Daryl Dolynny

Thank you, Madam Chair. My questions have to do with the increased claims growth of WSCC claims for injured workers which, I believe, corrections is causing some quite alarming statistics, especially in the last two years. Can the Minister indicate what provisions we’re using or doing as a department to reduce the amount of claims growth in this area?

Madam Chair, maybe I’ll rephrase my question because the question was real time. What I mean by real time are numbers, contact, policy charts, flow charts, contact of emergency services, basically an org chart of disaster management available in a database that is continuously updated or the department or community governments have access to, so that it doesn’t matter which community at any given time, this information can be pulled up off either computer, off Internet, security database. Is the department at this level of having this type of access to information? Thank you.

Madam Chair, my next question has to do with trends. Can the Minister elaborate, with his contacts with RCMP, are we seeing any trends in the Northwest Territories that residents should be alarmed? I’m thinking of things like potentially weapons offences, maybe bootlegging, these types of things. Are we seeing any large trends with RCMP involvement in our communities?

Thank you, Madam Chair. Committee wants to continue our deliberations here on Municipal and Community Affairs and, time permitting, we would like to talk with Justice and Executive.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Welcome to the Minister and the Justice team here tonight. I’ve got a number of questions on this page relating to constables. I’ll start my questions off with the awareness and the support of recruiting for community constables.

Where are we at with the department? Are there special initiatives that are ongoing and how successful have we been in that area?

The terminology of interim measures is exactly that. We don’t really have a program in place currently in a lot of our communities and highway infrastructures. My guess is that an interim proviso in terms of providing any type of ground ambulance protocols or anything that they have will enhance what we don’t have today and would probably be better than having nothing.

My question is: Would the department consider interim measures for ground ambulance support in community highway infrastructures during this fiscal year?

If I could remind the Minister, it’s not for my comfort that I’m asking for this information. It’s for the taxpayers who are asking if we were good stewards of the availability of such funds. I just want to make sure that’s put on the record.

Not that I want to dial 911 on this issue, but the concern that was brought up by my colleague here Mr. Nadli in terms of our Ground Ambulance Program is something of a concern. We don’t need to have a disaster on our highways to do so. It just so happens that we had a disaster as of late with respect to areas where a ground ambulance or an air ambulance...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I want to pick up where I left off on the Joint Emergency Preparedness Program which has sunsetted with the federal government. This was established in 1980, according to their website, to enhance the national capacity to respond to all types of emergencies and to enhance resiliency of critical infrastructure. Over the course, they gave out $170 million to provinces and territories at a federal contribution of 75 percent to the projects.

My question is this: This free money – and I will call it free money – was available to this government up until the fiscal year-end of...

Thank you. Now, these communication protocols, I would assume, would involve contacting a cascade, a number or an algorithm of community support networks from territorial to federal and potentially government leaders. How is this communication protocol accessed? Is this something that is published? Thank you.

No further questions but I would like to report progress.

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