Michael Miltenberger

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...

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.

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.

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...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In regard to the Joe Greenland Centre, the Beaufort-Delta Health and Social Services Authority has transitioned their full-time care programming at the Joe Greenland Centre to the Elders Day Program and Expanded Home Care to support Aklavik seniors to live independently in their own homes. These expanded programs are up and running. The commitment for $350,000 out of the current budget to be maintained for the provision of home care and supported living is being honoured. The wing that has residents in it is going to be continued to be kept up and running, and the eight...

Thank you. There are different types of information that, yes, it is a practice across the government where the information, such as health information, or housing information, or education, or justice information of a very particular personal nature is stored and kept so that it’s managed in the appropriate way that we can have the safeguards. Other information is not quite as sensitive; it doesn’t have the same kind of requirements. Thank you.

The response to the committee’s report was in this House during the last session. There were agreements reached in terms of some additional funding to look at trying to get some of the community and family services committees set up, as well as a review and internal work that we’re going to cover from within in terms of policy review and those types of things. Those commitments will be honoured. The other recommendations will be brought forward through the business planning process and will be there on the table for the incoming Assembly of the 17th Assembly in October or November when they...

Mr. Speaker, there are rights issues based on age. There are very few cases where you can have some type of custodial disposition that will give legal authority to take somebody involuntarily into a treatment program. Those usually work through the courts, if it’s through the young offenders process or if it’s through an arrangement with the Department of Health and Social Services where there is an actual custodial disposition through the courts. But as a matter of practice for those types of situations where you’re dealing with family issues and these types of circumstances, when you’re 16...

Our engagement will be the same as what has been outlined by the Minister of Justice that was a jointly-signed letter, and it’s an approach that we think will allow us to move forward and still have involvement in an advisory capacity, and as the Minister of Justice indicated, we’re receptive to the types of suggestions made by the Member for Great Slave. Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, I give notice that on Monday, May 16, 2011, I will move that Bill 20, Vital Statistics Act, be read for the first time. Thank you.