Jane Groenewegen
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Thank you. Minister Miltenberger.
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Thank you. Transportation, which is item 11, Department of Transportation, appropriation authority required, $29.848 million. Mr. Menicoche.
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Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Deputy Minister Aumond.
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Thank you, Minister Miltenberger. I’ll now open the floor for general comments on the interim appropriation. General comments. Any general comments? If not, we’ll move on to the detail. Interim Appropriation 2012-2013. I will first go to the Department of Health and Social Services, which is item number 8 on your schedule. Health and Social Services, operations expenditures, appropriation authorization required, $103.023 million.
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Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Mr. Miltenberger.
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Does committee agree?
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Department of Justice, item 9, appropriation authority required, $26.877 million.
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Thank you. The next item on our agenda today is Tabled Document 1-17(2), Interim Appropriation 2012-2013. Would the Minister of Finance like to provide some opening comments? Minister Miltenberger.
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to ask the Minister if he would commit to considering the surgery schedule for NWT residents from outside of the capital that would allow them, if necessary, to have their lab work done the same week as they’re having their surgery done, to prevent that travel, and if he would also investigate if somehow we could enhance the transmission of requisitions and results from lab procedures between health authorities.
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May I suggest that getting a doctor to go to Hay River would also be inexpensive? I mean it would be expensive and cost prohibitive; sorry.
I was in Alaska once and had a medical test done, which was then beamed to a doctor at his house in Texas and who responded right back on what the answer was. I mean, we are only 100 miles away between Hay River and Yellowknife. Surely there’s a way that, okay, the guy doing the surgery, the doctor doing the surgery on the Monday morning wants certain tests done and lab work done. Why can those requisitions for lab work not be sent to Hay River, have the...