Bob Bromley

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I give notice that on Thursday, February 10, 2011, I will move the following motion: I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Kam Lake, that this Legislative Assembly recommends that the Department of Education, Culture and Employment reinstate the policy of sponsoring a placement in the University of Saskatchewan’s Western College of Veterinary Medicine;

And further, that the Department of Education, Culture and Employment fund that placement;

And furthermore, that the reinstatement of this policy includes a requirement for return of service by the graduate...

Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the Minister’s comments there. I think they are essentially what I had said as the introduction to my question, that I realize it’s the lead of the Department of the Executive. I was referring the Minister’s commitment to play a key role.

Mr. Speaker, the consequences of a failure to address poverty are that people fall more and more into poverty and start getting into social issues and eventually mental and physical health issues. I know that this Minister’s staff has a huge amount of experience in this area. On that basis, I am asking how the Minister is drawing on...

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. Thank you. I’ve received conflicting information on funding for the Introduction to Advanced Nursing Practice Program at Aurora College. My question is for the Minister of ECE.

It is my understanding that the Department of Health and Social Services contributes support directly to this program, as well as indirectly through coverage of student tuition fees, and that ECE and the federal government may also be contributors, but obviously this needs clarification. I ask the Minister: what is the current and planned status of funding from these partners for this program?

Thank you, Mr. Abernethy. Ms. Meade.

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Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Minister Lee.

Just, I guess, leave it as a comment that the presentations we’ve had it sounds like a lot of it should be fairly straightforward and perhaps to some degree there’s parts of it being implemented already. The technology is as simple as a phone or cell phone, where we have coverage. I guess I’m looking for efficiencies here. I like the model. I’m looking for complexity, but it seems pretty straightforward to me. I’m wondering where the bottlenecks are in implementing this. I realize it’s a new model, the tires need to be kicked and so on.

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Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Mr. Elkin.