Jane Groenewegen

Thank you, Mr. Bouchard. Mr. Ouellette.

Thank you, Mr. Bouchard. Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you. I’ll ask the Sergeant-at-Arms if he could please escort the witnesses and the Speaker to the table.

Welcome, Mr. Speaker. For the record, could you please acknowledge your witnesses today.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, your committee has been considering Tabled Document 281-17(5), Northwest Territories Capital Estimates, 2016-2017; and Tabled Document 325-17(5), Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures) No. 3, 2015-2016; and would like to report progress, and that consideration of Tabled Document 281-17(5) is concluded and that the House concur in those estimates and that an appropriation bill to be based thereon be introduced without delay. Mr. Speaker, I move that the report of Committee of the Whole be concurred with. Thank you.

Thank you. I’ll ask the Sergeant-at-Arms to please escort the witnesses to the table.

Minister Miltenberger, for the record, could you please introduce your witnesses.

I’ll ask the Sergeant-at-Arms to please escort the witnesses to the table.

Minister Lafferty, for the record, could you please introduce your witnesses.

I’d like to call Committee of the Whole back to order. When we recessed yesterday, we were on the Department of Education, Culture and Employment. I’d like to ask Minister Lafferty if he would like to bring witnesses into the Chamber. Minister Lafferty.

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Does the committee agree?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Could that also include provision for a patient to designate someone other than themselves as a decision-maker to work with the health care providers to make sure that list is comprehensive? So if the patients themselves are not capable of providing that information, if they could be asked to confirm a designated decision-maker who could provide that list for the patient?

For the benefit of patients and patient’s families, then, is there a protocol or any requirement on the part of people in admitting or people who are in administration on the front desk of a health care facility to advise a patient or a patient’s family that this list needs to be articulated and held by the people who might be in a position to give out information on that patient’s condition?