families are organizations that offer...

Thanks to the Minister for that. Is this program, the Domestic Violence Treatment Option, starting off as a pilot or is it a fully established program? The Minister did say that it’s going to be rolled out here in Yellowknife. Violence doesn’t just occur in Yellowknife. Can we expect to see this program rolled out into other communities throughout the Northwest Territories so that we can get some people who are committing these violent acts the treatment and the support they need to break this cycle of violence? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions today are to the Minister responsible for the Department of Justice and are a follow-up on my Member’s statement.

I talked about V-Day North today, where a local organization over the last two years has raised $25,000 to help increase awareness on violence against women and also to help break the cycles of violence in the Northwest Territories. Clearly, prevention and treatment are critical to helping break the cycle of violence. To that end, V-Day North has actually asked me to ask the Minister of Justice today: what is the Department of Justice doing to...

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. A motion is on the floor. The motion is being distributed. To the motion.

To the bill as a whole.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

WHEREAS on Wednesday, November 4, 2009, Mr. Allisdair “Azzie” Leishman was brought by ambulance to the emergency department at Stanton Territorial Hospital suffering from hypothermia and experiencing a psychiatric episode;

AND WHEREAS while under the care and attention of Stanton Territorial Hospital, Mr. Leishman exited the emergency room and made his way to the kitchen, where he took a knife and inflicted serious injury to himself by stabbing himself in the chest twice;

AND WHEREAS Mr. Leishman remains in extended care at Stanton Hospital to this day;

AND WHEREAS this...

We will defer the title and the bill number and we will begin our clause by clause. Clause 1.

---Clauses 1 through 3 inclusive approved

Thank you, Mr. Jacobson. A motion is on the floor. The motion is being distributed. The motion has been distributed. The motion is in order. To the motion.

All those abstaining? Thank you, committee. The results of the vote: seven in favour, nine against. The motion is defeated.

---Defeated

We’re on clause 4.

---Clauses 4 through 12 inclusive approved

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d just like to recognize a few people in the gallery with us today: Margaret Leishman, Judy Desjarlais, Susie Tsetso, Beverly Bagnell, Faith Embleton, Lynn Doan, Darrell Beaulieu, and even though he’s already been recognized, I’ll recognize him again because I love him, my dad, Dick Abernethy.