Rylund Johnson

Yeah, thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'm attempted to ask whether we can just give all 14 of those students a contract as soon as they get off the plane. But my understanding is that currently med schools, they're nowhere near graduating enough doctors to fill the demand and the reason they won't let more students in is because there's not enough residencies. So there's this kind of fight going on between the med schools and the provinces and territories. So I just want to make sure we're doing our part to grow the residencies. Are there any plans to expand residency further? I heard the Minister say...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I really do believe that the path to a fourday work week has to come through employees and employers. There are a few carrots and sticks the government can but, for today, I just have one question for the Premier. And does she agree that a fourday work week is awesome? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Madam Chair. This federal agreement, we anticipated it being renewed. So in the past when there was uncertainty, we did have it appropriated through the business planning process and then had to come back and have it reprofiled. So in this case with the anticipated funding, it was just it's not included in the budget but anticipated through sup.

Thank you, Madam Chair. That's funding that's being reduced as time limited funding for child and family services legal fees and just to be resubstantiated as needed.

Yeah, thank you. Just could we get a commitment to have that broken down by percentage, or if someone could even just point me to where I could find that. I've seen that list before, but I haven't quite I know there's a lot of work going on in the renewal and the efficiency side. But I think kind of getting a sense if I had to wager a guess, overtime is by far the biggest and everything else is kind of trailing behind that. But I'd like to know that for a fact, Madam Chair. So if someone could point me to where we could find that or provide it at a later date to committee. Thank you, Madam...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm not sure where exactly, or if, in this budget that the new federal money that we've got under the territorial health transfer shows up. But can someone just I remember the Minister saying, you know, it's not as well, the Minister and every single premier across the country is saying there's not as much as we'd hoped. Can the Minister just confirm whether that money is in this current budget and perhaps one more explanation of exactly how much money we got from the federal government. There was some confusion they were trying to, you know, say there was some...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm going to ask some questions about the deficit, which I think could be asked here considering this is where all the finance people go or probably on the overall summary. But can someone just tell me what we project the health authority deficit to be for the current fiscal year we're sitting in and what we then expect that to bring the total cumulative deficit to? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I just different set of questions. I wanted to follow up. I heard the Minister of Health and Social Services say that we have a 40 percent vacancy rate amongst our doctors which, you know, nobody's happy with that percentage; I'm sure we all agree on that. I just want to know one of the paths to increasing that is to make sure we are training and growing our own doctors and making sure we do have the capacity to take on medical resident students. I'm hoping the Minister of health could update this House how many residencies we presently have. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I hope there can be buyin from our Indigenous governments and we can all find a path to move forward on this. I think there are a number of options.

My next question is, you know, even if you get one of those leases you can't live in them; you can't get a real mortgage. There's a lot of kind of limitations. I think the easiest solution here is that for longterm leaseholders that we create some sort of policy that allows them to get title in appropriate circumstances. Is there any path forward for longterm leaseholders to get fee simple title? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have a dream that one day I can leave this place, maybe go into the woods, build a little cabin, live there, and not think about politics. Perhaps I could run a little tourism business on the side, maybe have a garden, and if I'm lucky enough maybe one day pass that home on to my children and just generally be left alone, Mr. Speaker. But Mr. Speaker, the Department of Lands has killed my dream and the dreams of so many others because, first, in order to build that cabin you got to win a lottery, Mr. Speaker.

And even if you win the longshot bet on that lottery, they...