Bob Bromley

That’s quite a list and I imagine the list could only grow as we get familiar and more proficient and the technology improves. Thank you for that information. I’m wondering, given that the equipment is in all 33 communities, are we fully using it. Are all 33 communities fully up to snuff and engaged in implementing this technology to its fullest capacity?

That’s fine. Thank you.

I’d say a 25 percent success rate, five times our current success rate, would be nothing to sneeze at. I don’t know how fully it was applied in that case, but it seems like it would be a worthy investment to at least try a demo project or two.

I think it’s well acknowledged by this Minister and this House that this is a serious and challenging difficulty. I know there’s lots of work being done in the mental health and addictions area and so on, but I’m continually frustrated when suggestions are brought up that there seems to be a willingness to prove they’re wrong before trying them out. It...

Thank you, Madam Chair. Just following up on my colleague for a sec, were there conditions on how that money could be used, the Opportunities Fund money could be used or any restrictions that the federal government put on that money? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am not sure that was the right phrasing the Minister used there, the rate we are going. I probably wouldn’t refer to that, but I appreciate the comment.

People of the Northwest Territories, as is clear from the comments of my colleagues today, have foregone a lot of infrastructure options, a lot of provision of important services. These costs will continue to accrue as we pay back the hundreds of millions of dollars in interest and so on. Will the Minister commit to avoiding any such ventures in the future where costs are for a project predicted to continue to rise way...

On this page I counted nine, if I was counting accurately there. So in Yellowknife, headquarters, I think you said there were seven other departments of the 13, for example, in Yellowknife and the rest are what are dedicated to this office. Thank you.

Thank you. That explains it fully and I want to take this opportunity to congratulate the Speaker on the last month’s payment on our mortgage. Thank you.

I know this department has a really good anti-smoking campaign. I would suggest that one of the biggest things they could do, having observed social workers, is replace the prehistoric computer system as an effective anti-smoking mechanism.

I’d like to move on. This committee made recommendations on a community model for an addictions treatment process, relatively recently, that has a high potential for success in our communities based on its northern design that was tried out in I believe it was Old Crow in the Yukon and so on. Will this budget be supporting the application of this process in...

No, that was a question, Madam Chair.

Mr. Weledeh appreciates that response. So we have at least one other source of surprise cost coming forward in the future. Are there any other further risks that have not been mentioned today that the Minister would care to outline for us at this time?