Thank you. The honourable Minister, Mr. Todd.
Debates of May 28th, 1997
This is page numbers 1157 - 1192 of the Hansard for the 13th Assembly, 4th 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 communities.
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Further Return To Question 477-13(4): Settlement Allowance For Unionized Employees
Question 477-13(4): Settlement Allowance For Unionized Employees
Item 6: Oral Questions
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The Deputy Speaker John Ningark
Further Return To Question 477-13(4): Settlement Allowance For Unionized Employees
Question 477-13(4): Settlement Allowance For Unionized Employees
Item 6: Oral Questions
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John Todd Keewatin Central
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I do apologize. I will answer that question because now I read my notes properly. My understanding is that right now it is in justice and there are grey areas, so at this time I would not be in a position to respond, in a definitive way, to my honourable colleague as to how this issue is going to progress. Thank you.
Further Return To Question 477-13(4): Settlement Allowance For Unionized Employees
Question 477-13(4): Settlement Allowance For Unionized Employees
Item 6: Oral Questions
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The Deputy Speaker John Ningark
Thank you. Final supplementary, Mr. Miltenberger.
Supplementary To Question 477-13(4): Settlement Allowance For Unionized Employees
Question 477-13(4): Settlement Allowance For Unionized Employees
Item 6: Oral Questions
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Michael Miltenberger Thebacha
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It is gratifying to see the decisive nature of the Minister for FMBS as he quickly comes to grips with this complicated matter and shuffles through his briefing notes. The issue of it being a grey matter before the Department of Justice, does that have the same legal weight as you cannot talk about it because it is before the courts? Or you cannot talk about it because it is in the arbitration process? Is this a new generic umbrella phrase which we could park a whole number of issues? Thank you.
Supplementary To Question 477-13(4): Settlement Allowance For Unionized Employees
Question 477-13(4): Settlement Allowance For Unionized Employees
Item 6: Oral Questions
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The Deputy Speaker John Ningark
Thank you. Mr. Todd.
Further Return To Question 477-13(4): Settlement Allowance For Unionized Employees
Question 477-13(4): Settlement Allowance For Unionized Employees
Item 6: Oral Questions
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John Todd Keewatin Central
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I agree with my colleague. Thank you.
Further Return To Question 477-13(4): Settlement Allowance For Unionized Employees
Question 477-13(4): Settlement Allowance For Unionized Employees
Item 6: Oral Questions
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The Deputy Speaker John Ningark
Thank you. The honourable Member for Mackenzie Delta, Mr. Krutko.
Question 478-13(4): Flood Preparedness Plan For Aklavik
Item 6: Oral Questions
May 27th, 1997
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David Krutko Mackenzie Delta
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is for the Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs, Manitok Thompson. It is in regards to my opening statement about being pro-active versus being reactive in relation to floods, especially in relation to Aklavik. As you know, right now Aklavik is on flood watch. Are there emergency measures and a plan in place to protect the residents of Aklavik and also the buildings and infrastructure in the community, such as private property and government property, such as the water treatment plant, the airport, the hospital, and the housing corporation residents?
I would also like to ask the Minister that they work along with the community to ensure that an adequate plan is in place that not only looks at the planning process, but looks at what infrastructure can be built in that community to protect it against floods that may occur in the next couple of years. The last big flood was five years ago and I think we have seen that it is a better strategy to ensure there is adequate infrastructure built to protect the community, such as drainage systems and dykes, or rims that can be built around the community to protect it when a flood occurs.
I would like to ask the Minister, along with her department, if she can assure me that the adequate human resources will be in place with individuals from the Emergency Measures Department, the Department of Public Works and also her Department to ensure that they look at the whole question of infrastructure to protect the community against floods and the possibility of having the adequate funds identified through the committee that has been established in Aklavik to work with the community. Thank you.
Question 478-13(4): Flood Preparedness Plan For Aklavik
Item 6: Oral Questions
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The Deputy Speaker John Ningark
Thank you. There were a number of questions. The honourable Minister for Municipal and Community Affairs, Madame Thompson.
Return To Question 478-13(4): Flood Preparedness Plan For Aklavik
Question 478-13(4): Flood Preparedness Plan For Aklavik
Item 6: Oral Questions
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Manitok Thompson Aivilik
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. There seems to have been a lot of questions asked on the issue of flooding in Aklavik. I can say that my staff has been monitoring the flood in Aklavik daily and we are doing everything we can to help the community. The community seems to be satisfied with the initiatives that we have put in place for the emergency measures in regards to the flood in Aklavik. It has not been an extreme emergency situation as yet, but we are monitoring it every day. Now, in regards to infrastructure, there is no new money coming for building, I think he said a new hospital? We will investigate dykes and drains further, but I have not had any serious concerns from the community as to what infrastructure they want. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Return To Question 478-13(4): Flood Preparedness Plan For Aklavik
Question 478-13(4): Flood Preparedness Plan For Aklavik
Item 6: Oral Questions
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The Deputy Speaker John Ningark
Thank you, Madame Thompson. Supplementary, Mr. Krutko.
