Alfred Moses

Thank you. If that’s the case, from the main to the revised there was a difference of $2.713 million. Is that something that we’ll be looking at possibly revising for the main estimates for this fiscal year under population health? Thank you.

Mr. Chair, I am going to put this out there. We have already practiced that policy once, where we took money from other authorities. We put into Stanton, so we put into Beaufort-Delta Health Authority. Sure, they weren’t very happy that because they are doing good practices they were to give up some of their budget. Looking into the future, knowing what just happened from history and that money that they would be not spending will go to another authority, they might just take the initiative to spend all of their money. What does the department have as a plan of action should there not be any...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Considering that it will be the taxpayers who will be paying for this bridge, I’m looking for the operation and maintenance of this bridge on an annual basis. Thank you.

That’s great news and that’s great to see that initiative and working together in that area. There was another mention here of treatment services related to children, youth and families. My colleague talked about child and family services earlier. In another aspect, the Community of Hay River Interagency Committee just had a meeting not too long, and they talked about treatment facilities or treatment programs for youth. We didn’t get a chance to bring them up in some of the business plans, but it is something that the community of Hay River is very strong about.

They’ve really gone through a...

Can the Minister confirm and let us know if he believes that it will have an impact on other capital projects in the small communities? Thank you.

I was going to switch over to another area here. Awhile back we had sort of a press release of this Betty House here in Yellowknife, and under the activity description for community health programs, programs related to emergency shelters and counselling, what is the department doing to provide counselling, therapy and services to Betty House, in particular?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions today are in follow-up to my Member’s statement that I did earlier, and it’s regarding the Deh Cho Bridge here. It’s going to be directed to the Minister of Transportation.

With the asks for money continuing to come in, does that affect the amount of years that this bridge will be paid off in, and how many more years would that be expected onto what was initially predicted? Thank you.

The Member for Mackenzie Delta isn’t here, but I’ll speak on his behalf with the elders facilities in Aklavik being shut down. It has increased the amount of people wanting to get into a long-term care facility in the hospital, which does put a backlog and a waiting list for others that do need to get in there. So does the Minister have any plans in how to address this regional issue? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We are about nine months into this government here, and in that nine months I have heard a lot of concerns, a lot of asks and a lot of community concerns from this side of the table. All my colleagues have heard of Highway No. 7 quite a bit. I have heard access roads to gravel sources so the roads in the communities can be maintained. I have heard schools that need washrooms, who need new schools. Some communities haven’t had a school retrofit for a long time. Myself, we are looking at getting a child development centre. If it’s not done, two-thirds of the kids who are...

Thank you. In this needs assessment, what are you looking at? Are you looking at the amount of applications or requests to go in long-term care facilities, the amount of hospital visits from our senior citizens? What type of criteria are you looking at in this needs assessment, and if it’s broken down to regions or communities or even regional centres such as Inuvik? I know there’s a waiting list for a long-term care facility in Inuvik or Simpson, or I know they’re just getting one in Norman Wells.