Thank you, Mr. Chair. To the Member’s point, I mean, I agree. We provide these dollars. We don’t dictate what program they design. In some cases, regions have actually pooled it with other money to do bigger initiatives. We offer every region $125,000 of the $1 million. Some have better uptake than others. I can give you some breakdown of the 201516 Actuals.

The Akaitcho Territory Government utilized the entire $125,000. The Deh Cho Friendship Centre took $40,000. The Gwich’in Tribal Council got $144,000. The Inuvialuit Regional Corporation got $325,000. The Inuvik Community Corp got $39,000...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, as a Cabinet and as a government, I think it’s important that we have a coordinated approach when we’re dealing with Ottawa so that all the departments are aware of the different issues or priorities that are being brought forth. This is clearly one of the areas. It’s certainly, you know, dependent on how the federal government goes, it could bring some federal dollars into the coffers to help us provide services to residents of the Northwest Territories that we currently fund. We’re the only jurisdiction in the country providing Metis health benefits.

It is an...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, it was threeyear funding from the federal government. This is the last year of that fund. If there is any money left over for any of the three initiatives that I have indicated, if we haven’t spent all the federal dollars, we can roll it forward into the next fiscal year. As far as the Territorial Health Authority moving forward, that will be our cost and we were designing a system that wasn’t going to cost us any more money. We weren’t asking for more money to move to this single system, but we needed these innovation dollars to help us design, implement.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The discrepancy is because I jumped back a page. The outofterritorial hospitals, the forced growth doesn’t appear on page 181, but it is included on page 180. This whole area in total did get an increase of about $2 million in those areas, the ones I outlined previously.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, a couple of those positions, or rather the funding, was as a result of the midwifery program. There was some positions allocated to Inuvik for the midwifery program that was going to go there. The program evolved into a different model. The positions were never established, although they had showed up in previous mains. We are discontinuing the midwifery positions in the Beaufort Delta with the exception of the nurse practitioner who is providing the pre and postnatal services, working on the regional midwifery program up there in cooperation with the doctors...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The dollars that are coming in are as a result of the court case. It may be better to ask the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment some of those questions. As a result they are responsible for the actual… They lead the rollout of the response to the court case. Just for the record, the court case was based on a constitutional challenge against the Government of the Northwest Territories which we lost, and we had a constitutional obligation to meet the remedy that was outlined by the courts. This is Health and Social Services’ part. There is actually much larger...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just want to confirm that the Member is talking about the mental health and addictions line that’s $450,000, just because there are multiple lines here where it falls under.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, in anticipation of the Daniels ruling, I actually did raise this before the ruling was actually given at the last FPT meeting, and there was certainly interest among all the provincial/territorial Ministers to see that ruling go the way it went and to get some additional dollars from the federal government. At that time, they did not indicate what they would do if the ruling came down as it did. We have discussed this at the Cabinet table and I know that DAAIR and Finance are aware. We’re waiting for some indication as to what the federal government plans to do...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Unfortunately, we are not as far along as we would like it. We have basically done everything that we need to do on our end. We had agreements to move forward with the Alberta government. Since their election, it has put a bit of a hold. They have indicated that they’re still happy for us to come on board, but they weren’t ready or prepared to actually begin that process. They had other things they needed to take care of in Alberta. We will be part of the Alberta registry, and that’s what the onetime costs were to set up our portals and those types of things to allow NWT...

We’ll do that.