David Ramsay

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my questions today are for the Minister of Health and Social Services, Mr. Miltenberger. I’d like to pick up where my colleague Mr. Braden had left off in questions regarding the relocation of the Territorial Treatment Centre from Yellowknife to Hay River. We had discussed this issue at length here in the House last year and, according to the Minister’s own words in this House, a key element to the program relocating to Hay River had to do with there being a facility in Hay River that was going to be renovated and the fact that it was going to be cost...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. An issue that’s been really upsetting and unsettling for me is that of the proposed relocation of the Territorial Treatment Centre to Hay River. During both the June and October 2005 sessions, I questioned how it was that the Department of Health and Social Services could move capital dollars and a project from one community to another without any consultation with affected Members or committees.

Of course, Mr. Speaker, the government and Minister Miltenberger were adamant that every rule in the FAM directive was followed, but a very strange thing took place on the...

Thank you. Page 16, clause 19.

Thank you. Page 6, clause 2.

Under part 6, general, clause 34.

Clause 17.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Thank you, committee. Are there any further general comments on Bill 16? I am not seeing any. Thank you. If I can draw committee’s attention to page 4, Bill 16, Tobacco Control Act. Clause by clause.

Clause 32.

Page 14, clause 15.

Thank you, Dr. Corriveau. I now have Ms. Lee.