Tom Beaulieu

Yes, I would, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The act is specific in one area that the Member may be referring to. I will have the deputy minister just talk a bit about the specifics of that act and whether or not we have made changes there to remove that specific barrier.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Yes, if we do get a report, we will provide it to the Members.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We have the numbers of the children that were apprehended. Actually, I guess better yet, the children that are working with the child and family services people or a social worker. Some of them are in a voluntary agreement with the family and some are placed in foster care. We do have a total – I’ll just need to bring this a little bit closer. I would pick a date, Mr. Bromley, because it changes all the time. As of November 30, 2012, we had 582 children receiving services. Of that, 356 of those children were receiving services like counselling, respite services, at the...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. There has been no deliverables on this budget. It was again, Nats’ejee K’eh being part of the Deh Cho Health and Social Services that we are reviewing Nats’ejee K’eh as we indicated earlier that we’re pulling the Nats’ejee K’eh Treatment Centre under the department and just need to do some logistical work, I suppose, with reserves, since the treatment centre sits on the reserve, they have not spent their budget since 2011-2012.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I didn’t indicate that addictions was the responsibility, solely a personal responsibility. I’d indicated that addressing addictions was a personal responsibility and what we’re trying to do is to try to provide some supports, and mentioning the Nats’ejee K’eh would be one of those supports in addition to some of the community programs like on-the-land programs, also, in addition to some of the early findings of the forum of maybe addressing some parental issues, putting in programs to assist parents at the community level and so on.

So it wasn’t to take all the money...

Mr. Speaker, each time there’s an opportunity for the federal government to participate in any of our medical health services, we always take the opportunity to try to work with them. Yes, I can discuss this with our federal counterparts. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. We are going to look at actuals on all of the medevac flights as we roll out the new RFP. The new request for proposals will have that type of information to support the RFP so that individuals who are bidding on the contract and companies that are bidding on the contract will know what is required of them, where the majority of the flights will be originating from. Definitely, if there is the exploration activity in the Sahtu, it nets a lot of additional medevac flights out of the Sahtu, then that would form part of the RFP and that would be considered in the...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We’re not anticipating any increase in the budget. It just would be a reallocation of the same money.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This is an agreement for hospital and physician services to status Indian and Inuit. We would be pleased to provide a briefing note to the Member or committee.