Thank you, Madam Chair. Other than those positions we already discussed, I believe it’s the same. We will confirm and get that information for the Member. Thank you.

I just want to add one piece that I forgot to mention, and it’s basically the Hospital Insurance and Health and Social Services Administration Act is going to be coming forward with a legislative proposal. That is being drafted now, so we will be coming to committee to have some discussions around that.

Many of the back office stuff is well underway and we hope to make significant progress in the IT/IS/IM sections with Stanton and a few of the other authorities bringing them into a central back office function this fiscal year. Procurement we intend to make progress on. There are a number of...

This process we go through with all these pages, there is certainly a lot of information but it certainly can’t break down for the specific detail for each condition in the Northwest Territories. We are, as the Member said, doing a significant amount and I’ve committed to doing a bit of a walk-through of this to try to highlight the different areas, so I can provide the Member and committee with a bit of a highlight on some of the things we are doing overall. The Member is right; this is certainly an area that’s affecting us adversely across the territory.

Thank you, Madam Chair. When I was responding to opening comments from Members, I talked about some of the things that were happening. There is no intention to downsize staff in communities or regions with respect to any of the work that’s going on trying to provide a more streamlined approach for our residents. So there is no intention of downsizing any of the positions in any communities or regions in the Northwest Territories.

Thanks, Madam Chair. The GNWT’s response to the Anti-Poverty Framework is what is before us today and we have a response based on activities that we can do that fall under our mandate to combat poverty here in the Northwest Territories. So, things related to Health and Social Services, Education, Culture and Employment, Housing and the other departments that are participating. The next step is to develop the territorial action plan where all partners will identify the types of things they’re going to be doing to combat poverty. To support the work that other organizations and governments are...

So, just so I’m clear, what you’re asking is: How many residents of the Northwest Territories do not have third-party employer-provided types of insurance or other supplementary insurances like NIHB? Am I correct?

I remember this because I was involved in it the last time. The last time we were pursuing it, in 2005, we had to write all new job descriptions to make them consistent with the GNWT format. We had to get them all evaluated and consistent with our form of evaluation, the Hay method of evaluation. Then we were getting ready to move forward with the next step, which would be to terminate their employment with the Hay River authority and offer them employment with the new GNWT Hay River authority. Then we’d have to make sure that all of them would have the opportunity to go through the process...

The provision of dental services for Aboriginal children is actually the responsibility of the federal government and we’re looking at finding ways to encourage the federal government to invest more money in this particular area. We do care very much about our youth. We recognize, without question, that oral health impacts overall health and we will continue to do things to address those issues. But we need to plan and we need to figure out what the best programs to put in place are, and we will continue to move forward to develop a plan that will help us address oral health across the...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We will provide some of that deficit information. Also, recognize that these dollars that you see here are not necessarily the only dollars that the authorities are getting. They’re also getting additional revenue from other sources. We can provide some additional clarity around that as well.

Yes, Madam Chair.