I’m going to go to the director of finance, Jeannie, on that.

There are number of code whites that occur in Stanton on a fairly regular basis, and as a result of the most recent incidents of violence, I’ve requested that Stanton provide us with a copy of every code white incident report so that we can track them and get a bit of an idea of how often these code whites are occurring. Since we’ve done that, I think it was three weeks ago, I’ve seen three. But the three that I’ve seen have been fairly minor in nature with no injury or damage done. That does not minimize the importance of the issue. It’s starting to give us a good, clear picture of how many...

Thank you. At this point I don’t anticipate a supp. I anticipate the department will be coming back through the business planning process for ’16-17. We’ll have a better idea of what those increased costs or future increased costs may be.

This is a ’15-16 budget so we would probably begin the outreach early in ’15-16, but it also depends whether or not we actually get support from committee to go in that direction. That outreach will begin, assuming the dots are there and the t’s are… I don’t even know what I’m talking about now. The i’s are dotted and the t’s are crossed. I knew I’d get there eventually. But we’ve got to do that and we need to get support from committee to change the direction we’re taking here.

If the Member remembers, we’re moving forward with a new Human Resource Strategic Plan and there’s an outreach...

These were all requirements in the RFP to meet modern safety requirements, but also medically responsible requirements in order to provide safe transportation of our residents.

These are some of the questions that we still need to work out, but at the end of the day there will be a midwifery program in Yellowknife, there will be midwifery services provided in Yellowknife. Will there be one midwife who is designated 100 percent of their time to Yellowknife? It’s a little too early to say. It might be that they provide services to X number of clients in Yellowknife but they’re still supporting community health nurses in two or three communities. It’s difficult to say. That’s some of the work that we need to do, but the intent is to have a midwifery program in...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. This wasn’t actually an area that was identified as a priority during the Caucus discussions for the 17th Legislative Assembly. We do have a number of priorities we’re working on and, unfortunately, the department doesn’t have the surge capacity, and there are no positions without assigned duties. Everybody within the department has got a number of assigned duties. The department has some allocation for unanticipated contract work but this, obviously, is minimal. Delivering on the department’s ambitious strategic plan with proposed timelines requires full use of the...

Thanks, Mr. Chair. In this budget it actually shows Midwifery Program, an increase of $964,000 which is intended to implement the Midwifery Program in the Beaufort-Delta. But as I’ve indicated previously, there have been some changes in the Beaufort-Delta and there is a desire by the Beaufort-Delta to move to a different model. They’ve put in a new MORE OB program for birthing babies, which is a revolutionary award-winning program. What the Beaufort-Delta is talking about now is putting in a nurse practitioner who will have midwifery responsibility and will be providing a regional program and...

The information that the Member has provided still is dependent on the ability of the individual to provide consent themselves. The person has the right to provide. If they’re capable, they’re the ones you go to for consent. If they’re not capable or they’re under the age of majority, then you can go to others. But you can’t walk in and say, I’m their brother, I will override this person’s human rights and consent for them to go to treatment or into a psych unit. There still has to be a decision from a practitioner whether or not that person is actually capable of providing consent themselves...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The department does have that data but we don’t have it at our fingertips, so I will commit to getting that information to the Member and committee.