Human Resources committee  Just with regard to the comment about electricity, we are in the midst of an electrical pricing review. All of the communities in the territories are subsidized down to the Yellowknife rate, which is probably ten times that of Saskatoon. They're looking at ways to change it. Our

Human Resources committee  We might get three curling club compressors in three different communities.

Human Resources committee  There are programs. The challenge there, though, is that we live in a country where everybody has rights and freedoms, and they need to choose as well, so it's a matter of encouraging healthy choices and providing the avenues to them.

Human Resources committee  I mentioned the facilities that are available, and Kate has urged me to also note that while these are in place, we are constantly searching for more resources for them and constantly requesting more programs. From the municipal level, this is outside of our mandate, so it's a ma

Human Resources committee  In our situation, from my experience, we live in an area that prospers under cooperation and co-existence. It's very much on a traditional basis. The mining companies you mentioned have come to the table, to a great extent. One of the first things identified was that it would be

Human Resources committee  Just to explain, we said that within Yellowknife we have one of the most effective homelessness coalitions under the national homelessness strategy in the country. All of the people, Kate and her confreres in the other support agencies, get together on a monthly basis with all of

Human Resources committee  One of the things is in the process of being addressed--everything is always in the process of being addressed. We mentioned the economy and the fact that there are people falling through the cracks. One of the challenges is that our economy is to a great extent based on non-rene

Human Resources committee  As a comparison, suppose I were to live in Norman Wells. My food, especially perishables, comes in by aircraft in the wintertime, until the winter road goes in. Once the winter road goes in, there's trucking, so the milk goes down from $12 a litre to the more normal $4 or $5 a li

Human Resources committee  The thing that also shows in your statistics is the gap in our wages. We have the second highest family income in Canada here, but we also have the poor and the working poor, which creates a challenge. It is an extremely generous community in the north, so a lot of that is masked

Human Resources committee  Hopefully, with your parents.

Human Resources committee  Definitely. We have several food bank types of outlets. Our specific food bank only opens once a week. I heard statistics from the Yukon, which you probably heard yesterday, that food bank usage has gone from families to single males, and there is a transition that is being obser

Human Resources committee  Good morning, and bienvenue à Yellowknife. The Northwest Territories Association of Communities welcomes the opportunity to appear before the committee today and share some of our views. Our association was formed in 1967. The membership includes 27 of 33 communities and is ho