Jackson Lafferty

It is true that we need to move forward on this. We certainly don’t want to lose professionals to the south. We certainly want to attract them and retain them here in the North. The draft legislation proposal will be forwarded for our review within the next month, so it is coming in a progression period.

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. Just to address the question on the Medical Profession Act and what the Member is alluding to — the changes — yes, there is a draft comprehensive professional corporation legislative proposal coming forward. So we are working on that with the Department of Health and Social Services and our department — working closely together on the particular statement.

Mr. Chair, that is certainly highlighted. We’ve already initiated with other departments and also with the federal government, so I think we are slowly moving in that direction. When we talk about per capita funding, that’s before us. So certainly the Member’s comments are taken into consideration. I think that’s an avenue that we need to explore with our Justice department and with other departments as well.

Interjection.

The proposed savings by eliminating the position would be $87,000. Mahsi.

Mahsi, Mr. Chair. These positions that are highlighted here are based on each region’s…. The corrections or programs that are being delivered. It is not necessarily a headquarters position, but those are positions like Hay River, the South Slave Corrections. Those are the positions that are in that riding.

Certainly there are incidents at the Corrections. The avenue that, I guess, we’ll access will be at Stanton. But we will certainly continue to monitor that. Mahsi.

Mahsi, Mr. Chair. That is something we need to look at. It is part of the process of going through the Main Estimates. Certainly we’ll take that into account.

Mahsi, Mr. Chair. My understanding is that the federal funding is only provided to the young offenders, not the adults.

Mahsi, Mr. Chair. We do have some breakdown of per capita funding, with all the five regions: North Slave, South Slave, Inuvik, Sahtu and Deh Cho. I am not sure if you want to get into each community and how much they are getting. I can do that if the Member wants.

Mahsi, Mr. Chair. To date we have two inmates at Arctic Tern.