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Debates of , (day 8)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to ask the Minister of Health and Social Services if he can inform the people in the communities about the types of action plans his department has planned for serving the percentage of patients in the Stanton Territorial Hospital. What is he doing to provide good quality service that is serving the high percentage of aboriginal patients? Thank you.

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He’s the king. So sometimes when my little guy puts on a tie, he says I’m going to business. He calls this meeting business. Sometimes, can he stay home today, Dad? Or don’t go to the business meetings, you know? How come my Dad doesn’t say hello to me when he’s on TV? So, hello, son.

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When he sees me on TV he wants to know why I’m not talking to him. So, Mr. Speaker, our role as leaders, as fathers, as mothers and servants to our people, it has no, sometimes a different meaning, especially as MLAs to our little guys. They just want us home and they just want to be held, or they want...

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, will the Minister make a commitment to come into my region sometime in the next few months to really have a discussion on this concept? We want to hear both sides. We want to know how it’s going to impact our communities, the benefits to our communities and the things we have talked about in this House. The community needs to be comfortable and to lend the support. This concept could bring a lot of benefits to our community, but if we don’t do it right, it also could be a disaster. So we want to have a good discussion with the Housing Corporation on...

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I followed the Department of Justice on this initiative because I think it’s ground breaking, I think it’s the way to go in terms of our larger institutions down the Mackenzie Valley, down the Deh Cho and right down the whole Northwest Territories that this department can be the guiding light, I guess, to the other departments, I guess, in terms of looking at large facilities that have institutions like this that could use wood pellets and get the people in the Northwest Territories to start supplying wood pellets. So I guess I wanted to ask, would the...

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, in the past week or so I read in the papers and I also received the information from the Minister of Justice, the Honourable Brendan Bell, on this wood pellet initiative that the department is doing in terms of reducing or looking at energy, effective methods to use in the government institutions. I wanted to ask the Minister in terms of what are the long-term goals, I guess, of this wood pellet initiative that’s being used at the facility by the Department of Justice? Thank you.

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Mr. Speaker, I seek unanimous consent to go back to item 7 of the orders of the day.

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This is really a good news story for the department in the way you are looking at this approach in terms of our health in the Northwest Territories. I want to ask the Minister, when will we see an elderly residence at the Stanton Territorial Hospital?

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, can the Minister also inform me and the House, the people of the Northwest Territories, are there any specific type of plans you would seek Stanton go out into a place where there will be units or places where the aboriginal people can have a unit similar to the Whitehorse General Hospital where there is a unit set aside for the needs of the aboriginal people? Thank you.

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I’d like to recognize two of the Pages from Fort Good Hope, the Kakfwi ladies, Courtney Kakfwi who is in Grade 8 and the other Kakfwi, Jennifer Kakfwi. So we’re covered by the Kakfwis. Thank you.

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This morning about quarter to six I was up there having a coffee and I was thinking about the statement today I wanted to say. I wanted to share with my honourable colleagues here my thoughts on a very special day coming up. As Mrs. Groenewegen indicated, that special day is coming up soon and that’s Father’s Day.

When I began my role as an MLA, little did I know the amount of time that it takes me and other colleagues around here away from our families, especially our little ones. Soon those little ones become big ones. Anyhow.

So, Mr. Speaker, I get a lot of...