Norman Yakeleya

How do you top that, Mr. Speaker? He’s a good student, he’s teachable.

Mr. Speaker, there’s a song Dr. Hook sings, “Storms never last, baby.” Mr. Speaker, listen to this song because there was a really big storm in the Sahtu over the past weekend here. It was so strong that the storm blew out some transponders, or trippers, in Norman Wells. People were fighting after a couple hours of having no power. When it got to the three hour point, they were getting kind of nervous because they didn’t know what was happening.

I just happened to be there and I called the Minister, and the Minister answered...

Mr. Chair, I appreciate the comments from the Minister. Those are all my questions.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I MOVE, seconded by the honourable Member for Thebacha, that, notwithstanding Rule 4, when this House adjourns on Thursday, February 26, 2015, it shall be adjourned until Monday, March 2, 2015;

AND FURTHER, that any time prior to March 2, 2015, if the Speaker is satisfied, after consultation with the Executive Council and Members of the Legislative Assembly, that the public interest requires that the House should meet at an earlier time during the adjournment, the Speaker may give notice and thereupon the House shall meet at the time stated in such notice and shall...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I always thought this would be a good concept to consider given that the limitations of some of our small communities and that we have to do without facilities such as the larger centres, that would help our athletes move into another level of category of their sporting abilities. I thought that something like this would be good for our small communities. For example, even with the youth hand games, the kids get really excited going to other schools to play hand games, and this way you keep them in school and keep them moving forward.

So, I just want to ask the Minister...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions are to the Minister of MACA. The athletes in the small communities are really doing well. Based on the early TEST Olympic skiers program they had up in Inuvik, is there any type of pilot project considered within the department, along with a partnership, to look at a program that once worked well and developed Olympic athletes? Is there something like that within his department for the Northwest Territories?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In my Member’s statement I would like to give encouragement and support to the young athletes in our small communities. Last weekend girls under 15 from Deline won the basketball championship in the Northwest Territories, and previous to that they won first place in Grande Prairie.

In the North we have some really great athletes, even in the large centres such as Yellowknife and Hay River and in our small communities of Deline, Norman Wells and Colville Lake. However, I want to say how much we appreciate the young kids coming out in whatever type of conditions to do...

Mr. Speaker, I wish to table a document referred to yesterday in questions in Committee of the Whole on the Sahtu Renewable Resources Board.

I’m not too sure if I’m suggesting that we’re pulling away from the good work that the communities and the people in the North are doing. What I’m looking at is a concept, an idea that we focus on a group of athletes in the community that would measure them in the results of the home life, the school life, the athletic abilities, you know, moving them through the stages of their growth and their ability. Like TEST did one time, we could look at this one program. Whether it be volleyball or hand games or basketball or martial arts, that we have a group and we measure them and say this is a good...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to recognize a former resident of Deline, Erin Currie, also a great nurse practitioner. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I apologize. I’ll table the document and I’ll leave my questions for some other venue.