Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  It's not like we've got ten, fifteen thousand people to look after. I look at the ridings of some of the Members here and I see the Member for Nunakput has a wide geographical riding. He has to go all over. Same with the Member for the Sahtu. He has a lot of communities he

Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm glad to have this opportunity to make some comments towards this bill. I look at the numbers on here and I see an overall population of 42,810. That's one riding for a lot of MLAs south. If you look at some of the numbers here, 2,800, 1,700, the nu

Question 174-15(5): Public Hearing On Natural Gas Price Increases  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I find it kind of odd that people of Inuvik have raised a concern. Now, I thought...I will just get to my question. Will the Minister communicate to the Public Utilities Board the importance of having a public hearing before any further proposed increas

Question 174-15(5): Public Hearing On Natural Gas Price Increases  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Is there going to be a public hearing into the rate increase proposed for the gas supplier in Inuvik? Thank you.

Question 174-15(5): Public Hearing On Natural Gas Price Increases  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Does a utility company not have to have a hearing before the rates are increased? I think that was my question, Mr. Speaker. Do they have to go through the Public Utilities Board to hold a hearing and not wait for the concerns of the citizens? Thank yo

Question 174-15(5): Public Hearing On Natural Gas Price Increases  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, yesterday I spoke to the concern from Inuvik residents about the increase in the natural gas price. One of the statements I made was the Public Utilities Board and said there was lack of evidence over concerns and had the members been living

Federal Budget Reductions  Well, I'm hoping Ottawa listens to us. Ottawa, are you listening? ---Laughter I'd like to see our government send them a real strong message because it's the people of the Northwest Territories that elected this government and we should be looking out for their best interest i

Federal Budget Reductions  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I don't know if this is the right time for it with all these guys being up here, but I want to speak about the federal government's attitude towards the Northwest Territories. ---Applause Mr. Speaker, we recently heard about all the cuts that were made.

Cost Of Natural Gas In Inuvik  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, today I would like to rise to speak on the increase in natural gas for customers in Inuvik. It's become a real concern to the residents of Inuvik because they feel like they have a forum or a hearing to express their displeasure over the incr

Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would like to declare a potential conflict of interest in relation to a person's name in the schedule to Bill 10, Forgiveness of Debts Act, 2006-2007. I will withdraw my discussion on this item and remove myself from this House.

Question 146-15(5): Transfer Of Public Housing Rental Assessments  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We have our own focus groups and I call them constituents. ---Laughter ---Applause They do call us and they do tell us that this program is absolutely not working. It's affecting the LHOs; it's affecting their flow of funding. Some of them may go int

Question 146-15(5): Transfer Of Public Housing Rental Assessments  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Transitions, there are problems, but sometimes the transitions weren't needed in the first place so we wouldn't be bringing up this concern. You have a committee working group of senior officials. We're talking tenants; what's good for the tenants, what

Question 146-15(5): Transfer Of Public Housing Rental Assessments  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, today I spoke on the transfer of rental assessments and that from Housing to ECE. I'd like to ask the Minister of ECE, there's been a lot of concerns brought to my attention, and I'm sure other Members on this side of the House as he heard y

Transfer Of Public Housing Rental Assessment Responsibilities  ...but, Mr. Speaker, let's just squash the bugs and go back to something that was working before. If you have something that works, stay with it and it benefits everybody. It benefits the tenants that have never run arrears in their life. They are going to do their payments and

Transfer Of Public Housing Rental Assessment Responsibilities  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, today I would like to speak about the government's decision to transfer rent payments from the housing authority to ECE. Before I came down here, I made some rounds in Inuvik and talked to a lot of people there because I have been hearing so