Daryl Dolynny

Just for clarification, who would that person be specifically?

The purpose of my question is to make sure that we are providing due process for those applicants, that we’re not superficially making them wait to get our affairs in order. Again, I haven’t had any calls to action on that, but I think it’s important that we recognize that.

Embedded within this act it also talks about a regulator. Can we define who is this entity or individual or is it a company that they’re involved with, the regulations or the regulator of the significant passages of this act?

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to thank the mover of the motion, Mr. Nadli, and Mr. Hawkins, for bringing it to debate here today.

When Mr. Nadli brought this to the committee here, it brought back memories of my youth, growing up in northern Alberta. I used to go pick mushrooms with my grandparents for many years. It’s a tradition that I actually haven’t thought about, and this motion actually, I guess, made me go back to my youth and go and think about the benefits of what we did back then.

On top of that, the Member indicated the Dragon’s Den CBC component that really kind of instigated...

Thank you to the Minister. Once Med-Response is launched, can the Minister indicate what plans the department has to monitor and evaluate this program ongoing?

Can the Minister indicate what the department’s position is on the provision of medevac flights to emergency extractions on our NWT highway system? Last time I asked this question with the previous Health Minister we didn’t have a clear policy. Can the Minister indicate, has this changed?

The Minister of Health and Social Services has advised this House that his department is moving forward with Med-Response, a program that will give all the health centres and all the communities direct access to a physician to coordinate expediting of medevacs, which is going forward, as we were told, on April 1st of this year.

Clearly, the sick and injured in the Northwest Territories deserve better service than they are getting.

At the appropriate time, I will be asking the Minister of Health and Social Services questions about the status of this proposal. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

When I read a passage where it says Section 47(3) it says the Commissioner in Executive Council, so that means that the Commissioner, our current Commissioner is working on behalf of the Cabinet or is it with the Cabinet? Is it independent of the Cabinet or is it Commissioner and Cabinet working collectively as one signatory? I need clarification on that.

I appreciate the explanation there. That does provide a bit more clarity, because I know that term has come up a couple times and I know Members have spoken on, so I want to make sure we’re talking about the same process between each act.

Lastly, under the part of royalties, it references the Commissioner and the Executive Council. Can we define what that position or who that person is, just for the record.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Again, welcome back to the Premier and team here. Just some clarification questions within this act, and I know that this is mirror legislation, and I know that we don’t want to delay implementation, but I need to understand a couple of things within this act a little bit more clearly. Within the act it talks about these exploration licences and the fact that there’s a waiting period and everything else. Do we have people right now currently waiting for this act to pass that are kind of sitting in stasis for an exploration licence?