Norman Yakeleya

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I just wanted to ask some questions to the Minister of youth. Over the weekend I had the pleasure of watching the hand games. At the hand games they had a lot of youth that were involved in the tournament. I want to ask the Minister of Youth on the involvement of youth more into the hand games, if there is some type of avenue that the communities can take to involve the youth almost on more of a territorial level youth hand games tournament with his staff working with the different organizations in the Sahtu communities.

Mr. Chair, I wanted to ask about probably a brief strategy in terms of devolution negotiations and the participation of the aboriginal organizations. I know there’s got to be a point where you have to agree to the process and I wanted to ask the Premier who is on board and who is not on board as a government going forward to sit with the federal government to look at this big ticket item. It’s a good start, but we’ve got to get going. So we’ve got to sort of get things on the go here and I guess I’m listening for a starting point on where we go from here.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Ramsay asked the question for me.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to talk about the traditional economy. I want to ask the Minister about the support for traditional economy. There are several suggestions that were coming from Deline in terms of having the elders and trappers take out some young people to pursue this traditional economy and to support them. I think there were some programs, I’m not too sure, but it was something that they were telling me that it wasn’t enough, they want to continue on this here. Is there something like that within the budget here for supporting the traditional economy in regard to the trapping...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. One question to this part here. In terms of the funding, it seems that it’s going up almost every year. Is there some type of control in terms of the Technical Services Centre in terms of the expenditures? Is it going to level out in terms of the increases that we’re seeing every year in terms of this piece of work here?

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

---Unanimous consent granted.

Thank you. I think that’s a real good thing the department is doing with the thermo-scan on buildings like that. So it’s a plus.

I want to ask the Minister on another subject in terms of the coordination of granular material planning for different departments. The Minister I think has taken the lead, or I’m making the presumption that this department is taking the lead, in terms of bringing together various departments to see what type of granular materials are going to be needed in the community that year for projects for the next year. Is this something that is working very well and that’s a...

I thank the Minister for his clarity and his consistent message to me here, so I can take it for what he is saying.

I want to ask the Minister on another subject here in regard to asset management. The Norman Wells Mackenzie Mountain School, I know they had an assessment done on the energy, and I want to know if there is going to be some work done because of the amount of use of energy that school is going through. It’s costing quite a lot. I know there are other schools that have been looked at in terms of putting together some energy initiatives for facilities such as schools, and I want to...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just on the asset management, just for the record, I just want to let the Minister know I said the facility in Tulita, it looks like it was built in the 1600s. I didn’t say it was built, I said it looked like. Perceptions. So I just wanted to tell the Minister that I just wanted that to be for the record here and that I will certainly look forward to seeing if, when this facility could be put on the list for demolition, and seeing if they can consider building a new one for the workers there. This is quite an old building here.

Thank you. Just on the Rare in Nature we have main estimates of $250,000 and then you go down to $100,000. I’d like to ask the Minister the reasons for the decrease in those numbers.