Norman Yakeleya

Thank you. I have driven Bob's Canyon Creek and I certainly appreciate the Minister looking at that area. I've driven, I've floated across Blackwater River. I certainly appreciate the Minister putting some work into that area, I applaud the Minister also. My question to the Minister on the Mackenzie winter roadwork is in terms of the realignment of some of the dangerous roads in our region. Again I'm going to point specifically to an area just outside of Deline where it's very windy, like a snake. Lots of work went in there in terms of an oil company going in there. Big loads, narrow...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, as the Minister of ITI is aware, I have been working hard with other Members, especially with the community of Deline in the Sahtu, in terms of having Deline being recognized as the birthplace of ice hockey in Canada. I wanted to ask the Minister of ITI what type of exposure is he working on in terms of getting this recognition as a significant historical event in Canada, especially for ice hockey? Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I want to confirm my support for these hard-working people that deal with family violence in our communities. We need every type of support. We need to work with the family, the children, the abuser and victim. They have to work with the whole community on this issue. Family violence is a very powerful, very sensitive, we have to be very careful to work with the family on this issue here.

What I want to say, Madam Chair, is some of the family violence workers are underpaid. Sometimes they are in term positions and sometimes they have to leave their job early because...

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, the family violence survey in terms of collecting baseline data to residents in the Northwest Territories and the 750 respondents talking about information. I think there is already existing information within the system that could be used already. I haven’t seen the survey myself, so I am not sure what type of survey it’s going to be. Is this a matter of collecting baseline data? There is data already in the system on family violence. I am not sure about that one.

I want to ask the Minister regarding the family violence conference and the use of this...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I’ll be very brief. I thank my colleagues to speak their minds in terms of this motion. Mr. Speaker, as I said before, I come from a community that has a high cost of living to the people there. Mr. Speaker, the community that we recently visited, as Mr. Lafferty indicated, was Colville Lake and we talked about some of their costs in that small community and the generator there that powers the community and their power bills being $2.66.6 cents a kilowatt and their store in Colville Lake also has a huge power increase.

Mr. Speaker, the question I had for...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

WHEREAS electric power is an essential service;

AND WHEREAS a majority of our communities throughout the NWT continue to rely on costly diesel-generated power;

AND WHEREAS residential and commercial rates vary across the NWT;

AND WHEREAS the Government of the Northwest Territories has implemented a Territorial Power Subsidy Program which pays the cost differential between Yellowknife rates and those of other communities for the first 700 kilowatt hours of monthly private residential consumption, and the first 1,000 kilowatt hours of small business consumption;

AND WHEREAS...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I give notice that on Wednesday, May 16, 2007, I will move the following motion: I move, seconded by the Honourable Member for Frame Lake that, notwithstanding Rule 4, when the House adjourns on May 17, 2007, it shall be adjourned until Wednesday, August 15, 2007; and further, at any time prior to August 15, 2007, 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 gives notice...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I said it before and I will say it again, people in my region are being denied the basic standards in some of our facilities, some of these facilities that other regions have enjoyed and take for granted. Mr. Speaker, summer is coming close. It is just around the corner. I ask if the Minister will commit to work with the Sahtu health board to see that this installation of air conditioning be installed in the Tulita Health Centre.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I have a question for the Minister of Health and Social Services. It has to do with the health centres in the Sahtu, particularly the one in Tulita where it is lacking air conditioning. I understand from last year speaking to the community that it was unbearable for some of the patients, especially the elders to sit and visit the health centres and be treated at the same time, sit there while the centre is boiling, I guess, and not being safe to have the services in our community. Is the Minister aware of these health conditions and these working...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I thank the Minister in his confidence in hoping that I will put a bunch of balls in the net there in London, England. How important is this event here? I know the importance of Sir John Franklin, because he came from England, in terms of his name and his contributions to some of the historical events that happened in this world here. What role in terms of our team going over there from Deline, especially in the role of tourism, how important is the role of tourism for the people in London to come over here and come and visit Canada and especially visit...