Frederick Blake Jr.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. For the life of this Assembly and longer we’ve been hearing reports that all is not well in the land of health care governance. The Beaufort Health and Social Services Authority is one of four regional authorities where the Board of Management was dissolved and replaced with a public administrator.

The people of the Beaufort-Delta deserve to know how this situation is being resolved. We’ve been told the board structure as a whole isn’t working. The mandate of the board is too broad and ill-defined. This has led to a fragmented experience for patients, inefficiencies and...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. A former board member told me that one of the major challenges was the financial part of operating the board. Will the Minister assure that finance training will be made available to those future members? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Mr. Speaker, that’s great news. The previous Health Minister said in May the process of appointing a new board in the Delta would begin immediately. What progress has been made? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

I’ll just go a little further back.

“It’s quite vague with respect to what the responsibilities of a board actually are and what the responsibilities of the ministry are, so it needs some updating. There needs to be some clarity.” On that point, we agree. More clarity is needed. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

That actually answers the rest of my questions. Thank you very much.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I, too, would like to recognize one of my constituents and brother-in-law Mr. Samuel Lennie. Also, if I may, I’d like to welcome your family, as well, Jenny and your children. Welcome to the House.

Mr. Speaker, I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Kam Lake, that Bill 26, An Act to Amend the Legislative Assembly and Executive Council Act, be read for the third time.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. From my statement earlier today, I’d like to ask the Minister of Housing what is being done to address the need for housing for staff in the Mackenzie Delta communities. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Time and time again we repeat our own words about the importance of our students staying in school, attending regularly and completing high school. Education is one of our main focuses in this Assembly. We can boast that we have the best schools in all of Canada and employ top notch teachers. Our students are privileged to have such fine education, but this is only possible with good teachers.

My concern today is housing, housing for our teachers. We are faced with this issue every summer. We hire the best teachers, and in the end, we have no place for them to stay.

My...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. For the definition, I’d like to ask Ms. Kelly McLaughlin to answer that.