Ronald Bonnetrouge

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I realize the health care system is stretched and that health care professionals are in short supply, including doctors and registered nurses. Can the Minister update this House in its efforts to attract health care professionals to the North? Mahsi.

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. Of course it's another case of passing the buck, getting me to do the work of her department. The Minister herself should be relaying these messages to all the health and social services authorities.

Mr. Speaker, one of the values of the health department is accountability in that system outcomes, and I'm stating it again, are measured, assessed, and publicly reported on, and that sounds like an evaluation type of value.

Can the Minister apprise this House and the residents of the Northwest Territories when we may see fruition of the department's value of accountability?...

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I believe I brought up health centre concerns related to ailments of residents that were not diagnosed at the initial visit but rather looked at and sent home with a Tylenol. Mind you, these were all serious concerns having to do with ailments that weren't diagnosed in time, which most times were serious in nature, serious enough that patients had to be medevaced out to Yellowknife or Edmonton.

Mr. Speaker, recently a young resident went to the health centre for an ailment believed to be gallstone inflammation. I believe the nurse concurred with the ailment and...

Mahsi, Madam Chair. When the carbon tax came into effect I'm not sure what year it was, but I think it was after industry was well established, all the mines were already in place. So anything there may have been grandfathered. The tax was set up to well, supposedly to penalize the large emitters, large industries. But what we've seen since, from that time, that's not what was actually happening because we got some numbers back from our research in our committee meetings that the large emitters were getting 72 percent of their dollars back and that kind of, like, defeats the whole purpose of...

Mahsi. I will now open the floor to general comments on Committee Report 4419(2). Do any Members have any general comments? Seeing no comments at all, Member for Inuvik Twin Lakes.

Question has been called. All those in favour? Abstentions? Any opposed? The motion is carried.

---Carried

Member for Inuvik Twin Lakes.

Aftercare

"When we reach out for help, we need something to happen." That's Home Base Yellowknife.

What happens when a youth ends up at a hospital or a health care centre in the NWT following suicidal ideation or attempt of suicide? According to many youth, nothing. Nothing happens. Committee heard story after story of youth who attempted suicide or had suicidal ideation who were not triaged, provided only physical health support if needed and no mental health support, and did not receive an aftercare plan or any kind of meaningful aftercare. Youth shared that in addition to their parent or...

Question has been called. All those in favour? Abstentions in opposed? The motion is carried.

Carried

Member for Inuvik Twin Lakes.

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker, and mahsi to the Minister for that. The Minister mentions consultations but it's a bilateral process he's mentioning. I'm wondering if he could elaborate on that. Mahsi.

Question has been called. All those Madam Premier.