Minister's Statement 3-12(4): Sessional Statement   outlines what is the huge priority of the day. In the 10th Assembly, it was housing. The housing committee went all over the place and came up with lots of great ideas to solve the housing crisis. In 11th Assembly we set up one on the economy, and now we are into social and health

Ministers' Statement 47-12(2): First Ministers' Conference On The Economy  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you, Members. I would like to take the opportunity today to inform Members of the Legislative Assembly of the discussions at the recent First Ministers' Conference on the Economy. To begin with, it is important to note that the Government

Committee Report 20-12(3): Standing Committee On Finance Report On Bill 27, Payroll Tax Act And Bill 26, An Act To Amend The Income Tax Act, No. 2   of raising taxes. I am supportive of the principle of the bill to tax the fly-in, fly-out labour force people who are working and do not contribute to the Northwest Territories' economy. They come in, work, make their wages and they leave. I am supportive of trying to tax them but I

Question 707-12(3): Lack Of Action To Stimulate Economy  Mr. Speaker, comparing the Department of Economic Development with the Department of Health is folly. For instance, you know that in health care there are going to be sick people and they are going to have to go to a hospital wherever they are in the Northwest Territories. You

Question 707-12(3): Lack Of Action To Stimulate Economy  Item 5, oral questions. Mr. Dent.

Question 707-12(3): Lack Of Action To Stimulate Economy  Mr. Pollard.

Question 707-12(3): Lack Of Action To Stimulate Economy  Supplementary, Mr. Zoe.

Question 707-12(3): Lack Of Action To Stimulate Economy  One thing that causes me concern, Mr. Speaker, is the situation at the Department of Economic Development is sounding too familiar. Members have considered extensively in this House the difficulties encountered by, particularly, the Department of Health due to its lack of strate

Question 707-12(3): Lack Of Action To Stimulate Economy  Mr. Speaker, I mentioned earlier in this session that the strategy that was tabled is only one of the documents that we use in charting the economic path in the Northwest Territories and one of those other documents is the SCONE report, Mr. Speaker.

Question 707-12(3): Lack Of Action To Stimulate Economy  Supplementary, Mr. Zoe.

Question 707-12(3): Lack Of Action To Stimulate Economy  Mr. Pollard.

Question 707-12(3): Lack Of Action To Stimulate Economy  Mr. Pollard.

Question 707-12(3): Lack Of Action To Stimulate Economy  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the changes that occur in the plan are occurring as a result of communications from those communities. Just yesterday, Baker Lake indicated that they wanted to talk to us about a caribou harvest in their area and how could it fit into the re

Question 707-12(3): Lack Of Action To Stimulate Economy  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have a question for the Minister of Economic Development and Tourism. Mr. Speaker, concerns have been expressed in this House that the economic strategy tabled in 1990, being considered by the Minister, seems to be only one of the many guiding document

Question 706-12(3): Economic Development Strategy   Economy, and following further input from the communities. The people of the Northwest Territories told the government, at that time, that the community-based economic development was the hope for our future, and they received a commitment from the government to this approach. I am