Jane Groenewegen

Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Minister Beaulieu.

So then one of the questions that begs to be answered and I’m hearing in various places is: If we have to have midwifery regulations in place first, how is it then that Fort Smith has operated with midwives and midwifery services for all the years that it has, but when it comes to Hay River we have to create new regulations? I’m not saying that we don’t, I just want people to understand why that’s necessary.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Anything further on page 8-13, Health and Social Services, activity summary, directorate, operations expenditure summary, $8.599 million?

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. Mr. Moses.

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Mr. Beaulieu.

Agreed, thank you. Health and Social Services, program delivery support, operations expenditure summary, $40.686 million. Mr. Hawkins.

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Minister Beaulieu.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today I’d like to follow up on some questions that were being posed here in the Legislature last week on midwifery. I want to say in my preamble that I was very glad to hear the Minister of Health and Social Services not agreeing with everything that was being suggested about midwifery, and using words like “common sense” and “basically pushing back” a little bit on this theory that midwifery is the panacea of birthing opportunities in the Northwest Territories.

Being from a community where there are currently no resident physicians, certainly the desire of people to...

Thank you, Mr. Beaulieu. I’m just going to call the page again, and then I have Mr. Bromley. Health and Social Services, operations expenditure, directorate, $8.599 million. Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. Ms. DeLancey.