Tom Beaulieu

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We have some details here that I would maybe have the deputy minister just read the cost detail for the other areas like the revenues that come in to pay for medical travel and also the THSSI, I suppose.

I don’t have the daily cost of the individuals to stay at Vital Abel, but I can easily get that information for the Member.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I guess for clarification, I just want to explain what it is that we’re doing with Healthy Families and the internal discussions we’re having for expansion. The Healthy Families have been expanding to all of the regions. I believe we have a program in every region. Just expanding now into the Sahtu, and then that would place us into all of the regions.

The next plan for expansion, I guess contingent upon getting the funding through the business planning process, is to expand to the larger communities in the regions that don’t have a Healthy Families program. It is very...

I will commit to bringing our plan to the committee. As soon as we receive our plan on the clinical services for the communities, I will bring the plan to the committee.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Right now some of the positions at health centres and hospitals have built into their jobs that they would be able to do interpreting or translating. I’m not sure what the correct term is. I don’t have the information here. I would rather say to fully draw out what we plan on doing for translation or interpretive services at the hospitals.

Thank you. Most of it is common sense. The reduction in medical travel will happen, yes, if you had midwives in Yellowknife. However, right now people are coming to Yellowknife to have babies. People are coming to Inuvik to have babies. That’s not going to change. Whether the midwives are in Inuvik or the midwives are in Yellowknife, that’s not changing. The people are still coming here. There’s still medical travel to come here. So that’s the territorial program, same with Inuvik.

Now in Fort Smith, about half of the people that are having babies in Fort Smith are still coming to Yellowknife...

Thank you. The actual discussions are between Municipal and Community Affairs, Public Works and ourselves with the federal government.

Thank you, Madam Chair. There are several reports. Some we may possibly be able to share. We may be able to share all the reports but this is proprietary. Some of the reports may be proprietary information. We’ll share what we can with committee.

I am familiar with the report, I don’t have all the details of the report, but I do have enough details in the report to move forward in the direction that the department is taking it. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. We are very close to having the land tenure sorted out with ANSI and we’re very close. They didn’t want to proceed on dealing with the land tenure issue until the project was substantially complete. So this is what we’ve done. We’ve completed the facility as of August 2012, this past August the unit was considered to be final and, therefore, we’ve moved with the Aboriginal and Northern Affairs Canada in the process of finalizing land tenure and we are at the very final stage where we’re expecting to have that resolved very soon. I can’t give the exact date...