Question 106-15(6): Recreational Land Availability Around Yellowknife  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I was referring to trying to work with the Akaitcho negotiators, Akaitcho people, at the negotiation table. We tried that in 2004. It didn't go anywhere. So, Mr. Speaker, I am certainly open to having our negotiator consider raising this again when there

Question 106-15(6): Recreational Land Availability Around Yellowknife  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I can't speak for DIAND, for the federal government, but from our government's perspective, in 2004 we tried to come to an agreement with the Akaitcho at the negotiating table to have a policy that deals with unauthorized use of land. Mr. Speaker, at that

Question 105-15(6): Housing Complex For Deninu Kue Seniors  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. There have been discussions. The Metis have told us they are meeting on the 24th, which is a week from today. They will give us that assurance. Mr. Speaker, what we are trying to avoid is a situation we see in some communities where we have a seniors

Question 105-15(6): Housing Complex For Deninu Kue Seniors  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We have pretty well everything in place. The only piece of information we don't have is agreement from the Metis council that in the event we don't have seniors to occupy the units, that they would agree to have the units occupied either by a single perso

Question 105-15(6): Housing Complex For Deninu Kue Seniors  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This project has not been put on the back burner. Mr. Speaker, it changed from some singles housing and some housing for families to a six-plex for seniors at the request of the seniors. What that does, Mr. Speaker, because of the limited amount of hou

Motion 7-15(6): Denormalizing Alcohol And Enforcing Restrictions, Carried  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Alcohol abuse is probably one of the most devastating and most expensive, costly expenditures in our government's programs. If we were ever able to get control on this, then I think we'd be amazed at the amount of money that could be saved and the amount

Question 87-15(6): Devolution And Resource Revenue Sharing Agreement-in-principle  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. First of all, I will never criticize those who choose to take a different path. That's their choice and if they go along that path and find that they get a better deal, then, as I say, you know, good luck to them; I hope they can do it. Mr. Speaker, on

Question 87-15(6): Devolution And Resource Revenue Sharing Agreement-in-principle  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. For sure, I cannot speak for Grand Chief Herb Norwegian. I mean, I'm not 100 percent clear what the deal would be that he would find acceptable. Mr. Speaker, I can say that whenever we come to an agreement like this, there will always be people who feel

Question 87-15(6): Devolution And Resource Revenue Sharing Agreement-in-principle  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'm assuming the Member is referring to negotiations on an agreement-in-principle about the bigger issues or on land use and so on. But, Mr. Speaker, no, I don't have anything specific to report. There was a briefing provided to the Akaitcho people last

Question 87-15(6): Devolution And Resource Revenue Sharing Agreement-in-principle  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The short answer is no, this does not affect it at all. The four aboriginal organizations, governments, and our government have signed the deal and I think it sends a strong signal to Ottawa that if we work in solidarity on our positions and we want a sh

Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Madam Chair. A lot of the recommendations come from the coalition itself. The government is one member on that coalition. There are the groups I mentioned before. What they are trying to do is get a balance between the support for salaries and so on for our front-l

Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Madam Chair. This is a Framework for Action on family violence. It includes women; it includes children; it includes men. It's family violence. We're not putting a priority on one or the other. We're looking at all aspects. Now, when the front-line workers want baselin

Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Madam Chair. Again I want to remind Members that we have, we're doing this in partnership with the Coalition Against Family Violence. Those are the people who are the front-line workers. Those are the people who are facing the issues every day. Those are the people, yo

Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Madam Chair. Again, I don't get to all of the coalition and government meetings. Again, there have been a number of meetings. They have, in the Framework for Action - Phase II, there is a whole list of actions in there that have been laid out. The consensus among all

Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Madam Chair. I want to mention first that we work along with a lot of other partnerships like with NGOs and so on. So it's not always our decision or direction in terms of what will happen. The people on the Coalition Against Family Violence feel quite strongly abo