Kevin A. Menicoche

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. The medevac system has to know what type of airport was at Trout Lake. I’m not too sure what’s going on there.

My final, short supplementary, Mr. Speaker, is to ask the Minister to investigate the medical travel system’s response to the recent emergency in Trout Lake and publicly report its findings not only to this House but also to the community of Trout Lake, who is still extremely upset about this whole ordeal. Thank you very much.

I agree with the Minister that when they get there would be the response time, but what I am really after here is we should have set targets, that if there is an emergency in the community of Trout Lake or any of our communities in the Northwest Territories, once that call is made, there should be a specific plan and time frame to get that medevac plane there.

It seems to me that there really is no targeted response times or standards for medevac or getting to our communities or responding to medical emergencies. Will the Minister make sure that there are emergency response time targets and...

Mahsi cho, Mr. Speaker. I want to express my sympathy to the Jumbo family of Trout Lake who lost a much-loved elder in a recent boating accident. The tragedy has been a very difficult one for everyone in the community. After the accident, CPR was done at the scene and the victim revived. She was transported to the health centre, but in the end her injuries were too severe.

I really want to thank everyone who made such a great effort to save her. You’re an example to us all.

While many people are now grieving, this accident could have been much worse. Three other people survived the crash. One...

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. I, too, will be supporting this motion given that at least several communities in my riding don’t have an ambulance, or even the training and the support services to support an ambulance service. I think that our government has to start taking a look at this. I know that we had a nice ambulance committee, joint committee on the government side at the deputy level. I’d like to see that reactivated, look at the issues and certainly provide for the safety of all those travelling our highway systems. Mahsi cho.

Thank you very much. Also, is there any way that this government can help a community like Nahanni Butte with the capital costs? I’ve got an estimate. We met with CKLB officials and they said Nahanni Butte replacement infrastructure would be about, I think it was almost $6,500, including the technician to travel in there. So I wonder if there’s any capital dollars within MACA or within our government that we can look at addressing this need. Thank you.

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Over the course of the last six weeks I’ve tried to raise issues from every one of my communities, and I’d like to raise another one for the community of Nahanni Butte.

Ever since the flood, the radio station has not been replaced at all. I know most particularly was the CKLB infrastructure that’s there has been damaged. CKLB has several other communities, and they’ve been trying to repair those communities, as well, but they’ve been running into funding difficulties. But most particularly, with the Nahanni Butte, I think the total comes to about almost $7,000...

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. The job of an MLA is to be here front and centre and make decisions. Often you have to look at both sides of the issues and often the decisions have to come quick.

We’ve discussed devolution when we got elected into the Assembly, like Mr. Dolynny pointed out. We had many briefings with the government. They have informed us about the plan. We have looked at the whole Northwest Territories, and to say that the people haven’t been consulted I think is not true. There have been many public consultations throughout the past 18 months and I think as part of the...

Thank you very much. Is the Minister aware, when working with his colleagues, of any other places where the community can access some infrastructure dollars to address this specific need, and in fact, while the Minister is in charge of, as well, emergency situations, and having a local station will greatly enhance our emergency services in all the small and remote communities? Thank you.

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Earlier today I raised the issue about the broken CKLB radio transmitted in Nahanni Butte. I’d like to ask the Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs if this was taken in account during the flood damage and ultimately, as well, how does Municipal and Community Affairs assist communities with local radio stations. Thank you.

Thank you very much, Madam Chair. The committee wishes to consider Bill 1, Bill 2, Committee Report 1-17(4) and Committee Report 2-17(4). Thank you.