Glen Abernethy

I like yeses. Yeses are good. I’d obviously like to hear her tell me today that she is actually going to communicate with the local dentists and whatnot. Just as a note, I don’t think the insured services are different in Hay River and Inuvik, so we’re not talking different prices there.

There are savings to the Government of the Northwest Territories to move forward and provide these surgeries to kids. Hay River has indicated to me that they’re quite happy, but they’re overwhelmed. They’re not able to move forward on these oral surgeries as quickly as they’d like. We do need to do something...

The next department is the Department of Transportation. We’re going to defer until after consideration of the Activity Summary page 8-2, so we’ll move on to 8-4. Page 8-4, Department of Transportation, Activity Summary, Airports, Infrastructure Investment Summary, Total Infrastructure Investment Summary: $17.103 million. Agreed?

Department of Transportation, Activity Summary, Airports, Infrastructure Investment Summary, Total Infrastructure Investment Summary: $17.103 million, approved.

Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen. Mr. Aumond.

Thank you, Mr. Beaulieu. To the motion, Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In the unedited Hansard of October 3 the Minister of Health and Social Services stated that “anywhere else in Canada, dental surgeries are provided by private clinics. There’s no reason why the private clinics in Yellowknife couldn’t look at opening that.” Not necessarily.

In the South the way it works is very few clinics actually have these specialty services. Most clinics are like the clinics in the Northwest Territories. There are indeed specialist clinics that do it, and I think it’s unreasonable to expect that the clinics in Yellowknife — as opposed to the clinics...

Question is being called.

Committee motion carried.

Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen. Mr. Aumond.

Thank you, Mr. Krutko. To the motion, Mr. Menicoche.

Please proceed, Mrs. Groenewegen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Your committee has been considering Tabled Document 93-16(2) and would like to report progress, with two motions being adopted.

I move that the report of the Committee of the Whole be concurred with. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.