Wendy Bisaro

I MOVE, seconded by the honourable Member for Thebacha, that, notwithstanding Rule 4, when this House adjourns on Thursday, May 19, 2011, it shall be adjourned until Wednesday, August 17, 2011;

AND FURTHER, that any time prior to August 17, 2011, if the Speaker is satisfied, after consultation with the Executive Council and Members of the Legislative Assembly, that the public interest requires that the House should meet at an earlier time during the adjournment, the Speaker may give notice and thereupon the House shall meet at the time stated in such notice and shall transact its business as it...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to address my questions to the Minister of MACA today, but in his absence I will address them to the Premier. I spoke in my statement about the NWT SPCA and the fact that this government really doesn’t put any priority on veterinary services and programs for our communities. The NWT SPCA is a possible organization which can be the conveyance to provide some of those services for our communities. So I’d like to ask the Premier what opportunities exist within our government for the NWT SPCA to access funds to help them build and operate an NWT animal shelter...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Members of this House may be aware of a recent national contest for project funding in which one of the winners was the NWT Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the NWT SPCA.

The SPCA received $300,000 from the Aviva Foundation and will use those funds to build an animal shelter in Yellowknife; a shelter which will provide services to all of the NWT.

The NWT SPCA is an organization run by volunteers. It works to provide homes for animals, to save and adopt out animals who are in distress, who have been left behind when their owners moved, or who are just no...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I want to use my Member’s statement to comment on an article from the Globe and Mail regarding health care that recently caught my eye. In Canada it’s generally assumed that universal health care -- and that means timely access to affordable health services -- improves the health of socially disadvantaged groups. Research performed at the Institute for Clinical Evaluation Services tested that assumption, but as published in the journal Health Affairs, the results of the study contradicts the assumption.

The research team found that people with low income and/or low...

Thanks to the Minister. So with the resources that you currently have in the Department of Justice, I’d like to ask the Minister, will he be able to hire the 11 students that they hired last year. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions are addressed to the Minister of Justice, and it’s no surprise there’s a bit of a theme going on here. My questions are also related to summer students. It’s well known that summer students can start to submit their resumes anytime, basically anytime after Christmas and into January. So I would assume that there are an awful lot of students who are well prepared and who do have their resumes in in January, February and March, but at this point in the year we’ve only hired about maybe not quite two-thirds of what we hired in total last year. It seems to be a...

I now have to ask the Minister, we’ve decided that it’s too expensive to remove anything, so what’s the next step. Are we going to leave those assets there until they totally rot into the ground 300 years from now? What’s the plan of the department to clean up this mine site?

I move the following motion:

WHEREAS our elders hold the wisdom, history and knowledge of our communities and our territory, and should be respected and honoured;

AND WHEREAS elder abuse, including physical, sexual, psychological and financial abuse and neglect is sadly a common and significant threat to seniors in our communities;

AND WHEREAS the International Network on the Prevention of Elder Abuse has proclaimed June 15 as World Elder Abuse Awareness Day;

AND WHEREAS the NWT Seniors’ Society has declared June 12th to 18th as NWT Elder Abuse Awareness Week;

AND WHEREAS proclamation of an NWT...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions today are addressed to the Minister for Municipal and Community Affairs. In October of last year I asked some questions of the Minister with regard to the removal of assets at the Treminco mine site and the clean-up of that mine site. He advised me in December that they were developing an RFP for the removal of assets and that we would have the results of that RFP by mid-April 2011. I would like to ask the Minister first off what the status is of the work in terms of removal of assets at the mine site.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I guess I have to take that as a no. So I’m really disappointed in Justice if they can’t meet or beat their last year’s goal. I’d like to know from the Minister if he could give us an idea of the number of students, out of these eight students, how many of them will be working in Yellowknife and how many will be working in communities outside of Yellowknife. Thank you.