Tabled Document 32-14(6): GNWT Response To Committee Report 1-14(6): Interim Report Of The Special Joint Committee On Non-tax-based Community Affairs  Mr. Speaker, I wish to table the following document titled GNWT response to "Strengthening GNWT Support to Smaller Communities" Interim Report of the Special Joint Committee on Non-Tax-Based Community Affairs. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Question 123-14(6): Territorial Health Care Funding  Mr. Speaker, we have initially set out to show the priority that health funding has to this government and to the people of the Northwest Territories and I think that message has been received in a very clear, resounding way across this country and with the Government of Canada.

Question 123-14(6): Territorial Health Care Funding  Mr. Speaker, we hope that many of the shortcomings that we have in the formula financing arrangements and the funding arrangements that caused difficulties with the federal government over the years will finally be addressed. As to whether or not we will be totally satisfied will

Question 123-14(6): Territorial Health Care Funding  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, last week following my return to Yellowknife and to the legislature, the Secretary to Cabinet, Liz Snider, had the first face-to-face meeting with the Clerk of the Privy Council Alex Himelfarb in Ottawa and had the first discussion with the f

Question 102-14(6): GNWT Position On Staff Housing  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We can look at the teacher turnover in the last five years that this government provided staff housing and look at any five years since staff housing was discontinued and see what the change in turnover is and has been and provide that to the House. Thank

Question 102-14(6): GNWT Position On Staff Housing  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I will speak to the Ministers who are directly involved with this issue to look at assessing the cost and time that would be needed to assess whether or not providing housing in the past or since then has impacted significantly on the teacher

Question 102-14(6): GNWT Position On Staff Housing  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we knew years ago that other northern jurisdictions are out of the business of housing. They are able to attract professionals, doctors, nurses, teachers, social workers and other professional people who are required in our communities. So we

Question 102-14(6): GNWT Position On Staff Housing  Policies of this government and this Cabinet are brought forward by Ministers and officials under direction of Cabinet and are designed, worded and crafted to meet the goals and objectives of government. So they are policies of government. They are not cast in stone and we try to

Question 95-14(6): Deferral Of The Harmonization Of Income Support And Social Housing Initiative  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The suggestion was made in good faith yesterday by Members of the Legislature, so I had agreed at that time to share that with the appropriate Ministers. I have done that. We will respect the Ministers' right to contemplate the suggestion. I am sure at t

Question 95-14(6): Deferral Of The Harmonization Of Income Support And Social Housing Initiative  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I had an opportunity yesterday to have some discussion with Members of the Legislature informally when this issue was first raised and I had committed to the MLAs at that time that I would have a discussion with my fellow Ministers and follo

Item 5: Recognition Of Visitors In The Gallery  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to recognize my wife, Marie Wilson, in the gallery. ---Applause

Minister's Statement 20-16(4): Minister Absent From The House  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I wish to advise Members that the Honourable Jim Antoine will be late arriving in the House today. Thank you.

Question 75-14(6): Ongoing Funding For Territorial Health Care Fund  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the secretary to Cabinet, Liz Snider, has been having discussions, I believe yesterday but definitely this morning, with the Clerk of the Privy Council and they are going to now engage in discussions that will outline where we go from here. A

Question 75-14(6): Ongoing Funding For Territorial Health Care Fund  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The formula financing arrangement, in itself, will be one area where there is an acknowledgement by the Prime Minister that there are unique fiscal challenges in the North and the federal government has indicated they are prepared to address that through

Question 75-14(6): Ongoing Funding For Territorial Health Care Fund  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I don't have any details at this time. I spent a lot of yesterday afternoon travelling, so I know when I left Edmonton this morning, I was talking to the secretary to Cabinet, Liz Snider, who was already having some discussions with Alex Himelfarb, so pe