Glen Abernethy

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Minister Lee.

Page 8-35, Health and Social Services. Mr. Beaulieu.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions are in follow-up to my Member’s statement and are related to the consultation process currently, or just finished, with the Wildlife Act.

Public consultations are an important tool to the GNWT. They allow us to go out and meet with our constituents and residents of the Northwest Territories and hear what they have to say and allow them input into our important acts and legislational programs. Could the Minister tell me -- and he started to go down this road a little bit -- how he intends to provide some comfort to those groups that feel that their voice was...

All these questions started when it came up about some of the grad placements and our true need, our true area of focus here, is we need to get nurses into community health centres. Nobody could deny that. We’ve got continual turnover of locums, we’ve got continual turnover of nurses in there and we need to find solutions and solutions to train Northerners for northern jobs.

The Community Health Nurse Development Program is a great program that puts indigenous Aboriginal and non-Aboriginals in community health centres with the training and the skill they need to be competent and professional. I...

Thank you, Mr. Jacobson. Next on my list is Mr. Menicoche.

Thank you, Minister Lee. Mr. Bromley, your time is up. I’ll go to the next person on the list, but before we do that I’ll just remind my colleagues in committee to keep our questions to the nature of the page that we’re on. The last bunch of questions that were asked were probably more appropriate for 8-17, which is health, human resources. So we’re on community health programs on page 8-29 and I’ll go to the next on my list, which is Mr. Ramsay.

We will move along to page 8-33, which is also an information item, Health and Social Services, details of funding allocated to health and social services authorities.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I seek unanimous consent to conclude my statement.

---Unanimous consent granted

It just gets more and more confusing all the time. Aurora College does not deliver Community Health Nurse Development Program. It is not a program run by Aurora College, it is a program that is funded by the Department of Health and Social Services through the Department of Human Resources, if that is the program that she is referring to. Can she confirm that that is the program she is referring to or is she referring to a different program? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Minister. Does committee agree that we go through general comments? Do the Members wish to make them before going to the Minister to have him to respond to all of them or would Members prefer that he respond to each one?

To go through and have the Minister answer all of them at once, does committee agree?