Tom Beaulieu

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It looks like the Yellowknife homeless day shelter and the Canadian Mental Health Association are the money that may be going to Health and Social Services, but we have agreed to an additional amount of $50,000 because of the withdrawal of BHP. If this is the actual same number, but we don’t understand this to be the same number. Our understanding is that it’s within the overall contribution to YK.

The deputy has just advised me that within the $1.463 million that’s within the department, that a separate contribution agreement aside from the grants and contributions...

Thank you. The authorities will likely be in deficit again at the end of the ‘13-14 fiscal year.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We will be addressing that through our collaboration with Dalhousie psychiatry work that we’re doing. I guess it would be the Dalhousie psychiatric telehealth.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The answer is all of them.

I would just have the deputy minister read through some of the information of the programs and information where we’re spending the money to try and address that issue.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Because there hasn’t been a change in what the contractor is providing in there, and that we’ve been offering with the specific budget for the last fiscal year only, and it’s just from that one source now, ourselves, but in addition to what the city is providing, but then we are taking over for what BHP was providing, so there is no change in the programming. We understand, from our initial discussions with the John Howard Society, that this would be sufficient to carry on for another fiscal year.

I’m not sure I would commit to doing an inquiry, but I think we could check out, to keep it simple, to determine whether or not it’s our responsibility to go on to the highways through the Medical Travel Policy, medical travel to be able to go on the highway and get people through that service or if we’re using the system where we are trying to enhance certain ground ambulance services and key strategic communities throughout the North. I’m not sure if I could call for a public inquiry, but I could get that information and find out how this process works and get back to the Members.

Thank you, Madam Chair. We’re talking about 8-17, the health services administration division. I just want to get clarification because I’m not clear on what page we’re on here.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would have the deputy minister provide response to that. Thank you.

We’re just going to quickly add up the number here. I think it is $6.5 million.