Wendy Bisaro

Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Mr. Kalgutkar.

Madam Chair, I appreciate the need for consultation. I’m glad that that is part of the Minister’s plan, but I’ve been hearing about these potential changes for over a year now. I’m concerned that we’re going to talk ourselves to death and we’re going to be continuing to spend and need infusions of three and four million dollars into these two health authorities for several more years. With some concerted effort, I think, with a bit more concentration on a couple of changes, we could be saving some money and creating a much more efficient system than what we have now.

I guess I would like to ask...

Thanks to the Premier for that clarification. So again I would like to ask if we can get, as Members, a copy of the documents which went to the Standing Committee on Social Programs in December 2010 and the one that went to the Standing Committee on Social Programs in December 2011.

Thank you very much. Next on my list is Mr. Bromley.

Thanks, Madam Chair, and thanks to both Ministers for the explanation. That’s pretty much what I had understood. I guess the Minister of Finance has suggested that they wanted to make these positions more visible; well, they’ve become extremely visible at this point. Putting them in in sort of a manner that suggests you’re trying to slide something under the table has highlighted it for a lot of Members. I’m not suggesting that anything underhanded was done, by the way.

With regard to the ENR contracts and the fire suppression, the Minister stated that most of these contracts are front-end...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I totally agree with the Minister that we want to get it right and I think there are a number and certain parts of information that are lacking. The density study unfortunately was done from a desk, it wasn’t done from on the land, and that, in my mind, is lacking.

I’d like to ask the Minister, there’s another area that hasn’t yet been handled, from what I’ve seen, and that would be the ownership issue of letting leases on land that’s been claimed by prospectors where there are mineral claims, and also how is he going to handle the ownership issue of Yellowknives Dene...

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Mr. Yakeleya.

Mr. Speaker, thanks to the Minister. I hope by final product he means a report and not implementation, but I will come back to that.

One of the things that was glaring and obvious in the meeting that I was at, is that there has to date been no formal consultation with First Nations, the Yellowknives Dene whose traditional lands this area sits within. There has been no direct consultation with the users of the area, whether they be current leaseholders or day-use users. I would like to know from the Minister whether or not that specific consultation will be done. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Beaulieu. Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I, too, would first off like to recognize a hardworking Page from the riding of Frame Lake, Brenda Joyce-Hotte, who has been working with us all week. I believe she will be back next week to work hard for us again.

I would also like to recognize the members of the Homelessness Coalition who are with us, particularly Mayor Van Tighem, my mayor and also the president of the NWT Association of Communities; Lyda Fuller and Kate Wilson with the YWCA; Dayle Hernblad, who is the city’s homelessness coordinator; and last but not least, Amanda Mallon, who is a Homelessness...