Debates of October 17, 2016 (day 31)

October

2016

Session

18th Assembly, 2nd Session

Day

Speaker

Jackson Lafferty

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Members Present

Mr. Beaulieu, Mr. Blake, Hon. Caroline Cochrane, Ms. Julie Green, Hon. Jackson Lafferty, Hon. Bob McLeod, Hon. Robert McLeod, Mr. McNeely, Hon. Alfred Moses, Mr. Nadli, Mr. Nakimayak, Mr. O'Reilly, Hon. Wally Schumann, Hon. Louis Sebert, Mr. Simpson, Mr. Testart, Mr. Thompson, Mr. Vanthuyne

Assembly Members

Topics

Acknowledgement 11-18(2): Passing of Ruth Spence

Member's Statement on Constituency Activities Report, Summer 2016

Member's Statement on Film Screening of the Sun at Midnight

Member's statement on Water Management in Mackenzie Valley

Member's Statement on Canada Child Tax Benefit

Member's statement on Community Access Road Program

Member's statement on Yellowknife Chamber of Commerce 70th Anniversary

Member's Statement on Yellowknife Power Rates

Minister's Statement 80-18(2): Regional Recruitment Program

Minister's Statement 81-18(2): Minister Absent from the House

Question 327-18(2): Community Access Road Program

Question 328-18(2): Mackenzie Valley Highway Funding Proposal

Question 329-18(2): Income Assistance AND Canada Child Tax Benefit

Question 330-18(2): Power Generation Rates

Question 331-18(2): Northwest Territories Water Licence Decisions

Question 332-18(2): NWT Agricultural Strategy

Question 333-18(2): Highway No. 4 Construction and Safety Concerns

Question 334-18(2): Regional Recruitment Program

Question 335-18(2): Sale OF Former Treatment Centre Near Detah

Question 336-18(2): Calculation of Power Rate

Question 337-18(2): Junior Kindergarten Impacts on Aboriginal Head Start Program

Question 338-18(2): Norman Wells Reclamation Oversight Committee

Question 33918(2): Regional Recruitment Program

Tabled Document 149-18(2): 27th Annual Report 2015-2016 Victims Assistance Committee of the Northwest Territories

Tabled Document 151-18(2): Northwest Territories Liquor Commission 62nd Annual Report 20152016

Tabled Document 154-18(2): Yukon Department of Education Admission to French First Language Schools Policy

Statements

Acknowledgement 11-18(2): Passing of Ruth Spence

Julie Green

Yellowknife Centre

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to acknowledge the passing of my great friend and mentor Ruth Spence. Mrs. Spence was a force to be reckoned with from the time she arrived in Yellowknife. She was the first executive director of the YWCA in Yellowknife. She built the Y from a 12-bed home for single women to the 84 apartments at Northern United Place.

Mrs. Spence served several terms on the Yellowknife City Council, was chair of the Stanton Territorial Hospital, and the Yellowknife Health and Social Services Authority. She was honoured with one of the first Orders of the NWT last year. She lived the famous saying of another great Canadian woman, Agnes MacPhail: "Never apologize, never explain, just get the thing done and let them howl."