Glen Abernethy

Thank you, Minister Lee. If it can be shared, we would like it shared with the entire committee. Mr. Hawkins.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I want to follow up on the questions my colleague Mr. Bromley was asking the Minister of Education, but I want to ask these questions to the Minister of Health and Social Services. The Department of Health and Social Services provides $511,000 a year to Aurora College to deliver the NP program or the Masters to Nurse Practitioner and the Introduction to Advanced Practice, both incredibly important programs. It is our understanding, or rather we have heard that the department plans to cease that funding in 2012. Could the Minister either confirm or deny that for us...

Thank you, Minister Lee. To Mr. Hawkins’ second question about getting a copy.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The 4th Annual YK Film Festival kicked off last week and runs until this coming Friday. I encourage everyone to get out and watch some of these films. A complete list of events can be found at Western Arctic Moving Pictures’ website.

This event is hosted by the Western Arctic Moving Pictures, which is often referred to as WAMP, whose mandate it is to promote, encourage, support, showcase and produce independent film, video, audio and digital media with the social, cultural and artistic community of the Northwest Territories. In addition to acting as an advocate to the...

Thank you, Minister Lee. The next on my list is Mr. Hawkins.

Once upon a time any nurse working in a community health centre who was employed by the GNWT, and that included agency relief nurses or agency nurses as well, we required them to take or provide proof that they have equivalent to IAP. We also required every nurse who worked in a community health centre to have the IAP equivalent. Do we still require that of nurses, regardless of how or why we’re employing them, who are working in the community health centres to have that or its equivalent?

In the life of this 16th Assembly there has been an awful lot of conversation about the debt and deficits of both those institutions and there has been reference to plans and action items and things we are going to do to reduce those debts, but they keep growing. I know the department is doing a lot of things. I know Stanton and Beaufort-Delta are trying things. I know there has been some changes in the Beaufort-Delta and now it is under the control, I guess, of a public administrator, but what kind of things, what kind of large activities are we doing out of Foundation for Change or any of...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to go back to the question I was asking earlier in the questions that Mr. Ramsay had been following up on. When I was talking earlier, I was talking about getting statistics on specifics and different things and not just agency nurse statistics but also our locum pool. I just want to confirm a couple of things so that we can make sure we get the right information when you are coming back to us with the locum pool. Does the Government of the Northwest Territories still maintain a pool, a locum pool of nurses that we use in our authorities but also in our...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This is probably one of the largest expenditure sections in the Department of Health and Social Services at $188 million-plus. There has been a lot of talk in the last couple of years about deficits and increased debt at some of our authorities, in particular Stanton and Beaufort-Delta. Could the Minister tell me what the projected debt and deficits are for both those authorities for the 2010-2011 fiscal year, and how that affects us coming into the 2011-2012 fiscal year and the amount that is going to be transferred to them?

Thank you, Minister Lee. Mr. Ramsay, your time is up. I can put you back on the list if you want, but for now I will go to the next Member on the list, which is Mr. Bromley.