Alfred Moses

Thank you, Madam Chair. Before I continue on with this motion, I do want to put on the record that during the current sitting of this session the Minister of Health and Social Services did commit to implementing two detox beds in the north and two in the south. I would like to make sure that we do hold him to that commitment as the people of the Northwest Territories did hear that and are expecting that in this fiscal year.

Detox beds are something that are truly needed in the communities and hospitals. We do have a policy that anybody who wants treatment does, in fact, need to be sober for, I...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am very honoured to be tabling the following document today. It is an insert from the Inuvik Drum dated Thursday, February 21, 2013. I will be tabling the front page as well as page 3. The front page says, “Father in Posse, Son Recalls How Dad Involved in Mad Trapper’s Death 81 Years Ago.” The other page is, “Mad Trapper Chase Recalled – Inuvik Man is Son of RCMP Officer who Took Down Albert Johnson.”

This document is part of NWT history. It tells a story of Winston John Moses talking about Constable John Moses, who fired the fatal shot of the Mad Trapper of Rat River...

Thank you, and I do agree with the Minister’s comments. We do have a very strong history of the RCMP here in the North and we’re well aware of that. I’d like to commend the Minister for going and taking a look at that, but would he be willing to dedicate a specific museum here in the Northwest Territories, perhaps through Yellowknife which is one of our hubs of all the communities? Would he be willing to dedicate some type of infrastructure towards the history of the RCMP “G” Division and all of their significant events, their members, lost members in the Northwest Territories? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It was to my surprise and great interest that on February 21st when I opened up the Inuvik Drum there was a very educational and historic story that was told by my father, and it was entitled The Mad Trapper Case Recalled. It’s about some oral history that’s never ever been told in the books, and I was really surprised to hear that my father decided to let the public know, and let the historians know, some of the things that had happened during one of the biggest stories in the Northwest Territories, and that was the Mad Trapper of Rat River.

This is something that my...

Just one last final question here. Is there any type of clauses that are put into the initial contract for big projects like this when we get an initial contractor doing the assessments? Are there any clauses that would put any change order costs or additional costs on the contractor to ensure that they do a completely thorough assessment of the project that needs to be completed? Is there any type of clause in the contract and, if not, would the Minister be willing to get one completed? Or adding one?

Thank you, Madam Chair. Once again under this heading, I’ll go back to my initial questioning in terms of contract and procurement where I made mention of it in the general comments. Specifically, when this department does any contracting procurement, and awards contracts through the RFP process, and does look at awarding contracts to whomever it may be that get the winning contract, whether they’re a northern contractor or a southern contractor, how often does this department conduct change orders?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I know that both comments were pretty long there, and I do understand the Minister does have a very big department and a lot of responsibility to be working with, he and his staff. When I do refer to reports I refer to it from a ground-level worker, which I’ve done for many, many years, and some recommendations when I left a conference or a workshop feeling good knowing that those recommendations were to be addressed or looked at and they never, ever did. Now that I’m in a position to see if we can try to get those addressed, I feel good about it because I’m saying...

Also for clarification, the Minister had mentioned managing risks, and he made reference to it on more than one occasion. I just want to get clarity on what the Minister means when he says managing risks. In terms of the Midwifery Program, residents of the NWT, the report, all the stakeholders made a recommendation that the community-based model is the most recommended model that we should be moving forward with. They didn’t ask for a consultant. They asked for a community-based model. I want to know what these risks are that the Minister is talking about.

Just continuing on, the Minister mentioned that these standards were made for a community recommendation, and the recommended model that was based out of the midwifery report specifically asks for community-based models. That’s what we’re trying to get started up in Hay River, on-the-ground running. We have the standards.

With that said, can I ask the Minister what standards are the midwives in Fort Smith using right now? If these need to be revised, and it’s a successful program in Smith, and we’re going to support it, what standards are they using in Smith, and why do we have to revise if it...

I think it was during general comments that I made some comments towards the Health Promotion Fund and asked about multi-year funding. The Minister did confirm that there was multi-year funding with no cap on the years that a certain organization can continue to get that funding, and if it is a successful program, it would possibly turn into core programming dollars to fund the successful program. In terms of the Health Promotion Fund, if it hasn’t increased and we do get the same organizations utilizing the same dollars for successful programs, that doesn’t free up any new dollars for any...