Paul Delorey

Thank you, Madam Chair. When you put out a figure of 620 and 872 for enrolments in community high schools, it would probably be easier to ask which ones are not included in this figure. Yellowknife wouldn't be for sure and probably not Hay River. What schools wouldn't be involved in this figure? It would probably be far less than are not involved than what would be involved. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Pokiak. Mr. Dent.

Thank you, Mr. Pokiak. Mr. Dent.

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. I didn’t hear too many questions. Did you want to respond Mr. Dent?

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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