Supplementary To Question 478-13(4): Flood Preparedness Plan For Aklavik
Question 478-13(4): Flood Preparedness Plan For Aklavik
Item 6: Oral Questions
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David Krutko Mackenzie Delta
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. To clarify my position on developing infrastructure, I was looking more in line of developing a protective regime in the community to protect the assets that are presently there, such as the water treatment plant which is pretty close to the river system so if flood water goes over the bank, there is something there to protect that infrastructure instead of just having it sit on a flat surface. The same thing for the drainage systems in the community, if there is some plan in place to ensure that the drainage system that is there can take a flood by allowing the water to run out of the community rather then over the roads and whatnot, so if she can get her department to look at those particular infrastructure aspects of the community. Thank you.
Supplementary To Question 478-13(4): Flood Preparedness Plan For Aklavik
Question 478-13(4): Flood Preparedness Plan For Aklavik
Item 6: Oral Questions
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The Deputy Speaker John Ningark
Thank you. Madame Thompson.
Further Return To Question 478-13(4): Flood Preparedness Plan For Aklavik
Question 478-13(4): Flood Preparedness Plan For Aklavik
Item 6: Oral Questions
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Manitok Thompson Aivilik
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I will have my department look into the problem and see what we can do. We have been monitoring the flood in Aklavik and the department is looking into it daily. I have not had any serious concerns from the department in regards to the Aklavik situation. We are doing everything we can to help them. I think we have also evacuated the elders and some children from what I gather. We are doing everything we can to help the situation and we will work with the Member in his community. Thank you.
Further Return To Question 478-13(4): Flood Preparedness Plan For Aklavik
Question 478-13(4): Flood Preparedness Plan For Aklavik
Item 6: Oral Questions
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The Deputy Speaker John Ningark
Thank you. Second supplementary, Mr. Krutko.
Supplementary To Question 478-13(4): Flood Preparedness Plan For Aklavik
Question 478-13(4): Flood Preparedness Plan For Aklavik
Item 6: Oral Questions
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David Krutko Mackenzie Delta
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would also like to ask the Minister if it is possible for her department to maybe contact the Canadian Armed Forces in regards to their expertise in flood control after doing such an excellent job in Manitoba in relation to that flood, so that you could coordinate the emergency measures with the military and also with this government to ensure adequate arrangements are made to protect the residents and communities when events such as floods happen in the Northwest Territories? Thank you.
Supplementary To Question 478-13(4): Flood Preparedness Plan For Aklavik
Question 478-13(4): Flood Preparedness Plan For Aklavik
Item 6: Oral Questions
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The Deputy Speaker John Ningark
Thank you. Madame Thompson.
Further Return To Question 478-13(4): Flood Preparedness Plan For Aklavik
Question 478-13(4): Flood Preparedness Plan For Aklavik
Item 6: Oral Questions
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Manitok Thompson Aivilik
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I know the department is doing everything they can to help Aklavik. If it becomes an extreme emergency such as the Manitoba flood, then we will look into the other ideas that the Member is suggesting, but right now we are satisfied with the emergency measures plan that we currently have in Aklavik. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Further Return To Question 478-13(4): Flood Preparedness Plan For Aklavik
Question 478-13(4): Flood Preparedness Plan For Aklavik
Item 6: Oral Questions
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The Deputy Speaker John Ningark
Thank you. Final supplementary, Mr. Krutko.
Supplementary To Question 478-13(4): Flood Preparedness Plan For Aklavik
Question 478-13(4): Flood Preparedness Plan For Aklavik
Item 6: Oral Questions
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David Krutko Mackenzie Delta
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am not exactly clear with the Minister's response. The point I am trying to make is if there is a committee in place in Aklavik, because of the circumstances that we are in to date, I believe it will be easier to deal with the whole question of flooding and whatnot because there is a committee to look at that, and if it is possible for your people within your department to deal with this, in regards to the emergency measures plan, to sit down with the community as soon as possible to look at the whole question about flooding while it is still current? Thank you.
Supplementary To Question 478-13(4): Flood Preparedness Plan For Aklavik
Question 478-13(4): Flood Preparedness Plan For Aklavik
Item 6: Oral Questions
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The Deputy Speaker John Ningark
Thank you. Madame Thompson.
Further Return To Question 478-13(4): Flood Preparedness Plan For Aklavik
Question 478-13(4): Flood Preparedness Plan For Aklavik
Item 6: Oral Questions
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Manitok Thompson Aivilik
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We have been monitoring the community and working with the community. We are doing everything we can to help the community and I will investigate this further and get a full briefing on the flooding in Aklavik. We will work with the committee. I know the department has already been working with the community and the committee in Aklavik. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Further Return To Question 478-13(4): Flood Preparedness Plan For Aklavik
Question 478-13(4): Flood Preparedness Plan For Aklavik
Item 6: Oral Questions
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The Deputy Speaker John Ningark
Thank you, Madame Thompson. Oral questions. The honourable Member for Iqaluit, Mr. Picco.
Question 479-13(4): Nwtel Rate Increase
Item 6: Oral Questions
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Edward Picco Iqaluit
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my question is regarding my Member's statement on NorthwesTel. My question is for the Minister of Communications regarding the Northwest Territories' submission to the CRTC. Mr. Speaker, as one of the largest customers of NorthwesTel, this government will be dramatically affected by any NorthwesTel rate increase to local service costs. Will this government be appearing as an intervener on the NorthwesTel CRTC application? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Question 479-13(4): Nwtel Rate Increase
Item 6: Oral Questions
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The Deputy Speaker John Ningark
Thank you. The Honourable Mr. Arlooktoo.