David Ramsay

Thank you, Madam Chair. So you’re not closing the surgery ward due to a lack of nurses. Is that correct?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My statement today is on a topic that I have raised in the House on previous occasions, and that issue is the Kam Lake access road and public safety. As the government is well aware, I have certain, let’s say, sensitivity over what happens adjacent to Highway No. 3, to an area known as the sandpits. As the controversy lingers as to what is going to happen on the parcel of land, I think it is timely that we keep in mind the fact that the city of Yellowknife is in great need of this access road into the Kam Lake Industrial Park.

I have had two meetings with...

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I have a few more questions for the Minister while we’ve got him here. One of the things I heard the Minister mention was the fact that there are currently five vacancies at Stanton. Is that correct?

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Mr. Minister.

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.