Norman Yakeleya

Mr. Speaker, I seek unanimous consent to conclude my statement.

---Unanimous consent granted

Mr. Speaker, I want to ask the Minister again, Mr. Brown has written to me and he’s asking me to urge this government here to consider helping him, along with myself -- I support him -- to look at declaring the facilities that he has built in Colville Lake as a Canadian historical site. He is afraid that these buildings won’t be maintained once he’s passed on to the other world. At this stage we’re asking if this government will look at an initiative like this to bring to the federal government’s attention.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I look forward to the Minister’s reply to that question.

I want to ask the Minister what steps is his department taking to increase the parks in the Sahtu, in Good Hope, Colville, Deline or Tulita. What things can his department do to establish some sort of community or territorial park?

The Minister and I are well aware that the challenges that we have established in the Canol Park, the territorial park, and once established, that park will be the largest park in the Northwest Territories. I wanted to ask the Minister about the parks, because in his ministerial statement certainly the Sahtu region was dearly missed in his statement, and I want to ask him if he would direct his bureaucrats to keep their eyes and ears open, and maybe they should read my Member’s statement to note some of the good things that would attract visitors to the Sahtu. Would the Minister give a...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you, honourable colleagues. Outdoor adventure enthusiasts from all over come to the Sahtu, come to experience some of the finest whitewaters in North America. In addition to our rivers, Mr. Speaker, our trails have also become famous within the hiking circles. Last summer, through a partnership between ITI and the Tulita Land Corporation, a beautiful hiking trail from the Mackenzie River to the top of Yamoria on the top of Bear Rock was developed. The trail offers the finest view of the Mackenzie of all NWT traditional trails around Fort Good Hope that have been...

I guess we could also carve off some of the slack that’s in government so we can hire some of these summer students to work for us. Will this government support the Aurora College students who are graduating with a career profession, such as education, teachers and such? I say this because we have an Aboriginal nurse graduating from the Nursing Program who couldn’t even find a job in this government. This student here had to work at a gift shop. There are students out there that cannot find work within our own force who are graduating from our institutions. I’m asking if this government can...

If there aren’t enough positions in the Government of the Northwest Territories for our own students, is the government looking at subsidizing local Aboriginal governments, NGOs, and the private sector, to hire students?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In reviewing the diabetes, home care and long-term care, medical travel, and human resources recruitment programs, the Auditor General examined DHSS’ support of program delivery and its monitoring of results.

A consistent theme emerged in the reviews of diabetes, home care and long-term care, and medical travel. In each, there is no mechanism for monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness and efficiency of the program. Insufficient data is collected to support evaluation of diabetes, home care and long-term care programs; a deficiency that must be corrected, as DHSS has...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It’s graduation season and many students are preparing to move onto the next phase of life. They will be entering into the workforce. Who will hire them and where should they apply?

This year in our Sahtu communities there will be 22 high school graduates and nine Aurora College graduates. All these graduates have one thing in common, it is the commitment, the commitment to start something and finish it. As the government, we need to show our students our commitment and our support for their achievement.

We have an aging workforce in the GNWT. The 2009 Public Service...

The Government of the Northwest Territories has the campaign Make Your Mark Campaign to attract southern workers to the Northwest Territories. This program was designed to bring people up north to live here and make their investment here. I want to ask the Minister if we could look at some of that work and look at some of the money that could maybe be re-profiled to ensure that our own local talents also have job opportunities here in the Northwest Territories.