Bill Braden

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...

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. In 2004, at the insistence of this Assembly, a human resource review was undertaken at the North Slave correction facility, Mr. Speaker. This plan tells us that there is, or should, be a strong focus at the North Slave Correctional Centre shifting from a penal or punishment approach to one of healing and rehabilitation of inmates. This is a very positive step, but from some things that I’ve heard from some inmates, constituents, over the course of the past few months, from what I’ve heard, Mr. Speaker, we’re not there yet.

Mr. Speaker, it appears that adequate staffing at...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I move that we report progress.

I guess that's enough on Internet. I take it that it's not going anywhere.

Mr. Chairman, something that is always a consideration with a bill of this nature is that there's usually a large package of regulations also bolted onto it. The legislation, of course, is the platform. The detail is implemented through regulation. I wanted to ask the Minister if he could give us some sense of when we will see the regulations that affect this new legislation completed and when this new legislation could potentially come into effect, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This has been an interesting, multi-faceted piece of legislation. It's been working its way through committee for some time now and I'm pleased to speak in favour of the bill, as a member of the standing committee. I guess in general comments, very general comments, a couple of things that the public, as consumers, may be interested in in relation to pharmacies and the business of dispensing drugs. One of the things that has been quite controversial for the last couple or three years, in Canada especially, is the industry established through Internet purchase and...