Shauna Morgan

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So I'm a bit confused whether the money here is to improve the current space that we're in or to relocate and find a whole different space to lease for the child and family services program. Can the Minister clarify.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, when I say the word economy, most people in the NWT think we're talking about mining, or some think economy is about where the money comes from. So, here, that's basically the government and how it spreads money and jobs around. But the word economy can also mean how wisely we manage the resources we have. It comes from a Greek word that means management of a household. I want us to get our territorial House in order and take better care of what we have.

The way things seem to have always worked up here since colonial governments were established is that now...

Okay, thank you, Mr. Chair. Thanks for that clarification. I'm curious to know -- and this might also apply to the child and family services program space improvements that we're making where it looks like we're also leasing that space. So as the lessee, we're going to be paying for these improvements, but if we decide to no longer use that space in the future, you know, the lease ends or something, I assume that the landlord just sort of gets to keep the improvements? Like, how does it work when we're just the lessee but it looks like we're paying for these improvements? Or does the landlord...

Okay, thank you, Mr. Chair. So this is all great information to have, and I hope will be good news for the public.

I secondly wanted to ask, the improvements to be made to the Yellowknife primary care centre, I assume that that is -- we're talking about the Liwego'ati building, but the Minister can correct me if that is not correct. So I thought that it was just last year that primary care moved into that building. Can the Minister explain what improvements are needed already and what -- I mean, I understand we're leasing that building so what is the responsibility of the landlord and what...

That's fine. Thank you for that explanation.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Can the Minister commit to ensuring that the power corporation has a comprehensive costed asset management plan that, you know, has realistic assessments of the condition of all of the assets, what should be the cost for regular maintenance to keep them in as best working condition as we can, and then what the costs will be to ensure that they're repaired in a timely manner and then ultimately replaced. I understand there's work ongoing, some new policies around modernizing the operations -- or management of the power corporation. I wonder if the Minister can explain...

Okay. Thank you, Madam Chair. The Minister also spoke at length in her answer about challenges with low water and resiliency in the North Slave in particular. I wonder if this might be too much to hope for at a moment's notice, but there's also been a lot of extra costs in the South Slave around the Taltson repairs and extended repairs and having to burn diesel even in the South Slave or the Taltson system. Does the Minister have any breakdown of how much of this $12 million might be due to costs of extra diesel in the North Slave versus the South Slave? Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you Mr. Speaker, just on that specific point about waitlists or cancellation lists, I think there may be some confusion about this, and I would ask the Minister to try to clarify this, because I've heard directly from primary care physicians, practitioners, as of a few weeks ago that there is in fact no cancellation list, there's no waiting list, and we don't have any mechanism for trying to fill spots that are open on a same-day basis so I would very much appreciate if the Minister could clarify even what's currently happening in Yellowknife Primary Care and then what's being done to...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I wanted to ask the Minister of Health and Social Services about the issue of no-shows for health care appointments, which has been a problem for a number of years, and I know it's a frustration both for patients who can't get into the system and for practitioners who are wasting their time or wasting our resources when we could have practitioners seeing patients.

So I saw in the 2019-2020 health authority reports that there were stats up to then for no-show rates and how they've changed over the years previous to that. Can the Minister commit to providing Members with...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So I appreciate that, but I also understand that many of the concerns being raised are not exclusively related to federal policy or NIHB, including feedback received through the patient experience questionnaire.

Can the Minister explain what is the process for publicly reporting and taking action on the feedback received through the patient experience questionnaire, both this year's and previous years. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.