Tom Beaulieu

Thank you, Madam Chair. Our intention is to start discussions with YK Health and Social Services Authority, for them to work with the organization that is currently the shelter, the John Howard Society, and to bring those issues to the forefront and that they’re to discuss those issues. Direction will be given to YK Health and Social Services.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Yes, we are part of the rest of the provinces in any sort of bulk purchase of pharmaceuticals that is negotiated.

Yes, we can make that available to Social Programs for evaluation.

We are starting with the organizations that I just spoke of, the Tlicho, the Inuvialuit and YK Dene. We’ve also met with the NWT Association of Communities at the last meeting in Norman Wells and advised all the communities that we were doing this. What we’re hoping is the communities will work with our coordinator, well known to all in the Association of Communities as she worked for the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs for many years and had a major role within that association. I’m hoping that we get some uptake from the communities, but for now we’re starting with those three...

The process that we would be following is first providing direction to JLC, the Joint Leadership Council, of all of the authorities and asking them to come up with a physician recruitment plan and look at the flexibility of putting the possibility of allowing, within that plan, a role for nurse practitioners. Then once we get the plan, which we’re expecting this fall, in September, actually, we would then take that funding model for physicians, or the physician recruitment model, back to the Financial Management Board because the money that’s in physician funding is approved by the Financial...

Thank you, Madam Chair. As indicated by the Minister of the Housing Corporation, Joe Greenland should be ready this summer or towards the end of this summer, for allocation of those units to the elders in Aklavik. Our deputy is working with the president of the Housing Corporation on trying to build or renovate these places and build these places for elders to live in and provide assisted living from our department. We’re prepared to do that in Joe Greenland, so that we support the elders that will be moving in there.

As MLA Blake said, when we use the term long-term care, then we say, well, we...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I’m going to have the deputy minister try to respond to that. We may not have the information here.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We have a coordinator, one coordinator, and she’s going to be working with each of the communities to put a community wellness plan together. The wellness plan is going to look to the state of the communities at this time and then develop a plan to increase the wellness community by community.

Yes, for both speech pathology and counselling.

There were 12 people that attended that treatment. It was only given once in 2004, I believe.