Sahtu

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Is this funding ongoing funding? I know the Minister said a one-time pilot project. Is this funding available next year and the year after? Thank you.

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Thank you. I think you have to go in the communities to see the kind of centres they have there and the kind of buildings they have to operate out of and you would see it right there. So we don’t have to create that perception in terms of look at Colville Lake, look at their health centre, look at the equipment they have there and the type of needs that are required there. All things like that in the other smaller communities. So this is the reality in our health care system. Again, there’s just different levels of services I guess in larger centres requiring more and more, I don’t know...

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Thank you. So is this a practice by this government to support these types of buildings that need improvements, or office space, or renovations, because I’m having a difficult time right now to know some double standards? So is this common practice that this building gets improved by this government to help out a landlord? Thank you.

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Mr. Chair, the funding for tenants’ improvement. Is that our own building or is that someone else who owns that building, the Great Slave Medical House?

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I heard once in a negotiation meeting that in order to get to the Promised Land you have to negotiate your way through the wilderness. So I'm hoping that Mr. Premier could negotiate us out of the wilderness to the Promised Land the North has always been looking forward to. So I want to ask the Premier, the Northern Strategy was much celebrated and a success of the Northwest Territories. I want to ask the Premier what's the status of the Northern Strategy. Thank you.

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my question is to the Premier, Premier Handley. I'd like to ask Premier Handley in terms of the territorial vision or the territorial next step in terms…For example, if we get the devolution agreement and if we get resource revenue sharing by the time this government finishes its term here, I'd like to ask the Premier what's the vision, what's the next step once we get devolution, once we get the resource revenue sharing, what's the vision? Where is the Premier leading us, Mr. Speaker?

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Thank you, Mr. Chair. Four point seven million dollars, when you look it, it's a big, huge pot when you're looking at the projects and authorities that were discussed. I believe at that time, we, Sahtu, were probably in the authority of the Inuvik Regional Health Board and now we've got our own health board. Certainly, we look at Inuvik as a big region; lots of needs there. It's negotiated so I really hope that this funding gets into the communities that desperately need improvements. Certainly we can really improve on the inadequate flow of doctors and nurses. Let's at least get a...

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This tenant improvement is being offset by revenue from the Government of Canada, I believe. The Minister gave some indication to Health Canada. We get funding from Health Canada to do tenant improvements or do pilot projects, as Ms. Lee indicated, from the earlier question where we're going to get information from the Minister in terms of the breakdown and the pilot project. I understand that this is one-time funding, but it seems like we're ongoing in terms of this type of funding. So do we have specific funding revenue from the Government of Canada to do projects like that? My question...

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Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, again, we’ve certainly seen some improvements needed in our smaller communities and it seems like it’s not getting some of the attention that is needed. I’m trying to follow this process here and some of these buildings that are needed in the communities that need improvements that doesn’t seem to make a good acceptable business case for Cabinet sometimes if they take it or leave it and then come back and say well it’s not their building, they won’t do anything to it or not their responsibility and it’s up to the landlords. So I’m having a hard time in terms...

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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. A leased building, so that’s not our building, it’s somebody else’s building?