David Krutko

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the perfect solution will be to have a permanent nurse in the community, but right now that’s just a dream. So I’d like to ask the Minister exactly what are we doing as the Department of Health and Social Services to ensure that communities that don’t have nursing in place do have a response system to deal with emergencies in their community?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would also like to include the different municipal organizations and the NWT Association of Municipalities in this, because we are having some crisis situations in our communities; policing, nursing. Those things aren’t being delivered in our communities and I think it’s critical that we have these positions filled. So I look forward to working with the Premier, but also including other organizations, agencies. I, again, would like to thank the Premier for moving on this. Thank you.

I would like to ask the Premier to look at this with a broad brush to look at all areas throughout the Government of the Northwest Territories. The programs and services are not being delivered in our communities because they have not been able to attract those people to fill those positions.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my questions are to the Premier in regards to my Member’s statement in finding new ways of dealing with capacity crisis we have in a lot of our communities. Mr. Speaker, we have a situation throughout the Northwest Territories of attracting professions to fill a lot of positions in communities throughout the Northwest Territories, but it is becoming more and more difficult for us to be able to find people in the different professional fields that we are looking at, from mental health to education to community capacity, by way of SAOs and financial...

Mr. Speaker, your committee has been considering Minister’s Statement 1-16(1), Sessional Statement, and I would like to report progress and, Mr. Speaker, I move that the report of Committee of the Whole be concurred with. Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, I seek unanimous consent to conclude my statement.

I’d like to call Committee of the Whole to order. On our business list today we have Minister’s Statement 1-16(1), Sessional Statement. What is the wish of the committee? Mrs. Groenewegen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, again I would like to thank the Minister for that. Again, the stress is on the Fort McPherson detachment. I believe they have been understaffed for the last couple of years. They have been short of officers and also with regard to recruitment and retention. I would like to ask the Minister is there any way of increasing the amount of individuals in the Fort McPherson detachment so you can have an officer designated to serve the community of Tsiigehtchic, which is only half an hour down the road, so they can be there three times a week or twice a week...

Mr. Speaker, I would like to present a petition dealing with the matter of public housing costs in Fort McPherson. Mr. Speaker, the petition contains 81 signatures from Fort McPherson residents. Mr. Speaker, the petition requests that the Northwest Territories Housing Corporation change the public housing assessment process and ensure that rent is based on net income as opposed to gross income.

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, can the Minister tell me when he will get around to dealing with the communities in my riding in regards to the Mackenzie Delta in regards to the review that he mentioned?