Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, has the Minister considered the new program that's going to be implemented on April 1st in terms of the housing? How is that going to be implemented in our communities? Is there an extra worker coming into our region or is there going to be contracts to housing associations? Surely they can look at programs like that. They've got to have some flexibility. Caseloads may not be warrant enough to have, but it's more disservice to our people who are on income support. Again, it's those people that don't use English as their first language, they use Slavey in their first point of communication and to try to work with them is going to be difficult through the phone system. So would the Minister look at something in terms of that? I don't know the rationale or the justification of the consequences of that project, but I guess I'm still pleading to have a presence in our communities. Even if it's, like I said, part-time and the funding that's going to have part-time workers, it costs high in the communities. So they can't blame the communities for saying no, because things cost high in the Sahtu region. So they're not going to do it for nothing either. Thank you.
Norman Yakeleya on Item 16: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on February 15th, 2006. See this statement in context.
Item 16: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 16: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
February 14th, 2006
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