Shauna Morgan

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions today are for the Minister of Health and Social Services. So Yellowknife residents recently received a letter in the mail from the health authority informing us about the new primary care teams and crucially assuring everyone that even if they don't currently have a family doctor assigned to them, they would now be assigned to a team with a family doctor on it. So while that's a laudable goal for every resident, why was this commitment made at this time when each primary care team still only has less than two full-time equivalent physicians per team and...

Okay. And so are you able to tell us what is the budgeted amount for the work that is to be completed in 2025-2026? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So my questions are about the proposed Cameron River Crossing Territorial Park, the tent pad camping area, which would actually be within my riding.

The first question, which aspects of this project are planned for 2025-2026 and over how many years is it proposed to -- the construction of the project is supposed to extend for? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yeah, no, just to close that loop, I just encourage the Minister and her staff to continue to work closely with the city. I think there's a lot of goals that are aligned and, you know, there's efforts and resources at the city level, too, for economic diversification and business support, so just making sure that people are all pulling in the same direction and we don't either duplicate efforts or end up working at cross-purposes when, you know, we have scarce resources in this territory and certainly need to do everything we can to support economic diversification...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So on this project, can the Minister explain how the city of Yellowknife has been engaged in planning for the project and how it both fits into the city's land use planning and sort of other sorts of planning, economic development planning? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

That's all my questions at this point. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Just following up on that, does the Minister have any indication -- she says steps are being taken to follow up on those ideas and models. Does the Minister have any indication as to a timeline that we're looking at for implementing this integrated primary care model in communities -- smaller communities outside Yellowknife? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So I'm really confused. The Minister is talking about back country camping, but my understanding was that you would be able to drive to this campground. Can the Minister clarify what aspect of this is back country? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Can the Minister tell us if she's aware whether this 2020 physician workforce plan makes any recommendations on what would be an appropriate number of patients to assign to an integrated primary care team like the ones we have now made up of physicians, nurse practitioners, and other practitioners? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Okay. So that is far, far, far less than the cost of building this.

Who was the target market for this new campground or the demographic that we are trying to cater to here? Thank you, Mr. Chair.