Impacts Of Housing Decisions And Direction  The units are getting older and older and the maintenance crews are asked to do more and more, like I said, with a lot less. Is Novel the answer? I don't know. I wonder about that. We are talking about a huge investment here. Maybe it's time we went and asked the communities and

Impacts Of Housing Decisions And Direction  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, today I would like to speak on the state of housing through the eyes of experience. Mr. Speaker, I spent 22 years working for the local housing authority. We have always had to live with decisions that were made in Yellowknife or in headquart

Question 203-15(5): Incentives And Retention Bonuses For Health Care Professionals  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, as we well know that a lot of southern agency nurses come north to work. What I am afraid of here, and maybe it is an option, we may see a northern pool of agency nurses. Would that be an option for the department to negotiate with them as

Question 203-15(5): Incentives And Retention Bonuses For Health Care Professionals  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, would his department consider entering into separate contracts with each nurse that comes up here on a nurse-to-nurse basis? Is that possible? Thank you.

Question 203-15(5): Incentives And Retention Bonuses For Health Care Professionals  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I appreciate the fact that you would have to go through the UNW, but I feel nurses are different. They could be on the same pay level as a carpenter, for example, and the work that they do, in my opinion, is a lot more important. Has the department ever

Question 203-15(5): Incentives And Retention Bonuses For Health Care Professionals  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, in my Member's statement I spoke to the value of health care professionals. I fully appreciate the fact that a lot of nurses come north to work and they have some financial incentive to do so. I think if we put some of these incentives in

Comparable Compensation For Northern Nurses  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I apprenticed with DPW quite a few years ago and one of the things I noticed when I was apprenticing there was the amount of employees we had there from the South that would just come up, work, and then leave. It was easy for them because ther

Revert To Item 5: Recognition Of Visitors In The Gallery  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am glad to recognize Mr. Tom Williams from Gwich'in Tribal Council, and the president of the Gwich'in Tribal Council and strong advocate of trying to get everybody in the NWT on the same page, Mr. Fred Carmichael. ---Applause

Question 187-15(5): Literacy Program Budget Reductions  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It was something that I always wondered about because there always seemed to be one...Someone is always missing. My colleague from the Sahtu likes to quote a commercial, hands in your pocket. We don't have pockets. They have the whole pair of pants. -

Question 187-15(5): Literacy Program Budget Reductions  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Premier said that he met with all these groups. I was asking if he met with them all at the same time, all seven or eight major leaders, because I have gone to a few leadership summits. There is the Aboriginal Summit, there are some other groups, bu

Question 187-15(5): Literacy Program Budget Reductions  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to thank the Premier for that answer because it is something that I have always been wondering about. I look around this Assembly. We have Inuvialuit in here. We have the Gwich'in. We have the Sahtu. We have the Dehcho, Tlicho, Akaitcho,

Question 187-15(5): Literacy Program Budget Reductions  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I know Fred is up there, so I better sound intelligent here. ---Laughter Mr. Speaker, we heard talk of resource revenue sharing now for years and years. As I said before, it seems like we are going in circles. I would like to ask Premier

Item 5: Recognition Of Visitors In The Gallery  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I want to take the opportunity to recognize a youth that preformed at the Dreamcatchers Conference; a youth from Yellowknife who is an upcoming star, in my view, in her music and her positive message: Kiera-Dawn Kolson. ---Applause

Challenge To Northern Leadership To Work Together On Devolution And Resource Revenue Sharing  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we have heard a lot of talk lately and since I have been here about the resource revenues and the devolution talks and it seems to me, Mr. Speaker, like we go in circles. I would like to stand today and issue a challenge. I would like to chal

Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  I really can't see adding two extra seats. You know we go around and we say, well, we're not going to give you any more money for your transition house, or we're cutting your money for this. Oh and by the way, we're adding two seats and $1 million. People don't like that. I