Michael Miltenberger

Thebacha

Statements in Debates

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 6th Session (day 8)

Mr. Speaker, the decision to suspend services was made by the Yellowknife Health and Social Services Authority. Just listening to Member’s statements, many of the small community Members laying out all the things that they require for basic services in their communities, some of them fairly modest in terms of cost if you just looked at them individually. So we have, and I’ve also stood up in this House and laid out the constraints that we’re under as a government. So the answer to the Member’s question would be no.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 6th Session (day 8)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Yellowknife South, that Bill 13, Supplementary Appropriation Act (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 1, 2011-2012, be read for the second time.

This bill makes supplementary appropriations for infrastructure expenditures for the Government of the Northwest Territories for the 2011-2012 fiscal year.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 6th Session (day 8)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As the Member is aware, we are, as a government, facing significant financial constraints and that constraint is translated and transferred down to all the agencies and boards that we fund, which are health boards, education boards, housing boards, and all the other very many programs we run. Yellowknife Health and Social Services made a determination that it was not effective to run it with one midwife, so they made a decision to put these services on hold pending the result of the broader review. That’s what they’ve done and I supported their decision. Thank you.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 6th Session (day 8)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Inuvik Boot Lake, that Bill 14, Supplementary Appropriation Act (Operations Expenditures), No. 1, 2011-2012, be read for the first time.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 6th Session (day 8)

There will be an RFP put out and folks can apply for that. That will be an open kind of process, and if they are the ones chosen and meet the requirements, then they’ll get the job. Thank you.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 6th Session (day 8)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Monfwi, that Bill 12, Supplementary Appropriation Act (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 6, 2010-2011, be read for the first time.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 6th Session (day 7)

Mr. Speaker, I’m not quite sure of the structure of this committee compared to, say, an interagency committee, if it, in fact, exists. My understanding of most interagency groups that I’ve been familiar with is that it ebbs and flows and gathers around projects or specific issues to try and resolve situations at a committee level. In this case, it’s an arrangement that we think is not harsh or overly dramatic. We think it’s a measured, careful, thoughtful response, and coming up with a solution very similar to the solution put forward by the Member for Great Slave as a way to keep everybody...

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 6th Session (day 7)

Mr. Speaker, I give notice that on Monday, May 16, 2011, I will move that Bill 12, Supplementary Appropriation Act (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 6, 2010-2011, be read for the first time.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 6th Session (day 7)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’m not aware of any process to do that. I understand, as well, that Mr. Brown is still half way residing there. Thank you.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 6th Session (day 7)

In this particular case -- and I appreciate the Member’s broad concern about having basic services in communities -- in some cases communities don’t have services that larger centres have. In this case with the Joe Greenland Centre, as I’ve indicated, we’ve honoured the commitments that were made. We’ve brought other home support workers staff on board. We’ve expanded the home care support and assisted people to stay in their own homes. We’re going to honour that commitment.

Across the North we’re challenged with trying to meet all the demands that are there with the resources we have, but in...