Question 85-17(2): Aboriginal Languages Revitalization Plan  Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. My questions today are for the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment. It is in regards to the Minister’s statement that he mentioned yesterday and working to increase the number of Aboriginal language speakers, provide employment opportunities for elde

Question 85-17(2): Aboriginal Languages Revitalization Plan  Mr. Speaker, I know we have to put the programs and services into place for all languages. However, we do have a couple of languages that are close to extinction here, specifically the Gwich’in language. We have some in the South Slave. Will the Minister see those results and put

Question 85-17(2): Aboriginal Languages Revitalization Plan  I appreciate all of the efforts that Education, Culture and Employment is doing to revitalize our languages and taking our Members down to Alaska to look at best practices that we can incorporate here in the Northwest Territories. With that said, moving forward in the strategic

Question 85-17(2): Aboriginal Languages Revitalization Plan  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In regards to the revitalization of Aboriginal languages and he has also talked previously about Aboriginal student achievement. Can he combine the two and make languages in elementary schools part of a strong curriculum in the schools and enhance that and

Question 71-17(2): Update On Meeting With Beaufort-Delta Leadership  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’m just going to follow up on some remarks made by my fellow colleague Mrs. Groenewegen. My questions today are for the Minister of Industry, Tourism and Investment, Mr. Ramsay. It’s in regard to his Minister’s statement that he gave earlier where he ment

Question 71-17(2): Update On Meeting With Beaufort-Delta Leadership  I want to follow up as well to a Minister’s statement made by Mr. Lafferty, ECE, directed to Mr. Ramsay. I just wanted to ask Mr. Ramsay, based on some of the results with the apprenticeship and occupational certification that’s done through ECE, the department has issued 23 ce

Question 71-17(2): Update On Meeting With Beaufort-Delta Leadership  I just wanted one short supplementary question here to finish off. That’s in regard to the recruitment process that has gone up into Inuvik and the new deal with the MOU that’s being discussed. I don’t want this to fall onto a case in point where the diamond mines say they’ve com

Question 75-17(2): Joint Replacement Surgeries  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have a question following up from a question that I had in previous sessions to the Minister of Health and Social Services, and that’s regarding the backlog and the delay, or the on-hold situation that we have for our joint replacement surgeries. I just

Question 75-17(2): Joint Replacement Surgeries  Does that include the joint replacement surgeries as well? Because it’s been a long time since August. We’ve been about six months. That means we should be getting some of our people in the Northwest Territories through those surgery rooms and getting those replacements, especi

Question 75-17(2): Joint Replacement Surgeries  I appreciate the answer that the Minister has given me. I’d just like to ask when can I receive that information, at a prompt time, as I do have a lot of constituents who are still waiting on that hip replacement surgery. Thank you.

Cardiovascular Disease  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Seeing as it is Valentine’s Day and February is Heart Health Month, I would like to do my Member’s statement on cardiovascular disease. Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of death in the Northwest Territories along with cancer. One of the leading

Written Question 3-17(2): Infrastructure Available For Alcohol And Drug Treatment Centres  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My written question is for the Minister of Public Works and Services. 1. Can the Minister provide an inventory of Government of the Northwest Territories infrastructure currently available in the communities of Inuvik, Fort Simpson and Norman Wells tha

Committee Motion 6-17(2) Concurrence Of Td 3-17(2), Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 3, 2011-2012, Carried  Thank you, Madam Chair. Just in regard to what’s been talked about so passionately is the Inuvik-Tuk highway here. Being a newly elected MLA, one of the main things that I’ve been seeing in my office lately is the increase of income support and people who are looking for jobs. I

Committee Motion 7-17(2): Deletion Of $2.5 Million From Department Of Transportation Highways Activity, Defeated  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I, too, will not be in support of the motion. Obviously seeing it is a big project that is going to affect my region that I represent and it’s going to be great news for the people back home and the jobs there it is going to create is going to be a lot of

Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters  Thank you, Madam Chair. Just a really quick question on a comment made by the Minister of Health and Social Services earlier in regard to the joint replacement surgeries. That was the one that has been on hold and we’ve had questions in this House about it in the past. With the f