Jackie Jacobson

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Bonus question. For myself, would the Minister, for the private homeowners, like, we have some elders that are retired and the family is still working. They still say that under the last fiscal year, would the Minister reconsider looking at the pre-qualifications and opening that up with the Housing Corporation to be able to allocate more monies to the individuals in the communities?

Does the NWT Housing Corporation plan to address the pilings that are beginning to decay for private homeownership? I think the cost for one to repair is about $1,500. I mean, some people are barely eligible to stay in those units that are being given under the programs that they fall under through the Housing Corporation. Can the Minister elaborate a little bit more on the process and what the department can do to help enhance the program to get these pilings done for the private homeownership?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would just like to thank the Minister already for the one energy coming up in Tuktoyaktuk and soon to be Ulukhaktok. The $1 million for the caribou herds, I brought that up this past week. I have concerns with people having to travel so far with the hunting zones. What we have to do is to see if we could have any extraordinary funding to provide people with gasoline, ski rods and the high-fax runners for their snowmobiles, because they are having to go farther. People are spending $350 for gasoline having to go get caribou and sometimes they are getting skunked. They...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. What’s being done to ensure the people in the remote communities continue to get the help they need while they cope with crimes committed against them and support mechanisms? Thank you.

Thank you. What is the status of the review of the victims services in the Nunakput region? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It has come to my attention that the funding for the Victim Impact Services Outreach Program in Inuvik and Paulatuk may no longer have enough to cover services in Sachs Harbour, Ulukhaktok, Tuktoyaktuk and Aklavik. I understand that the way the services are delivered are under review by the Department of Justice, and the federal funding will end March 31st.

In July 2010 the Inuvik office hired staff to provide outreach and support. It was apparently a pilot project. The funding is running out.

Most communities in the Northwest Territories have little or no local support...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. It’s good to hear in the Minister’s opening remarks in regard to the all-weather road project into Tuktoyaktuk. It’s good to hear they’re making progress. Also, the Mackenzie Valley Highway is a whole working towards that to finish Wrigley to Tuk. It’s really needed. It will drop the cost of living in the communities for all people in the Beaufort-Delta even more.

Moving on from there, the dust suppression in communities in my riding for people with asthma, we don’t have chipseal so we have to go off of gravel roads. So we tend to worry about our youth and babies in regard...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Speaking to the motion today, I am in full support of my colleague Mr. Krutko for keeping the Joe Greenland Centre open. The elders in the families in the communities, it’s hard enough for us to send our loved ones out of our home communities. It just puts a strong strain on the families. Not everybody has jobs. Not everybody has vehicles to go see their family either in Inuvik or in Aklavik, but at least we know if they’re in our region we can send meat or fish or something to try to help out and take care of them.

The people themselves, when they are taking elders from...

Thank you. What changes are being considered to deliver the victim services to the victims of Nunakput? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today my Member’s statement was on support for victims services in my riding in the Inuvik region. Mr. Speaker, what’s happening with the federal funding with the support services in the Nunakput region and what’s being done about it? For the Premier, thank you, Mr. Speaker.