Wendy Bisaro

Thanks to the Minister. Three or four bundles… Does a bundle equate to a fiscal year, or is this three or four bundles in the ‘15-16 fiscal year? Thanks.

The NWT income support policy in regards to RRSPs puts people into poverty and ensures that they stay there right through retirement and into old age.

Mr. Speaker, I will have some questions for the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment at the appropriate time. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. We will continue with Tabled Document 188-17(5), continuing with the Department of Transportation and then the Department of Executive. Thank you.

To say that these people, yes, they are living in the South; however, they lived here for a very long time. I think two out of the three I know for sure were here for 10 or 15 years. To make this change in the middle of an environmental assessment is what really concerns me. I don’t think that the Minister has accepted that.

In replacing these board members, what skillsets did he consider are needed for the board to do its job? What were they looking for in replacing these board members? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions today are to the Minister of Environment and Natural Resources. I would like to follow up on my statement and ask some questions about the action that’s going to be taken on replacing board members on the Ekati Independent Environmental Monitoring Agency Board.

In my experience, that board has done extremely good work. In my experience, as well, it is past practice to replace board members when they retire. It’s also my experience that the board has been relatively critical in doing their good work and sometimes forces the owner/operator, Ekati, to do some...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I want to give voice today to some concerns that arose yesterday after I learned of changes coming to the Ekati Independent Environmental Monitoring Agency Board.

As its name suggests, this is an independent organization, registered as a non-profit, a non-decision-making, non-management type of organization which provides advice to both the company, Ekati, and government, NWT and federal.

What caught my attention yesterday, what made me concerned, is a proposed action. Well, it is not proposed anymore, Mr. Speaker. It has been decided that three very experienced, very...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Minister may consider that it’s a natural break, but I think there are people who don’t consider replacing people in the middle of an environmental assessment is a natural break.

Thanks to the Minister for that information. I can’t argue against putting Northerners on boards. I agree with that, but I do have a large problem with the way this process was done. It suggests that these particular board members weren’t doing good work and I know that that’s not true.

So, in order to provide for continuity on the board, in order to find a good way to do it to ensure a smooth transition from one set of board members to another, because this is happening in the middle of an environmental assessment, I would like to ask the Minister if he consulted the board before this decision...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to recognize one of the Pages who has been working with us for the last couple of weeks, Raya Laframboise. She’s not in the House today, but she has been doing great work along with all the other Pages who have been working with us for this week and last week. I can’t see him, but I can’t not say hello to Mr. David Wasylciw. Welcome to the house, David. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I’m not sure if this is where I can ask about midwifery but I couldn’t find where else it might be. This talks about pregnant people, so I’m hoping midwives fit in here. I understand that the Minister had some questions, I think, about this earlier and we are making some changes to the plans for this year, some changes in the Beau-Del. The Minister has advised that, I think, in ’15-16 we’re going to be looking at a territorial program. I think he also advised that it’s simply going to be planning in the 2015-16 year, and in the next breath he says, yes, but they’re going...