Motion 20-15(5): Right To Water, Carried  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to start by commending the Members opposite for bringing this motion forward. I think not only this motion but the one prior, the motion on climate change. The two motions, Mr. Speaker, really can be looked at collectively because they are on

Motion 20-15(5): Right To Water, Carried  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Because the directions from the motion are to the Legislative Assembly, then this side of the House will have a free vote on this issue. Mr. Speaker, let me just make a few comments. One is that, yes, we do often take water for granted in our environme

Motion 20-15(5): Right To Water, Carried  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am happy to stand and join hands together on this motion, Mr. Speaker. Seriously, this is a very important statement that we are making in this House and I believe a formal motion like this is not one to be taken lightly. It is a stand and a strong pos

Motion 20-15(5): Right To Water, Carried  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. WHEREAS water is essential to life, and constitutes a fundamental human right; AND WHEREAS this right includes access to water bodies for purposes of harvesting, travel and navigation, and mechanisms to prevent or seek redress for any action that may a

Motion 19-15(5): Climate Change, Carried  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Because this motion is a recommendation for the government to take action, Cabinet will not be voting on the motion. Mr. Speaker, I want to assure all Members that, in our view, the issues, the challenges of climate change are real. That there isn't any

Motion 19-15(5): Climate Change, Carried  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'd like to speak just briefly in support of this motion. I would like to thank the Members that are sponsoring and seconding the motion. I think it has the full support of the Members on this side. It's a very straightforward and well laid out motion,

Motion 19-15(5): Climate Change, Carried  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I also would like to speak in favour of the motion. I think that though we need to say that it is a call to action, it's not enough to be just a clich‚ that we're going to save the planet and do our part, we need to do something. We need so

Motion 19-15(5): Climate Change, Carried  Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I also rise in full support of the climate change motion just for the various reasons that a lot of Members here have expressed. Also, because it is our most pressing domestic and global environmental challenge to date, I think, like my friend M

Motion 19-15(5): Climate Change, Carried  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, for the vast majority of Canadians and people of the world, the debate about whether climate change is happening is over. We are moving into the more constructive discussion of what do we do in the short term to anticipate and adapt to the ch

Motion 19-15(5): Climate Change, Carried  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, also I would like to convey my strong support for this motion in terms of what the GNWT can do to help with this issue that has some global interest, some global speakers such as Al Gore. Mr. Speaker, again, I recall a time when some elder

Motion 19-15(5): Climate Change, Carried  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am very pleased to have the opportunity to move this motion on climate change that we see before us here today. I think it's imperative that the government is shown to be a leader in developing changes for climate change, necessary measures to reduce o

Motion 19-15(5): Climate Change, Carried  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. WHEREAS the impacts of climate change can be seen in: • receding shorelines and lower water levels;• depleted populations of fish and wildlife;• increasing numbers of invasive species;• warmer winter temperatures, less predictable ice conditions and sh

Motion 19-15(5): Climate Change  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I give notice that on Friday, March 9, 2007, I will move the following motion: now therefore I move, seconded by the honourable Member for the Sahtu, that this Legislative Assembly strongly recommends the government, in all its decisions and actions as a

Question 422-15(5): Incorporating Traditional Knowledge Into Water Management Policies  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my question is to the Minister of ENR, Mr. McLeod, in terms of the water, again, and climate change issues on the whole. I want to ask the Minister what his department is doing to prepare where you'll have traditional knowledge also with scien

Question 419-15(5): Need For A Collaborative Provincial/territorial Water Strategy  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I'd like to ask my questions in follow-up to my Member's statement to Minister of ENR. What I was trying to say in my long-winded Member's statement was how much water we have all around us. As a young girl, I always took it for granted that t