Wendy Bisaro

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I thought we got rid of these last year, but apparently not. On this page we have $2.9 million-plus in other. It seems to be unidentified. I wonder if the Minister could explain if this is a mistake or if they intended to leave us in the dark about $3 million worth of expenses. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I move we report progress.

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Okay. So I guess that means when the ribbon is cut then the operations cease. Is that right? Thanks.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Instead of asking a question I would like to ask the Minister if I could get an explanation of how much money is used for fishing and for what purposes, what the programs are. I see marketing of fish here on this page and I asked some questions on the previous one and got totally lost. If I could simply get an outline of all the programs that pertain to fish, which ones are marketing, which ones are Fishermen’s’ Federation, et cetera. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In this case I don’t think it did work. The family had three weeks’ notice to try and pay off a $700 debt, give or take. It simply was not possible. The father was in school, the mother was on income support. I really need to ask the Minister, when an application comes forward, do the staff not look to find solutions as opposed to finding a way to deny the application?

I have to confess, I don’t know a lot about the Freshwater Fish Marketing Corporation, but I thought I understood some time ago that we were dealing with them in Winnipeg. If this is a territorial marketing corporation, are the employees northern or is it an organization that operates outside of the North? If that’s the case, why are we supporting it? Thank you.

I’d like to give the Minister a bit of a scenario which, unfortunately, occurred. A family was offered an apartment with Yellowknife Housing Authority. They ended the lease in their current place. Then a policy intervened and three weeks before the end of their current lease they were advised that, no, they had arrears and they had to pay the arrears before they could move into their new place. The response basically from Health and Social Services was that policy did not allow them to go into this place.

I’d like to ask the Minister, if this is a program of last resort, should staff members...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have a question here related to fisheries. I noted fisheries is mentioned on page 12-28 where it talks about programs to support fisheries and then it talks about commercial fisheries here in a contribution. In that fisheries is a federal responsibility and waters are a federal responsibility, can I get an explanation as to how we are involved in fisheries, why we are involved in fisheries if it really is the feds who ought to be looking after this? Thank you.

On the occasion of Education Week, I would like to salute the Commission Scolaire Francophone on their achievements, and I have to highlight and salute Ecole Allain St-Cyr, which sits in the riding of Frame Lake and provides excellent francophone education to the residents of Yellowknife. Thank you.

Okay, I wondered if that was why, but the Minister said most of the revenue. So if there is some revenue from parks, do we just sweep it under the mat, or is it recorded elsewhere? Thank you.