David Krutko

It doesn’t seem like I am getting anywhere with this Minister, so I might as well just move a motion and get it over with and see where it is at. Mr. Chairman, I would like to move a motion.

The community of Tsiigehtchic appreciates what the Minister is providing. The community is requesting a full-time nurse in the community. That’s what they are requesting: full-time. Not six months, full-time. So that’s where I am coming from in regards to providing those services full-time in those communities.

Like I said, the community has done everything they can. They’ve purchased a housing unit so that they can’t use the excuse we don’t have housing for nurses in the community. They did that on their own. They’ve done that through their charter community. They are working to try to find...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I move that this committee strongly recommends the Department of Health and Social Services take immediate action to establish a permanent long-term care facility in the Hamlet of Fort McPherson. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would like to table the Order-in-Council which was passed in 1960 by, I think, Prime Minister Diefenbaker.

Communities do want to try to maintain their loved ones and their elders in their home communities as long as possible and hopefully live out their days in their home communities without having to leave. I think it is important that we do find a way to accommodate our elders and ensure that they are having some sort of special living arrangements and also looking at ways of accommodating them so they do stay in their home communities. So I think it is important that we do find a way to work around it. I know that you mentioned 40 beds. Is there any idea of where this facility may be located?

Again I’d like to ask the Minister if he can give us documentation before this House on exactly what decision was made. Finally, was the Cabinet directive given to make that decision?

That’s okay. Thanks.

Mr. Speaker, in the land claim agreement, it is pretty clear that prior to any government actions, they have to allow the management authorities to look at those requirements or look at the proposal that the Minister wants to put forward and allow them an opportunity to oversee that proposal, look at the proposal, have public hearings and meetings, have workshops or whatever they have to do to consult with their members. I would like to ask the Minister exactly under the land claim agreements where it clearly stipulates that the review of proposal of wildlife management actions have to be...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. In regard to services, you talk about different services, some out-of-territory services and also in-territorial. What about those people that come from the South, use our medical services and then leave back to southern Canada. How is that calculated in regard to expenditures? I mean, it’s an unforeseen cost, but there is a lot of transition and migration from workers at the mines, oil and gas, whatever, but there is a cost associated with those people. So in expenditures, is that part of these expenditures that you’ve put forward, or is there an allocation of a certain...

Mr. Speaker, as I stated, we cannot use the...(inaudible)...law of the land by way of having a ministerial decision made that is imposed on the people that have depended on subsistence for years. Mr. Speaker, at the appropriate time I will be asking the Minister some questions around this matter in regard to the legal authority that he made this decision on, what legislative tool was used and exactly what instrument of law, of authority, of powers, where did it come from? Thank you.