Glen Abernethy

Absolutely, I will follow up with the Member and his office and explore options. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. This Assembly’s vision of healthy, educated people contributing to a strong and prosperous northern society starts in early childhood. The departments of Education, Culture and Employment and Health and Social Services have worked collaboratively to craft a renewed Early Childhood Development Action Plan based on best practices, national and international research and the wisdom of our elders.

This action plan is the companion document to the Early Childhood Development Framework tabled in May 2013 and we will be tabling it later today.

The framework identified the need...

Thank you. I haven’t currently or actually haven’t personally used the system, but I will talk to the department and get that additional information provided to the Member. Thank you.

Thank you. The Member hasn’t shared with me any information on an individual whose rights or information has been violated. I’d certainly like to hear that. We take these types of situations, if they occur, very, very seriously and we’d like to address them, but there are protocols in place to ensure that the information is secure with those protocols. Certainly, we can review them if there’s been an incident and I’d be happy to hear about the incident if the Member would be willing to share it with me. Thank you.

Thank you. There’s a significant amount of triggers and safeguards, and I’d be happy to share some of the written protocols with the Member if that’s what he’s looking for. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Around the EMR we actually have a significant number of firewalls and protocols in place to ensure that only people who have access or need to see that information have access to that information. I do know that there are lots of different technical requirements that an individual has to meet in order to get in: passwords, fobs and other items so that the information remains secure and private only to those individuals who need access or have the right to access that information. Thank you.

During this fiscal year that we’re currently in, we allocated $75,000 in the Beaufort-Delta for a day shelter in Inuvik, and the community approached us and indicated that they would prefer to actually have the damp shelter that the MLA is talking about. These dollars that were allocated in 2013-14 are ongoing funds, so when the budget is approved for ‘14-15, we will have the same dollars carrying forward. Thank you.

Thank you. As I indicated, there’s $75,000, and should the budget be approved for ‘14-15, there would be $75,000 for that fiscal year as well. As far as additional costs and additional start-up costs, I’m certainly willing to have a conversation with them, but we don’t currently have anything in the budget for additional costs above and beyond the $75,000 allocated. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. CEOs regularly communicate with the Department of Health and Social Services in all sorts of initiatives that are going on within their jurisdiction. This happens to be one of them. I do know that the community was very eager to have this shelter and was a proponent for doing it. We continue to have dialogue with the community organizations who have put this together and we are hearing positive feedback on a regular basis. I look forward to further discussions, or the Beaufort-Delta Health and Social Services Authority having further discussions with those organizations...

Just to the Member’s previous question, in addition to Beaufort-Delta Health and Social Services Authority, I’d encourage the organizations who are interested in providing these shelters to apply to the NWT Housing Corporation’s Small Community Homelessness Fund to see if there are any opportunities there given that the individuals who are often attending these facilities are homeless.

As far as this being a template, I just want to remind the Member that as a government we don’t operate shelters. The authorities fund organizations who operate shelters to meet the needs of their communities...