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Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 30)

I wasn’t quite sure if the Minister said that BDIC had their own separate program to look at a business and how they could have been better helpful to that business. If anything, I was asking about our ITI department. How do we kick in the mechanism? Is it up to the business owner to ask ITI or is that something that we do as a normal course of our business? There’s a failed business out there. Bills are going to be piling up. At what point does ITI step in and use this separate mechanism to examine if this business could have kept going or what could be done better in the future?

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 30)

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. I just wanted to ask the Minister of ITI a few questions on conducting post-mortems on failed businesses. I’ve had a bed and breakfast fail in the community of Fort Simpson and conducting a post-mortem on that business would kind of look at how the Department of ITI could be more helpful, or the BDIC, in this situation and why did the business fail. I’m not too sure if it’s our responsibility, but is there anything within the department mechanism or program that could assist in something of this nature?

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 30)

No, thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 30)

Mr. Chairman, that is exactly what I was getting at. I certainly support the department in continuing the eventuality, of course, of chipsealing Highway No. 1 up to Fort Simpson. I think that will be a huge achievement for the government to achieve that and, indeed, I have spoken before about achieving as much of a chipseal cover to all our highways as part of our goal, a strategy as one of our goals as the 16th Assembly, Mr. Chairman. I certainly look forward to that plan and to have further discussions about any further chipsealing work that can be done for 2011.

Just in terms of Highway...

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 30)

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just want to ask a few specific questions with regard to the chipsealing from Providence junction towards Fort Simpson. I think as a reference I was using Axe Handle as a quitting point, but I just want to know more specifically, Mr. Chairman, about how many kilometres of chipseal we will be doing first thing this spring. I would like to know how many kilometres we are looking at doing this spring.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 30)

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Just with respect to the airports, once again everybody worked hard on both sides of the government to relocate the Trout Lake Airport. I understand progress is going, but I don’t have questions on that. But I do want to first bring up once again the runway lighting for two of the communities in my riding. One of them is Jean Marie River and Nahanni Butte. Also, there was an airport improvement, too, on the Nahanni Butte runway. It was an opportunity to put in runway lighting, but at the same time, I still would like to have those installed in the communities...

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 30)

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Having, of course, any government positions in any of the communities is part of economic development of a community. Have at least one staff member with those salary dollars. I seem to recall that I had thought it was a temporary move, only because the incumbent I believe was thinking about later relocating to Fort Simpson. I don’t know if that’s still the case there. Maybe I can ask about that. In any event, despite those facts, I urge the department for any future long-term considerations that we had that position there before and I see no reason why it...

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 30)

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. I was just trying to find out the best way we can help businesses that have failed. I think one of the best ways is to conduct a post-mortem. I’d like to ask the Minister if he can look at a program or some type of mechanism within ITI where they do set up a procedure or checklist that can help future businesses by examining those that fail.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 30)

In this case it was an actual aboriginal business that had failed. I’m pleased to hear that there’s an Aftercare Program. What begins the mechanism to do a post-mortem or to look at other businesses and how we can fine tune our programs or how we could be more responsive to the needs of that business?

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 30)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker Today I would like to talk about our small and remote communities and their need to have access to professional health and wellness programming and staff.

During my most recent visit to Wrigley, they commended the fact that the return of nursing to their community will become a reality. They did also request to me that having access to a mental health worker and programming is also just as important to their community. They are pleased with the efforts of the Deh Cho Health and Social Services, yet desire to see their community be provided with the resources to work...