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I am positive he has some considerate remarks on the ideas which have been put ahead right now. This seems to me to be part of an general technique that I've witnessed from this specific commission of bringing people to the table, and I have applauded that initiative in the past and the commissioner's success at bringing people to the table to discuss the Yukon forests. Mr. Chair, I strongly assist this movement, and I'm pleased that the Member for Watson Lake has brought it ahead. I look forward to the speedy passage of the motion and some action from the government on the motion that we, hopefully, will pass right here right now. I definitely think the communities concerned - the individuals concerned in the communities which are going to be affected - ought to be consulted and listened to in terms of chopping new fireplace-breaks across the communities. After all, many of these communities now have recreational ski trails and recreational actions that happen around their communities. We know that it's going to be almost unimaginable to not have some overlap here, where a hearth-break may cut throughout a path that is heading up on to a hill, or might even need to observe an present trail on a ridge or in a sure space for a methods.

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The Government of Yukon, as an employer, advises supervisory employees that every case have to be examined individually. In common terms, however, notice is served by the employer that private points are interfering with one's work. In this case, as I even have already mentioned, this step has been taken. Once an worker has concurred that an issue exists, every effort is made to be supportive, to recommend choices, treatment, counselling, medical care, whatever is critical and most acceptable.

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There are those who are waiting to see what's going to happen with the mine, and there are those who are leaving, regardless, and so they usually say they do not intend to return. I will say, however, that we'll not assist the modification. It's not a friendly modification, and it's not a friendly amendment for this reason.-We have concentrated persistently our support for the state of affairs of Faro on the community of Faro. The trans-jurisdictional relocation of Yukoners to different jurisdictions is finally, and clearly, a federal accountability. The member reverse talked about social providers offering some relocation to go to other Yukon communities. We spend money in many, many areas the place there won't be any return for many years.

Liberal Leader Paul Martin was handed a minority government in a surprising election outcome Monday that marked the party's fourth-straight mandate however a return to the House of Commons with diminished clout. The NDP improved its seat totals, giving the Liberals a possible ally within the Commons. Few had predicted that the Liberals would win a robust minority Monday evening, however the Liberals gained in a hundred thirty five ridings, the Tories in ninety nine, the Bloc Québécois in 54 and the NDP in 19. Almost one hundred million people in 21 U.S. states breathe unhealthy levels of tiny particles spewed by coal-burning power crops, cars and factories, the Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday. This is an area where subscribers can interact with each other and Globe staff. Non-subscribers can learn and sort comments but won't be able to have interaction with them in any means.

The different thing I suppose that's important here, though I mentioned I assume we should go a little sooner in this course of and try to get this in place, is that we do have full consultation with the communities. I know that in my driving, Riverdale North, and in the using of Riverdale South, there were many people who had been very upset over the Yukon Electrical's clearing of their energy line proper-of-method, and felt like there wasn't enough session on that. Not everybody's going to agree with slicing a 20-metre, 60-metre or 80-metre fire-break around some of these communities, but I suppose that we have to sit down down with the individuals in a short time in some of these areas and point out the professionals and cons of not doing it. The different question I even have for the member is using wooden. There are present woodcutters who are out there now and there are lots of people on the market now who are cutting firewood to sell. Is the intention to tender it out so individuals can bid on it, bid on a section of a mile or two of this fireplace-break - or whatever - a kilometre or two. This is a good suggestion, however in my opinion, it's nearly five or six years behind.

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When session must happen exterior of Whitehorse, and the method must go on to other community, the costs of journey, hall rentals, hotel bills, per diems and car rental are additionally widespread. There are a variety of items that the government pays for whereas conducting session with Yukon residents and other stakeholders.

Many retired senior residents additionally retain their Yukon licences, even though, on the move, they keep their Yukon licence and use Yukon as their base of residency. The licences held by these individuals report as energetic licences in our system. At the present time, the Yukon Motor Vehicles Act requires that any driver who resides in the Yukon more than 30 days again should apply for a Yukon driver's licence. All people holding a driver's licence and residing in the Yukon longer than 30 days are required beneath regulation to obtain a Yukon driver's licence.

