This is page numbers 183 - 213 of the Hansard for the 12th Assembly, 5th Session. The original version can be accessed on the Legislative Assembly's website or by contacting the Legislative Assembly Library. The word of the day was chairman.

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Further Return To Question 127-12(5): Criteria For Building New Schools
Question 127-12(5): Criteria For Building New Schools
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Richard Nerysoo Mackenzie Delta

Thank you, Madam Speaker. I would be a lot more careful than that. To be honest with you, Madam Speaker, and Members of this House, I think it would be premature to make the suggestion to the community that that is going to happen. I think the situation with our standards and criteria requires the support of my Cabinet colleagues before we proceed to give the impression to communities that that is, in fact, what is going to happen. There are some basic requirements we must meet and we will meet those needs with a view that, as has been pointed out to us on a number of occasions, where kindergarten classes are not as big as they should be and we are going to consider those as part of the design of new schools without the major changes. But it still requires the support overall because it is very substantive. We are going to deal with issues like child care programs in high schools and those decisions require the support of my colleagues.

Further Return To Question 127-12(5): Criteria For Building New Schools
Question 127-12(5): Criteria For Building New Schools
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The Speaker

Thank you. Final supplementary, Mr. Antoine.

Supplementary To Question 127-12(5): Criteria For Building New Schools
Question 127-12(5): Criteria For Building New Schools
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Jim Antoine Nahendeh

Mahsi, Madam Speaker. The people in your department work with communities to help design schools. I know they go into communities and meet with them to try to design the type of schools they are going to build in the community. It is based on the old criteria. Are your people going into communities and instructing the host communities that they might be changing the criteria, and once the criteria has been changed, perhaps some of the spaces in the schools are larger than originally planned? Thank you.

Supplementary To Question 127-12(5): Criteria For Building New Schools
Question 127-12(5): Criteria For Building New Schools
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The Speaker

Thank you. Minister of Education, Mr. Nerysoo.

Further Return To Question 127-12(5): Criteria For Building New Schools
Question 127-12(5): Criteria For Building New Schools
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Richard Nerysoo Mackenzie Delta

Thank you, Madam Speaker. It is certainly our intention to be more open in the way in which we are doing the planning for the schools. The honourable Member and Members in this House have pointed out to us the weaknesses of the existing standards and criteria. As such, we will review with each community their requirements and the circumstances for those requirements and add them as part of the project, so we don't have to go back next year to build an addition to what we perceive as a need for next year.

Further Return To Question 127-12(5): Criteria For Building New Schools
Question 127-12(5): Criteria For Building New Schools
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The Speaker

Thank you. Item 5, oral questions. The honourable Member for High Arctic, Mr. Pudluk.

Ludy Pudluk High Arctic

(Translation) Thank you, Madam Speaker. My question is directed to the wildlife Minister. For more than one year, near the community of Resolute Bay there has been a study on polar bears. The polar bears are tranquillized while they do their tagging. This has been an ongoing survey for quite some time now. My question is how long will this tranquillizer be in effect once it is put into the polar bear? I wonder if the people who were doing the study have given a report to the Minister of wildlife with regard to how long the tranquillizer will be in effect after it is put into the polar bear? Thank you, Madam Speaker.

The Speaker

Thank you. Minister of Renewable Resources, Mr. Kakfwi.

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Question 128-12(5): Duration Of Tranquillizer Effect On Polar Bears
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Stephen Kakfwi

Stephen Kakfwi Sahtu

Madam Speaker, the Department of Renewable Resources does some rather fascinating areas of research that are given a lot of credence internationally. Polar bear research is one of them. Having said that, it is an area that I haven't been briefed on in detail, but I have asked the department if they would prepare specific briefings on the research we do on polar bears, caribou, Barrenland Grizzly, Mountain Grizzly, Dall Sheep, muskox and other areas of research that are specific to our jurisdiction, which may be of interest to individual Members. So, in a week or so, we will be contacting individual MLAs and asking them if they would be prepared to spend an hour or so being briefed on different areas of research we have. Polar bear research was going to be one of the first ones, since it is an area that has received extensive questioning in previous sessions of the Legislative Assembly.

I have no technical knowledge of the kind of tranquillizers that are used to put down bears so they can be handled by researchers. But we can get the department to write the details of that response to the Member and it will be provided. Thank you.

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Question 128-12(5): Duration Of Tranquillizer Effect On Polar Bears
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The Speaker

Thank you. Item 5, oral questions. The honourable Member for Deh Cho, Mr. Gargan.

