Kevin O'Reilly

Thanks.

Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. That’ s it for me on this. Obviously, I’m not very happy with our failure to act on this a little more quickly. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Mr. Chair, I don’t want to prolong this, but when are we going to get this Federal Engagement Strategy and why does that have to wait for the Minister to write to his federal counterpart? I don’t understand what the problem is in picking up a piece of paper and a pen and writing to the Minister saying that we want this resolved, and even doing it in collaboration with other health Ministers. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I’m just trying to understand what our government has actually done on this file. Have we actually written to federal Ministers on this issue to find out when it might get resolved and when we might expect to see some money flowing? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. On the revenue summary I see where, under transfer payments, shows a couple of lines here, hospital care, medical care for status Indians and Inuit. Presumably with the recent Supreme Court of Canada decision on Metis, would we expect to see additional transfer payments from the federal government for Metis healthcare? I think somewhere in here I think I saw the figure of about $2 million is what we seem to spend on Metis healthcare in a year. Can I ask our witnesses about this, Mr. Chair?

I appreciate the answer from the Minister. I recognize that NTPC is doing some good work on renewables in communities and that they are going to be playing a critical role in the development of the energy plan. I think part of the issue, though, is that some of the same people that are running the Power Corporation, those deputy ministers, are going to be the same Ministers in charge of helping develop the energy plans. Can the Minister describe for this House what role those deputy ministers will play in the development and implementation of the upcoming energy plan?

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I thought midwifery was in this section under community health programs because that’s where it’s found in the business plans, but if the Minister’s telling me that I should wait until 195, that’s fine I can wait until then.

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. I would like to put the Minister responsible for the Northwest Territories Power Corporation to work today. Earlier today I related the story of NTPCs cancellation of a request for expression of interest for a joint venture supplying wind and solar energy for the North Slave. The NTPC former board vice-chair said that the direction to abandon the renewables project came from GNWT. Can the Minister confirm whether this is true and why the GNWT would interfere with this process? Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.

Thanks, Mr. Chair. I have a couple of rounds of questions for the Minister. The first one is on page 184, under contributions, there’s an early childhood development action plan. I see that there’s actually a reduction of $100,000 there, and I’m just wondering if the Minister can explain that because I understand it early childhood development is one of the best investments we can make as a government, so I’m just wondering what the reduction is all about. Thanks, Mr. Chair.