Mahsi cho, Mr. Speaker. [English translation not provided]
Mr. Speaker, today I would like to talk about the much-needed services in the communities of Tu Nedhe in the area of infrastructure and also programs and services. There are key issues I must work with in the communities. One of the key things that the community looked at in the area of lack of cleanliness and also in the area of health has been dust suppression. Both the communities of Fort Resolution and Lutselk’e have a tremendous amount of dust flying around the community any time there is any sort of vehicle moving at all, including four wheelers and vehicles that are running all over that community. There are absolutely no plans at this time for any sort of dust suppression in those communities.
My main focus, however, for working with these two communities will continue to be the youth focus. Both of the communities lack youth centres. Throughout the process I’ve been discussing issues with the youth. I had representatives from both of the communities talk to the youth in the communities to ask the youth what their priorities were. Most likely the key priority for Lutselk’e was that there’s some sort of a camp set up for the
students and the youth of the community to be able to attend, and so on. Also the youth from both communities were interested in some sort of summertime swimming pool.
One of the key things I found was really lacking as far as the youth go was the fact that there is no money in this budget, or any further money, I should say. There is a small amount of money focused from the youth Minister, something just slightly over $1 million, to address all of the youth issues and the various youth things that have to be worked on by the government.
At the appropriate time I’ll be asking the Minister responsible for youth questions on whether or not there’d be a possibility that something could be done for the youth as far as budgets go.