Jane Groenewegen

The operative word in the Minister’s response is current and updated, because I used to travel the road between Hay River and Yellowknife for many years, and if you went onto the website on the weekends to find anything out about the ferry or the ice road, it wasn’t actually updated from Friday at 3 o’clock until Monday morning at 10 o’clock. Has the department undertaken any measures to resolve that so that the information is, in fact, up to the hour and current?

This past week we had people from Fort Simpson that were in Hay River for the track and field championships, and the approaches to...

Thank you for that comment, Mr. Menicoche. Next I have Mr. Bouchard.

Thank you. I would like to recognize the clock and rise and report progress, but I will allow Minister Miltenberger to first respond to this and then I will rise and report progress. Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Minister Miltenberger. I’d like to ask the Minister if he would like to bring witnesses into the Chamber. Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Mr. Beaulieu. Mr. Miltenberger. I’m sorry.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today, in view of the anniversary of the public apology of our federal government with respect to the immeasurable harm of residential school survivors and to them and to their families, I’d like to just say today that for sure I’m not an expert or a counselor or anyone who has any credentials in family relations, but I was a child and I am a parent. One thing I do know, it goes against all the laws of nature to take a child away from their parents. The authority of a parent is tempered with love and security in the bond between them. That authority is misplaced when it...

Thank you, Minister Miltenberger. Minister McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Department of Health and Social Services, operations expenditures, community health programs, not previously authorized, $1.267 million. Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Does committee agree?

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Mr. Beaulieu.