Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Later today I will be tabling the written portion of the petition calling for expansion of the Midwifery Program in Yellowknife and the extension of this programming throughout the Territories. Taken together with the Assembly’s first ever on-line e-petition, of 304 signatures, a total of 377 persons -- 161 from Yellowknife and 176 from outside the capital -- are calling on the government for increased support to midwifery.

We recognize midwifery as a regulated profession through the creation of legislation in 2005. This action only formalized the ancestral tradition of...

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. Minister Lee.

Thank you, Minister. I’ll ask the Sergeant-at-Arms to please escort the witnesses into the House. Committee agree?

I appreciate that information from the Minister. I would encourage the Minister to look to the MLAs to help try and develop support and engagement with that process. I think that would be a legitimate request from a Minister and a legitimate role that you could expect an MLA to play, to do work in that area. So that is just a note.

I would like to move on now to the mental health program review started in November. I don’t recall having any input to the terms of reference for that review, but knowing my memory, that could be a plus or a minus. I would appreciate to know whether such a process...

Thank you, Minister. I wonder, Mr. Menicoche, if you could clarify where that million dollars is that you’re referring to, what page that’s on or what line. Thank you.

Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen. We will continue with Health and possibly move to Education today, but we will start with a brief break. Thank you.

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I appreciate that commitment. The strategic plan and implementation of it, I assume, will have some costs associated and I think the Minister is hoping to get that done in the next several months, so presumably the implementation of it will happen during the 2011-2012 budget year. Have there been dollars identified or will that implementation be expected to be from internal resources?

Thank you, Ms. Lee. Next on my list is Mr. Menicoche.

In summary to those questions, the bottom line here is that I, and certainly the public, want to be assured that there is a safety net in practice, and as we know from the child and family services review, there’s quite a difference between policy and implementation or practice.

My last question, Mr. Speaker, very briefly, back to the Centre for Northern Families, which, equipped or not, is delivering mental health services. It is now almost a year since the Minister promised to complete the audit of the Centre for Northern Families, take action on a secondment and devise a financial recovery...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The first thing I have on my list here is the Healthy Families Program. I wanted to say that I appreciate its expansion. Modest to what is required, but this is such a good program that every community we get it in is a major gain. I know it’s also expensive and the Standing Committee on Social Programs knew it was expensive when we made the recommendation to get this in every community. We also think it’s the very best investment we can make.

Could I just ask the Minister first of all, the $500,000 that’s provided for expansion, I believe that would be for a team in...