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Debates of , (day 7)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’m pleased to recognize my daughter Kim and my son-in-law Raymond Wainman and, Mr. Speaker, I’m proud to introduce Rylan James Robert Wainman, my grandson.

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Debates of , (day 7)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I appreciate the response from the Minister. That was from February 15th. Now we are into June. The design phase is going to start soon and they will be expecting $550,000 from the Early Child Education Centre to get them through the design stage. I would like to ask the Minister if he could commit in carrying the cost for the design and the preliminary site development stage. Thank you.

Debates of , (day 7)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The social envelope Ministers gather regularly and one of the issues we have been working on is a Homelessness Strategy. We have done work on that. There have been papers brought forward and we are bringing forward requests for funding and building things into our business plans. One of the things that has been identified as the need to the Homelessness Strategy is the service provided by the SideDoor. Thank you.

Debates of , (day 7)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I appreciate the response from the Minister. That was from February 15th. Now we are into June. The design phase is going to start soon and they will be expecting $550,000 from the Early Child Education Centre to get them through the design stage. I would like to ask the Minister if he could commit in carrying the cost for the design and the preliminary site development stage. Thank you.

Debates of , (day 7)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We always take the position to deal with the communities that accumulate a deficit and I’d like to point out we only have, I think this year we have four communities that have accumulated deficits and we continue to work with a recovery plan, we work on doing analysis where they may have overspent or where there are issues about shortfall. So we’ll continue to do those things. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Debates of , (day 7)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The social envelope Ministers gather regularly and one of the issues we have been working on is a Homelessness Strategy. We have done work on that. There have been papers brought forward and we are bringing forward requests for funding and building things into our business plans. One of the things that has been identified as the need to the Homelessness Strategy is the service provided by the SideDoor. Thank you.

Debates of , (day 7)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we have been working on a number of funding allocations that we provide to the communities. We have had discussions with the NWT Association of Communities. We have had discussions with LGANT, Local Government Administrators in the Northwest Territories, and we’ve also had a discussion in the communities with the different municipalities about a number of areas where we provide funding. Of course, the New Deal is something that’s on the drawing board and we have rolled out the information and communications to the community. We’ve also been allocated...

Debates of , (day 6)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the intent of the program, from my understanding, was to help with a lot of single students going to school. The Minister was up in Inuvik with us attending the convocation of Aurora College. I think he noticed that there was a lot of graduates there who were raising families. Is the size of families and the extra support they have to pay factored into the figures the department comes up with? That’s why I say we need to have another review. Thank you.

Debates of , (day 6)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my questions today are for the Honourable Charles Dent, Minister of Education, and it’s to do with the student financial assistance. I’d like to ask the Minister how the department comes up with the figures for student financial assistance, because a student that’s going to school in Montreal or Toronto, Edmonton, would get the same amount as a student going to school in Yellowknife or Inuvik. So I’d like to ask him how they come up with the figures and are these reviewed every year? Thank you.

Debates of , (day 6)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, it’s important to be very clear that MACA does not hire any bylaw officers. Bylaw officers are hired by the community governments, and that’s the case in the communities of Tsiigehtchic and Aklavik. The community of Behchoko decided that they no longer needed the service or could not afford the service. I’m not sure what the situation is. We are reviewing, again, the budgets for the communities and several communities have indicated that maybe the community government budgets are not sufficient anymore. We are looking at that. It would allow them to set...