Ms. Thompson.
Debates of May 27th, 1998
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Supplementary To Question 563-13(5): Meeting On Keewatin Pilot Project
Question 563-13(5): Meeting On Keewatin Pilot Project
Item 6: Oral Questions
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The Speaker Samuel Gargan
Further Return To Question 563-13(5): Meeting On Keewatin Pilot Project
Question 563-13(5): Meeting On Keewatin Pilot Project
Item 6: Oral Questions
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Manitok Thompson Aivilik
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I should have said there is no new money on top of what is allocated to the communities. We are just working with the figures that are within those communities. There is no extra money going into that pilot project. It is just a proposal. It is an idea. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Further Return To Question 563-13(5): Meeting On Keewatin Pilot Project
Question 563-13(5): Meeting On Keewatin Pilot Project
Item 6: Oral Questions
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The Speaker Samuel Gargan
Oral questions. Final supplementary, Mr.
Barnabas.
Supplementary To Question 563-13(5): Meeting On Keewatin Pilot Project
Question 563-13(5): Meeting On Keewatin Pilot Project
Item 6: Oral Questions
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Levi Barnabas High Arctic
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, then why did the Minister, in our last Baffin Leaders' Summit, make a presentation on this Keewatin Pilot Project and yet never made a presentation to Baffin leaders on the same project?
Supplementary To Question 563-13(5): Meeting On Keewatin Pilot Project
Question 563-13(5): Meeting On Keewatin Pilot Project
Item 6: Oral Questions
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The Speaker Samuel Gargan
Ms. Thompson.
Further Return To Question 563-13(5): Meeting On Keewatin Pilot Project
Question 563-13(5): Meeting On Keewatin Pilot Project
Item 6: Oral Questions
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Manitok Thompson Aivilik
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. At the last Baffin Leaders' Meeting in Pangnirtung, I think that was in May, we did do a presentation on the concept of the Keewatin Pilot Project and at this AGM in Hay River this weekend there will be some presentations to the SAOs on this same concept. It is just an idea and that is where it is at. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Further Return To Question 563-13(5): Meeting On Keewatin Pilot Project
Question 563-13(5): Meeting On Keewatin Pilot Project
Item 6: Oral Questions
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The Speaker Samuel Gargan
Oral questions. Mr. Ootes.
Question 564-13(5): Highway Strategy Development
Item 6: Oral Questions
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Jake Ootes Yellowknife Centre
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question will be for the Minister of Transportation in regard to the highway strategy that was announced earlier and that is possibly underway. Could the Minister tell us who will be doing this strategy, and my reference to that is, will it be strictly departmental personnel or will, there it be consultants and contractors involved in this particular strategy? Thank you.
Question 564-13(5): Highway Strategy Development
Item 6: Oral Questions
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The Speaker Samuel Gargan
The Minister of Transportation, Mr. Antoine.
Return To Question 564-13(5): Highway Strategy Development
Question 564-13(5): Highway Strategy Development
Item 6: Oral Questions
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Jim Antoine Nahendeh
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the highway strategy, we have just undertaken the exercise. We will be hosting three different stakeholders' meetings to begin with. It is a process that we have laid out in that manner where we will have stakeholders' meetings in Yellowknife and Norman Wells for the Mackenzie Valley and Inuvik for the Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk road and from there we will get the direction and discussion on these three different systems. In the meantime, our staff, along with the Department of Transportation and Financial Management Board Secretariat are working together to develop a plan on how to approach this. We would like to have this process done in-house as much as possible. There may be opportunities for outside help eventually as we go along in this process. Thank you.
Return To Question 564-13(5): Highway Strategy Development
Question 564-13(5): Highway Strategy Development
Item 6: Oral Questions
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The Speaker Samuel Gargan
Oral questions. Supplementary, Mr. Ootes.
Supplementary To Question 564-13(5): Highway Strategy Development
Question 564-13(5): Highway Strategy Development
Item 6: Oral Questions
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Jake Ootes Yellowknife Centre
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Could the Minister tell us if a timeframe has been set for this initiative, if it is to be completed within a certain period of time? Thank you.
Supplementary To Question 564-13(5): Highway Strategy Development
Question 564-13(5): Highway Strategy Development
Item 6: Oral Questions
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The Speaker Samuel Gargan
Mr. Antoine.
Further Return To Question 564-13(5): Highway Strategy Development
Question 564-13(5): Highway Strategy Development
Item 6: Oral Questions
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Jim Antoine Nahendeh
Yes, this initiative will take about one year. We feel that to do it adequately, like I mentioned earlier, timing-wise, having the stakeholders' workshop for this Slave Geological Province, we plan to have a stakeholder's meeting on Thursday, June 4th, here in Yellowknife. The following week there will be a meeting in Norman Wells on June 9th and the next day, on June 10th, having a meeting in Inuvik with the stakeholders. We have already sent out invitations to all the different key people in all the communities which will be affected in the respective area. As we go along from there, the plan right now is to do it within one year. Thank you.
