Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Can the Deputy Premier inform us as to what timeline is given to this development? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Debates of March 6th, 2003
This is page numbers 541 - 578 of the Hansard for the 14th Assembly, 6th 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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Supplementary To Question 167-14(6): Accountability Framework For Boards And Agencies
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Supplementary To Question 167-14(6): Accountability Framework For Boards And Agencies
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Further Return To Question 167-14(6): Accountability Framework For Boards And Agencies
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Jim Antoine Nahendeh
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Yes, this accountability framework has gone to the deputy ministers and has also been introduced to stakeholders and we anticipate that by next month or so, we should be able to make a presentation to the Members in AOC. Thank you.
Further Return To Question 167-14(6): Accountability Framework For Boards And Agencies
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Question 168-14(6): Health And Social Services Board For Rae
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Leon Lafferty North Slave
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is for the Honourable Michael Miltenberger, Minister for Health and Social Services. I would like to ask the Minister, since he hasn't made an agreement to create a regional body for health and social services in the Dogrib region and there is a request that the community of Rae-Edzo with 2,000 people would like to have their own health committee or just a small board that would deal with issues locally, just like they do with the education board, can the Minister help them with the resources and the funding to fund this board? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Question 168-14(6): Health And Social Services Board For Rae
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Michael Miltenberger Thebacha
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I am not aware of that request. Once I am formally made aware of it, I will see the specifics of the request and look at it seriously, of course within the context of the recently initialled agreement and how we move ahead within the changing reality in the Tlicho region.
Return To Question 168-14(6): Health And Social Services Board For Rae
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Supplementary To Question 168-14(6): Health And Social Services Board For Rae
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Leon Lafferty North Slave
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I had the opportunity to meet with the negotiator this morning to talk about issues of health and housing in the Dogrib area and how it affects the Dogrib land claims and self-government. This is an area where they say there is no concern, as long as there are people out there who want to do that at a local level, the Minister can help them and they should be able to do it. I would like to ask the Minister if he can come to the community of Rae and see what the requests are of the people? Thank you.
Supplementary To Question 168-14(6): Health And Social Services Board For Rae
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Further Return To Question 168-14(6): Health And Social Services Board For Rae
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Michael Miltenberger Thebacha
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I stand ready to continue to work with the Dogrib board that is currently there and the leadership in the communities. If there is a specific request for community-based boards, we will look at that within the broad context of some of the concerns raised in this House about how many boards we do have and exactly what their role and mandate will be in relation to the broader board that represents the whole region. Thank you.
Further Return To Question 168-14(6): Health And Social Services Board For Rae
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Supplementary To Question 168-14(6): Health And Social Services Board For Rae
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Leon Lafferty North Slave
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As the board is only accountable to the Minister, I would like to ask the Minister if he can give direction to his board, so that he can talk to the people of Rae-Edzo and have a public meeting, which they don't have. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Supplementary To Question 168-14(6): Health And Social Services Board For Rae
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Michael Miltenberger Thebacha
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the board is accountable to me as Minister, but clearly it is responsible to the people in the region and I would expect that they would be bringing forward the concerns that they hear from the people, as they do when we come to the table for meetings. So if that issue is on the list and has to be addressed, we will sit down and meet with the board, we will meet with the leadership and we'll look at that.
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Leon Lafferty North Slave
I would like to ask the Minister again if he would take the first step of doing this himself. Obviously they are not going to come to him. He has to go to them. Thank you.
Supplementary To Question 168-14(6): Health And Social Services Board For Rae
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Michael Miltenberger Thebacha
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. If the Member wishes to invite me to the region to talk about setting up a board in Fort Rae, then I would be happy to meet and do that. I would consult with the leadership and the board and the chair and we would make every attempt to honour that commitment.
Further Return To Question 168-14(6): Health And Social Services Board For Rae
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Question 169-14(6): Creation Of A New Business Development Corporation
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Bill Braden Great Slave
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, a number of us spoke today about governance issues and I would like to ask about one we are really in the midst of right now and that is the realignment and the modernization of our business corporations specifically, Mr. Speaker. Something was started a couple of years ago to look at how to structure the government's business arms, namely the Business Development Corporation and the Business Credit Corporation to see how they could better do their work and we are anticipating that legislation will be coming forward, so that will enable this to happen by the end of our term.
We have seen - I think the announcement came out about a week ago - that Mr. Fred Koe has already been assigned to the task of performing the amalgamation of these two units, potentially with other parts of the business affairs of the GNWT. That seems to be almost backwards or in front of other steps that I would have thought truly should be in place. I wanted to ask the Minister for Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development, Mr. Antoine, why we are going about governance in this fashion? Why are we setting up the executive function of this when we don't even have the legislation in place yet? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Question 169-14(6): Creation Of A New Business Development Corporation
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The Deputy Speaker David Krutko
Minister of Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development, Mr. Antoine.
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Jim Antoine Nahendeh
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we are not developing the executive function up front. I think I mentioned in the House earlier on, on another occasion, that as Cabinet we had agreed to an amalgamation of these boards and these different functions within RWED. We have only agreed to the amalgamation and the different reports we've had. We have reassigned and given the task to Mr. Fred Koe to put it all together for us. It's similar to what happened in the past government when another gentleman was assigned to amalgamate the whole Department of Resources, Wildlife and Economic Development. They agreed to amalgamate and gave him the task of figuring it all out and he came forward with a legislative proposal. So that's his task. Thank you.
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Supplementary To Question 169-14(6): Creation Of A New Business Development Corporation
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Bill Braden Great Slave
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I guess it leads to another aspect of the whole governance equation, Mr. Speaker, in that it's assumed from my view that we are going to have a new board created to govern this new corporation. By my reading, I think that a number of the steps that would be assigned to Mr. Koe are steps that should be undertaken under the guidance of that new board. Obviously, we have to have legislation before we can create a new board. How are we reconciling the need for this corporation's new board to create the assignments and take the responsibility for Mr. Koe's actions? Thank you.