Michael Miltenberger

Yes, I can provide that information to the Member and I’d be happy to do that.

Thank you. That’s a detailed, technical question and I will take it as notice.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The issue about confidentiality and the need to protect confidentiality when dealing with constituents and clients has been there. As we do business, it’s become more formal as the legislation across the land has been tested about breaches, about information getting out without people’s knowledge. It has become a greater issue and it’s a way to try to standardize the approach so it’s consistent across government. The consent form has been developed in an attempt to try to have that balance not to impede the work of MLAs so much as to make sure that people and...

Yellowknife has the best selection of services of any community in the Northwest Territories; things like the SideDoor. We have all the Health staff, Social Services staff that are here, the counselling agencies that are here, the health services at Stanton that are here. They have all the other network opportunities that are here. You have all the other access as well of some of the opportunities that I indicated earlier through other non-profit NGOs, as well. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Firstly, I’d indicated that I believe that in almost every community, if not every community, there are places to turn. There are your parents. There are your relatives. If there are health officials, if there are social service people, if there are teachers, if there are other people that work in the community, there’s your clergy that may be available, that we have those resources. The issue that the Member asks about in terms of the example he raised, I don’t have the full details, but I would assume that there’s an age issue and that the individual, the youth is old...

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...