Daryl Dolynny

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Duly noted. Sergeant-at-Arms, if they do come in, we’ll get you to escort them in and we’ll introduce them at that time. Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Earlier today I used the fictitious CBC TV show Arctic Air to depict an issue about emergency response. It has been a reality. In reality, this is actually happening in the Northwest Territories. With that, my question who won the coin toss is the Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs. Has there been a working group established? Have the fire chiefs been involved? Is there work to be done with the Northwest Territories Association of Communities and work with other departments such as Health and Social Services on creating some type of archway, some kind of health...

A motion is on the floor to report progress. The motion is order. The motion is not debatable. The motion is carried.

---Carried

I will now rise and report progress. Thank you, committee.

I do again appreciate the response. More detail in the future I think would probably be more appropriate for the Members here to understand exactly where these monies are going to be spent during the life of this budget.

Last but not least, I commend the department for again putting more money on the table for prevention and promotion. We’ve worked collectively hard, as Members of the Assembly, to expand these concepts into many of the different communities as we’ve mentioned in the House as well as today. Addictions and abuse doesn’t have an address. We’ve identified certain areas where these...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. There is no denying that I am a huge fan of CBC Arctic Air. In fact, the other day I was watching a rerun and on this rerun we saw a patient being hauled on the back of a quad on a stretcher. Very exciting, exposed to the elements, made for great TV.

It made me start to think. I did question a lot of emergency workers and care workers throughout the Territories. The reality is this is happening. This is not TV. We have many patients that are being hauled on the back of pickup trucks, sometimes on the back of vehicles and some of them in quads. They are being transported...

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Does committee agree?

I do appreciate that we are looking at areas I know the Member for the Sahtu is very adamant. I’ve worked alongside the Member looking at those cancer rates. I guess my question is, out of that budget of $200,000, what percentage of that budget is really adhered to early detection through screening?

Does committee agree that we’ve concluded consideration of Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 1, 2012-2013?

Thank you, Madam Chair. It’s pleasing to see that we’re moving our promotion and prevention budget from the 1.4 percent to its target, I guess, in the life of this Assembly to that magic 3 percent. I guess it’s baby steps in nature. I think the Social Programs committee is very appreciative of that.

Healthy Families, it looks like there’s going to be a breakdown of about $250,000 or a quarter million dollars. Can I get some more explanation? Is this proposed budget going to be mostly going into small communities more so in the Sahtu? Is this where only this money is going to be beneficial, is...

Again, page 7, committee. Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 1, 2012-2013, department, subject, Education, Culture and Employment, operations expenditures, activity, not previously authorized, education and culture, $782,000. Total department, not previously authorized, $782,000. Does committee agree?