Question O23-12(2): Schools Working To Rule In Inuvik  Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask the Minister responsible for Education whether he is aware that in Inuvik, not only is the SAMS, Sir Alexander Mackenzie School, now working to rule, but the high school there is now considering working to rule because of dissatisfaction with a ru

Working For Constituents Of Yellowknife Centre  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today is Valentine's Day, Mr. Speaker, and I would like to assert today, my love for my fellow man, Members on this side, and even Members whom we have chosen to be our Executive Council. However, I have learned, Mr. Speaker, over the last several months

Question O13-12(2): Sale Of Assets To Generate Revenue  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It is pretty clear to me that people just do not invest in the Northwest Territories. We do not have all kinds of people wanting to buy in and do all kinds of things. There must have been something in the Minister's mind that would beguile some of these

Question O13-12(2): Sale Of Assets To Generate Revenue  My question is to the Minister responsible for Economic Development and Tourism. I listened with great interest to his Minister's statement yesterday about our fiscal position and his note that one of the things we may want to consider, much the same way the federal government i

Question O7-12(2): Abstinence Policy For Alcohol And Drug Workers  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Since it is the government itself that imposes this requirement, not the local group that decides it needs to be monitored, how will the Minister be sure that no group will have signed this agreement to get the money, even if they have no intention whatso

Question O7-12(2): Abstinence Policy For Alcohol And Drug Workers  Since this whole business of requiring people in this social field to be good role models for people that have problems, I would like to ask the Minister how we will police this so that we will know there are no secret drinkers or no people who engage in secret activity. What ki

Question O7-12(2): Abstinence Policy For Alcohol And Drug Workers  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is to the Minister of Health and Social Services. A controversial issue that has arisen lately has been the requirement that counsellors in the drug and alcohol program abstain from alcohol. I would like to ask the Minister whether this shou

Overcrowding In Yellowknife High Schools  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I will be brief. I am very concerned about the overcrowding in the two Yellowknife high schools. I would like to point out that we would like to have the same rules applied to the accommodation of students in this city as is applied throughout the North

Motion 40-12(1): Establishment Of The Special Committee On Health And Social Services  Mr. Chairman, there is always a dilemma when you are faced with a motion like this because everyone recognizes this is a major problem for us and it seems to be problem that gets bigger and bigger all the time. When I decided to run again in this last election, I put together a

Item 19: Third Reading Of Bills  Mr. Speaker, I was in the process of responding to a request from a local newspaper to give my predictions for 1992 and although I take my work seriously, from time to time I do try to produce something which is of a light-hearted nature. I will explain exactly what the comment

Item 19: Third Reading Of Bills  If I may speak to the point of privilege, Mr. Speaker.

Mr. Lewis's Reply  Mr. Speaker, since I was first elected in 1987 I have always used every opportunity to represent the people that elected me, and I will do so briefly today, bearing in mind that we would like to get finished sometime tomorrow. Mr. Speaker, first of all I would like to thank the

Going Home For Christmas  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have the pleasure of living very close to this building where we work when the Legislature is sitting and having listened to Mr. Allooloo and the word "home" and "homeland", it made me think that probably this Legislature has never sat this close to Chr

Bill 1: Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 2, 1991-92  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. What this motion does is to really destroy the capacity of this government to do things properly. I was very disappointed when I found that the museum had to get a bunch of trailers to protect a whole bunch of material they had no room for. I was parti

Item 17: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I think that is a noble gesture always, you know, when you say, "Look, we are going to lead by example" and that is the way it should be done. But what the government did when it tabled all these proposed cuts, was to omit, omit to indicate how much mon