Alfred Moses

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Minister alluded to 287 name tags earlier, and if you put a travel tag, accommodations, per diems to 287 people, that’s a lot of money. I’m really curious about the amount of money that comes in, not the amount of money but the numbers we’re going to get for people who have logged on to this live webcast.

I’d like to ask the Minister, if there’s going to be a report, if he’s going to share with committee and look at how we can utilize these kind of presentations even more, through a live webcast, because you’re actually able to use real time and ask questions on the...

Another thing that I did was I signed up for the archives. In a few days all these presentations will be put into an archive and be on the website, and that was a very simple task as well. So in a few days I’m going to get an e-mail saying that all the presentations, obviously because we’re sitting in meetings I was unable to attend, so I’ll be getting notified in a few days that presentations are up and running so I’ll be able to take a look into it.

Has the Minister done this type of video archiving with any other projects of this nature in terms of this videoconferencing?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you, Mr. Dolynny.

The committee thanks all stakeholders who commented on the bill or attended the public hearing.

The Standing Committee on Social Programs advises that it supports Bill 36 as amended and reprinted and presents it for consideration to Committee of the Whole.

MOTION TO RECEIVE

COMMITTEE REPORT 12-17(5) AND

MOVE INTO COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE,

CARRIED

That concludes the presentation of our report. Therefore, I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Range Lake, that Committee Report 12-17(5), Report of the Review of Bill 36: Health and Social...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you, Mr. Dolynny.

Section 31 of Bill 12 sets out the requirement that the NEBS plan be funded on a going concern basis, rather than a solvency basis.

Although this was not raised as a concern in any of the submissions received by the standing committee, the committee gave consideration to this section of the bill, which represents a change in the way NEBS has conducted its business in the past.

A solvency valuation is performed to determine the funded status of a plan if it were to terminate on a certain date. It is a common practice for private sector plans to be...

I know the Minister also travels and looks at best practices around the country. Would this be something that the Minister might be able to incorporate into looking at when he goes travelling to other countries, or even within Canada, and listens to presentations, that this is something that might be utilized based on the fact that they get buy-in from the organization to film a presentation and put it on our website? Is this something that he might look to explore to allow all Members who can’t go to those meetings to see what’s being talked about and addressed?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’m just going to follow up with some questions on my Member’s statement earlier today about the Weaving Our Wisdom Gathering that’s actually going to be finishing up a little later on today. I registered online to get the live feed and it was great. It was really simple. The feed came up and I was able to just look at it for a bit.

I would like to ask the Minister if he has the number of individuals from across the Northwest Territories of how many people have logged on to that site, just to get an idea of how many people we’re actually reaching on this gathering. Thank...

Mr. Speaker, your Standing Committee on Social Programs is pleased to provide its Report on the Review of Bill 36: Health and Social Services Professions Act, and commends it to the House.

Bill 36, the Health and Social Services Professions Act, will enable the government to regulate numerous professions under a single law. As such, it mirrors umbrella legislation in six other Canadian jurisdictions. The act will ensure that only qualified professionals are licenced to practice. It will also empower the Minister to establish a mechanism for hearing complaints and reviewing professional conduct...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Yesterday afternoon I had the opportunity, along with my colleagues here, to attend a luncheon over at the Explorer Hotel with participants who are attending this year’s Weaving Our Wisdom Gathering, a territorial wellness gathering. I just want to say it was a really great opportunity to meet and catch up with old colleagues who I used to work with in the Department of Health as well as the Department of MACA, and also look at some of the leaders who were at the event itself.

It was really unique in the sense that the Department of Health put on this conference. We had...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I feel very honoured to be speaking to Bill 46, Deline Final Self-Government Agreement Act. First of all, I would just like to congratulate the people from the community of Deline for their hard work and moving forward on this bill. As the Premier and my colleague Mr. Yakeleya have said, it is a historic event and actually a very historical bill in being that it’s the first stand-alone community-based self-government in the history of the Northwest Territories. I believe it will set a standard for other communities in the Northwest Territories to look at the work that...

The good thing about when you talk with people in the public is they have a lot of information, and this was just brought to my attention and I think it’s something that this government really needs to look at in terms of legislating, that we have to go out and educate people and it’s got to be part of our mandate. So, I’m glad the Minister is going to be looking at it. I know we have a lot of legislation to get done from now until the end of this Assembly as well.

Continuing on prevention and promotion, can the Minister provide me with details on how many regional health promotion offices we...