Jane Groenewegen

What’s the wish of committee? We’re nearing our adjournment time of 6:00. Don’t want to rush through things that you might regret and ask questions about tomorrow. Mr. Hawkins.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Minister Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I want to talk a little bit today about the concentration of specialized services in Yellowknife, when there are other communities outside of Yellowknife which are large enough and have great enough need to have some capital infrastructure to address some of these things.

In Yellowknife we have Betty House, Bailey House, the new dementia facility, a complex that completely accommodates people who require barrier-free access; a whole complex downtown Yellowknife for people who have physical disabilities who require barrier-free access. We have women’s shelters, we have...

Agreed, thank you. Community health programs, not previously authorized, $2.126 million.

Thank you, Minister Miltenberger. General comments. Next I have Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This is a bit of a thorny subject and I’m very reluctant to bring it up, of course, but in previous governments – a couple of them, at least – the Premier has committed to table, post, make public all travels of Cabinet Ministers. I would like to ask our Premier, the Honourable Bob McLeod, today if he is going to commit to share that same information publicly.

Thank you, Mr. Moses. Mr. Beaulieu.

Thank you. General comments. On the list I have Ms. Bisaro, Mr. Bromley, Mr. Yakeleya. Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today I want to stand up in this House again, sadly, to say that I have to repeat my statement again about the plight of an industry in Hay River that has been open and operating there since 1969, but this government, through their action and inaction, is going to allow it to fold. That is Patterson Sawmill. We are sitting in the Northwest Territories in a virtual forest; we are in the boreal forest. I don’t know how many ENR employees we have who look after forest management and yet we cannot eke out one single sustainable industry and support that logging industry to...

Thank you, Mr. Abernethy. Ms. Bisaro.