Glen Abernethy

I guess that would depend on the definition of trouble. Health professionals are a hard-to-recruit position. We continue to recruit on a regular basis, but for many of the allied health professions there is high turnover. We’re actually putting into force a strategic plan, a Health Human Resource Strategic Plan that is going to put in a number of mechanisms and tools to help us recruit and retain health professionals across the Northwest Territories. But we keep at it, we keep staffing, we keep filling, but turnover is a reality that we do have to work with.

Unless anything has changed in the last little while, my last update was that we actually did manage to get a permanent physician into Hay River. I will check with the department to confirm that. But the reality of being outside of the public service hasn’t interfered with this medical process in obtaining physicians.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. With me on my left is Gary MacDougall, who is the director of legal registries and, on my right, Ian Rennie, who is legislative counsel responsible for this piece of legislation.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We have a few members of the Department of Health and Social Services here today with us in the gallery and I’d like to take this opportunity to recognize them: Yves Panneton, who is the manager of our primary community and acute care services and a chief nursing officer; Erin Currie, the senior nurse practitioner consultant; Carolan Bennett, the senior nursing consultant; as well as Peter Workman, the health emergency planner.

I’d also like to take this opportunity to recognize the chair of the Montessori Society here in Yellowknife, Dave Wasylciw, as well as the...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am pleased to be here today to speak about Bill 41, An Act to Amend the Partnership Act.

The Partnership Act governs the relationship between partners in a business partnership, including limited partnerships and limited liability partnerships, as well as the relationships between a partnership and those they deal with.

The primary focus of the proposed amendments is to improve the outdated registration requirements of the act. The bill includes amendments that require, in almost all cases, partnerships and business names be registered before the entity operates in the...

Mr. Speaker, today I am pleased to announce the official launch of the Med-Response call centre. Members of the Standing Committee on Social Programs joined me earlier today at Stanton Territorial Hospital to celebrate this milestone.

The Government of the Northwest Territories is breaking new ground in Canada with this single window approach to clinical consultation and air ambulance triage and dispatch. Med-Response will improve access to services and quality of care for people across the Northwest Territories, by providing immediate clinical support to health care practitioners in all...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. This was actually discussed in committee with the Minister of Justice. Just for the record, this type of jury trial, the requirement for a French jury is incredibly rare here in the Northwest Territories. In fact, there’s been one. That’s not saying it won’t happen, but it is incredibly rare here and the department is obviously interested in continuing to work with the French community, who have been active in this process, to make sure that we can provide jury trials in French here in the Northwest Territories. We also obviously want to be cautious that we’re not...

I do, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I give notice that on Monday, March 2, 2015, I will move that Bill 47, An Act to Amend the Child and Family Services Act, be read for the first time. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

There are 43 minutes on the clock and I’m pretty sure you don’t want me to use the entire 43 minutes. So what I’ll do is I’ll actually commit to get the Member a little bit of detail, because the question did actually contain a significant amount of detail. Needless to say, as we move forward with this differential response, we are about supporting families and putting mechanisms in to help families who are in a situation where their children may be in a neglect situation. Abuse situations will be different, but I’m happy to get all of that information, the binders, the information as well as...