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Debates of , 18th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 68)

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. As I mentioned in my statement yesterday, they were getting into the season of winter road closure and looking forward to the barging season. Our session will start at the end of May and, just weeks prior to that or after that, we’ll get into the sailing season. My question is to the Minister of Public Works on the sailing and preparation steps here for the barging season: what sailing schedules, if any, have been done so far for the Sahtu communities? Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.

Debates of , 18th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 67)

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I, too, would like to thank the committee for their work and efforts put into this and, admirably, I respect my friend and colleague from the Deh Cho in sharing his experiences and heartfelt statement. I truly continue and will support him, and I respect everybody's words and wise words of thought and statements. So rather than re-state them in my own presentation, I endorse everybody's statement and respect the rights of the voters, and to respect the rights of the voters I just don't see myself supporting this motion here. Keeping in mind, I do not want to see my...

Debates of , 18th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 67)

I thought I was at number 5. Excuse me. Yes, I welcome the invitation from the Minister. As part of the invitation, would he provide some information on the cancer proceedings on a preliminary diagnostic assessment?

Debates of , 18th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 67)

I welcome the response from the Minister. My next question on that phase of medical checkup, if you want to call it, on the principle of quality control is: is this practice being monitored on an appointment-by-appointment case at the end of the month?

Debates of , 18th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 67)

I, too, Mr. Speaker, will talk about carnivals, but it wasn't coordinated, just for everybody's reference.

Mr. Speaker, signs of spring are here, and longer daylight. The Sahtu residents are using this last month of winter ice road usage to visit friends and relatives outside the region, restocking of groceries and dry goods and materials, participation in other region's events, like the Hay River carnival, the Fort Simpson carnival, and the upcoming Hand Games Tournament in Behchoko this weekend.

Mr. Speaker, the same could be said by this government on fuel resupplies, project readiness, or...

Debates of , 18th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 67)

Thank you, Mr. Chair. To the amendment. Taking into account the integrity of this institution and listening to my colleague across the way who has legal background and looking at the amendment and the wording on exceptional circumstances, that could be defined in several ways, if passed, could go against the integrity of this institution to use something so vague that would be caught up in litigation for several weeks or several months depending on the court's schedule to really define what is exceptional. By that time, two Assemblies may have passed. To me, it doesn't strengthen the integrity...

Debates of , 18th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 67)

I welcome the Minister's invitation. As we all know, we live in a small area and communication is really fast, faster than RC's fibre link for example.

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The fearful word we are commonly hearing now, and I have experienced it quite frequently on requests for medical services, is the word cancer. In some cases, the medical staff are saying, “Here is a jar of Tylenol. Go home and come back later” kind of thing, just to summarize it up. Later on, as tests are --

Debates of , 18th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 67)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions today are for the Minister of Health and Social Services. What premedical diagnosis policy is in place for patients coming into the average community health centre, for example? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Debates of , 18th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 66)

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I recall a number of years ago when the immigration funding established the Aurora Fund to provide venture capital for enterprises an private communities. In particular, there were quite a large amount of applications going towards air travel supports, expansion of existing chopper companies, airplane companies. As a result of that movement on capitalization to the opportunity and flexible terms of the immigration fund called the Aurora Fund, we saw the creation of some new companies. What my question is: is given the fact that they're still operating today, are our lease...

Debates of , 18th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 66)

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. Can we expect this material information to come to our side prior to the next session? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.