Caroline Cochrane

Range Lake

Statements in Debates

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 10)

Thank you, Madam Chair. This might be a little bit more difficult. I kind of feel sorry for the neighbours, 25 chickens next door. We are going to be amending our own regulatory framework so that we can remove barriers to developing food production businesses. Lands will be reviewing its policy and regulations in that regard. However, this might also be a municipal issue, Madam Chair. Therefore, we would need to work with the municipal government. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 10)

Thank you, Madam Chair. Absolutely. One of our mandates, if you see, is "Strengthening community counselling services," and the bullet is to "Increase support and counselling training opportunities for staff." That will go across. I do want to, again, promote the child and youth counsellors and the Pathways program, who are going into our schools. You are right; our youth are most in jeopardy. If we can catch them when they are younger, deal with their mental wellness, if we can give them alternatives, show them that there is hope out there, perhaps we will have less people. I don't believe...

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 10)

Thank you, Madam Chair. At this point, we don't have the information, but we can get back to the Member on the exact types of supports that are available to greenhouses. I know that we are trying to build greenhouses in every community. I don't know the exact support, but we will reply. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 10)

Thank you, Madam Chair. I would like to transfer that question to the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment. Thank you.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 10)

Thank you, Madam Chair. I would like to bring in a witness.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 10)

Thank you, Madam Chair. What the Member is talking about, I believe, kind of looks like our integrated service delivery program that we have offered. It is the model that we are moving toward. It is not going to happen overnight. There are financial limitations, professional ability, training, all those things. However, we are working closer within departments, and some things are already happening that weren't in here, because we didn't put everything in here and we also don't have things going.

Our child and youth mental health workers who are going into schools, I am ecstatic that that is...

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 10)

Madam Chair, I would like to transfer it to the Minister of ITI, but if we could ask the Member to repeat his question for the Minister, that would be helpful. Thank you.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 10)

Thank you, Madam Chair. The reason that is, is because there is not one set of standards of care or training or qualifications across the world. For example, I have heard nightmare stories of people in some countries that are pulling teeth on sidewalks. Do you want me to make them your dentist? Those are the things that I am asking. There has to be a quality of care that people need to meet the standards, the Canadian standards of healthcare. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 10)

My Ministers are willing to visit constituents as people invite them. Unfortunately, though, I can't make a commitment on what time, because they all have schedules that they will have to coordinate. Invite us and we will come.

Debates of , 19th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 10)

Thank you, Madam Chair. Some of this, actually, we can obtain from our database; people who we send out for treatment supports, people who we provide drug and alcohol counselling. That will give us a baseline, and then the goal is to actually reduce that as people are sent out and stuff. We can get baselines. Some of the programs developed and hospitalizations for alcohol, we know how many people go to the hospital, so we can. We already have a baseline; we just need to pull those out. Then we can actually measure success by if our rates of hospitalization, our rates of return to treatment...