Paul Delorey

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, this issue has been before us before. We have heard talk about it before. I am wondering if the Premier could tell me if government does know how much it would cost if the government should change the name of the Northwest Territories to something else. Has there been a cost analysis done of what it would cost this government if that should happen? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, as I stated in my Member’s statement, the issue of name change for the Northwest Territories seems to have surfaced again, this time with our Senator, the Honourable Nick Sibbeston. I would like to ask our Premier if our government has a position on this issue, considering that we have heard from the public at least twice on this issue. Does our government have a position on whether we want to see a name change or not? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Mr. Dent.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, on that line, when we say we are going to review our tax effort, they are giving us one year off and giving us time to review it or they are willing to look at it. If they decide to readjust that what can we expect? Would it be $50 million a year if they decided to do away with the tax effort and if it did, what are the possibilities that these new revenues could maybe replace some of the reductions that the Minister has talked about for the next following two years, the $20 million each year for the next two years? Could that affect those reductions?...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Basically, the Minister just answered my question. I was wondering why community museums appear on page 9-19 and also on page 9-21. What separates that funding?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I suspect then that the way our MP laid out the figures this morning, she is probably stealing a couple of other MPs' thunder because when she speaks of northern Canada, or when the federal government talks about monies coming to northern Canada, what area are they talking about? Is the Finance Minister aware of what area they talk about? Is it just the three territories, is it northern BC, northern Ontario, northern Quebec, how big is northern Canada? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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Thank you, Madam Chair. On the bottom paragraph where the Minister states In addition to the federal funding over $2.6 million, we propose another $2.29 million. That includes an additional $100,000 to the support of establishing two language boards. Is that $100,000 the total expenditure for those two languages boards? How does that play into that? Is there more money out of this $2.29 million that's going to be going into the operation, the running, whatever, of the languages board, or is the rest of it actually going to be going into programs? Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you, colleagues. Although the money is not totally in our hands, there is a lot of money earmarked with DIAND for the North and the Northwest Territories. I think it is incumbent to us to keep the fire on DIAND to make sure that we get as many of those resources in the Northwest Territories as we possibly can. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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Thank you, Madam Chair. Then I guess I was reading this a little wrong, because I was thinking this 620/872 as the total enrollment in the schools, but I take it this is just aboriginal students then. Okay. My next question would be what does it look like in the total population of kids? In the enrollment in high schools in general are we seeing more kids entering the high school and going on to graduation? Do you track those figures at all, and how is that looking? Are we constantly improving in that area, as well? Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I have a few comments on the Minister's opening remarks. I was going to talk about the early childhood development program, but it has been addressed quite extensively already and I am sure the Minister has gotten the message that that's a program that everybody is hesitant to see disappear. I know that the Minister will do whatever he can to find funds to keep that program going. But I was wondering if the Minister could maybe expand a little bit more when we're giving numbers out how they relate to actuals, how we can see where the system is improving. For...