Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Yesterday I covered the good, the bad and the ugly. Today I want to take this last opportunity to speak to the House and use the prerogative that comes with my age to provide some advice to the Members of the 18th Assembly.
This Assembly has accomplished a lot, in spite of my negative comments yesterday. Work has been done, reports have been written, action plans developed, and I don’t want that work to get lost, so I will again subject the House to my views about what the 18th Assembly needs to follow up on.
First – and these are in no order of importance – the promised junior kindergarten review report and the recommendations that may come with it.
The promise of an energy efficiency act.
Universal daycare report and actions that should be taken with that.
The Aurora College report and actions that are contained therein.
Dechinta and College Nordique requests for inclusion in secondary school legislation.
Mental Health Act report recommendations and the Mental Health Act regulations.
Child and Family Services Act review and the recommendations from the Office of the Auditor General regarding the child and family services.
The Social Issues Committee of Cabinet’s Anti-Poverty Action Plan must not get lost.
The Our Elders: Our Communities report on seniors’ needs to be followed up on.
BDIC has had a program review. Were any actions taken on that?
Hydraulic fracturing regulations consultation. It must continue. It must. There must be consultation.
Health and Social Services recent quality assurance review and action plan that is apparently coming from that. Make sure it comes.
The Program Review Office work. Ensure that reviews are received and considered by committee.
Population Growth Strategy. Monitor the results and keep the government’s feet to the fire on that.
The Justice Action Plan regarding corrections from the Office of the Auditor General’s report.
The Education, Renewal and Innovation Strategy and Action Plan.
The Early Childhood Development Strategy and Action Plan.
Health and social services authorities amalgamation. Monitor it and make sure it happens correctly.
The Health Information Act implementation. Monitor it and make sure it happens correctly.
Ensure there’s a review of royalty regimes and taxation.
Find a way to get Heritage Fund legislation amendments done.
ENR and Lands have promised assessments for developments.
I seek unanimous consent to conclude my statement. That’s also not unusual.
---Unanimous consent granted
Thanks again, colleagues.
ENR and Lands have promised assessments for the developments that we have within the territory to chart the unknowns. Make sure that they’re done.
ENR and Lands have promised securities for those developments and liabilities to make sure that those happen and that we get the money that is deserved in order to clean up.
Climate Change Plan. The development of a Climate Change Plan is necessary.
Health and Social Services has promised us a Pharmaceutical Strategy.
The Human Rights Commission has done a wonderful review of the Human Rights Act. We need to make sure that amendments are followed through on.
Justice needs to bring forward legislation for an ombudsman, please.
Health and Social Services is promising Medical Travel Policy and Program changes. Follow up on those.
Education infrastructure and schools is lacking and the need to find some solutions to the court case, which has been ongoing forever.
The Mineral Development Strategy and the Economic Opportunities Strategies. Those are both well developed, but we need to monitor the actions that are going on in them.
Some of these are well developed; some of them just need monitoring; some are in development and need watching to make sure they happen. Some of them need to be developed. It’s a long list and it only covers my personal recollections of what needs to be done.
To the 18th Assembly I say, it’s a lot of work to do it right, but please roll up your sleeves and get ‘er done.
Finally, I’d like to say some thank yous that I didn’t include yesterday at my peril. Thank you very much to the staff of the Assembly. Mr. Bromley said it extremely well. All of the staff here are excellent and they have made our job, my job, our job much easier. To you, Mr. Speaker, thank you for your support. To my CAs, I’ve had three in the course of my eight years here and all three of them have been excellent support and excellent help for the work that I do.
Lastly, although not least, to my family and my friends who have provided support. I don’t have much family here, but I certainly have friends here and some of them are in the gallery and they have been extremely supportive and have made my job a lot easier. So, thank you all.
Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. The Member for Inuvik Boot Lake, Mr. Moses.
