Daryl Dolynny

Thank you, Madam Chair. I’d like to welcome the Premier and devolution team here again today under the review of Bill 10.

Madam Chair, from what I understand, when bills are reviewed or legislation is reviewed both nationally or territorially or provincially, we look at things such as the imperial system that is used to describe certain things, whether it’s units of measure, units of land. This may be more of a small, technical nature, but I thought this was something possibly not picked up when we did the mirror legislation.

In Section 9, it talks about the disposition of Territorial lands and...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and thank you, Mr. Moses.

Through an amendment, the purpose statement was broadened to address the rights of patients to access, correct and protect their personal health information. The committee reasoned that patient rights should be treated on a par with the need for system efficiency. A comparison of purpose statements in other health-specific privacy legislation lent support to this view.

Stakeholders stated repeatedly that the act is difficult to understand. Unease about its complexity was widely expressed. Following the public review, the committee identified...

In this year’s budget, the Minister noted funding in the amount of $790,000 to continue the implementation of the new Med-Response service. As he quoted, it was to “provide community health care practitioners with remote emergency clinical support, triage advice and help to coordinate NWT air ambulance services.”

Can the Minister of Health indicate for these funding dollars, what overall improvements to the medevac service can Northwest Territories residents expect to see? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. What precipitated my Member’s statement today and my oral questions was as a result of a search on our government careers website. Recently there was posted an advanced territorial support medical coordinator and an emergency medical dispatcher. When you look on the job description, it does mention to help emergency medical evacuation services including medevac triage, coordinating dispatching and repatriation of services. This prompted me to talk about it in my Member’s statement today, but, more importantly, to have questions today for the Minister of Health and...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. When serious accidents happen, urgent rescue is required. In the field of medical triage they say, “time is tissue.” In some cases minutes, let alone hours count and lives do hang in the balance. People in the Northwest Territories still don’t have 911, but they do have a reasonable expectation that if they or their loved ones are hurt, they will be transported with haste to the nearest suitable medical facility.

Unfortunately, we are hearing of too many instances where medevacs are not being provided in a timely manner, and with disastrous results. Just last week we...

That answers those questions. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Just for clarification, who would that person be specifically?

The purpose of my question is to make sure that we are providing due process for those applicants, that we’re not superficially making them wait to get our affairs in order. Again, I haven’t had any calls to action on that, but I think it’s important that we recognize that.

Embedded within this act it also talks about a regulator. Can we define who is this entity or individual or is it a company that they’re involved with, the regulations or the regulator of the significant passages of this act?

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to thank the mover of the motion, Mr. Nadli, and Mr. Hawkins, for bringing it to debate here today.

When Mr. Nadli brought this to the committee here, it brought back memories of my youth, growing up in northern Alberta. I used to go pick mushrooms with my grandparents for many years. It’s a tradition that I actually haven’t thought about, and this motion actually, I guess, made me go back to my youth and go and think about the benefits of what we did back then.

On top of that, the Member indicated the Dragon’s Den CBC component that really kind of instigated...