Bob Bromley

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. Minister Lee.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I’d like to try and continue where I seem to recall I left off some days ago.

I want to just follow up a little bit on the training of our nurses, the Nurse Practitioners Program and the Introduction to Advanced Practice. I’m still looking on some clarity there. I guess the first one is we’ve heard from the Minister of ECE. Does the Department of Health and Social Services also agree that we need to continue to increase our use of nurse practitioners in the Northwest Territories?

The motion is on the floor and the motion is being distributed. Let’s wait until it’s distributed. Motion is on the floor. The Motion has been distributed. To the motion.

Thank you, Mr. Abernethy. I believe the Minister did confirm that she was referring to that one, but, Minister Lee, for clarification please.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I appreciate this opportunity to reply to the budget address. I want to start off by recognizing that we are in the final year of our term as the 16th Legislative Assembly. We have had some large challenges when we initially got together and started work. We have made some progress on some issues. I want to acknowledge that.

Today I would like to speak to some of my frustrations in lost opportunities and some persistent issues and shortcomings of our budgets. I speak generally of the last four budgets as well as this one and the budget address.

The first one, and I am...

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Thank you, Minister. Time is expended for this question, but I could put you back on the list, if you wish, Mr. Hawkins. Next on the list is Mr. Abernethy.

Thank you, Mr. Beaulieu. I would like to thank the Minister and his witnesses and ask the Sergeant-at-Arms to please escort the witnesses from the House.

Thank you. I appreciate the openness and commitments of the Minister here and I guess I would ask him that he commit to even further discussions on this outside the House. But what will the Minister do to ensure that the interpretation of the legislation goes the distance to consider and meet government responsibility to provide for all citizens the opportunity to use and enjoy wildlife? I’m thinking here of, for example, the interpretation of priority access to mean exclusive access. Case law clearly has indicated that’s not the case and we’re talking interpretation of the legislation. Thank...

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