There are just so many areas that I can continue on. Managing risk. The Midwifery Program is put in place to help a lady when she finds out that she’s pregnant. It helps support her through her pregnancy so that she gets the counselling that she needs, she gets the support, she gets the alcohol and drug treatment, healthy pregnancies. If midwifery is not there to give the support, especially for single mothers, then the high stress level of flying to Yellowknife from the small communities and spending all the time here to give birth without the support of a midwife in the community, the cost...

When can committee members and Members of this Legislative Assembly see a review on those policies, but specifically to the one that I had mentioned, the right to a second medical opinion? When can we see the review specifically for that?

Just specifically, up to how many years with that policy can one organization apply for the multi-year funding? How many years would they be able to receive funding under that policy?

Yes, just continuing on. Would the Minister be looking at creating a specific program on translation, in terms of medical terminology, that would either help support, maybe, our community health representatives who are probably some of our longest-standing employees in the Health and Social Services system? Would he be looking at possibly creating that program with the medical terminology, and make it part of either that program or some other program that local nurses could take, so that they can provide those services to our patients, especially the patients who don’t speak English?

Thank you, Madam Chair. In terms of directorate here, I’m just looking at the policy communications and legislation. I just want to ask the Minister of Health and Social Services if there is a plan in place to create a translator program within the regional health centres to bring some of our patients from small communities into the regional hospital or even territorial hospital. If there is a translator program in place for all the Aboriginal languages in the Northwest Territories, ones that are specific to that region, Can the Minister please answer that?

Thank you. The Minister just mentioned that he knows enough in the report to move forward on what the report is saying. The report is saying we need a community-based midwifery report. I mean, if he knows enough to move forward on that, why aren’t we doing that and we’re going into consultation where the consultation is all done in this report? So it really makes me wonder about that.

Can the Minister kind of confirm why dollars are being spent in regulations and standards when our previous Minister of Health has this signed off on the standards of practice for registered midwives? Can the...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions today are for the Minister of Health and Social Services following up on my Member’s statement with what residents have been asking for, and one in particular is with the Midwifery Program and dollars that are being allocated for this program here that was a suggestion brought forth by Members of the Assembly. I’m just wondering what the intention of dollars that are being allocated for this Midwifery Program, where they are going to be allocated and what the intention is of those dollars. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As we’re proceeding into the budget dialogue process, I’d like to refer back to the budget dialogue report that the Minister of Finance and his little tour that he went on through the Northwest Territories listening to our residents. Actually, I want to focus on three main areas that were discussed and addressed under the Health portfolio.

I won’t get into some of the detailed comments that my colleague went into earlier, but one was the investment in treatment programs and for mental illness, something that this side of the House has been fighting for ever since we...

I think, in terms of this, the right to the second medical opinion, I feel that, you know, we possibly could get ourselves in some hot water if we don’t have that right now, in terms of some people not being diagnosed properly or not being diagnosed at all and continue to… Some Members have stated in this House during question period, they go to the health centres and they’re just given some Tylenol to go home when there are bigger concerns. I think the longer we wait, we’re doing a disservice to the residents of the NWT.

As the Minister knows, we do have challenges in securing doctors...

With the little time I have left here, and looking in terms of policy and legislation, and the Minister alluded to it yesterday in his opening response to the general comments, but that was in terms of the second medical opinion and the right to have a second medical opinion, I wanted to get an update from the Minister on whether they’re going to be pursuing this, where they are in terms of providing that right to a second medical opinion for our residents.