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Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 30)

Mr. Chairman, I can’t add any more to what the Minister has said about the CANOL Trail. He’s certainly bang on, on that assessment there. I want to ask the Minister, in terms of… Because this park will be awhile before we know, hopefully, that it can be designated within our lifetime in terms of having it designated by this government here. I want to ask about anything in between now and that designation in terms of… We had one park, McKinley Park in Norman Wells. I would like to ask if the Minister is in his strategy looking at other parks in, say, Tulita, Fort Good Hope, Deline or even...

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 30)

Mr. Chair, just one comment here I want to make and it’s going to be very short. I want to say in terms of the Deh Cho Bridge in terms of this project here, it’s something that I want to say, Mr. Chair, that when the ferry was out of commission, when they had to fly food into Yellowknife and then fly it up to one of my constituents, in their home town, they realized that the increase in price went up very high. When the ferry was back in, the constituent phoned me back and said our prices in the store went down. That’s the phone call that I got from a constituent. So the constituent said even...

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 30)

I just wanted to ask the Minister about the positions that were 276 and increased to 280.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 30)

Again, Mr. Chairman, I know the importance of hydro energy as a valuable asset to the communities. To help the communities, you see it in the prices of electricity paid where there’s hydro going into the communities versus the thermal communities. You don’t have to sell me on that. The hydro communities have this infrastructure given to them as a gift from the federal government. They set up mines here and we’re taking it over. I think for myself I want to say that I do support the Deze Energy Corporation. It involves some really good people in there to put the project together. It’s helping...

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 30)

I do want to say that I know that the department does have expertise and the department I need to bring this up with is MACA. However, the Minister has offered to, if the community does want to look at chipsealing, that there’s expertise there that could assist with looking at what they can do. I want to just leave it at that rather than pushing this issue any further with this department here.

I want to ask the Minister about the contributions this department is making in terms of staff time for megaprojects such as the Deh Cho Bridge. I know they have some staff that is assigned to the...

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 30)

The foods are part of a third-party contract, as the Minister stated. How can we get the third-party contractor involved in this type of recommendation, sure to come from the elders council through their recommendations, to serve aboriginal foods? I think this is long overdue. Can the Minister provide some insight on how to go about putting the aboriginal foods on the menu at Stanton Hospital for my people?

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 30)

Just on the Taltson River hydro electrical for this, I know there are some discussions here on the project. I just want to ask the Minister about this project here. Certainly businesswise it’s a good business opportunity for the mines and you don’t have to tell me what the benefits of it are, I just want to know about the start-up of the project. You had listed some numbers and it’s a joint initiative by other proponents to look at this hydro development. Are we foreseeing anything on issues that will be run into like we’re seeing with the Deh Cho Bridge Project? Cost overruns, I mean, you’re...

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 30)

Fair enough. I’ll have to check my correspondence and get back to the Minister for information. Even though the P3 policy isn’t under the Minister’s responsibilities, it is closely related to projects we want to look at. I guess I’ll have some discussions with him on how far we can go on this issue here to look at major projects we want to build in the North and in my region.

I want to ask the Minister about the memorandum of understanding with this government. I know it’s administered by ITI but there are maintenance and highways contracts, winter roadwork, airports with this department. I...

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 30)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Stanton Territorial Hospital serves about 65 percent of aboriginal patients. I want to ask the Minister in terms of healthy, good aboriginal foods for the Stanton Hospital for the patients. Has the Minister moved anywhere in regards to having available traditional aboriginal foods for people who come in from the outside and surrounding communities to see if they will have a choice to have traditional foods served to them while they are in recovery?

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 4th Session (day 30)

Just a comment that I wanted to run by the Minister here. Mr. Chair, in the JRP recommendations of 176 recommendations, in there there’s a phrase in there that they use in terms of the Inuvik facility, Inuvik compressor facility that has waste energy. I know there’s a facility that’s being planned close to the community of Tulita. Is this something that this government has looked at as a possibility of tapping into the waste heat energy for the community of Tulita? I know there are some discussions around natural gas conversions into the community once, and if, the pipeline is built into Good...