Julie Green

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, can I confirm with the Member that she's looking at page 192?

Yes, thank you. When there's a suicide in a community, obviously it affects the whole community, and I personally reach out to community leadership and ask how they want to be supported. And in the case of Tuktoyaktuk last fall, they told me that they wanted to bring in Jordan Tootoo as a speaker and to launch the House of Hope in Kitty Hall to provide things for the youth to do. It is youth mostly involved. And also to provide them with inspiration to fend off the darkness and depression. So this fund is about money that communities can apply for. The interventions that happen after a suicide...

Yes, thank you. Yes, there would be a partnership required of the nursing staff in home care, along with the paid family caregiver. They would be offering different kinds of services to the clients. Some of them are more medically sophisticated, if I can say, administration of medication, changing dressings, and so on whereas the paid family caregiver would be doing basic necessities of life.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, the new health funding is not in this budget. What the government has proposed is $11.9 million in new funding and that comprises $2 million one-time only increase to the CHT, which is to pay for surgeries and backlogs; $7 million in tailored bilateral agreements in four priority areas; and $2.9 million in incremental funding for the territorial health investment fund. There's been no amount yet identified for personal support workers’ wages. But that is also one of the commitments that Canada made. So the detail on the spending and how it's going to be...

Thank you. There are a lot of different funds here, and some of them deal with mental health and some of them deal with the need for food. There's quite a bit of variety here. Some funds are taken up and spent wholly while others languish and so there isn't a current need to increase them. So it's really a line by line exercise.

The other thing that I would say is that we have been asked by the financial management board to manage our money so that we don't increase the deficit any quicker than we are. So that figures into arbitrary increases to any of these areas. We need to know that there's...

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, at this point we do not have an opening day. We have an opening season. Summer.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you for the comment.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the NTHSSA has a MOU with the Hay River Health and Social Services Authority to provide physician services. And that MOU is now under review to determine what the best way forward is. So it's unclear to me that not having this MOU or not having some kind of formal arrangement would serve Hay River any better than it's being served now.

In terms of bringing the Hay River authority into the NTHSSA, that was last looked at seriously in 2015. A lot has changed since then, but there hasn't been any additional work done on the cost of bringing the health authority...

Thank you. Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, we budget for the full complement of doctors because if we are not spending them on resident doctors then we're spending them on locums, or we're spending it the money on overtime for resident doctors or callbacks and those kind of employment situations. So not having doctors doesn't save us money. Thank you.

Yes, thank you. I expect it to be signed this summer.