The forests around Watson Lake are of a good age - someplace in the neighbourhood of eighty to 100 years old. And we're reaching the height of the cycle - and the cycle, Mr. Speaker, is one by which every now and then - periodically - a fireplace will burn just about in the same areas. This is a major element of our upland forests within the Yukon and is one of the influences that our environment not solely endures, however it is necessary for the rejuvenation and the sustainability of our forests. There are numerous factors involved in fireplace risk right now in the Yukon.

I don't intend on bringing it up further in debate, but when I can have the minister's assurances on that, we are able to in all probability take care of it in the subsequent budget interval when we now have a chance to compare apples to apples. Perhaps, whereas the minister is at it, might he present me with a breakdown of the finances for the in-house mosquito control program for this forthcoming season and we'll begin evaluating apples to apples.

While we may have a look at some modest contribution in circumstances that absolutely require it, as a territory, it's a federal responsibility to assist the folks that have to maneuver elsewhere. So, I'm trying to cope with the problem within the brief term and in the long term by way of getting the mine again together, and coping with work issues, like through the CDF contributions. The other thing I wished to do in addressing the short-term wants in Faro is that there is $14 million within the mine reclamation trust proper now. That may be carried out regardless of whether or not the mine operates again or not.

Once issued, the licence is often valid for a interval of three years. This quantity would additionally embrace licences issued to Yukon snowbirds who journey south every winter, however retain Yukon as their base of residency. Once a licence is issued, it remains lively on the motive force report system. At the present time, there isn't a requirement for individuals leaving the territory to notify the motor vehicle branch of their departure. Motor vehicles does get notification when a driver applies for a licence in another jurisdiction.

I additionally attended their pre-annual general meeting, Mr. Speaker, every week in the past final Sunday, and this concern remains to be there locally, and they'll be making an attempt to establish a hearth-break to guard them before the fire season gets too far alongside this year. I can recall, in attending the Association of Yukon Communities' annual general meeting final, I consider it was, May 2 in Watson Lake, officials from Alaska confirmed a video on wildfires that actually had a major impression upon those who considered it. It was very startling and drove residence the reality and the chance of forest fires to individuals dwelling subsequent to the boreal forest. The MacIntosh project was to ascertain a fireplace-break within the fuels between the MacIntosh subdivision and the large block of beetle-killed timber to the south.

This Response isn't, and doesn't purport to be, conclusive as to the benefit of any specific declare for refugee protection. Please discover beneath the record of additional sources consulted in researching this Information Request. Also in June 2004, a Turkish court ordered the release of four Kurdish former members of parliament after they had spent ten years in jail (BBC 9 June 2004; Middle East Times 11 June 2004; HRW 15 June 2004; MRG July 2004, 14). The four were imprisoned for their alleged ties with the PKK (BBC 9 July 2004; Middle East Times eleven June 2004). At the time of their launch, an appeal in opposition to the preliminary conviction was pending .

By 19 December 2003, a total of "2,486 prisoners had applied for benefits under the law and 586 energetic militants had turned themselves in" (Country Reports Feb. 2004, Sec. 2.d). In an attempt to rework the PKK right into a political get together, the group "disbanded" and on sixteen April 2002 renamed itself the Freedom and Democracy Congress , with Ocalan named its president (AFP 29 May 2004; Turkish Daily News 22 Sept. 2003). An editorial in the Turkish Daily News published in May 2003 indicated that PKK "remain intact in Europe as a crime ring however recruit folks and extort cash as much as it did prior to now" . The Kurdistan Worker's Party is a "Marxist group in 1984 launched an armed wrestle to determine an impartial Kurdish state in Turkey's primarily Kurdish southeast" . The group is outlawed by the Turkish government (ibid. eight July 2004), which together with the United States and the European Union , has recognized it as a terrorist organization (AFP 29 May 2004; ibid. 6 Apr. 2004; ibid. 2 Sept. 2003; Turkish Daily News 10 May 2003; Irish Times 12 July 2004).