Committee Motion 7-15(3): To Undertake A Quantitative Evaluation On Grade Extensions To Gauge Student Success, Carried  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just to confirm my source of information to the Minister, Mr. Chairman, this point was raised to me by the campus directors in Inuvik in one of my sojourns into Inuvik in the last several months. This is just for information purposes, Mr. Chairman, that

Committee Motion 7-15(3): To Undertake A Quantitative Evaluation On Grade Extensions To Gauge Student Success, Carried  Thank you. I'm raising a question there, Mr. Chairman, under the glossary of the buildings and works. I'm going to ask again, just to repeat for the benefit of the Minister, would the department now consider that since the Blueberry Patch is beyond economical repair, if they wo

Committee Motion 7-15(3): To Undertake A Quantitative Evaluation On Grade Extensions To Gauge Student Success, Carried  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Again, just trying to put the college housing into perspective, and I'm looking at the glossary on page 9-27, under buildings and works, and college facilities, equipment and utilities. As you know, we have an inherent problem with student housing Inuvi

Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am pleased to speak to something that has been on people's minds in my riding for many, many years, and I think it's time I have an opportunity to speak to it. In terms of our value system, there seems to be a conflict between what we call a land-base

Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just want to, for the record, state that my background is employee relations and I was quite active with Dome Petroleum in the Beaufort in developing their labour force. One of the areas that we do need to ensure that when we talk about training progr

Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to thank the Minister because I think he gave an overview of what the level of expectations are along the valley. I think the important point I want to make in my final comments, Mr. Chairman, is that I think we need to take a more proactive role

Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I will be as brief as I can. I want to centralize my discussions on a small component of the Minister's statement in the career development and maximizing northern employment. I will readdress this in the response he provided me in the Oral Question 10

Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Madam Chair. The committee recommends that we review the Department of Education, Culture and Employment, and we review them until the conclusion of that department. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Question 70-15(3): Self-government And Taxation  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I thank the Minister for replying to my questions. Quickly, in a similar context, can you make a distinction between what the Tlicho taxation agreement applies to the overall process of what would be so different from what I am asking the Minister? Than

Question 70-15(3): Self-government And Taxation  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Recognizing that as an ongoing issue between the aboriginal governments and our territorial government still requires us to form some form of partnership arrangements with our aboriginal governments in support of trying to introduce taxation that would be

Question 70-15(3): Self-government And Taxation  Mr. Speaker, I'm quite surprised that the Minister won't consider introducing this type of methodology to try to eradicate some of these problems. As we see, direct monies are flowing to aboriginal groups in many instances, as well as northern institutions. I'm asking the Ministe

Question 70-15(3): Self-government And Taxation  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'm pleased to see that the Minister of Justice sits today because his return to oral questions certainly puts my question into proper context. On October 30, 2003, an interesting bill called Bill C-48 was reviewed under the Natural Resources of Canada Sen

Reflections On The 2004 Federal Budget  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I will remain consistent with the theme of my Member's statements for this week, using wording that is complimentary to the federal budget address. Although the document acknowledges that much of the funding will not be administered through the Governmen

Revert To Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just for the record, I'll read into the record, it's dated February 2004, the Fraser Forum, a Fraser Institute review of public policy in Canada. It's on pages 27 and 28. There are a number of references, notes to the issue of new health reform policy in

Revert To Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am not going to take too long on this, but I want to reference a few points I made earlier about a letter I received from Finance Minister Roland on the delivery of essential programs and services in the most effective, efficient and economical way. I