David Ramsay

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The access road would go right through the land that was granted access to to Deton'Cho Corporation by the Minister in January. Does the Minister agree that an access road into an industrial park answers the issue of public safety currently at play here in the city of Yellowknife with truck traffic on roads in residential areas? If a residential housing development is put in at the sandpits, that access road would go right through it with truck traffic. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you for that, Mr. Murray. I’ll move on now to another issue I brought up with the Minister last year when he was here and that was the issue of a palliative care unit at Stanton. Currently people live their entire lives paying dearly in terms of taxes and other things that they pay to the government throughout their whole lives. I think it’s important that when it is time to go and some people get diagnosed with a terminal illness and they know that their days on this earth are numbered, I think it’s very important that we have a place where people who are terminally ill can go and...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I will take this opportunity to withdraw my remarks. If I came close to the line yesterday with those remarks, I apologize to the Premier and to the government for doing that and I guess I will leave it at that. Thank you.

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Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you. Five vacancies of registered nurses that is. If there are only five vacancies, why would Stanton look at closing a ward down due to lack of available staff? Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I’m just wondering if I can get the Minister’s response to this. The nurses are, like I mentioned, going to launch a complaint with the Equal Pay Commission; Nitya Iyer is her name and she’s the Northwest Territories Equal Pay Commissioner. They’re going to challenge the Public Service Act under section 40. I’m wondering what are the Minister’s thoughts with them doing that and how that might proceed and have an impact on his operation. Thank you.

Thank you. Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger, for that. One other thing that I wanted to bring up with you today was the case of the Hay Plan re-evaluation at Stanton Territorial Hospital and whether that should have happened or not. I mean, that’s water under the bridge now, but it’s still having an impact on a substantial number of nurses who are employed at Stanton Territorial Hospital and through the government and the union they haven’t been able to really get any type of understanding or resolution to their concerns. In fact, they’re in the process of taking their concerns to the...