Robert Hawkins

I’m curious. How do we know the capacity level there is appropriate? I thought we also worked and serviced Nunavut equipment as well. Can the Minister speak to that? Thank you.

Is the Minister saying, so I understand, that there is availability at all times and we are not refusing clients or we are not booking them further down the road for treatment or therapy, whatever the particular case may be, because of the availability of staff? Is he saying that there is more than enough staff and capacity built into our Stanton facility to address for those types of anomalies? As I understand it, they will travel for a week or close to a week servicing these things. That said, I just want to make sure that our residents aren’t waiting unnecessarily, aren’t able to book...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Dolynny’s questions kind of got me wondering and I’m aware of some of the reciprocal billing problems with Nunavut and sometimes there have been many occasions where they just outright refused the bills and refused to pay. Of course, there was a gap in that and I know that had been somewhat sorted out a number of years ago. What year I don’t remember exactly, but I am familiar that that had been sorted out. So we had been actually subsidizing the Nunavut citizen and I do have some great concerns about this process, just in general, because does it come at a cost...

So, in essence, we would be paying our own fees. Would they just apply back to the Government of the Northwest Territories and through their signed contracts and we would just pick up the costs?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I’d like to recognize Ally MacInnis on the official record. She’s a Page from Yellowknife Centre and I missed her under recognitions of visitors in the gallery. It’s been my understanding she’s been here almost two weeks as a Page. This is her second round being a Page. I reminded her there are several Members who were Pages, such as Mr. Ramsay, Mr. Abernethy, Ms. Colette Langlois, who is our Clerk, and certainly ourselves, and we can’t forget Mr. Bromley. You never know, she may want to come back someday as an MLA. Thank you very much to Ms. MacInnis for helping us...

Okay. So it’s full cost accounting and just because it showed up in the truck and it’s parked, until it’s plugged in and used and treated as 100 percent asset, ready and available, then it’s then accounted for on the books. Got it. MLA accounting. I think I got that now.

The last question, I think, on this particular page – just because I’m noting the clock, we’re at 6:00 now – professional fees have maintained the same. I guess my question really is around why is that the case. Do our professional fees not increase? Do they change at all? Is it based on a flat number which is it doesn’t matter...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I want to first rise and begin with something that I keep hearing about. I hear about all these southerners, and certainly I’m going to say this westerner, and when I say westerner, I’m actually referring to the Member of Parliament for the Yukon, and these southerners I sometimes refer to as these Albertans, and all I ever hear about is how much they want to make us like the Yukon. I have to tell you, I like the Yukon. I enjoy visiting there. I like the people there. I like the feel of the Yukon, but I don’t want to be the Yukon, and I wish people from Alberta and the...

I’m curious, maybe they could explain, and perhaps they explained it during business plans, but I may not have been there or certainly not there at all during that day when they had done this review, but I am curious why capital transfers keeps dropping significantly. We go from $9 million a few years ago down to basically $1.5 through main estimates and then revised just barely over $1.1 million, and now down to $300,000. Perhaps I can get some explanation in that area.

Would the Premier be willing to ensure that these people are guaranteed a job somewhere in the government if, after their training experience, there is no job opening up for them?

I can tell you some of these folks have been doing jobs like they’ve been doing today for 20 or 25 years, and their jobs have been reclassified and they have been told to go reapply for them. By the way, they don’t qualify for interviews anymore. That’s part of the problem here, so I’m asking what guarantees will this Premier provide this sector and what message is he sending by just letting the process roll out by...

Obviously we are running out of time this round, but I wouldn’t mind some details as to medical travel. I would assume that we would have a revenue, if it’s listed here on this page, that points to, for example, third-party insurance coverage. If it isn’t on this particular page, I’m curious as to where it would show up and how much it would be.

To give a specific example, in my view the territorial government shouldn’t be picking up all the costs. Insurance companies should be the first whistle stop on some of these expenses. As far as that goes, whether it’s automobile accidents or, for...