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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I look forward again to Minister Dent's position in the fall time in terms of the leadership. Can the Minister, then, look at different avenues in terms of encouraging, motivating these schools to provide healthy foods in the schools, working with the different northern food stores and different community organizations to get healthy foods and take the junk out, keep it in the trunk once and for all? Thank you.
Thank you. I look forward to that report from the Minister in terms of which schools. Now, can the Minister, again, can he outline some form of action plan of some of the schools who decided not to follow this route? What type of leadership can he provide to his department to get healthy food, get them into vending machines and put the junk in the trunk? Thank you.
Mr. Chairman, thank you. I appreciate what the Minister is saying. These are comments just on behalf of the region. So he’s got my full support in terms of this issue here. So 110 percent from me.
Thank you, Madam Chair. For this amount here, I said it before in other meetings that it’s about time that Housing and MACA gets off the ground and gets busy because you know the backlog in our region. The need for lot development, the need for, we heard it on the radio the other day on the town of Norman Wells. Of course you hear it from my communities that I represent. This is way overdue, so I think we need to have an extreme makeover at the Housing Corporation and start putting these units in our communities, preparing them for lot development. Right now when you do lot development, you...
Mr. Speaker, I seek unanimous consent to return to item 14 on the orders of the day.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the Minister’s response and I think that’s what the people in Good Hope want to know, is that the department will bring in some people to clearly outline how the housing subsidy is being administered now, because right now they’re seeing a high increase in the rent as when it was administered by the NWT Housing Corporation. So can we stop them from moving out of their houses? Again, I appreciate the Minister to go in there and thoroughly explain, and then can he have a translator also provided at this meeting here? Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my question today is to the Honourable Charles Dent, the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment. It’s regarding the public housing rental subsidy, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, one particular community in my region is having some difficulty in terms of the understanding of this new rental subsidy and it’s causing quite a chaos, havoc for some people. Actually, they’re actually thinking about moving out of these houses. I want to ask the Minister, Minister Dent, if there’s any way that his department can go into Fort Good Hope and talk to people on this...
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, in our communities down the Northwest Territories there are people in the communities and regions that are well known, that you remember from time to time either coming up and speaking to you personally, or coming to a regional meeting and giving their opinions, or trying to get something going in the communities for their special interest groups, or you see them in talent shows, or drum dances, or hand games, or any kind of community feasts. These people have a special talent or special gift that you remember that has a special place in your heart as an...
I am going to say that as a comment, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I just want to ask the Minister, because he said the plans are in the works now to put into capital, maybe, the new facility for people in the Nahendeh and Deh Cho, so we call it Deh Cho Hall. That facility is in Fort Simpson so it's in that area. So is there plans to put a new facility in replacement of this building that we're talking about? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.