Jane Groenewegen

Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Nadli. Next I have Mr. Bromley.

I see this as only being helpful. When there is a crisis of mental health issues in a community, what are we doing about protocol so that everybody knows what the plan is? You don’t hear very often of people being medevaced because there’s a mental health crisis. You do certainly when there’s a physical illness, you hear that but, when there’s a mental illness and there’s a crisis, you don’t hear of what the protocols are for dealing with that.

We live in a severe climate and environment, and when you’re in the smaller communities, if we do not have those kinds of protocols and infrastructure...

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

Minister Miltenberger, for the record, would you please introduce your witness?

Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Next for general comments I have Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In my Member’s statement today I talked about what I see as a lack of support in the smaller communities for people suffering from mental illness. This is a problem which has come into very clear focus in Hay River in the last month. I am very interested in this Mental Health First Aid program which is rolling out in a couple of small communities and I would like to ask the Minister of Health and Social Services what the plan is for the roll-out of this. If he could just describe it for us briefly and give people some hope that maybe there is something coming here that...

Minister Miltenberger, would you like to bring witnesses to the witness table?

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. We have some time left on the clock. We can come back to you after. For general comments next on my list I have Mr. Blake.

Sorry. Mr. Yakeleya I guess was still speaking, so we’ll go back to Mr. Yakeleya.

In terms of process, I think the questions would be directed towards Minister Miltenberger. Members, the intent is to bring in witnesses for other departments, but for this department are we in agreement that we have concluded the Department of Human Resources?