Daryl Dolynny

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?

Thank you, Madam Chair. I’d like to welcome the Premier and devolution team here again today under the review of Bill 10.

Madam Chair, from what I understand, when bills are reviewed or legislation is reviewed both nationally or territorially or provincially, we look at things such as the imperial system that is used to describe certain things, whether it’s units of measure, units of land. This may be more of a small, technical nature, but I thought this was something possibly not picked up when we did the mirror legislation.

In Section 9, it talks about the disposition of Territorial lands and...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and thank you, Mr. Moses.

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In this year’s budget, the Minister noted funding in the amount of $790,000 to continue the implementation of the new Med-Response service. As he quoted, it was to “provide community health care practitioners with remote emergency clinical support, triage advice and help to coordinate NWT air ambulance services.”

Can the Minister of Health indicate for these funding dollars, what overall improvements to the medevac service can Northwest Territories residents expect to see? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. What precipitated my Member’s statement today and my oral questions was as a result of a search on our government careers website. Recently there was posted an advanced territorial support medical coordinator and an emergency medical dispatcher. When you look on the job description, it does mention to help emergency medical evacuation services including medevac triage, coordinating dispatching and repatriation of services. This prompted me to talk about it in my Member’s statement today, but, more importantly, to have questions today for the Minister of Health and...