Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just want to thank the committee for their report and the hard work they put into it. I was, I think, honoured and privileged to join them in their tour of the treatment facilities. I really appreciated that opportunity.

Overall, I just want to be clear that we are very supportive of the recommendations provided by committee. The department is in favour of them and is planning to include three of the four recommendations in the addictions recovery action plan. We are not planning to include the section on the 120-day report, but all the other three recommendations, we...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Providing aftercare and appropriate follow-up is an important step in the recovery process. There are, as I have already described, a number of options for aftercare support for individuals returning from addictions treatment. I won't list them again, for the sake of time. While there are some options in place, we need to ensure that our current range of aftercare and support options are keeping pace with the needs of people and the best and emerging practices.

The department is currently examining best practice research, jurisdictional and international scans, and local...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I know that I'm not committee, and once again I really appreciate the work they did. It was a pleasure and honour to travel with them to these facilities to see firsthand some of the things that are going on, and I really appreciate the comments I heard.

To the Member from Kam Lake's comment, the Member talked about local options and the lack of a treatment facility. We may get to the point sometime in the Northwest Territories where there is a treatment facility. We don't know where that will be necessarily, but what we heard clearly from people during the Ministers'...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I really appreciate the Member's comments. It's clearly recognized that housing is a barrier for many residents in the Northwest Territories and is reflected in the need to holistically address the social determinants of health as well as the historic cultural and systemic contributions to these issues in our territory. Collaboration and strong partnerships where all social envelope departments as well as external partners are at the table will be required to successfully take on this challenge. It is important to recognize that each situation is unique and that self...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I was hoping to have a response to each of the recommendations as we are going through the motion, so I won't go into too much detail here, other than to sort of articulate as best I can what the process is today, not necessarily where we need to go.

If an individual in the Northwest Territories is seeking support through a facility-based treatment centre, we go through a referral process and expedite it. We get the person in there. Before they even go down, they are required to have a follow-up appointment booked in their community or wherever their referral came from. If...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we take the protection of privacy of the NWT residents seriously, and we understand the importance of protecting the personal health information, the custody and control of information. We have enhanced training for all of our custodians. We are making sure that all of our people are trained, to make sure that they understand their obligations under the Health Information Act.

There were a number of recommendations that came forward from the Privacy Commissioner. We are looking at those. We accept those recommendations. We are trying to make improvements. I...

The Member did indicate a few systems, Vital Stats and a few others as an example. Those continue to exist. They are collecting data for a different reason, and the inputs are coming from a different mechanism. Electronic medical record is a system where individuals' records are kept and maintained. It does provide some statistical data so that we, as Members, can make informed decisions. We have 32 indicators that we are monitoring and reporting on, on a regular basis.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the system I was making reference to was the electronic medical record system that we have incorporated in the Northwest Territories. I have had some further discussions. We believe that we will be able to put a system in that will allow our residents to block some individuals from seeing their information. We have not formulated that or put that in place yet, but we believe it can happen.

No.

I understand that the committee just had a review of the information Privacy Commissioner's report. There were a number of recommendations.

I am looking forward to, once again, hearing back from committee by way of letter or other correspondence indicating the types of things they want to know. If this is included in there, I will absolutely provide that information. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. You're just one person.