Rocky Simpson
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Thank you, Madam Chair. Yeah, the other thing about the ferries too is, like, they are all aged and, you know, and to keep them up to I suspect Transport Canada regulations is probably fairly cumbersome and I suspect costly, especially if you're using, you know, southern firms to do the work.
So, you know, is there any plans in the future, I guess, to either build a new ferry or do any really major retrofits? My understanding is that maybe we continue to do retrofits as I when I go through the budget I see that. So I'm just wondering, you know, kind of where we're at with that as they kind of...
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, when questioned last week about treatment centres for the NWT, the Minister of Health stated: "If there is a need for more bricks and mortars healing, then that needs to be a priority of this Assembly and it's something that we need to talk about together."
Mr. Speaker, one of this government’s mandate items is to: "Increase the number and variety of culturallyrespectful communitybased mental health and addictions programs, including aftercare."
Mr. Speaker, this mandate item directs government to consider communitybased mental health and addictions programs...
Thank you, Madam Chair. I just want to change up here a bit, and I want to talk about the or the ferries. And I'd like to talk I guess about specifically the Abraham Francis. My understanding is that vessel is only rated at 40,000 kg so this limits the number of loads the weight and loads coming across whereas you got the Louis Cardinal, which is closer to Inuvik, and it's rated for 64,000 kg.
So my understanding is that is it possible my understanding it is possible to lengthen the Abraham Francis which would then allow you to increase that to 64 which will make it a lot better to a lot...
Thank you, Madam Chair. I guess I'll just have to I guess work with my colleague from the Deh Cho and we'll have to push that, and also colleague from Thebacha. Can't forget her. And try and get some of the Metis organizations to maybe access some of that funding. Thank you. That's just a comment. Thank you. That's all.
Thank you, Madam Chair. And I thought I saw somewhere on there that with respect to repairs to the equipment that was purchased from NTCL that there was that was part of the reason for the losses? Can you speak to that a bit. Because there is you know, there was a lot of equipment that was purchased, and I'm just not sure how you know, how much of it has actually been used for operations. Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you, Madam Chair. You know, I know that, you know, we've got artists out there, you know, and some of them have passed on, like Don Cardinal; we have, you know, other ones there as well, like, Antoine Mountain, Archie Beaulieu; we got Colinda Cardinal; we've got, you know, Sonny MacDonald, and, you know, they've got you know, they've got well, we see his work sitting here near the Speaker's chair. And I think that it's you know, we could we talk about that, you know, that you know, the the museum can provide supports but we've talked about that for a couple years, and I still see...
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Thank you, Madam Chair. I guess the reality is that we know this isn't going to happen overnight. It's not going to happen this month. It's not going to happen this year. It's probably not going to happen within the next five years. But what can happen is that we have to develop a plan, a longterm plan, to ensure that we're looking at the whole the whole of the issue and make sure that that plan is in place, because, you know, we're going to be short you know, to make this happen, we don't have we don't have the resources. We don't have the labour here. You know, we don't have the...
Thank you, Mr. Martin. Member.
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