Further Return To Question 564-13(5): Highway Strategy Development
Question 564-13(5): Highway Strategy Development
Item 6: Oral Questions
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The Speaker Samuel Gargan
Oral questions. Supplementary, Mr. Ootes.
Supplementary To Question 564-13(5): Highway Strategy Development
Question 564-13(5): Highway Strategy Development
Item 6: Oral Questions
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Jake Ootes Yellowknife Centre
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Also on a federal thrust basis we have always, in the North, felt that the federal government benefits from our resource development and I am wondering if the Minister could tell us if he is continuing his efforts to address this at the National Transportation Strategy meetings. I note that the Premier will be attending one of those next week. I am wondering if the Minister could tell us if he has a strategy to deal with the federal government on this whole area of support for our questions. Excuse me, Mr. Speaker, I am getting a lot of heckling on the side. I am wondering if the Minister could tell us if he is continuing to put pressure on the federal government to provide funding for our territorial transportation study since they have an obligation, because of the return that the federal government gets out of this territory. Thank you.
Supplementary To Question 564-13(5): Highway Strategy Development
Question 564-13(5): Highway Strategy Development
Item 6: Oral Questions
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The Speaker Samuel Gargan
Mr. Antoine.
Further Return To Question 564-13(5): Highway Strategy Development
Question 564-13(5): Highway Strategy Development
Item 6: Oral Questions
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Jim Antoine Nahendeh
Thank you. Mr. Speaker, this transportation strategy is viewed strategy-wise on how to approach it. It is connected quite strongly with the economic development strategy that I am working on with my colleagues, Mr. Todd, Mr. Kakfwi and Mr. Dent, as well as the Premier. There is an overall initiative that we do have to approach the federal government, and we should also be approaching the other provinces that benefit from the Northwest Territories, as well, in trying to seek some way of developing an opportunity to get some funding. The National Highway Strategy is an initiative by the Ministry of Transportation and has been an initiative for a number of years now and we have always supported that initiative. We think that is a good initiative. It is just trying to find different ways of trying to move that strategy forward to the federal government and see if there is going to be some money there for them to give us for this project. Thank you.
Further Return To Question 564-13(5): Highway Strategy Development
Question 564-13(5): Highway Strategy Development
Item 6: Oral Questions
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The Speaker Samuel Gargan
Oral questions. Mr. Steen.
Question 565-13(5): Constitutional Consultation Package
Item 6: Oral Questions
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Vince Steen Nunakput
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my question is directed toward the Minister responsible for Aboriginal Affairs, Mr. Antoine, who is also co-chair of the Constitutional Working Group. Mr. Speaker, I have a document here given by the constitutional working group out to the public for consultation on a new constitution. I would like to ask Mr. Antoine, how many copies of this document are available and approximately how many copies would be available in my particular communities in the Nunakput riding? At this point in time, I think it is appropriate to compliment the Constitutional Working Group on their efforts in putting the document out. I would just like to know how available this document is in my riding? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Question 565-13(5): Constitutional Consultation Package
Item 6: Oral Questions
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The Speaker Samuel Gargan
The Minister responsible for Aboriginal Affairs, Mr. Antoine.
Return To Question 565-13(5): Constitutional Consultation Package
Question 565-13(5): Constitutional Consultation Package
Item 6: Oral Questions
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Jim Antoine Nahendeh
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we have had 5,000 of these workbooks printed here locally. To date, approximately 1,800 of these books have been distributed for community meetings, workshops, media and to the general public. We have plans for general distribution to all band councils, Metis locals, western NWT municipal offices, adult education centres and other organizations, as was done with the first round one summary report. We have plans now to distribute these documents to Mr. Steen's constituency, as well as everybody else, and if he directs me to do it in a better way, then I will take direction from that as well. Thank you.
Return To Question 565-13(5): Constitutional Consultation Package
Question 565-13(5): Constitutional Consultation Package
Item 6: Oral Questions
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The Speaker Samuel Gargan
Thank you. Oral questions. Supplementary, Mr. Steen.
Supplementary To Question 565-13(5): Constitutional Consultation Package
Question 565-13(5): Constitutional Consultation Package
Item 6: Oral Questions
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Vince Steen Nunakput
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I understand approximately 5,000 documents were printed. When I look at this document, I find it fairly complex. I wonder what level of education it would take to understand this document? I ask this question in relation to discussions we have had over the past two days on the level of education in the communities and in the territories in general. I note, and I believe Mr. Erasmus, my honourable colleague from Yellowknife North quoted these figures in the past couple of days. It suggests that 60 percent of Canadians do not have the skills to handle most of the written material they see every day. Another 22 percent can only cope with simple reading tasks. That is a total of 38 percent of Canadians in general. In my ridings which in a lot of cases, English is the second language, out of these 5,000 copies that the Constitutional Working Group printed, how many do they actually expect to have read, based on the education level in the territories? Thank you.
Supplementary To Question 565-13(5): Constitutional Consultation Package
Question 565-13(5): Constitutional Consultation Package
Item 6: Oral Questions
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The Speaker Samuel Gargan
Mr. Antoine. Question period is over.