MR. SIMPSON: Thank you, Mr. Chair. There has been lots of talk of junior kindergarten ever since the Minister was just a lowly regular Member in social programs. Some people in Hay River are philosophically opposed to junior kindergarten -…
This exchange is in response to an update from the Minister of Justice on A New Day men's healing program. I have made multiple statements and asked numerous statements on this issue - they are posted on this site. MR. SIMPSON:…
Mr. Speaker, I haven’t had a chance to get outside much in the past couple weeks but I’m told that summer is finally here, and that means the commercial fishermen are beginning to head back out on the Great Slave…
These questions are a follow up to the questions I asked on May 25, 2017. QUESTION 787-18(2) MR. SIMPSON: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It has been quite a talkative question period. I wasn’t sure I was going to make it…
Mr. Speaker, in 1966, a 23 year old Russell King and his wife Mary King opened King’s Service - a welding and mechanical repair shop - out of their home-based workshop in Mile 5. Earlier today, after five decades of…
Mr. Speaker, I hear tell that at the down at the Department of Infrastructure there is something like a swear jar. Every time anyone says NTCL, they have to throw a buck in it. Although various names have been suggested…
MR. SIMPSON: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As we all know, last year health and social service authorities amalgamated into the NWT Health and Social Service Authority. The rationale for this move was to improve coordination, communication, and the use of…
Today, the Auditor General of Canada (AG) released his report on the Freshwater Fish Marketing Corporation (FFMC), confirming what we've all known for years. In addition to determining that the Corporation had no long-term strategy, the AG found "many weaknesses,"…
