Paul Delorey

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just a few short comments. Some of these comments were brought up in our committee report, but I just wanted to ask a couple of questions anyway. I wanted to ask on the $120,000 increase in grant-in-kind equal to the value of interest of non-negotiated settlement and that is due to diamond manufacturing companies. This is an issue that has come up and there has been some concern raised about how a company could negotiate a settlement for this. I know from hearing about this that the government is probably caught between a rock and hard place, as far as getting...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, seeing as today is Friday, I would like to close out the week with a good-news story. What I am referring to, Mr. Speaker, is the recent announcement by the Minister of Justice that Ms. Bernadette Schmaltz has been appointed as a judge to the territorial court and she will be residing in Hay River.

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, as I noted in my Member’s statement as well, this is a hardship for some folks that have a family and if they are not getting this record they can’t draw employment insurance. So could I get a commitment from the Minister that he will communicate that to all of the departments to try and speed this process up so that we rectify this problem? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As I stated in my Member’s statement, the rules under HRDC are that records of employment have to be submitted within five days of the termination of employment. Do those rules apply to the territorial government? Are they the same as they are for other employers? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, today I rise to draw attention to an apparent problem that has arisen within our government. The problem I refer to, Mr. Speaker, is the fact that several of my constituents have waited an inordinate amount of time for their record of employment from our government.

As most people are aware, Mr. Speaker, a record of employment is required by Human Resources Development Canada in order for a person to qualify for unemployment benefits. Mr. Speaker, in the employment insurance guide issued by HRDC it states that a record of employment must be issued within...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would certainly encourage the department to do everything they can from internal sources to look at the problem areas in the Liquor Act and see what changes we can make. I know that a lot of the things that are in the Liquor Act now probably would have a lot more impact on residents just if they were enforced. We hear about it on the radio quite often now where they are starting to enforce the Liquor Act a little bit more to establishments that serve alcoholic beverages and that sort of thing. I don’t think we have to go to multi hundred thousand dollar reviews to...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I don’t know if any penalties or fines that are levied ever do have to go through the court before they are paid, but if there was a fine associated with the Liquor Commission that had to go through a court system and there was a fine established, then would it go to general revenues or go back into the revolving fund?

Thank you, Madam Chair. In the area of our fiscal arrangement with Canada on the formula financing agreement, I know that we are in the process of renegotiating that. I don’t know what the timelines are or where we are in finalizing that, but I would like the Minister to tie in…The first bullet is finalizing the discussion with Finance Canada and changes to the formula financing agreement, then the fourth and fifth paragraph deals with providing taxation for formula financing input and resource revenue sharing discussions with Canada and aboriginal governments. There are two bullets that...

Thank you, Madam Chair. Just a few comments. Everybody is tying the opening comments and the budget together. I just wanted to mention a few things. The Minister is right when he says that yesterday was the first step, especially in these initiatives for revenue generating by putting it out there in the budget. It seemed to be accepted fairly well yesterday, I didn’t hear too much in the Great Hall afterwards.

However, I did get about three calls today that are very concerned about the government starting to introduce taxes. As soon as you mention taxes, we can do all of the explaining we...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, do the records of employment all come from FMBS for the Government of the Northwest Territories or do other departments put them out? Do they all come through the same department? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.