Jane Groenewegen

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions are for the Minister of Health and Social Services as well. In my Member’s statement today, I talked about a scenario that could occur where a non-medical escort accompanies a patient to Stanton, or I suppose it could be to Edmonton, and they get there and the programed treatment for the patient changes for some reasons and the person who is the non-medical escort, out of the goodness of their heart, has probably taken time off work and is there doing this as an unpaid service.

When the program changes and the person who is the escort needs to go home, what...

Thank you, Minister Miltenberger. Mr. Aumond.

Thank you, Mr. Bouchard. Speaker Jacobson.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today I’d like to talk again about our Medical Travel Policy and I’d like to provide an example of where I think there may be a gap.

A patient has been assessed by a doctor and it’s deemed they have to travel from one community to come to Yellowknife to have a procedure done – it could be any kind of procedure, it could be surgery – and it’s deemed that they need a non-medical escort. So, a friend or a family member is called upon to accompany that patient. But when they get to Yellowknife, they find out that the procedure or the treatment that’s planned is not available...

Thank you, Mr. Aumond. Mr. Bouchard.

Thank you, Mr. Bouchard. Mr. Ouellette.

Thank you, Mr. Bouchard. Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you. I’ll ask the Sergeant-at-Arms if he could please escort the witnesses and the Speaker to the table.

Welcome, Mr. Speaker. For the record, could you please acknowledge your witnesses today.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, your committee has been considering Tabled Document 281-17(5), Northwest Territories Capital Estimates, 2016-2017; and Tabled Document 325-17(5), Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures) No. 3, 2015-2016; and would like to report progress, and that consideration of Tabled Document 281-17(5) is concluded and that the House concur in those estimates and that an appropriation bill to be based thereon be introduced without delay. Mr. Speaker, I move that the report of Committee of the Whole be concurred with. Thank you.

Thank you. I’ll ask the Sergeant-at-Arms to please escort the witnesses to the table.

Minister Miltenberger, for the record, could you please introduce your witnesses.