David Ramsay

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Ms. Lee. Oh, Mr. McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my questions today are for the Minister of Justice, the Honourable Charles Dent. I’d like to start off by saying that last Friday I started some questions saying that the department and the Minister were non-responsive to some questions I had. They were responsive, Mr. Speaker, but maybe just not with the answers I was looking for. I’d like to apologize to the Minister if I upset him with the questioning.

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The question I have today for the Minister, Mr. Speaker, is last week I talked about a list targeting employees at the North Slave Correctional...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I know some of my colleagues were asking questions earlier; that $3.4 million is included in the $6.6 million, is it not, Madam Chair? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. Braden.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, let’s say for all things being equal, two grads from the Aurora College Northern Nursing Program, one goes into obstetrics and one goes into surgery. They have the same skill set, they just got out of college. One gets paid more because she’s in obstetrics than the other one in surgery, Mr. Speaker. What is Stanton doing to make sure that the nurses that are coming into the specialty areas have the skills, the certification and the knowledge to get paid and to be in that specialty area? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. Braden.

Thank you, Mr. Dent. Mr. Braden.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would like to pick up where I left off with questions for the Minister of Health and Social Services. I’d like the Minister to explain why an LPN at Stanton can earn more than a registered nurse under the new re-evaluation that’s in place at Stanton. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Braden. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just a few more things I would like to bring up. One of the options that has been discussed was an airport improvement fee. I don’t know how we sell that to the public based on the fact that some of these improvements to the air terminal building in Yellowknife might only be around for another 10 years. I don’t know how that would work charging the travelling public an airport improvement fee for a facility that, for all intents and purposes, isn’t going to be there after 10 years. That doesn’t make a lot of sense, Mr. Chairman, and I don’t think the public would...