Daryl Dolynny

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I, again, appreciate the Minister’s response. Finally, northern education reform success or renewal success will, clearly, depend on the progress of dealing with poverty and other social factors. As we heard today, residential school impacts will also require an ongoing collaboration with the departments of Health and Social Services, Justice, NWT Housing, MACA and Human Resources. How will the Minister quarterback all these initiatives with so many departments in order to see real progress during the life of this 17th Assembly?

No further questions.

I appreciate the Minister’s response to that. Can the Minister give us a recap of all the informing initiatives we have at this time and what future initiatives can we expect during the life of this Assembly, as the Minister put it, as we prepare for this renewal?

These recoveries, is this a policy that is easily retrievable for review or is this something that’s just within the confines of the directorate?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It goes without saying that our current NWT education system is in dire need of an overhaul. The recent Auditor General of Canada clearly pointed out numerous opportunities of reform, and we know that the department has been busy evaluating the delivery of northern education.

I’m sure the department is sparing no dime in gathering the best experts, discussion papers, research and feasibility studies on what changes it will need to institute. Then we are more than certain we will have a series of forums, follow-up discussions and reports at some juncture. The point is...

Thank you, Madam Chair. With respect to the line entry for this page, we have a Sun Life medevac recoveries in the main estimates of $750,000 and we’ve seen from 2012-2013 of only $250,000. We’ve seen about a half million dollar lift in the mains. Maybe if the Minister could explain why the lift and what that number refers to.

I will take the advice of the Minister and I will bring the appropriate question to the Minister responsible for WSCC at a future time during the budget process.

My last question in the same relationship to the issues of claims growth and safety, the Minister has talked today about numerous tools and resources that the department is working on and everything. Just so that we’re very clear and understand all the variety of resources out there for our employees to have access to, could the Minister provide to this House all the tools and resources that this division is developing to support the...

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. We are moving on with questions, I have Mr. Nadli.

The Minister is correct; this is a cascade approach. I think the first fine, $250; second fine, $400; and it’s a $1,000 fine for every claim thereafter. That’s according to WSCC guidelines.

I beg to differ, Madam Chair. I think $56,000 is $56,000. I’m sure anyone who said $56,000 is on the floor over there, don’t worry about it, it’s a small number... I believe it’s a large number. More importantly, the fact that it won’t go away because, as we continue, even with one more claim tomorrow, that’s another thousand bucks. It will just continue like this and snowball until such time as we go to...

Thank you, Mr. Abernethy. We will go to Ms. Bassi-Kellett.