Thank you, Mr. Thompson. Minister.
Debates of Sept. 26th, 2017
This is page numbers 2745 - 2784 of the Hansard for the 18th Assembly, 2nd 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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Wally Schumann Hay River South
Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll have to get that level of detail on how we're going to be allocating that type of work and get back to the Member. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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The Chair R.J. Simpson
Thank you, Minister. Mr. Thompson. Is there anything further about the capital plan?
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Shane Thompson Nahendeh
Yes one more thing. It's on page 41, it's in that part of it. I thank the Minister and look forward to getting that information. Those are all my questions for this department. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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Tom Beaulieu Tu Nedhe-Wiilideh
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I'd like to ask the Minister if he could provide us with the status of the fish plant in Hay River.
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Wally Schumann Hay River South
Thank you, Mr. Chair. We still have a $1.4 million commitment for the fish plant in Hay River, and we were working with the local fisheries and discussion with Freshwater Marketing Corporation on how we were going to move this forward and we are still wishing to move that forward. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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Michael Nadli Deh Cho
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I just wanted to build upon the Minister's comments in terms of highlighting the increased tourism industry in the NWT and also in terms of airline traffic that brings people up North, but to try to build up on the Minister's comment as he puts it "the rubber traffic" and to see if there's ways that our communities can maybe tap into an opportunity.
I'm trying to understand if there's some immediate or maybe a semblance of a plan for all these parks that we have, particularly those in the Enterprise area, Kakisa, and Fort Providence, to see if there's some long-term visioning in terms of maybe bringing cellular technology into those areas but at the same time maybe free Wi-Fi and maybe upgrading so that people could park their RVs with proper facilities, like electrical outlets and that kind of stuff. Mahsi.
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Wally Schumann Hay River South
Thank you, Mr. Chair. I think that is a discussion that maybe the Member can have with our regional office and give those ideas forward to the regional superintendent regarding how we can improve that. With types of infrastructure around cellular and stuff, that is something that is driven by industry, but maybe there is an opportunity when in front of committee as the Minister of Infrastructure, maybe some of these federal funds might be a possibility to help address some of those types of things. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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Michael Nadli Deh Cho
Thank you, Mr. Chair. I appreciate the Minister's offer in terms of maybe me engaging his officials, but the understanding that I have in terms of protocol is that, as MLAs here, we are allowed the leisure of working with Ministers. I just wanted to build upon an opportunity to see if perhaps the Minister would have an idea of how we could plan to work with communities, especially the small communities that I represent. I am trying to bring opportunities for tourism to be broadened, to be enhanced in small communities.
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Wally Schumann Hay River South
Thank you, Mr. Chair. The point is well taken. The opportunity is here today. I can actually go a bit further. I could sit down with the superintendent myself to discuss these with the Member and have a discussion on what type of opportunities he thinks are possible coming forward and direct the superintendent to go into the regions and, based on those discussions, have discussions with the communities.
Around small business, there are a number of funding pots that are available through not just the tourism sector, a division of ITI, but also through the SEED opportunities and things. I welcome the opportunity to sit down with the Member at any point and talk about opportunities going forward. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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Michael Nadli Deh Cho
Thank you. Maybe as a prelude to those discussions, I think it is great, the park facilities that we have as we enter the northern side of the NWT coming from Alberta, especially the road traffic. We have some great infrastructure based out of Enterprise.
One of the particular interests of communities could be maybe expanding in terms of interpreter interaction with local people and tourists to see if maybe they could showcase the local history of communities. I wanted to see if perhaps that could be expanded. Mahsi.
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September 25th, 2017

Wally Schumann Hay River South
Thank you, Mr. Chair. We have tourism development officers in every region who look at doing this stuff, and I can have a conversation with them and how we can possibly look at expanding some of those things. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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