Norman Yakeleya

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I give notice that on Friday, May 31, 2013, I will move the following motion: Now therefore I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Thebacha, that the honourable Member for Hay River North, Mr. Robert Bouchard, be appointed as a deputy chairperson of Committee of the Whole.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. How is his department working with the oil companies to identify and meet the training needs for local workers? I have been voicing with the oil companies. Unfortunately, I am not in the position to make that kind of final decision to say yes, we will commit. The Minister can do that. He’s in that position. So I want to ask the Minister for his direction and leadership. How can you tell me you’re working with the oil companies and they can commit to a Sahtu needs training centre?

Husky is building an all-weather road for $30 million/$45 million. The application for Conoco through the hydraulic fracking is going for a review, and if that application is approved, certainly you’re going to see an increase in employment activities in the Sahtu.

If that continues with the potential of billions of barrels of oil that needs to be extracted from the Sahtu lands, in light of this, can the Minister give me a commitment to say that yes, we will start working on a capital plan infrastructure so at the end of this Assembly we should be looking at the training needs assessment, the...

Can you imagine a community that is self-sustaining and self-determining in its own right? Anything is possible when we believe in our people.

Our people are ready. We need to be ready. There are some great opportunities in the North. We’ve got to get a trade centre in the Sahtu now because we support our vision, a vision of the territory where strong individuals, families and communities share the benefits and responsibilities of a unified, environmentally sustaining and prosperous territory. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you, colleagues. WHEREAS there is a requirement of the naming of two Members to hold the positions of deputy chairpersons of Committee of the Whole;

AND WHEREAS the honourable Member for Frame Lake, Ms. Wendy Bisaro, has resigned from her appointment as deputy chairperson of Committee of the Whole to assume the role of chair of the Standing Committee on Priorities and Planning.

NOW THEREFORE I MOVE, seconded by the Member for Thebacha, that the honourable Member for Hay River North, Mr. Robert Bouchard, be appointed as deputy chairperson of Committee of the Whole.

I’ve done some of my own research and I found a very interesting document that in 1944, July 21st, Imperial Oil and the Government of Canada struck up a management/ownership type of deal with the Norman Wells oilfields and that they’ve been taking a cut in the share of that development fuel since then; even longer.

I want to ask if the Government of Canada is changing the rules as time goes on and because they’re so adamant not to release that definition under what is stated in the research I have that Norman Wells is looked at resource revenue rather than the ownership. Is the Minister looking...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to recognize the two Colville Lake Pages, Chantell Orlias and Lecy Gully. Both are here this week.

I’d also like to, along with my colleague Mr. Abernethy, recognize the YK ship crew from Vancouver. I appreciate the tour there.

Also some former high school students, Debbie Greenland; of course, Mr. McLeod’s wife, Judy, and the mental health worker from Tulita, Elaine. Also a good friend of mine, Peter Redvers.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you to the Members who have brought this motion forward, Mr. Nadli and the MLA for Range Lake.

This past winter Minister Ramsay and myself travelled over 702 kilometres on the Mackenzie Valley winter road. Mr. Ramsay and I also took turns driving on the Mackenzie Valley winter road, and there were several close calls. Even though the vehicles were going 50 kilometres an hour, the roads were so narrow and so bumpy, and not quite up to the standards where we’d like to see our roads up in the Mackenzie Valley.

I’d like to see if there is some way that this government...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions are for the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment, the Honourable Jackson Lafferty, regarding single parents receiving assistance under the Income Support Program.

Please provide the total number of single parents receiving assistance under the Income Support Program.

Please provide the various ranges that single-parent clients receive under the Income Support Program.

Please provide details on the support single parents are eligible for under the Income Support Program.

Please provide a breakdown by constituency of the number of single parents...

We’re looking at the bigger issue with the Norman Wells royalty regime. I want to ask the Premier, because of the interest now in the Norman Wells area, and not just the Norman Wells proven area, does the Premier see the Husky, the Conoco, the Shell type of structure that could possibly see the federal government looking elsewhere outside Norman Wells to say there’s not millions but there’s billions to be had. Is that something that we have positioned ourselves so that they keep their hands out of our pockets?