Michael Miltenberger

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the review was done. They are just finalizing the consultation with the communities. They've been in there with the various stakeholders and trying to set up meetings with the community leadership to go over the content of the review and the recommendations that were made, and I'd be more than happy to get a copy of that for the Member. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I don’t consider myself cold hearted. My understanding is that we did provide funding and we are, as far as I know, still considering that. Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, as the Premier noted earlier, conservation and efficiency are critical elements in addressing the broad range of energy issues facing the Northwest Territories today. Conservation and efficiency provide an immediate response to the high cost of energy and, as a government, now form a part of our business-as-usual approach.

In addition, and perhaps more importantly, energy conservation and efficiency help us to address one of the most serious environmental problems facing us today: climate change. Mr. Speaker, experts predict that unless efforts are made to reduce greenhouse gas...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I haven't seen the final draft. I know that the work's been done, as I've outlined. But I haven't seen the final draft and I am waiting for that to come across my desk. There has been extensive efforts made to connect up with the leadership and I do believe that if they didn't do it as a group, they've managed to meet with them individually. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the review was done. They are just finalizing the consultation with the communities. They've been in there with the various stakeholders and trying to set up meetings with the community leadership to go over the content of the review and the recommendations that were made, and I'd be more than happy to get a copy of that for the Member. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I’m starting to suffer from what they call cognitive dissidence; I hear one Member saying caribou summit right now, today, yesterday, last week and I have another Member three seats down saying summit this, oh it’s a waste of time. The reality is we have an interim plan that we rolled out in the winter where we had some measures that are going to carry us over the last winter and the coming winter. We’re doing all the scientific census taking and the surveys and the counts and the predation studies now. That information will be ready in late fall...

Mr. Speaker, I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Mackenzie Delta, that Bill 7, Pharmacy Act, be read for the second time.

Mr. Speaker, this bill provides for the regulation of the practice of pharmacy in the Northwest Territories. It sets out requirements for registration as a pharmacist and application procedures. The scope of the practice of pharmacy is outlined and penalties are imposed on persons who practice without a licence or temporary permit.

The bill adopts national drug schedules established by the National Association of Pharmacy Regulatory Authorities. Certain drugs may...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As I have just indicated, the issue of forced growth, NGOs, how they are funded, how do we build in the ability to recognize cost of living and other forced growth factors has been laid out in broad form to the third-party accountability. People from YACCS have written to myself. I have replied to them. We have a business plan process underway. We are including their requests along with a whole other range of NGOs that we deal with as part of our business planning submission. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we place a very high value on the work that non-government organizations do. As a government, we have done a lot of work, along with the Member’s opposite, on boards and agencies to try to look at how we rationalize that whole area of service. As well, we have developed a third-party accountability framework which is now in place that we are working on and using as a government. As we look at dealing with some of these issues, we have moved into multi-year funding contracts. When it comes to YACCS, we are working with them on a number of their issues...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I’d be very happy to arrange a full detailed briefing with GED if they are interested in getting updated on all the work that’s been done, the methodologies used, the kind of work that they’ve done, the areas that they’ve covered with their surveys. I’d also be more than happy to share with the Members the extensive recommendations we’ve received over the years from the wildlife boards in terms of wildlife management that we have dealt with, responded to and accepted and that we worked hand in glove with the wildlife boards on a daily basis, including...