Daryl Dolynny

Does committee agree that consideration of the Department of HR has been concluded?

Thank you, Minister Beaulieu. Ms. Bassi-Kellett.

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Mr. Beaulieu.

It’s hard for me to understand from the Minister, they’re doing work in this area, but they’re not tracking anything, and without statistics, how do you track this issue? The NWT coroner’s service tables an annual report that makes countless recommendations to assist this government in making strategic decisions with related addictions and death management, but sadly, a large majority of these recommendations fall on deaf ears.

Can the Minister of Health reaffirm his department’s commitment to deal with the recent seven recommendations from the office of the chief coroner on addressing...

Thank you, committee. Committee, 3-12, information item, directorate, active positions. Any questions? Seeing none, I’d like to move to 3-15, activity summary, management and recruitment services, operations expenditure summary, $4.337 million. Is committee agreed? Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, committee. Committee, 3-28, information item, labour relations, active positions. Any questions? Seeing none, I’d like to have you return to the department summary on 3-7. Human Resources, department summary. Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Ms. Bassi-Kellett. Mr. Menicoche.

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Thank you, Madam Speaker. I’d like to rise and continue my discussions on prescription drug abuse here in the NWT. We do have serious addictions issues in the NWT and I know we are working toward solutions of dealing with them, and clearly I want to state for the record that we don’t want to undermine the fact that alcohol is probably one of, by far, the most abused substance in the NWT, but we do have a number of untracked addictions issues out there. With the recent NWT chief coroner’s report they echo those very same sentiments.

Prescription drug abuse of narcotics, benzodiazepines and...

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. With that, we’ll go to Ms. Bassi-Kellett.