2023 NWT Election
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Robert Hawkins
Candidate in the Yellowknife Centre Yellowknife race.
Robert can be reached at YKcentre@gmail.com, or by calling 867-444-0818.
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What do former NWT MLAs think of an independent members’ caucus?
February 21, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...on a proposal for an independent members’ caucus, largely depending on how they see consensus government. Three current MLAs – Kieron Testart, Robert Hawkins and Richard Edjericon – pitched their plan at a press conference last week to form an independent caucus that could vote as a bloc, which they...
N.W.T. premier responds to MLAs’ proposed voting bloc by emphasizing co-operation
February 14, 2025
CBC North - ...who vote together on issues in the territory's legislature. He was backed by Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh MLA Richard Edjericon and Yellowknife Centre MLA Robert Hawkins, and said that other members would talk about it with their constituents during the break. Testart pitched the committee as a way to get things...
Three MLAs stand up to cabinet, say they aren’t being listened to
February 14, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...at a podium in the Great Hall of the NWT Legislative Assembly Building, the former candidate for premier was joined by Yellowknife Centre MLA Robert Hawkins and Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh MLA Richard Edjericon. Testart offered some examples of the need for a more co-operative version of consensus government,...
Collaboration is ‘foundation of consensus,’ premier says
February 14, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...premier says “the foundation of consensus government is collaboration.” At a Thursday afternoon press conference, regular MLAs Kieron Testart, Robert Hawkins and Richard Edjericon – who have been critical of cabinet – unveiled their pitch to form an independent members’ committee or caucus that may...
In detail: What’s in this new ‘independent caucus’ proposal?
February 13, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...committee or caucus that they say will “save consensus government” in the NWT. Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart, Yellowknife Centre MLA Robert Hawkins and Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh MLA Richard Edjericon announced the proposal at a press conference in the NWT legislature building on Thursday. All three...
3 MLAs pitch idea of voting bloc as way to be taken more seriously by N.W.T. cabinet
February 13, 2025
CBC North - ...both elected and unelected to account," said Testart, who was joined by Tu Nedhé-Wiilideh MLA Richard Edjericon and Yellowknife Centre MLA Robert Hawkins. "Small wins aren't good enough anymore, we need change, systemic change, and that's not happening in the current system. If there's a group of...
Questions fly over health-care ‘czar,’ future of learning centres
February 11, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...December of the NWT’s Health and Social Services (NTHSSA) Leadership Council, in favour of a single public administrator. Yellowknife Centre MLA Robert Hawkins noted MLAs will be asked to approve Budget 2025-26, without knowing what the public administrator has been doing and, or the details of the...
Some NWT MLAs say budget doesn’t do enough to advance priorities
February 7, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...to enhance basic funding for utilities and winter road costs. ‘We should be talking about our optimism’ Finally, Yellowknife Centre MLA Robert Hawkins said in the legislature Thursday that the budget “wasn’t all terrible” but it did not meet objectives set out in the government’s priorities...
Julian Morse calls for NWT to improve respite care supports
February 6, 2025
Cabin Radio - ...supportive living services outside the NWT. The Whitford Healing Centre? As the legislature sat for the first time in 2025, Yellowknife Centre MLA Robert Hawkins raised his proposal to name a building in downtown Yellowknife after Tony Whitford, “given the important commitment he’s made to northerners.”...
Regular MLAs call for action, look for inspiration in session re-start
February 5, 2025
CKLB 101.9 - ...delayed tariffs on Canadian goods. And NWT Premier R.J. Simpson’s inaugural Territorial Address on Tuesday was slammed by Yellowknife Centre MLA Robert Hawkins for being tepid and lacking vision. “We need a Premier’s state-of-the-union like we heard yesterday, but with actual energy and deliverable...
N.W.T. gov’t now proposing Indigenous northerners have top priority in new hiring policy
February 3, 2025
CBC North - ...said the policy itself is one step that could be beneficial, alongside other actions, to address those concerns. Last week, Yellowknife Centre MLA Robert Hawkins said Wawzonek's office requested a meeting with MLAs to discuss the policy but he was one of multiple MLAs who did not want to take it. Hawkins said...
MLA Hawkins Shares Disappointment with new Indigenous Employment Policy
December 20, 2024
My Yellow Knife Now - ...recruitment and career development to build more long-term careers within the GNWT, building a workforce that better reflects the population. Robert Hawkins, the MLA for Yellowknife Centre, is one of the several members of the government who have taken issue with the proposed Policy. Hawkins explained...
Listen: Will the GNWT’s new Indigenous Employment Policy work?
December 20, 2024
Cabin Radio - ...rolled out by the NWT government in April gets it wrong. In a letter this week, seven regular MLAs – Jane Weyallon Armstrong, Richard Edjericon, Robert Hawkins, Kieron Testart, Daniel McNeely, George Nerysoo and Sheryl Yakeleya – said the new policy was being introduced despite “unresolved concerns.” ...
Now is not the time to replace N.W.T.’s affirmative action hiring policy, say some MLAs
December 20, 2024
CBC North - ...to receive education, since that also still plays a role in hiring processes. Other MLAs have also spoken out against the new policy, including Robert Hawkins and Kieron Testart who have both posted public statements outlining their concerns. Both say it will make it harder for northerners to obtain...
GNWT to launch new hiring policy that focuses on Indigenous recruitment
December 18, 2024
CKLB 101.9 - ...said Mackey. The new policy has been received negatively by some northerners, including Range Lake MLA Kieron Testart and Yellowknife Centre MLA Robert Hawkins. “The Affirmative Action Policy may never have been perfect, but it has been an essential program for local northern Indigenous people and...