Question 179-15(6): Cost Of Living Component To Student Financial Assistance Program  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, in my Member's statement, I spoke to the SFA benefits and some of the changes that I had hoped to see. I would like to ask the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment if there have been any changes made to the SFA assistance based on t

Aurora College Completion Ceremony  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, education is one of the most important issues we deal with in the Northwest Territories. Education is the key to our future. It is the key to the future of a lot of people across the Northwest Territories. Mr. Speaker, earlier in the summe

Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Madam Chair. I want to lend my support to this bill as I think it's a very well written piece of work. I spoke with a resident of Inuvik who follows this type of stuff very closely and they mentioned that this was very well written and the fact that it was written in

Question 167-15(6): Funding For Non-government Organizations  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the people that work for the NGOs are a resilient bunch, but you can only bend something so far and eventually it is going to break. We are just fortunate that we have these people in the front line. I would like to ask the Minister if ther

Question 167-15(6): Funding For Non-government Organizations  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. When the departments bring their requests for funding forward, is there a particular line item in there for all the NGO funding that they propose to give out during the year? Thank you

Question 167-15(6): Funding For Non-government Organizations  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'd like to ask the Minister if it would be an option to have all NGOs apply directly to the Finance Minister's office and have it show up as a line item in the budget? Thank you.

Question 167-15(6): Funding For Non-government Organizations  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions today, well they're regarding money and funding so I'll direct them to the Minister of Finance. It's regarding the NGO funding. I'd like to ask the Minister if all requests for NGO funding have to go through regional offices? Thank you.

Support For Front-line Addictions Workers  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we talked about our concerns with addictions across the Northwest Territories. We have studies on addictions across the Northwest Territories. We have people, Mr. Speaker, who work the front lines. They not only talk about all of these con

Committee Motion 10-15(6): Deletion Of $100,000 From Economic Development Activity, ITI, Funding For Trade Mission To China, Defeated  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, this is another good example of the lack of communications sometimes between Cabinet and Members on this side. We are asked to vote on a motion and we don't know the details of the motion. We are scrambling down on this side trying to figure

Powers Of The SCAN Investigators  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The powers of the investigators were seen as excessive by many of the presenters. One Member cited the provisions empowering SCAN investigators to obtain government records without a warrant and to share their information with the RCMP. The question the

Question 154-15(6): Income Support Policy Application  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Inconsistency is something that we speak about often. We want it to be the same right across the board for everybody. I'd like to ask the Minister, come September 1st -- the date we've been hearing quite a bit about lately -- what's going to be done to

Question 154-15(6): Income Support Policy Application  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I hear treaty payments are exempt but the IBAs aren't exempt. I'd like to ask the Minister why there's a difference in what's exempt, the IBAs or the treaty payments. Thank you.

Question 154-15(6): Income Support Policy Application  Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and thanks to the Minister for that. In this government, is it ECE's policy right now to exempt benefit agreements from calculating income support? Thank you.

Question 154-15(6): Income Support Policy Application  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the subsidies that this government provides are very generous and some of the questions that we have on this side of the House I think is in the inconsistencies in some of the delivery of the programs. They like to promote self-reliance and

Income Support Policy Application  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the subsidies that this government provides to its residents are probably the best in the Northwest Territories. We have over $118 million roughly in subsidies and there are still some inconsistencies in the delivery of these programs that c