Floyd Roland

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, if I understand the question correctly, is how soon can an issue be put out there and how soon would it be dealt with. That would work in conjunction with our testing patterns as we found problems. Again, for more detail, we will go to Dr. Corriveau for more detail than I can provide. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, it would be difficult to give an absolute timeline as, number one, to try and get a schedule together of all Finance Ministers where we have our joint meetings and, secondly, to get the agreement that we will put that on the agenda that would also include the federal government. On a provincial and territorial side, as I stated, we’re starting to get responses back that are favourable and can see that we can put that on a provincial and territorial agenda, but the meeting dates have not been finalized or discussed at this point. Secondly, from that table...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, as we proceed and this bill gets passed and put into force, we will also have to do work around regulations of that. As Dr. Corriveau stated, we would be working with municipalities if they decided to use a product like fluoride. We would continue to be involved in that sense. But as we go the next step and look at regulations, those items can be looked at and incorporated. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, yes, to the extent we’re able to. We have to recognize the fact that this contract and the union negotiations are going outside our processes. So I’ll have to be careful that we’re not deemed to be influencing process on either side, but we’ve been monitoring it on a regular basis and we’ve had our contact to see what was happening in the current settlement. We will continue to do what we can within our realm of authority to try and ensure that this comes out to a successful conclusion; the sooner, the better. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, it is fairly common now throughout the Northwest Territories. We see that in almost every community where individuals now go to their co-op store, their North Mart and other places, to get bottled water. It goes a lot to the pace, as I have heard individuals say. The fact of the matter is all of our water sources are tested and they meet the qualifications nationally to be used for human consumption. We meet the requirements. The bottled water sources out there are tap water in the majority of situations if you look at it, if you do the actual looking at...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, as we’ve heard, quality of water is one that does come up from time to time in communities and the safety of that supply is something that we can get involved with once this act, it clarifies the process and the rules we all operate by. Ultimately, as we’ve heard from other sources as well, that the piped water, once it goes through the plant, is filtered and takes out contaminants and supplies a quality of water that is acceptable by national standards. If we find problems with that, we will issue orders around that area. I guess in one degree it’s a...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the area of the medevac contract is one that the government has looked at for quite some time. Not in the previous contracts, but a number of contracts ago, the government decided to pool the area of medevac contracts trying to limit the exposure as it was one of the areas that was growing substantially. So we’ve gone to this method of one contract for the medevac itself. That’s the flights and planes. Then another for medevac personnel. We found even our health centres and hospitals were unable to have staff taken out of their facilities. That would cause...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The cost effectiveness has to come into play at some point, because if it absolutely fails, it will fail everyone. So I mean that's something we have to keep in mind. The fact is, as I stated, this is not unique just to the Sahtu; it happens in other regions. We've had to try to make a balance of how we operate, how we can function and ensure patient safety. For example, as the Member has highlighted -- and it is a concern to a lot of the communities and regions -- but location of the base stations, as I've highlighted, does come into play when we review this. The...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the fact is the way we’ve changed the service and it’s provided for now has worked. We managed to get into the communities when called upon. Yes, there are a number of communities, not only in the Sahtu but other regions in the territory, where a flight has to go out of one of the two centres. The way the RFP has been structured, we would have one plane situated up in Inuvik that would be dedicated to the service, as well as out of Yellowknife that would reach the other communities. So a lot of communities would have to wait for a flight to be dispatched...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Mackenzie Delta, that Bill 5, An Act to Amend the Child and Family Services Act, be read for the third time. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.