Daryl Dolynny

Thank you, Madam Chair. I do have some opening comments here. I’m going to limit my comments more around one part of the budget and allow my opportunity to be more detailed as we get more in depth by department.

The concern I have is that we’ve seen our social umbrella expand to greater deficits, and when you look at past budgets and even this budget, there is no economic balance that we see for the Territories moving forward.

In 2011-2012 we spent roughly $360 million in health and that constituted about 26.4 percent of our overall budget then. As we progressed over the years, we are currently...

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. Minister Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As of last week, it was hard not to pick up the paper, scan the local news on the Internet, or stop in a coffee shop without the people talking about this interim report by the Electoral Boundaries Commission.

Frankly, I’m excited to hear from the people about their thoughts on democracy, whether it’s representation by population, representation by culture and language, representation by geographic distribution, or a combination thereof.

Mr. Speaker, it would be easy for Members to weigh in on this topic, but I will refrain from commenting on the subject for now as I...

Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen. Minister Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. Minister Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Nadli. Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Minister Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. General comments. I see there are no more general comments. What is the wish of committee? Mr. Hawkins.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Again, I do appreciate the Minister getting back to us at least with specifics.

As I mentioned in my Member’s statement earlier today, in August of 2002 the then Minister of Health, Mr. Michael Miltenberger, was to report back to the House here regarding a task force on this subject. Upon my asking the Department of Health and Social Services, they were unable to provide a copy, so I’m going to ask the Minister today here if he would help commit in helping retrieve this copy or finding this copy, because I believe there is probably some great work that was done a few...

I appreciate the Minister for answering that question. I think, again, in order to set the stage here in terms of statistics and how relevant tissue and organ donation is as an issue, not only in Canada but the Northwest Territories. Does the department have any statistics on the number of NWT residents who have been involved with transplants as of late?