Glen Abernethy

Thank you, Mr. Aumond. I don’t have anybody else on my list for general comments. What is the wish of committee? If it’s agreed, no further general comments. We will go to clause-by-clause review of the bill. The clause-by-clause review starts on page 9. Clause 1. Mr. Krutko.

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. Any more general comments? Mr. Bromley.

I look forward to receiving an update on the research that they’ve already done.

Once again, this is an incredibly changing field. More information is coming forward all the time. We’re learning new things about autism. New programs are being developed. I’m asking the Minister to go out and research some of the new programs that exist. I know that in Alberta they’re doing very proactive and productive things. I’d like the Minister to commit to having... I did provide the Minister, as an example, with a large list of programs that are offered in Alberta, and I would like the Minister to have his...

I was going to do that anyway. Clauses 8 through 20.

---Clauses 8 through 20 inclusive approved

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Weledeh, that Bill 21, An Act to Amend the Employment Standards Act, be read for the third time. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would like to thank the Members for their comments and support. With respect to Mr. Krutko’s comments, when we did take the bill out, I did go to the military and to the reserve units, and some of those individuals that we had talked to had a significant amount of experience with Rangers throughout the Northwest Territories. We also did go to the NWT Chamber of Commerce to get their perspective from a territorial perspective.

The Member is right, though; it would have been beneficial to go to some of the local governments to get their input, and in the future I would...

Yes, I do, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’m very happy that the Minister agrees; that’s good. My question was more along the lines of what is the communications plan. What is the action plan to make this happen? There are 102 surgeries on top of all the surgeries that are already booked. How are we going to fit those 102 in? What are we going to do? What’s the plan?

I didn’t quite hear the answer. I know the surgeries have been ongoing at Stanton during this entire process. I know that surgeries were never ceased. Emergency surgeries continued to go, it was elective surgeries. I didn’t hear whether the Minister said elective surgeries. So just for clarification, did the Minister say that elective surgeries are once again occurring to full capacity at Stanton? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. During the winter session of this 16th Legislative Assembly I and other Members asked a number of questions of the Minister of Health and Social Services on the problems the Stanton Territorial Health Authority was experiencing with their sterilization equipment. At that time the Minister acknowledged that Stanton had been experiencing problems with the sterilizers they use for the reprocessing unit.

As a result of these problems, Stanton had to cancel a number of elective surgeries. We were told that elective surgeries were cancelled as they were the only ones that...