Sahtu

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Debates of , (day 10)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I guess I am looking also for the truth in terms of recognizing Deline as the birthplace of ice hockey with this government. Get your team ready, Mr. Minister. Get your team ready so CBC can get the truth that Deline is the birthplace of ice hockey and to mention shame that they didn’t do it in their People’s History. We have to park the other issues, Mr. Minister. Give some promotion awareness again. What will he do in terms of working with his colleague Cabinet members to let CBC know and let the Territories know, let everybody know in Canada, the...

Debates of , (day 10)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, this morning on CBC, I heard that the aboriginal people were well overrepresented in the justice system and that a project like this that we start in the Northwest Territories, a lot of credit has to go to the Minister on this one in terms of listening to the people, and putting this project out on the land for the people, and people on the land are mostly aboriginal people. I want to ask the Minister, in the bigger picture, what type of programs does he have that will connect on-the-land programs that have institutions like the North Slave Correctional...

Debates of , (day 10)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'd like to recognize and congratulate Mr. Andy Short for being the new regional director in the Sahtu region. He is the man. Thank you.

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Debates of , (day 10)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, can the Minister inform the people in the Sahtu, maybe the community of Fort Good Hope because that’s where the pilot project is being initiated, is there a number or percentage of inmates who are going to participate in this year’s pilot project? Thank you.

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I certainly support the Minister. I know he's been working very hard with his federal government of the Liberal government and now the Conservative government, and also in the last three years in this Assembly in terms of getting RCMP officers in our communities in the Northwest Territories. I again urge him and press him. There's a strong need to have officers in our communities. You know, we have to get creative. Get those communities that have no officers. Thirteen communities in the Northwest Territories. All the money will be in the North. It...

Debates of , (day 10)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is for the Premier:

Can the Premier provide the amount of royalties leaving the North and staying with the federal government, and our return from these resources in the last 10 years?

In terms of our financial fiscal imbalance, what does the North need to do to begin having our revenue from our resources managed by the North?

Will the GNWT provide an opportunity to discuss post-revenue sharing in the North? Who or when will the North sit down to discuss federal resources revenue management framework?

Can the Premier outline a strategic plan that...

Debates of , (day 10)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Can the Minister tell me how many communities do not have RCMP officers in their community today? Thank you.

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Can the Minister inform me in the House, is there a good connecting program with the pilot project and the communities that these inmates are expected to return to in terms of an aftercare program in the jail if they have to go back? If they have to go back, are they going back to strengthen their families and children in terms of this pilot project? I think it’s one of the best projects that this government has started up in the last couple of years anyway. Thank you.

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Thank you. I am going to ask the Minister if he would consider, through his Department of MACA, or as the Department of MOT, to put up some nice, shiny signs at the airport in Deline stating that it’s the birthplace of ice hockey in Canada from 1825 until the present. I will ask the Minister if he could consider that suggestion from outside over here. Thank you.

Debates of , (day 10)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I want to ask for an update on the Minister of Justice on this wilderness camp he has up in the Sahtu and also thinking about starting one in the Tlicho region. I would like to ask the Minister for a brief update. Thank you.