Jane Groenewegen

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Mr. Ramsay.

Agreed, thank you. Page 6-18, directorate, grants and contributions, contributions, $30,000.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, it’s my pleasure today to welcome, in the visitors’ gallery, Mr. Lionel Rundle, the president of the Northwest Territories Fishermen’s Federation;

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Alex Maurice, long-time fisherman in Hay River and a member of the board of directors of the NWT Fishermen's Federation.

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Three members of the new Great Slave Lake Task Force Group: Jerry Morin, Douglas Buckley and Bert Buckley.

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Also with them today from Hay River -- no stranger to the Renewable Resources in the Northwest Territories, seconded from RWED to do work with the...

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. Mr. Murray.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I think it would do us well to be extremely cautious not wanting to give people a false sense of security about the HIV risk. I know that I have heard it said many times before, given the indicators of behaviour that has some risk associated with it, given those indicators we do seem to have a proportionately small amount of reported cases of HIV. As the Minister mentioned, with the incubation times, we should be very cautious not to give people a sense of false security with respect to their risk of contracting HIV. Maybe we’ve just been lucky so far. I would like...

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Mr. Ramsay.

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, as I have stated many times in this Legislature before, the historic contribution and the future potential of the Great Slave Lake commercial fisheries is very important to the renewable resource economy of the North and particularly Hay River.

Since my last Member's statement on October 19th on the commercial fishery on the Great Slave Lake, the NWT Fishermen’s Federation has been working to develop a recovery strategy for their fishery. The task force group is made up of fishermen and is assisted by the guidance of Beatrice Lepine, who has been seconded...

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Mr. Yakeleya.