David Ramsay

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would like to pick up where I left off with questions for the Minister of Health and Social Services. I’d like the Minister to explain why an LPN at Stanton can earn more than a registered nurse under the new re-evaluation that’s in place at Stanton. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Braden. Mr. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just a few more things I would like to bring up. One of the options that has been discussed was an airport improvement fee. I don’t know how we sell that to the public based on the fact that some of these improvements to the air terminal building in Yellowknife might only be around for another 10 years. I don’t know how that would work charging the travelling public an airport improvement fee for a facility that, for all intents and purposes, isn’t going to be there after 10 years. That doesn’t make a lot of sense, Mr. Chairman, and I don’t think the public would...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I mentioned in my Member’s statement that this practice does not happen anywhere else in the country. I am just wondering, through you to the Minister, why is Stanton Territorial Hospital any different than the way they do this anywhere else across the country. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Braden. Mr. Dent.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I don’t know if the Minister has this type of information available to him, but when was the Department of Transportation told by CATSA that they had to install this bomb detection equipment? Could I get that information, please? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my questions today are for the Minister of Health and Social Services, the Honourable Michael Miltenberger. I would just like to ask the Minister how the government could knowingly allow the re-evaluation of nursing positions at Stanton Territorial Hospital to happen when they knew that it would result in wage segregation to the nurses at Stanton. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Dent. Mr. McLeod.

I thank the Minister for that and I questioned the expense on the human rights office, as well. I mean, it’s exorbitant. It really is. I appreciate the Minister’s response. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the importance of a group of persons who often do not get enough credit for doing the great job they do for us. That group are nurses and health care professionals, Mr. Speaker.

My wife is a nurse and I have had a firsthand glimpse into what it is that nurses do, and I must say I have a tremendous amount of respect and admiration for the amount of work that nurses do for us.

In March of 2000, the Union of Northern Workers filed a grievance on behalf of 42 nurses working at Stanton Territorial Hospital alleging that the current job...