Bob Bromley

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions today are for the Minister of Environment and Natural Resources. I want to follow up on my Member’s statement.

The good management of any issues requires the balanced input of all stakeholders. With wildlife, this is at least, if not more, critical than in most areas, because it is a very limited resource that is vulnerable, as we know, to overexploitation. Those with Aboriginal and treaty rights are squarely at the management table, with representatives comprising half of management board members while those without these rights have only representatives...

Thank you, Minister Lee. Mr. Beaulieu. We are on page 8-36, Health and Social Services, information item, work performed on behalf of others. Agreed?

Thanks to the Minister for those remarks. I have had occasion to visit with clients who did have access to midwifery in the NWT, visited this weekend and they certainly pointed out the benefits of the program and one of them is still going through the process of finding herself using the emergency services and stuff the second time around without midwifery services and comparing and contrasting the cost that that must be on the system to the first time through with midwifery services. I’m very happy to see there is strong interest from the Minister in pursuing this. It overlaps I think with my...

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Mr. Lafferty.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Draft amendments to the Wildlife Act are not there yet. It has been a long road, and a pressing need to update the act into the legal reality of today is clear. The draft bill does go some distance towards recognizing Aboriginal and treaty rights but fails on our additional responsibility for bringing those without these rights into a cooperative management future.

As I have said repeatedly, whole management is the only approach that will work, but workable whole management requires that this bill also provides for wildlife users without Aboriginal and treaty rights to...

I just want to say I’m very pleased to see that modest increase. It’s more than doubling of the budget to date but, obviously, that budget to date I see as quite inadequate. I want to compliment the department on getting that commitment and allocation in there. Are these internal dollars or is the source of these dollars federal? Thank you.

Mr. Chairman, our deputy minister is really just providing the justification for a course tune-up. They are not taking the course and making sure that practice in remote and rural communities is provided. The bottom line is this is a highly valuable course. The instructors that have probably more experience than our remote and rural communities has a nurse in charge, et cetera, than anybody in the room here in the House have spoken to me about the value of this course. I am happy to trust the professionals there.

Another issue I would like to just touch on briefly is this House has called...

Page 10-7, Education, Culture and Employment, department summary, operations expenditure summary, we will defer until after the activity summary. Page 10-8, Education, Culture and Employment, department summary, information item, infrastructure investment summary.

Page 8-30, Health and Social Services, activity summary, community health programs, grants and contributions, contributions. Agreed? Ms. Bisaro.

Mr. Chairman, I am having a hard time with finding any horse sense in that. Mr. Chairman, obviously we have a continuing intake of students. We have continuing revolving people in our communities. Could the Minister match those up for me somehow?