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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thanks again to the deputy. I have another question: I wonder if the Minister can give us the same type of detail that we've just heard on the Akaitcho land use plan? Thank you.
Marci cho, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I have questions for the Minister of Lands on the leases and taxes and rent or whatever the term is for land tenure. I'd like to ask the Minister if he would look at lowering the cost of land lease or rentals at least in the communities I represent. I don't know what the situations are in others. So I'd like to ask that question first. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'd like to ask the Minister or the department if the Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act has ever been amended since 1996? Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I'd like to ask the Minister how old the Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act is?
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I think the Minister and I are talking about two different things. What I am talking about here is I am trying to get the Minister to see the unfairness in a situation where we have a community that has employment rates in the 40 per cent, most people over the age of 65 living on Old Age Security; very few, if any, people in the small communities I represent actually have a pension that is, for example, a superannuation pension, something that gives them fairly decent income.
We are talking about people who are living on Old Age Security. There has never...
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I move that the Chair rise and report progress.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My first question, Mr. Chairman, is for the environmental cleanups that are occurring in and around the area here, the mines, I think one is called Bullmoose, the former mines. There might be seven of them. Is this the responsibility of this department? Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, can the Minister commit to providing human resource stats for Corrections pertaining to affirmative action, the three categories, Priority 1, 2, and 3, including senior management positions? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, if the homeless people are only waiting for a policy adjustment, I would like to ask the Minister: how long will these people remain homeless while the Minister is working on adjusting the policy? Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the thing that interests me with this department is the affirmative action numbers. I don't know what they are. In our business plan, it just indicates, although the Department of Justice indicates the whole GNWT. In the whole GNWT, 30 per cent of the hires or employees are Priority 1 candidates, and only 12 per cent of the public service in the GNWT is Priority 2. Fifty-six per cent of the government is Priority 3. What I hear is that certain sections of this department, Department of Justice, have lower numbers than that. I guess I am hoping, as we go...