Daryl Dolynny

I would assume that the Minister and the deputy minister, who is here, are much in line that this is a very, very important part of delivering health care to the Northwest Territories. Giving authorities money without having any strings attached really puts the delivery of patient care at risk, which leads me to my next question.

At the same time the Auditor General took an extensive look at how we deliver our services for diabetes and it was indicated at that time “that the department does not use administrative data to monitor diabetes programming, nor does it systematically collect data on...

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Minister Beaulieu.

Thank you, committee. I’ll turn over to page 2-7. We’ll be deferring that until consideration of detail. If I can get you to turn to page 2-8, Executive, information item, infrastructure investment summary. Any questions?

Thank you, Premier McLeod. We’ll continue this with the Minister of Finance, Mr. Miltenberger.

Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you. I do appreciate the fact that if we can get that information to the Social Programs committee, that would be definitely advisable.

With that in mind, my next question in relationship to that question is how does the Northwest Territories fit vis-à-vis our northern counterparts, vis-à-vis the other provinces across Canada in terms of the percentage of their budgets in the area of prevention and promotion in health, and also could that information be broken down and provided to the committee? Thank you.

Health and Social Services, information item, work performed on behalf of others. Any questions?

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. For that question, we’ll go to Ms. Ballantyne.

Thank you very much. I’d like to thank Mr. Warren, Ms. Ballantyne and the Premier. If I could get the Sergeant-at-Arms to escort the witnesses out of the Chamber. Thank you.

Welcome back, committee. We are on Aboriginal Affairs and Intergovernmental Relations with Premier McLeod. Premier McLeod, do you have any opening comments?

Does committee agree?