Question 996-19(2): Housing  Mr. Speaker, my questions are for the Minister of Housing. In order to address core housing needs in the communities, there needs to be an assessment done on every asset. This is critical piece in building the plan to improve core housing. Can the Minister of Housing provide a t

Member's Statement 1003-19(2): Housing  Member statement's addressing core need for Tu Nedhe-Wiilideh riding. Mr. Speaker, today I want to talk about housing in my region. I know this is a priority for this government and also a priority for myself. There are many issues with housing in the Tu Nedhe-Wiilideh but today

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Well, no, I -- thank you, Madam Chair. I'll just wait for his rely on that statement that was made in the House here. I have other questions but I can wait another day to get that. Thank you.

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Madam Chair. I'll just -- I have another question on the capital plan but I'll do it another -- another time I guess. I want to go to page 60. In the authority allocation, it talks about full-time positions. Here we got a 1047 positions. I'd like to ask the question i

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Madam Chair. On page 59, I'm just curious in regards to the school in Dettah, I don't have the capital plan in front of me but I would like to ask the Minister where in the capital plan is they're planning to build a new school in Dettah? Thank you, Madam Chair.

Recognition Of Visitors In The Gallery  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'd like to recognize my wife Helen Edjericon. She's also working on her master of education, and she also received a scholarship for her master program. My wife, Helen Edjericon.

Consideration Of Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  I think -- Madam Chair, thank you for that, Minister. I think that I have other questions on further down. I'll wait until I come to that. That would be it for now. Thank you.

Consideration Of Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Oh, oh, sorry. Okay. Yeah, thank you, Madam Chair. Just a quick question for the Minister. Since this -- his announcement on December 12th, '21, in regards to the curriculum from Alberta to BC, I just want to know if he -- has he got feedback from Indigenous governments about th

Consideration Of Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Madam Chair, just so I understand, so we -- we're going through the document by page here and so I have a couple questions. I don't know if it's -- how do you want to proceed? Do we proceed by page or -- just so I understand.

Recognition Of Visitors In The Gallery  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I too want to recognize Jim Antoine, former Chief and Premier. I also had the privilege as a former Chief going to Dene Nation meetings et cetera and serving, and so I just want to recognize Jim Antoine. Also, I just want to recognize also Dennis Drygeese

Recognition Of Visitors In The Gallery  This is, I mean March 1st, COVID free and, this is great. I just want to also recognize a translator from our community as well. She's not up there but I just want to recognize Mary Rose Sundberg from our community from Dettah. She's also a translator here, mahsi. Tom Unka, also

Recognition Of Visitors In The Gallery  I also have another Member from the community of the N'dilo. I want to recognize Shirley Tsetta. She served on the Yellowknives Dene First Nation for three terms. She was a YKDFN community negotiator. She's also served as a secretary-treasurer of the Native Women's Association of

Recognition Of Visitors In The Gallery  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I just want to recognize respected elder from our community of Fort Resolution. I want to recognize Terry Villeneuve. I can't see her, but she's a former president of the Native Women's Association of the NWT. She also served on the Dene Nation Elder Counc

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Madam Chair. Again, I want to keep talking about housing and in our community, housing's a big issue, like I mentioned a few days ago. And I can't emphasize enough of it. I used to sit on the AFN housing committee going back to 1999, and at the national level we were a

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you. And first of all on housing, I just want to just briefly talk about housing. I just want to mention that I'm also a carpenter by trade. I've worked all over the North, worked for some big companies, worked as an independent consultant, been to many meetings in the Nor