Bob Bromley

So we were successful. That means the bore holes were successful. How does that relate to the $2.5 million that we are now proposing again for this year? Was it $2.5 million or $3.5 million last year? We approved $2.5 million at the last minute. I thought maybe we’d had a million dollars already approved. Some clarity there. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I do want to comment briefly on these items. The $105.7 million carry-over for infrastructure, representing projects that were not done or completed, at 35 percent of our total expenditure for the last year is quite a large carry-over.

During the 16th Assembly we did have a special deputy ministers committee on infrastructure that did a lot of thinking and implementing of a new approach to deal with our challenges, which are many in the sort of whimsical northern environment that people have to deal with, problems of access and so on, and that included moving to Class C...

I understand that now. I just wanted to follow up a little bit on the physicians versus the nurse practitioners to make sure I have this right. My understanding is from the Minister’s discussion, I think it might have been with my colleague Mr. Yakeleya, that there is now or there’s an intent to provide some flexibility in how authorities allocate their physician dollars, to some degree, to incorporate the possibility of nurse practitioners allocating some of the current or past physician dollars towards the nurse practitioners, given that we often fail to hire the physicians for the positions...

Thank you again for that information. Just moving on to the program review office, I think it’s been awhile since we’ve heard anything new, although we have had updates from the program review office. I assume they have been working on other things recently. I don’t know. Would it be possible to say what those things are or will be hearing about that soon? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to follow up on my Member’s statement earlier today with questions for the Minister of the NWT Housing Corporation. My statement today outlined a very sad chain of events for Cecelia Kell and an international embarrassment, obviously, for us. Could the Minister responsible for the Housing Corporation tell me what steps have been taken to act on the UN recommendations and get Ms. Kell a home and pay the recommended compensation? Thank you.

What special services are needed?

Madam Chair, I had a question on page 5-13.

That tells me that the basic skills are there and engaged and I’m sure as people get more familiar, they will work towards the upper level of achievement as was the basis of my question. That’s all I have on that.

That’s good information to have and it helps me to understand the process a little bit more. I’ll leave it at that. I am curious on how that actually works on the ground, but maybe we can have that conversation another time.

If I can move on to the Bureau of Statistics. They, the proverbial “they,” say what we monitor or measure reflects what’s important to us. I know we profess to pursuing sustainability. The route to sustainability is a learning route. As our understanding deepens and so on, we realize that we need to measure new things. How does that change? Do we regularly adjust what we...

I don’t want to talk about the Social Envelope Committee. I think we’re well aware of that and so on. I’m asking specifically about the Department of Health and Social Services’ work in this area. What work have they done specifically? What are their responsibilities? I think the House is well aware that this has been identified by the House as a priority, so we want to know that things are happening, that the resources are identified. What is Health doing to fulfill their part of this envelope committee specifically? Thank you.