Richard Edjericon

Member Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh

Richard Edjericon was first elected to represent the district of Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh in by election during the 19th Assembly in 2022 and was re-elected to the 20th Assembly later the next year.

A descendant of Treaty 8 Chipewyan signator Chief Oliver Edjericon, Richard Edjericon was born and raised in Little Buffalo River near Fort Resolution. He attended Diamond Jenness Secondary High School in Hay River and Akaitcho Hall in Yellowknife.

Obtaining his journeyman carpenter’s certification from Thebacha College in Fort Smith, Mr. Edjericon has nearly four decades of experience as a journeyman certified carpenter working through out the Northwest Territories and Nunavut in residential and commercial construction.

Eventually his work in construction brought him to the Northwest Territories Housing Corporation as the North Slave Maintenance Coordinator. He would also become the General Manager for the Yellowknives Dene First Nation Housing Division.

Mr. Edjericon’s dedication to his community led him to seek the position of Elected Head Chief for Dettah and the Yellowknives Dene First Nation, holding that office from 1999 to 2003. He also became the Acting Grand Chief Spokeperson on behalf of the Akaitcho Chiefs for the Akaitcho Territory Government. He later joined the Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact Review Board in 2007 and soon became chair, reappointed to this position in 2011.

Mr. Edjericon’s proudest moments include settling boundary disputes, signing political accords, creating fairer nation to nation relationships, and fostering economic development. As MLA he brings with him a passion for a fairer, more prosperous North, and a great depth of knowledge in housing, economics, and politics. He lives in Ndilo with his wife, Aleida.”

Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh Electoral District

Committees

Accountability and Oversight
Board of Management
Government Operations
Tu Nedhé - Wiilideh
Member's Office

Yellowknife NT X1A 2L9
Canada

P.O. Box
1320
Email
Email
Phone
867-767-9143
Extension
12185
Mobile
867-446-1335
Constituency Office
Email
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Phone
867-446-2564

Statements in Debates

Question 996-19(2): Housing
Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 103)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Can the Minister of Housing provide me the detailed housing assessment to bring homes out of core need for all homes in the Tu NedheWiilideh riding? Mahsi.

Member’s Statement 1003-19(2): Housing
Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 103)

Member statement's addressing core need for Tu NedheWiilideh riding.

Mr. Speaker, today I want to talk about housing in my region. I know this is a priority for this government and also a priority for myself. There are many issues with housing in the Tu NedheWiilideh but today I will focus on improving core need.

Mr. Speaker, if a house is not suitable, adequate, or affordable, it's considered in core need. Unfortunately, Mr. Speaker, in the NWT, our statistics on core need are heading in the a wrong direction. In 2014, almost 20 percent of the homes in the NWT were in core need and the latest...

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 101)

Thank you, Madam Chair. I'll just I have another question on the capital plan but I'll do it another another time I guess.

I want to go to page 60. In the authority allocation, it talks about fulltime positions. Here we got a 1047 positions. I'd like to ask the question in regards to the Minister in terms of what percentage is Northerners, southerners, and Indigenous? Thank you, Madam Speaker.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 101)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'd like to recognize my wife Helen Edjericon. She's also working on her master of education, and she also received a scholarship for her master program. My wife, Helen Edjericon.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 101)

Well, no, I thank you, Madam Chair. I'll just wait for his rely on that statement that was made in the House here. I have other questions but I can wait another day to get that. Thank you.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 101)

Thank you, Madam Chair. On page 59, I'm just curious in regards to the school in Dettah, I don't have the capital plan in front of me but I would like to ask the Minister where in the capital plan is they're planning to build a new school in Dettah? Thank you, Madam Chair.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 99)

This is, I mean March 1st, COVID free and, this is great. I just want to also recognize a translator from our community as well. She's not up there but I just want to recognize Mary Rose Sundberg from our community from Dettah. She's also a translator here, mahsi. Tom Unka, also from Fort Resolution, and he's also a translator here as well. Mahsi.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 99)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I just want to recognize respected elder from our community of Fort Resolution. I want to recognize Terry Villeneuve. I can't see her, but she's a former president of the Native Women's Association of the NWT. She also served on the Dene Nation Elder Council. She served as a chairperson on the AFN Women's Council at the national level. Ms. Villeneuve is retired and lives in Fort Resolution with her daughter Cindy Villeneuve.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 99)

I also have another Member from the community of the N'dilo. I want to recognize Shirley Tsetta. She served on the Yellowknives Dene First Nation for three terms. She was a YKDFN community negotiator. She's also served as a secretarytreasurer of the Native Women's Association of the NWT. She also worked with all three mines Ekati, Diavik, De Beers to help implement the socioeconomic agreement. And she's my C.A. Please welcome Shirley Tsetta.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 98)

Thank you, Madam Chair. Again, I want to keep talking about housing and in our community, housing's a big issue, like I mentioned a few days ago. And I can't emphasize enough of it. I used to sit on the AFN housing committee going back to 1999, and at the national level we were about 45,000 housing short across Canada. Here in the Northwest Territories, back then, we were about 4500 homes short. And these numbers had no place but to go up. And I'm not really sure what it is today in that respect. But I wanted to touch on one thing that that was talked about here earlier is that and I...