Wendy Bisaro

Thank you, Minister Abernethy. I would like to remind Members that we are discussing the 2012-13 Capital Estimates. I have been granting quite a bit of licence here, but we are trying to talk about the capital estimates. Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Mr. Abernethy. Welcome to the witnesses. Committee, we are on page 7-2, Justice, department summary, infrastructure investment summary, total infrastructure investment summary, $702,000. We will defer this summary until we have completed the department. We will now move to page 7-4. Justice, activity summary, services to government, infrastructure investment summary, total infrastructure investment summary, zero. We will move on to page 7-6. Mr. Bromley.

We are agreed. Mr. Menicoche.

Thank you, Minister. I would like to now open the floor to general comments on the Department of Human Resources. Are there any general comments on the Department of Human Resources? Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you, Minister Abernethy. Mr. Hawkins.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions are addressed to the Minister of Health and Social Services with regard to the respite program which was cancelled during the 16th Assembly. I would like to know from the Minister whether or not the review that was scheduled has been completed and ask the Minister to share the results of that review with the Assembly.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’ve had some time to reflect on the Premier’s sessional statement and I’d like to provide some feedback.

All Members of this House have spent a lot of time in the past two months considering the current state of the NWT and what kind of roadmap we should lay out for the 17th Assembly over the next four years. That roadmap was the essence of the Premier’s statement yesterday. I don’t disagree with the road we’re travelling down, but I must speak to some of the priorities which aren’t on the highway that we have designed. This roadmap bypasses a few important landmarks.

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It will be short. My usual question: When can we see the results of this review?

Thanks to the Minister. The Minister says that the review is not yet complete. In Yellowknife here, the Yellowknife Association for Community Living was instrumental in delivering the program here in Yellowknife to some 25 or 29 families. It was an extremely successful program. It was a very valued program. I would like to know from the Minister, if this review is still ongoing, what role the Yellowknife Association for Community Living either has played or will play in the completion of the review.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions today are addressed to the Minister of Health and Social Services.

In the 16th Assembly the Department of Health and Social Services cancelled funding for a respite program that was ongoing here in Yellowknife. It was a program that provided much needed relief to the caregivers of disabled children, and the families of those children and to the children themselves as well. The program was to be reviewed and revised. My understanding is that in the revision it was going to become a territorial program and expand well beyond Yellowknife and the three or four...