Glen Abernethy

Once this passes and comes into effect, we'll be able to put any of the supported or any of the information in the appropriate fonts. If the registered name of community does not include a font, it will not include it on the birth certificate.

Thank you Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, the Department of Health and Social Services isn’t the registrar of office names of locations, communities, towns, villages, et cetera. Those names are registered using fonts or not using. If they have fonts, traditional fonts in them, the birth certificate will now be able to include it. If the name as registered does not include those fonts, then we would be required to use the legal name of the community as registered, and if it does include fonts, it won't.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I appreciate the Member's comments. The Member has indicated that this particular area is something that was intended and will be addressed in the regulations. Originally, we are proposing regulations with respect to sex designation which was consistent with the majority of provinces and territories and the Northwest Territories. Specifically, that a statutory declaration that an individual lives full-time in the gender they want to change to, and that this is not the gender currently listed on their birth certificate, a statutory declaration from a doctor, a nurse...

I would, yes, please.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, during the federal election, there was an indication that there would be money allocated to provinces and territories by the federal government, about $3.9 billion over a four-year period. We don't actually know how they plan to distribute those dollars or what the criteria is for utilizing those dollars are. If past predicts future, and they use the same types of formula as they have in the past, which is often population-based, we could get as much as $3.6 million over the four years, which works out to just over $900,000 a year.

We, and all the other...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, the planning study for the Fort Simpson Health Centre is in this fiscal year, so there is no money showing up for next fiscal year. We plan to have that work done this fiscal year.

No, there isn't, Mr. Chair, as far as I'm aware.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. With me on my left is Derek Elkin, assistant Deputy Minister of Health and Social Services, and on my right Perry Heath who is the director of infrastructure planning.

Mr. Speaker, I wish to table the following two documents entitled "The NWT Community Counselling Program Client Satisfaction Report 2016," and the "Public Performance Measures Report 2016: NWT Health and Social Services System." Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. These questions came up, very similar questions came up, a week or two ago. At that time, I indicated the Department of Health and Social Services is absolutely open to doing a pilot in this area, harm reduction, managed alcohol, but the first thing we need to do, Mr. Speaker, is get the sobering centre up and running. It will be our priority once the sobering centre is up and running. We'll be in a better position to design a managed alcohol program. In my mind and I think the mind of others, the two of these come together quite nicely, and this would be the...