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Mr. Speaker, transportation infrastructure plays a crucial role in connecting people, ensuring effective supply chains and creating opportunities for economic growth.
Today I would like to highlight recent successes in our continued efforts to improve the transportation networks towards to improve accessibility and road safety across the territory.
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Mr. Speaker, in recent years employers have faced challenges in recruiting the employees they need to succeed. The Northwest Territories, and Canada as a whole, are currently experiencing a tight labour market, which means we have more jobs than available workers.
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Mr. Speaker, last week the Department of Health and Social Services hosted the second ever Weaving our Wisdom Gathering, for which 350 wellness leaders, Elders, and knowledge holders from across the Northwest Territories, came together to celebrate and share Indigenous community-driven wellness knowledge.
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Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to provide an update on implementing the draft Northwest Territories’ curriculum for Junior Kindergarten to Grade 12 students. As a mother of three school-aged children and one who values innovation and critical and creative thinking, this is an exciting time for our students.
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Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the athletes, coaches, and mission staff who are representing Team NT at the 2024 Arctic Winter Games in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley, Alaska from March 10 to 16, 2024.
The Arctic Winter Games provide an opportunity for Team NT to engage and compete with other athletes from the circumpolar region. Not only are the Games an athletic competition for athletes, it also provides an opportunity to promote cultural and social exchange among youth from all parts of the North.
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Mr. Speaker, the Government of the Northwest Territories made a mandate commitment in 2019 to advance universal child care by increasing availability and affordability.
It is my great privilege today to announce that starting April 1st, licensed child care in the Northwest Territories will cost an average of $10-a-day.
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Mr. Speaker, I wish to advise Members that the Honourable Caroline Wawzonek will be absent from the House for the remainder of the week to attend the meetings for Federal/Provincial/Territorial Ministers responsible for Transportation and Safety in Montreal, Quebec.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
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Mr. Speaker, barren-ground caribou are extremely important to the people, cultures, and communities of the Northwest Territories. They have supported northern Indigenous peoples from time immemorial, and it is important that we all work together to ensure caribou populations remain strong for future generations.
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Following portion spoken in Wiilideh Yati
Mr. Speaker, Edàaht’e, Caıtlın Cleveland sı̀yeh. Semǫ Carole wı̀yeh.
Setà Randy wı̀yeh. Sǫǫ̀mbak’è naàhdè eyıts’ǫ jǫ gots’ǫ aht’e.
[Mr. Speaker, hello, my name is Caitlin Cleveland. My mother is Carole and my father is Randy. I am from and live in Yellowknife.]
