Robert C. McLeod

Yes, thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, it’s difficult for me to give a definite date right now, but we’re just early days in this and we’re trying to develop an option paper as to the Member’s concern. As soon as we make some progress on it… I’ll keep Members updated as to the progress, but we do understand that it is the mandate of the 18th Assembly, so we’ve committed to doing that and I will keep Members updated regularly on the progress of that. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We do review these fees annually. Thank you.

Yes, thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, our struggle is trying to ensure that our communities have the capacity to deal with some of the liabilities that might come with implementing some of these. I would have to go back and review the recommendations to see how many of them have actually been implemented, but this is not something that we could do in one shot. I think we’d have to phase some of the implementation in. I will follow up with the department. I will follow up on the report to see how many of the initiatives, actually, recommendations may have actually been implemented, and then we...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. For those details, I will ask Ms. Young to respond to that. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. It’s a reduction, but we do support the community in other ways. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

No, we didn’t. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, there will be no reductions to community funding. Thank you.

Yes, thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I take the Member’s point and I will commit to working with my counterparts from the northern regions to see how we can address this. We get together with our financial colleagues again I believe in December, and we’ll have an opportunity through business plans, I think, to have further discussion. But I do commit to the Member that I’ll keep this on the radar, and this is one that I will raise. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Yes, I would, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, this was a report that was done in 2006. It was the review of ground ambulance and highway rescue services in the NWT, and this report is actually available on MACA’s website. Thank you, Mr. Chair.