Norman Yakeleya

Mr. Chair, certainly I encourage the Minister to continue providing other effective means of educating the young people.

If you look at the RCMP stats in the Sahtu, the increase of liquor has shot up quite considerably. It’s scary. If you look at the amount of liquor that is being sold in the Northwest Territories combined that with the stats of the RCMP with people who are getting into trouble because of alcohol, those numbers are high. If you look at even the jail, $37 million to house correctional facility inmates in our jail here, and the amount that the Northwest Territories liquor sales...

Mr. Speaker, again, going back to the numbers I have been given, in Fort Good Hope the alcohol-related occurrences in 2009 was 238. In Fort Good Hope in 2012 it was 681, and Deline was 23 in 2009 and 319 in 2012. In regard to the increase of the alcohol occurrences by the RCMP, people are drinking quite a lot and they get more calls.

With the Minister’s support and his leadership, will the he start looking at some solid programs, working with the Department of Justice and other agencies, to say that we have a problem here, Houston? What do we need to do to get the money into our communities to...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have a couple of questions here in regard to the Liquor Revolving Fund. Can the Minister indicate to me from 2011-12 what was the number of sales in the Norman Wells liquor store?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The winter season is coming to closure and soon it will be warm. Does the Minister have some plans in place, once the federal government has given us the permission slip to go ahead on this section of the road, do we see any type of difficulties due to the warming of the seasons?

I just have a quick question here on the work on behalf of others. We have some very bright students who are going to post-secondary education. Recently I heard in the news that Human Rights was going to hear that the federal government – I’m not too sure what you call it, underfunded or undermined – did not live up to the obligations of the Aboriginal children for education. I’m not too sure exactly on the hearing but it seems that it could be a possibility. I’m not too sure. I want to know if the Minister, within this department, has some interning students who have done some work on post...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I want to ask the Minister of Justice, with the impacts of the Sahtu oil and gas play and the activity that’s happening in our communities, I do appreciate and the people appreciate the additional RCMP and victim services coordinator. Just on the RCMP stats with the activity that’s going up and happening in the Sahtu, and I want to be more specific when I ask this to the Minister in regard to the lifting of the rations Norman Wells Liquor Store. Has the RCMP seen an increase in the percentage of criminal activity, crimes with alcohol happening and how steep of a climb...

Thank you. Maybe I’ll ask the Minister of ITI for that community assessment report. I know MACA has it. I wish I would have kept a copy of it. Anyway, that was the Mackenzie Gas Pipeline. So maybe ITI will have it. I’ll ask the Minister. At another time I’ll ask him for a copy.

So that’s okay. I will work with the Minister, I’ll work with his team on the impacts. I know they’re feeling it now. Again, I was at the Sahtu Dene Council meeting yesterday and the four chiefs were talking about these impacts, and I sat there all day. One of the things that we talked about, and it was because of the...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I have a couple of questions for the Minister. What plans are in place with the community operations of the communities along the Canol Trail shale play that is happening right now in Norman Wells, Tulita and next year I think Fort Good Hope is going to start entertaining some companies to do some exploration seismic work there? How is MACA helping out Tulita and Norman Wells? What type of additional support are we going to get for this department here?

Madam Chair, the Minister and I have some little thing going there. The Minister talked about a remote medical rescue initiative interdepartmental working group, and they’re putting in training and looking at piloting a couple of projects. I would hope that now that the winter roads are closing, there are another 25 or so more days that it will be open. I know the oil companies are going to use that opportunity to get their equipment out, and people are going to come back on the winter road from holidays and people are steadily using that road. Is it something that I could look for to, say, in...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I want to ask the Minister, in regard to preparing a training plan, I believe we have the assessment. Would his department start going into the Sahtu while the winter roads are open in Colville Lake, Fort Good Hope, Deline, and Tulita and Norman Wells, and bring them together? Cut down the cost, be efficient, be effective. Can the Minister do that within 25 days to get things moving?