Paul Delorey

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the other part of that question was is this fee charged as a flat fee, or is it based on a wide range of the articles being seized? The other question I had, Mr. Speaker, is if it is also common practice to have items that are seized stored somewhere and have storage fees accumulating on this item before it goes for sale. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my questions today are for the Minister of the Department of Justice, the Honourable Charles Dent. It’s to do with my Member’s statement and the process used for maintenance enforcement. I’m not going to get into any specific case, but just for the policy surrounding maintenance enforcement, first of all, Mr. Speaker, I would like the Minister to explain to me what the role of the sheriff is. Is the sheriff actually an employee of this government? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I will try and keep my comments very brief and to the motion. This is a very unfortunate incident that has taken place, but to me it is also a very simple issue that we are dealing with. I look across the Territories and I see every one of us in this House as role models to the Northwest Territories, and especially our youth. I see school policies being set down that are very firm with no second chances involved. You get caught drinking when you are on business and representing a school, and you are suspended. You pay for the crime that you have supposedly...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the part that gives me great concern when we’re adding fees to articles is I don’t know whether there’s any study done as to what articles are worthwhile seizing if there’s going to be a fee charged to it and then a daily rental or storage fee if it’s going to be there for two months. I would expect that with the amount of government property there is everywhere across the Territories, there must be a place that we can store this without accumulating daily fees. Why are we even bothering charging it if it’s not going to bring in any money for who it’s...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, as well, I’d like the Minister to inform the House of why there is a fee charged for when there are goods seized on behalf of a parent that is receiving maintenance enforcement, and in order to try and get some of that money the government or sheriff would move to seize some property. Why is there a fee charged for the seizure of that property? Is it a flat fee or is it based on how big the article is, what it’s worth? How does that work? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, today, I would like to address the situation that occurred recently to a single mom in Hay River, one that causes me a great deal of concern and raises many questions around maintenance enforcement. Mr. Speaker, the lady I refer to is a single mom with three children to support who has gone through the courts for some time for financial help. She is currently not receiving anything in the way of maintenance enforcement payments, as the father of the children is in arrears with maintenance enforcement.

Recently, Mr. Speaker, the sheriff’s office commenced...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I’m certainly happy that this issue has hit the floor of the House and I want to thank Mr. Allen and Mr. Yakeleya for bringing it forward. It’s amazing to me when as soon as this topic came up how Members are defending the system that we have with Ottawa right now. For four years I’ve been hearing about how terrible the arrangement that we have with Ottawa right now as to bettering our financial position and being able to have some control over our resources. Now that we’re bringing up a situation where there’s the possibility or notion that we should press...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I am glad to hear that the department is working on it and hope to have something come forward fairly quickly on this, but it is an issue that I think needs some public awareness on as well, because it leads to not only changes of identity, but also in losses in revenues, and people can access different things with different identities. So I think one of the big areas that is happening is that people tend to leave their driver's licence, their registration, their insurance cards in their vehicles, and the number of vehicles that are being stolen today...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, one of the issues that was brought up yesterday by my colleague, Mr. Hawkins, was drivers' licences, and the importance of us doing work to correct the problems with our drivers' licences. In following up with that, that is an area where a lot of theft is going on to get new identities, and our drivers' licences being plasticized leads to that quite easily. Can the Minister tell this House when his department is going to be coming forward with changes to our drivers' licences and, more importantly, when will we get to see what changes are being made...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I, as well, would like to welcome all the students here today and introduce the rest of them. I also would like to first start out by introducing two of my constituents who are chaperones with this group: Sheila Hachey and Barb Atwell. The rest of the students are Ann Marie Pynton, Tristan Campbell, Shaylynn Atwell, John Bob Herrington, Colton Yee, Mason Hachey, Lyndon Antoine, Steffon Beggair, Barry Buckley, Kali-Ann Butala, Raymond Chalifoux, Sheldon Farcy, Elizabeth Gullion, Kayla Hoff, Kandace Kimiksana, Shannon Lafferty, Kelly Larocque, Patrick...