Bill Braden

Thank you, Madam Chair. I move that this committee recommends the Minister responsible for the Workers’ Compensation Board come forward with options to expedite the resolution of longstanding claims and to improve timelines for the hearings of appeals. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Is that a provision of the new act, then, that communities can set their own criteria, whereas before it was lockdown, Madam Chair?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Sahtu, that Committee Report 6-15(5) be received by the Assembly and moved into Committee of the Whole. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

So the exact information that will be made available to the courts would be what then, Mr. Chairman?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just a couple of aspects of this bill. I speak in support of it. So we're changing, I guess, the resource or the data pool for names of potential jurors from the voters list to the health care plan. Is this bill potentially going to be an improvement in this data, Mr. Chairman? Will the courts have potentially more names and more current names than the voters list provided, Mr. Chairman?

Mr. Speaker, the TTC, the Territorial Treatment Centre, now presently being used located in my riding of Great Slave still has I think some viability potential as a facility of some kind in this community, and I'm wondering has the government looked at potential future uses for this facility? Or if it's going to require demolition, is this also included in the $3.2 million budget cost for the transfer of this program, Mr. Speaker?

So, Mr. Speaker, could the Minister advise the House what is the timeline before us now as regards the relocation of this program? We've obviously seen considerable delays in the decision-making about this. In the meantime, the families and the staff are wondering what's going on, and so am I, Mr. Speaker.

Mr. Speaker, as we continue then to go along without a facility for these people and at least in the given future, there is certainly a desperate need now for these people and their families to provide home care, day programs, support for this extremely debilitating and devastating situation in their lives. Is our government going to look at establishing and enabling more of this kind of support to go along at least until we have a facility able to care for them, Mr. Speaker?

Mr. Speaker, what is it going to take to convince the government that this is not something that can continue to be sidelined? The costs of providing care for these people in facilities that are not designed for it is, that is a very real aspect of the fiscal side of this, plus the impact on these people and their families. Mr. Speaker, what else is there in this whole agenda that the government needs to see that will convince it that this must be treated as a priority and not an option?

Mahsi and good morning, Mr. Speaker. As our population ages, the occurrence and incidence of Alzheimer’s and other dementia syndromes is going to increase, Mr. Speaker, and so will the demands on our families, our communities and, of course, our health care institutions, to deal with this in a way that is not only adequate but helps give these people the dignity and the quality of life even as this terrible disease robs them of just about every memory and ability to cope that they have.

Mr. Speaker, it is estimated that, again, as more and more of us get older and older, almost one in 10 of us...