Norman Yakeleya

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, committee. Mr. Chair, I want to ask a question on the project listing in tourism and parks regarding the Canol Heritage Park. I would certainly like to thank the Minister and the government for recognizing that this park is going to become a territorial park, hopefully within the years left within this government here. The beginning of this park has seen dollars in developing the park like we develop other parks in the Northwest Territories. I want to ask the Minister about the infrastructure going into the Canol Heritage Trail and the Canol Doi T’oh...

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Certainly, if we were a writer, I guess, and more willing, we would have, but you were on our side, so we really couldn’t move this here now that you’re on the other side there and moving this infrastructure budget for next year. I’d like to, I guess, just make some points here. Maybe the Minister, then, can help me here.

We have facilities that are used for this type of situation in the North here. So is that going to happen to all our facilities when people then start wanting to build around our facilities, that we’ve got to put up security fences, or next year or another couple years, five...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I MOVE, seconded by the honourable Member for Thebacha, that, notwithstanding Rule 4, when this House adjourns on October 24, 2013, it shall be adjourned until Monday, October 28, 2013;

AND FURTHER, that any time prior to October 28, 2013, if the Speaker is satisfied, after consultation with the Executive Council and Members of the Legislative Assembly, that the public interest requires that the House should meet at an earlier time during the adjournment, the Speaker may give notice and thereupon the House shall meet at the time stated in such notice and shall transact...

I certainly appreciate the Minister’s willingness to have more discussions with your colleagues on this issue. Is there any type of schedule or programming for the Department of ENR, through Arctic Energy Alliance, to look at workshops or meetings in Norman Wells to look at the different types of programs that could be available to help with the residents? Like I said, there are 27 people out of 159 that are making this conversion and this would greatly help the town on the natural gas situation.

I do appreciate the discretion on my question, and I will keep it to infrastructure. This is my last question here on the infrastructure that the Minister is going to be looking at. I’m asking for the infrastructure requirements to measure… Again, it has to do with the air quality, the measure of the greenhouse gas emissions, what type of infrastructure is going to be done in the Sahtu.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions are for the Minister of ENR. I would like to talk about the situation in Norman Wells. I was reading through the Biomass Energy Strategy document. It is very impressive. I want to ask the Minister in regards to the programs that are offered in the alternative use of energy and fuel in the Northwest Territories, can the Minister state to the House in regards to the programs that are now offered? Is it somewhere in this document that they can help the residents and the businesspeople in Norman Wells to look at conversion that is needed in this year before...

I appreciate that, and I appreciate the update from the Minister. I want to inquire into if there is any type of infrastructure going there in terms of the monitoring of the quality of the air in and around the area as well as looking forward for the oil and gas resources.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you, colleagues. A consistent and predictable response to bullying is desirable, but that is not the same thing as hard and fast, inflexible actions and discipline. In each community, the committee heard the desire to tune responses to the local environment and the case at hand. In short, education authorities, principals, teachers and students need a compatible set of integrated tools. Taken together, these tools should be delivered in the territorial code of conduct, safe schools policy guidelines and regulations attached to the Education Act.

Another consistent...

That’s good enough for me. Thank you.