David Krutko

With that, we’ll take a short break and then begin with Health and Social Services.

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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I think it is important that we do get that information, because I believe there is a major increase in the collective bargaining, especially for those in health authorities, especially in Inuvik and whatnot where there has been an increase in the collective bargaining agreement, in regards to trying to find ways of dealing with the challenge of vacancies and trying to get more doctors and professions into those areas of the Territories by way of different types of bonuses or pay levels and whatnot to attract more professions in those areas. It would be interesting to...

Thank you, Minister Lee. Anything further, Mr. Yakeleya? No. Mr. Hawkins, did you have something?

Mr. Hawkins, we are just finishing up 8-14. Do we conclude 8-14?

Mr. Speaker, I didn’t hear anything in regards to the meetings held between the Minister of Finance and Nancy Sothern. Was that a pitch for Nancy Southern to come up with $6 million to basically kick-start the Taltson proposal?

Mr. Chair, in regard to the Minister’s earlier comments, right now you spend something like 14 weeks in the community during breakup and freeze-up, so you already fill that gap during breakup and freeze-up, so why couldn’t you fill the gap for the rest of the year using that same type of a scenario? I’ve been talking about this issue for so long that I’m starting to feel like a broken record, just keep asking the same question and getting the same answers. I think that, at the end of the day, we have to find a resolution to this problem. I think that knowing there have been nurses or locums...

Mr. Yakeleya.

Minister Lee.

Mr. Speaker, in the case of request for proposals, government seems to do that a lot. I am just wondering in regards to comments made by the Premier, is there a formal request for proposal that has been put out there in regards to allowing the interested parties or aboriginal organizations or formally some corporations in the Northwest Territories to look at the possibility of partnering on some of these large-scale projects.

In regard to the 18 positions for the Beaufort-Delta, what are those positions?