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Crucial Fact

  • His favourite word was work.
Historical Information Floyd Roland is no longer a member of the Legislative Assembly.

Last in the Legislative Assembly October 2011, as MLA for Inuvik Boot Lake

Won his last election, in 2007, by acclaimation.

Statements in the House

Tabled Document 41-16(6): Report Respecting Benefits Paid To Ministers May 18th, 2011

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I wish to table the following document entitled Report Respecting Benefits Paid to Ministers under the Ministerial Benefits Policies for the Fiscal Year Ending March 31, 2011.

Tabled Document 39-16(6): NWT Power Corporation Annual Report Tabled Document 40-16(6): NWT Hydro Corporation Annual Report May 18th, 2011

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I wish to table the following two documents entitled Northwest Territories Power Corporation 2009-2010 Annual Report and Northwest Territories Hydro Corporation 2009-2010 Annual Report.

Tabled Document 35-16(6): Forging The Future – Anchored In Our Past, Building On Our Present: Northern Leaders’ Forum Vision May 18th, 2011

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I wish to table the following document: Forging the Future – Anchored in Our Past, Building on Our Present: Summary of People’s Perspectives on a Vision for the Northwest Territories and Planting the Seeds to Achieve It.

Question 132-16(6): NWT SPCA Fundraising For New Animal Shelter May 18th, 2011

I don’t have any of that information available to me at this point, so I’ll have to take the question as notice.

Question 130-16(6): Support For Residential School Survivors May 18th, 2011

Thank you. We know that the groups have been working in the North with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and have been looking to get additional support for some of the travel costs. Right now we’re limited to what we can do in in-kind support or with volunteers, with office space, with residential occupancy areas of trying to make some of our facilities open to them. So that’s the extent of what we’ve been focusing on doing.

We don’t have a budget line right now for travel, for example, and we know that a number of groups have been working with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to see if they can expand their program. Thank you.

Question 130-16(6): Support For Residential School Survivors May 18th, 2011

Thank you. We will, as we’ve done our own work in this, and being supportive of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission process, we’re going to be working with them to see how we can pool this together and come out with some process, documentation that we can, whether to showcase, put on display, have a historical record of it. We will work with them to see how we can pool that together. Thank you.

Question 130-16(6): Support For Residential School Survivors May 18th, 2011

Thank you. The process underway is working with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. They’re running and we’re supporting them in their work and delivery within the community. I can’t speak to it and I’d have to find out if there’s a process of if they’ve invited those within our correctional facilities. I think that when you look at the programs and services, that we do provide those who are in the facilities the counselling opportunities, on the land. In cases, we’ve reached out and tried to provide our own counselling over the years.

When this became a growing matter across Canada and the North, a number of departments got together to try and focus some of its programs to deal with those who’ve gone through residential schools. Thank you.

Question 130-16(6): Support For Residential School Survivors May 18th, 2011

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. There are a number of ways we’re supporting the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, their work in helping the healing process. Through our workforce, we’re setting up for the volunteer basis that those who volunteer, we will support that initiative. Those who are attending as clients or those who will be attending as delegates, we’ve provided a process for that to occur. In a number of cases, whether it’s office space in kind, as well as trying to help with dealing with the 1,000 potential delegates that will be in the community, we’re helping in a number of ways. Thank you.

Question 129-16(6): NWT Hydro Strategy May 18th, 2011

Again, as I was saying earlier, we are aware that Alberta is going through a number of critical changes in its power generation moving away from coal-fired generation, having to replace it with either natural gas generation or clean hydro as a potential. We know that there are opportunities available. We have had that initial discussion to begin looking at that to see if there’s an economic base there where we can open that up, and that would also help us with our industry side here in the North when it comes to anchor tenants.

If there’s that grid connection, that means at times when they don’t need the peak, they can sell power that they purchase from us, as well, in that grid. We’re looking at that. Thank you.

Question 129-16(6): NWT Hydro Strategy May 18th, 2011

We have, as I was just saying, had a discussion with the chair of the Power Corporation, and through that board and the NT Hydro Corporation looking at the grid connections and if there’s an economic base for that, that work is starting to be reviewed. Thank you.