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The Speaker Jeannie Marie-Jewell

Thank you. Supplementary, Mr. Ng.

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Kelvin Ng Kitikmeot

Madam Speaker, I'd like to ask, for these students, how are they financed to go through their teacher education program. Are there grants or loans or educational leave if they happen to have been government employees prior to that, or a combination of those methods? Thank you.

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The Speaker Jeannie Marie-Jewell

Thank you. Minister of Education, Culture and Employment, Mr. Nerysoo.

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Richard Nerysoo Mackenzie Delta

Thank you, Madam Speaker. It could be a combination of the method of financing, either through student financial assistance, or there's an additional loan program that has been approved previously by my Cabinet colleagues and it's assistance for the community teacher education primarily. The other issue is that in some cases, educational leave is given to some of the TEP students who have been part of the personnel of the department previously.

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The Speaker Jeannie Marie-Jewell

Thank you. Supplementary, Mr. Ng.

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Kelvin Ng Kitikmeot

Thank you, Madam Speaker. I'd like to ask the Minister if the teacher education program students are unsuccessful in completing their courses or if they are successful and decide to leave the Northwest Territories for whatever reasons, do they have to repay any portion of their grants, contributions or paid educational leave they might have received during the course of their education. Thank you.

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The Speaker Jeannie Marie-Jewell

Thank you. Minister of Education, Culture and Employment, Mr. Nerysoo.

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Richard Nerysoo Mackenzie Delta

Thank you, Madam Speaker. It all depends on the program that is being used. If there are aboriginal students who are part of the particular program, they have the normal grants and supplementary grants that are provided that are non-repayable. There is a forgivable loan that is provided to non-aboriginal, non-status people, but they must pay it back. That's normal practice under the present financial assistance that's given to students.

The other thing that was given was the whole issue of the forgivable loan and I believe that that is repayable if they don't reside in the Northwest Territories.

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The Speaker Jeannie Marie-Jewell

Thank you. Final supplementary, Mr. Ng.

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Kelvin Ng Kitikmeot

Thank you, Madam Speaker. I'd like to ask for non-aboriginal people who have been granted educational leave from their previous employment as government employees, if they left the Northwest Territories upon completion of this program, would they have to repay their educational leave. Thank you.

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The Speaker Jeannie Marie-Jewell

Minister of Education, Culture and Employment, Mr. Nerysoo.

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Richard Nerysoo Mackenzie Delta

Thank you, Madam Speaker. I'd have to report back to the honourable Member, but I do not believe that the educational leave program is repayable.

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The Speaker Jeannie Marie-Jewell

Thank you. Item 6, oral questions. The honourable Member for Baffin South, Mr. Pudlat.

Kenoayoak Pudlat Baffin South

(Translation) Thank you, Madam Speaker. This question is to the Minister of the Department of Transportation. I would also like to thank him for what he has done for me. In Cape Dorset, they don't have a rock crusher. They want to begin crushing rocks. Madam Speaker, I would like to ask the Minister of Transportation if his department would be able to provide a rock crusher for the community of Lake Harbour because the community has a shortage of gravel. I would like to know if his department would be willing to provide us with a rock crusher in Lake Harbour and when. Thank you.

The Speaker Jeannie Marie-Jewell

Minister of Transportation, Mr. Todd.

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John Todd Keewatin Central

Thank you, Madam Speaker. The question by the honourable Member would probably be more effectively handled through the granular program that Public

Works and MACA has, where they have a revolving fund which allows equipment to go into the community and to crush the kind of gravel the honourable Member is talking about and then stockpile it for community use, whether it's for the airports or on community roads.

I would advise the honourable Member that he put a request in to MACA and DPW for this granular program. It has worked fairly effectively in other communities and they'll establish a time when they can do it. That will then enable the community of Cape Dorset to have adequate crushed gravel for any projects. It was Cape Dorset, wasn't it? If he goes through MACA and DPW and applies for the granular program, they'll establish a schedule as to when they can do it. They will then be able to crush the gravel which will meet the requirements of that community at that time. I'd like to thank my honourable colleagues for helping me this morning. Thank you.

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The Speaker Jeannie Marie-Jewell

Thank you. Item 6, oral questions. The honourable Member for Yellowknife South, Mr. Whitford.

Tony Whitford

Tony Whitford Yellowknife South

Thank you, Madam Speaker. Madam Speaker, I have a question I would like to direct to the Minister responsible for heritage, I guess it could be, in the Northwest Territories. There has been a lot of concern about environmental clean-up in the last little while, there have been teams of people going about the north picking up garbage here and there, from old mine sites, exploration sites, old tourism areas, fishing camps and places like that.

But there has also been a concern expressed by the public that there are a lot of old mine sites that are of a historical nature, things that are part of our mining industry -- I think my colleague, Mr. Lewis, alluded to that last week -- that are of historical value for the tourism industry and just part of our history. I want to ask the Minister whether his department has made any effort to inventory old sites, be they whaling camps, mine or exploration sites, something of a historical nature, to determine their historical value and preservation requirements or destruction requirements, whatever. Has an inventory been taken?

The Speaker Jeannie Marie-Jewell

Minister of Education, Culture and Employment, Mr. Nerysoo.

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Richard Nerysoo Mackenzie Delta

Thank you, Madam Speaker. Generally, the responsibility for the whole matter of mine clean-up rests with the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs. However, what I will do and commit to the honourable Member is to get the appropriate information that he seeks in terms of finding out whether or not cataloguing is being done by the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs in conjunction with our heritage staff.

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The Speaker Jeannie Marie-Jewell

Thank you. Item 6, oral questions. The honourable Member for High Arctic, Mr. Pudluk.

Question 140-12(6): Process For Obtaining Bingo Licences
Item 6: Oral Questions

October 13th, 1994

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Ludy Pudluk High Arctic

Thank you, Madam Speaker. My question will be directed to the Minister of Safety and Public Services, Mr. Nerysoo. Some of the communities are complaining about getting bingo licences. Some of the communities don't know where to go or how to get their bingo licence. Who should they contact to get their bingo licence?

The Speaker Jeannie Marie-Jewell

Thank you. Minister of Safety and Public Services, Mr. Nerysoo.

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Richard Nerysoo Mackenzie Delta

Thank you, Madam Speaker. Just so that I can advise honourable Members, most of the responsibilities for lottery licensing has been delegated to the regional directors. In particular, Inuvik, Kitikmeot, Baffin and Keewatin. Yellowknife and the Fort Smith region are administered out of Yellowknife.

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The Speaker Jeannie Marie-Jewell

Thank you. Supplementary, Mr. Pudluk.