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Question 128-12(5): Duration Of Tranquillizer Effect On Polar Bears
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Samuel Gargan Deh Cho

Thank you, Madam Speaker. My question is to the Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs. It is with regard to something broadcast on CBC on Fort Resolution. On both occasions, at 12:30, the mayor in Fort Resolution was expressing a concern over the water treatment plant and the concern has been expressed over the radio to get the government's attention, but also the public's attention. Is the Minister aware of the situation, since no one seems to be too concerned about the situation in Fort Resolution.

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Question 128-12(5): Duration Of Tranquillizer Effect On Polar Bears
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The Speaker

Thank you. Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs, Mr. Arngna'naaq.

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Question 128-12(5): Duration Of Tranquillizer Effect On Polar Bears
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Silas Arngna'naaq Kivallivik

Thank you, Madam Speaker. Madam Speaker, I didn't catch the full question. I would ask his indulgence to ask the question again.

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The Speaker

Thank you. Mr. Gargan, can we ask you to put your question to Mr. Arngna'naaq again?

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Question 128-12(5): Duration Of Tranquillizer Effect On Polar Bears
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Samuel Gargan Deh Cho

Thank you, Madam Speaker. Perhaps I could wait for the answer tomorrow, once the Minister reviews the Hansard on what I said.

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Question 128-12(5): Duration Of Tranquillizer Effect On Polar Bears
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The Speaker

Mr. Gargan, the Minister didn't hear all of your question and he has asked you to repeat your initial question. He did not take your question as notice and it is not the responsibility of the chair to interpret your question and pose it to the Minister. So can you repeat your question for the Minister?

Samuel Gargan Deh Cho

Thank you, Madam Speaker. I will then repeat my question, if I can, as concisely as I did the first time. My concern was that this morning at 8:30 and again at 12:30, there was a CBC newscast regarding Fort Resolution, in which the residents have to boil their water and they cannot drink their water because of the amount of chlorine that is mixed with the water. The location of the water treatment plant is in the wrong place and the water intake pipes are also in an area where garbage and sewage is draining into it in the spring run-offs. There was a concern expressed. But there was also a concern expressed that officials in MACA are not doing anything to address this situation. So, since it was a public concern expressed by the residents, I believe it requires some public attention. I just asked the Minister of MACA whether or not he is aware of this situation and what he plans to do about it.

The Speaker

Thank you. Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs, Mr. Arngna'naaq.

Return To Question 129-12(5): Fort Resolution Water Treatment Plant
Question 129-12(5): Fort Resolution Water Treatment Plant
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Silas Arngna'naaq Kivallivik

Thank you, Madam Speaker. I apologize to the Member, I wasn't paying attention the first time he asked his question. I would also like to thank the Member for bringing this up. Water is something that is very important to our people in the Northwest Territories. At this point, I am not aware of the problem, but I will have the department investigate the problem and get back to the Member. Thank you, Madam Speaker.

Return To Question 129-12(5): Fort Resolution Water Treatment Plant
Question 129-12(5): Fort Resolution Water Treatment Plant
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The Speaker

Thank you. Supplementary, Mr. Gargan.

Supplementary To Question 129-12(5): Fort Resolution Water Treatment Plant
Question 129-12(5): Fort Resolution Water Treatment Plant
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Samuel Gargan Deh Cho

Thank you, Madam Speaker. Would the Minister of MACA also involve DPW in that investigation?

Supplementary To Question 129-12(5): Fort Resolution Water Treatment Plant
Question 129-12(5): Fort Resolution Water Treatment Plant
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The Speaker

Thank you. Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs, Mr. Arngna'naaq.

Further Return To Question 129-12(5): Fort Resolution Water Treatment Plant
Question 129-12(5): Fort Resolution Water Treatment Plant
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Silas Arngna'naaq Kivallivik

Thank you, Madam Speaker. Yes.

Further Return To Question 129-12(5): Fort Resolution Water Treatment Plant
Question 129-12(5): Fort Resolution Water Treatment Plant
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The Speaker

Thank you. Item 5, oral questions. The honourable Member for Amittuq, Mr. Allooloo.

Titus Allooloo Amittuq

Thank you, Madam Speaker. I would like to ask the Minister responsible for Renewable Resources about the issue that a Member for High Arctic raised concerning polar bears being put to sleep, then the doctors were going to try to determine how long the drug would stay with the polar bear. Since that answer is coming, I would like to ask the Minister, the department used to use PCP or a substance better known as angel dust, but I believe they no longer use that. Would the Minister be prepared to inform this House what sort of drug they use to put the polar bears to sleep? Thank you.