Wendy Bisaro

Thanks to the Minister. So we are doing some stuff, it sounds like; communicating with nurses at health centres and clinics that are in our smaller and isolated communities.

I guess I would like to know from the Minister whether or not that means that we are actually doing diagnoses. Are we able to keep patients and residents in their community as opposed to having them travel to a regional centre?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to address a few more questions to the Minister of Health and Social Services about the Foundation for Change and our health reform and what we’re doing in that regard. In some of the Minister’s answers earlier he talked about in terms of health professionals, nurse practitioners and doctors, he talked about wishing to do things, but I realize that the department has a very long wish list. My particular question at this point to the Minister is: We may wish to do these things, but what are we doing about attracting health professionals to our territory? Thank...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I move that $2.5 million be deleted from the activity highways under the Department of Transportation, capital investment expenditures, not previously authorized, on page 7, for the provision of funding to undertake engineering and environmental assessment work for the Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk highway project.

Thanks to the Minister. I have to disagree that we need to get rid of the PAs and establish boards. I am happy to hear the Minister say that we’re not going to wait until the boards are in place. I think the Yellowknife Stanton Territorial Health Authority has been without a board for 10 or 12 years. Goodness knows that we can’t wait for those boards to be in place. I think there’s a responsibility on the part of the government to put their foot down and say this is how we’re going to do things. Yes, there needs to be consultation, but when push comes to shove, it’s our responsibility to make...

Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen. Mr. Miltenberger.

Total department, not previously authorized, $2.082 million.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Minister Miltenberger.

Minister Miltenberger, did you wish to comment?

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. I’ll go to Mr. McLeod.

Total department, human resources, not previously authorized, $740,000.