Hay River South

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Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 13)

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I move that we report progress.

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Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 13)

Mr. Chairman, I’ve been just thinking about this $86,000 budgeted for the trip to Copenhagen. Now I understand at some point in time the supplementary appropriation has to go to print, but wow, $25,000 out of $86,000 is going to be put back. That’s a big percentage off on the estimating of this trip. I know maybe at first they were going to fly business class and now they’re not and they’re taking an extra Member, but $25,000 out of $86,000 off on this and I guess what I’m wondering about is the Minister says, well, they’ll put the money back. How do they put the money back? Is he sure it just...

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 13)

Well, that’s good. Then we should expect to see about half of that money from the travel come back into the budget. So we’ll look forward to that when we see what the returned amount is when they return from the trip, because I think $50,000 is probably a little overestimated on the travel piece. Thank you.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 13)

How many people will be attending on behalf of the Government of the Northwest Territories at the climate change conference in Copenhagen?

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 13)

Sorry, Mr. Chairman. I was wondering if we could return to an item on page 15.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 12)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It is a regrettable day in our Assembly that we need to be talking about a matter such as this.

Mr. Speaker, the Premier’s conduct I believe has put all Members of this Assembly in a very untenable situation. We’ve had to ask ourselves do something or do nothing, and that’s a question that I have had to ask myself many times during this process. Is this something that I can say and do nothing about?

I guess I have been in this Legislative Assembly for 14 years. I have devoted quite a large chunk of my working and adult life to this institution and it does bereave greatly...

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 12)

Mr. Chairman, I move that we report progress.

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Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 11)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the beauty of that site, too, is the government already owns it. It is extremely prime real estate and the Government of Northwest Territories already owns that place. There is very little footprint from any buildings on that property already, so it seems like it would be fairly straightforward. Does the Minister of Health and Social Services, Mr. Speaker, have to get agreement from the current government departments that are occupying that site in order to move forward on that site? Thank you.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 11)

Mr. Speaker, one of the alternate sites that was considered was an area that the Town of Hay River is currently working on developing. I believe it’s called the Sundog Subdivision. The problem with that is it’s not going to be ready for about another four years, and the other thing is that it’s definitely on the wrong side of the tracks. So if you had an ambulance coming in off the highway or something and there happened to be a train going by, of course the train would...You would have to wait. So that is the difficulty with that location.

It seems otherwise that the current ENR/ITI office is...

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 11)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, today I would like to remind NWT residents of something they probably knew, but maybe from time to time need to be reminded of, and that has to do with coverage for medical travel.

Mr. Speaker, we have very good medical travel coverage for residents of the Northwest Territories. However, what people need to be reminded of is the only medical travel the GNWT pays for through your health insurance is travel that originates in the Northwest Territories. So, Mr. Speaker, when NWT residents travel, and I believe they travel very extensively and I believe...