We have a year to actually bill. We don’t actually have to send the bills until a year has expired, but they have to go within that year. As far as the amount of times, 30, 60, 90 days it’s taking Nunavut to pay us, I can get the department to look into that and get that answer back to you.

I hate to make assumptions, but I assume the Member was actually talking about the Human Resource Strategy and not the Mental Health Strategy and it does talk to recruitment and retention initiatives, but we’ve got to look at things in the short, medium and long term. Ultimately the long-term solution would be to find the individuals from the region and train them to take over those roles, but that is going to take some time. We’ve got to start working with the Aboriginal governments and community governments to really pick the right people, and our Human Resource Strategy does talk to that...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. When and if the legislation passes, we’ll begin the process of actually creating the regulations which will allow us to license those professions. The numbers of professions, actually, individuals who fall into these professions is quite low, so there may be an increase but there won’t be a significant increase in the 2015-2016 fiscal year. We might start to see slightly larger numbers in years after that, once it’s actually been in place for an entire year. There may be a small increase, but the licensing fees are not huge either. There may be a slight increase and there...

Considering that the immunization rates in the Northwest Territories are considered high compared to some of the other jurisdictions, I think that’s fantastic, but at the same time, we could always do more. I think it’s dialogue in rooms like this and other rooms, in your constituency meetings, in our health centres, every time we have an opportunity to speak about vaccines and the value and how, as the Member has indicated, they have saved more lives in the last 50 years than any other intervention program, it’s the dialogue that’s important. When you have somebody or you know somebody who is...

Thanks, Mr. Chair. Thank you to the Member for his comments. I have to say I’m not exactly sure what the Member is talking about when he refers to a seniors charter. Maybe after sitting today we could get together and he can explain to me what specifically he is referring to. I remember a lot, but clearly I can’t remember everything so I’m not 100 percent sure what he’s talking about.

I do agree with the Member that there’s a lot of good work being done around elders and seniors and I do agree that more needs to be done, as well, which is why we are working on a number of those strategies that...

Early childhood vaccinations are typically administered through well child programs in health centres and public health centres throughout the Northwest Territories. At this time, I can say that our average coverage rates across the Northwest Territories for the publically funded early childhood vaccinations are between 77 percent and 89 percent, and this is roughly based on just the analysis of what the authorities are doing.

It is difficult to estimate more current or more accurate coverage rates in the absence of an information management system here in the Northwest Territories, but we are...

Thank you, Madam Chair. The Member did start off by talking about an aging population. Once again, I appreciate the Member’s comments.

We are doing a number of things. We do have Our Elders, Our Communities, and we’re building on basically four major pillars within that document and we’re developing action plans around each of those areas. One of them is home and community care, and I hear the Member’s concerns and he doesn’t feel that anything is changing. I will say that the facility that is being built in Providence today is a larger building than had been there previously and there’s...

The Member is right; I mean, the different Aboriginal governments and organizations have the expertise, clearly, for the on-the-land portions, but if they are looking for more of the clinical stuff, they may not have that expertise.

Every program is actually quite different and some of them may actually want some of that support, and we’re absolutely willing and we have been partnering with those different groups, depending on how they design their programs and the goal they’re trying to accomplish for that program. They’re different in every case. But when they want us, we’re there. Thank you...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I appreciate the Member’s comments. We did talk this afternoon during question period about the mental health workers and some of the stress that the individuals that exist in the communities are experiencing. I will just add to what I said earlier today, that for individuals, our employees, who may be under stress or experiencing some levels of difficulty as a result of their daily jobs, we do have programs like the Employee and Family Assistance Program and I would encourage the Member, as I would encourage all Members, to remind their constituents of this program and...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We’re not actually the ones who are delivering the programs. The programs are being delivered by the different Aboriginal governments and organizations throughout the Northwest Territories, but we are working collaboratively with them.

What I’ll commit to do here is actually talk to the individual groups that are providing these online programs and get the schedule so that we can share that information, understanding that they’ll be sharing the information as well. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.