Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is directed to the Minister for Health, and is related to the meeting I attended in Spence Bay. An important issue that came out at the meeting, Mr. Speaker, was about welfare recipients being penalized and further constrained in an already restricted lifestyle. I am told that when a welfare recipient can earn some money by carving for others, their assistance is reduced substantially. Sometimes the recipient wants to buy hunting equipment, a rifle, a snow machine, a boat, etc. and, when you walk around the community and visit homes, especially homes of people who depend on welfare, you can see that there is no furniture in those homes. Mr. Speaker, would the Minister look at the policy of provision in his department to make welfare assistance more flexible so that we could make life a little easier? Would the Minister look at the matter seriously? Thank you.
John Ningark on Question 7-12(3): Review Of Social Assistance Policy
In the Legislative Assembly on November 18th, 1992. See this statement in context.
Question 7-12(3): Review Of Social Assistance Policy
Item 5: Oral Questions
November 17th, 1992
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John Ningark Natilikmiot
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