Norman Yakeleya

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, in this situation here, because we are at the 11th hour of this agreement, it’s the only treatment centre in the Northwest Territories that shut down for a lot of issues that came from alcohol, and our communities are suffering terribly. I wonder if the Minister or GNWT would consider bringing the facilities or the parties, workers, into the public service so we have some security for our people. You have to think about the people in the community and the clients. Would the Minister consider bringing these workers into the public service? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my Member’s statement also talked about Nats’ejee K’eh and the issue over there. I would like to ask the Minister of Health and Social Services, at what point did the GNWT become aware that the parties where they were without an agreement? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I was home for the weekend and I was talking to some of the people in my community. I ran into a young little girl in Northern Store and I waved to her so she’ll know it’s me waving to her. Said she sees me on TV and all the other Members and she was quite happy. When I was home and had a constituent meeting with some of the people from Deline and people from Tulita and they were talking about the Nats’ejee K’eh healing, alcohol and drug treatment centre and what was going on with the centre being closed and what was happening. People didn’t quite...

Thank you. I certainly support the Premier’s strong voice and opinions to the Prime Minister in terms of this Novel. Quit wasting the time; similar to the resource revenue sharing and devolution agreements. It’s a no go or it’s a go. So, Mr. Speaker, my question to the Minister of the Housing Corporation in terms of this whole Novel concept, I understand from the previous discussions in the House with the Fort Providence bridge project that the Novel was going to be considered as a test in exposure of units of these types of Novel housing units. Are they still being considered elsewhere in the...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, in my Member’s statement I talked about the Novel housing project. Mr. Speaker, the written questions to the previous Minister talked about five key points in terms of the comparative analysis of the Novel housing project. Number one, the Mackenzie gas project is a go or no go. Number two, it’s under a full-scale review by the proponents. Number three, the Novel concept must be accepted by the proponents on a workforce housing initiative and competitive bidding process. I’d like to ask the Minister of the Housing Corporation in terms of time frame, in terms...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, over the last couple of months I was in Tulita and I want to say that to the Premier in support of his government in terms of thanking him in terms of cleaning the uranium contaminated site. People are sure happy in terms of that move, Mr. Speaker. But I also found that the community of Deline is going to be doing some work in the uranium site up at Great Bear Lake and that they’re going to put together a proposal I understand from Dolphus Tutcho, I’m sorry, from the community members in Deline that there may be a process where they could look at this ATCO...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you for the response. That was my fourth point in this written question. The federal government must agree financially to contribute to this and proponents must agree that to hand over these units upon completion of the Mackenzie gas project at no cost to the federal government. So my question to the Minister of the Housing Corporation, when will he know from this current government, when will he know that this deal must get done otherwise it’s no go for this Novel concept? We’re too late to get into the business of this Novel housing. So when will he expect to...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Over the past couple of sittings, we have heard from a number of Members who are concerned with how the Novel housing proposal will play out. While not diminishing my colleagues’ concerns, I would like to put a more positive spin on this proposal, Mr. Speaker. It is simple. I am in favour of any proposal that puts housing that is so desperately needed in the communities that I represent. I see the overcrowding. I see housing units that are no longer fit to live in and still being used because there is no alternative. Mr. Speaker, I have seen families forced out...

Mr. Speaker, I give notice that on Monday, October 30th, 2006, I will move the following motion: Now therefore I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Monfwi, that this Assembly strongly recommends the Department of Education, Culture and Employment change the maximum percentage of income that can be charged as rent for social housing from 32 percent to 18 percent for non-market communities and from 32 percent to 25 percent for communities with a rental and private housing market; and further that the NWT Housing Corporation do a better job in explaining their homeownership programs and...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I do apologize. I thank you for allowing me the flexibility to go into another area. I do acknowledge the bill here. Mr. Chairman, I was hoping I would make a connection in terms of the new Tourism Act, let it speak to if there is a low level of animals, low levels of caribou, sheep, moose, and we have to take care of our own needs in the Sahtu region, does this bill, this act, speak to some form of compensation? I may be again on the border of my questions, but I wanted to ask about the Tourism Act. There is a tourism operation that we are talking about. I guess I...