David Ramsay

Thank you, Madam Chair. Again, I take issue with the fact that if it’s good for 98 percent of the nurses in hospitals across the country, why the government would wade into this with a re-evaluation plan such as the Hay Plan which, to me, like I said, pits nurse against nurse in the same work environment. I don’t understand why they would go down that road. It doesn’t make much sense to me why we would do that in the first place, but here we are today and the Minister spoke of the nurses that saw an increase and the nurses that remained the same and some who even went down, but they’re pay...

Mr. Speaker, your committee has been considering Bill 19, Appropriation Act, 2005-2006, and 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.

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you for that, Mr. Miltenberger. Back to prescriptions, there was a case a few weeks ago where a man purchased a phoney prescription in a local bar and got the prescription filled and the pharmacist noticed that the doctor’s name on the prescription wasn’t spelled correctly. That’s what gave it away. I’m just wondering how something like that could happen. Are these prescription pads left in the open? How would somebody get access to a prescription like that? What steps are you looking at taking to make sure that doesn’t happen again? Thank you.

Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I give notice that on Monday, February 21, 2005, I will move the following motion: Now therefore I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Nahendeh, that pursuant to section 18 of the Official Languages Act, Shannon Gullberg be appointed as Northwest Territories Language Commissioner; and further, that the appointment be effective February 22, 2005. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Maybe the Minister can help me too with this one; or Mr. Murray, perhaps. I know two of my colleagues have raised this issue; not this issue specifically, but the publication that just recently came out on STIs. Who made the decision to go from what was termed a sexually-transmitted disease to a sexually-transmitted infection? The reason I say that is because disease puts the fear of God into young people, if they think they are going to get a disease as opposed to an infection. If you go strictly on that, it’s counterproductive to start calling it an STI when most...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and thank you, colleagues, for your indulgence as I proceed with my first reply to a budget address. I’ve been a Member of this Assembly for just over a year and I wanted to share with you today some of my thoughts and observations. I’d like to begin by saying how interesting our financial situation is. Last year after taking office we were faced with impending doom and gloom, debt wall discussions and straight cuts here for new Members. We were basically forced to stomach some new tax initiatives to increase our revenue and that meant that the public had to pay, as...