Michael Miltenberger

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, there is a plan that sees Frame Lake clinic getting upgraded to provide better service to have more exam rooms, to be able to do things clinics can do as well. We’re working on a consolidation in the downtown area to integrate the clinic capacity in the downtown core that is going to see, once again, more effective use of the staff and more exam rooms and capacity to provide services that are currently provided at Stanton that should be provided in clinics. So those combined are part of the plan to shorten wait times, improve access to doctors, to...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the Minister is giving the information that I was going to, that the regulations are set to be approved. They haven't been approved prior to now and then November 1st is our implementation date. We are working hard with some of the communities trying to finalize the various proposals and we are more than willing to entertain any proposal from any community when it comes to this particular initiative. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, this immediate focus was on the communities along the pipeline route and through the impacted regions and those communities. Yellowknife was not seen as being one of the impacted communities on the pipeline route on the immediate first go-round. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, we have been in communication with the communities, the community leadership, working with them to pick delegates and to arrange all the logistics, as Minister Roland has covered off for the most part. We have facilitators in place for the three conferences and we have been working fast and hard to make sure that we get this done right. We have been using basically the same template as was used by Municipal and Community Affairs when they had a workshop in Inuvik a number of months ago to try to achieve the same positive results. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. Madam Speaker, I’ll commit -- and I appreciate the time delay and frustration -- to having the issue resolved by the end of June and I’ll keep the Member informed. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. Madam Speaker, Senior Citizens’ Week will be celebrated in the NWT from June 5 to 11, 2005. This year, the theme is Stay Active, Be Healthy. Seniors that stay active within the community and remain as healthy as possible set an example for our youth and contribute to their communities by sharing their wisdom and life experience.

In the past few years, as part of the celebration of Senior Citizens’ Week, an annual seniors’ tea was held at the Great Hall in conjunction with the NWT Seniors’ Society annual general meeting. This year, the NWT Seniors’ Society has...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I just want to provide a bit more information for the Member for Sahtu. We recognize that this is a system that covers the whole territory and we have to pay attention to the whole territory as best we can.

In the Sahtu we have invested, over the last few years, several millions of dollars trying to set up a Sahtu authority with the administration and office space and office capacity for the services. We have budgeted two doctors, we are putting in a public health unit, we are going to be for the next few years subsequently following, hopefully, setting...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, this issue has been on the books, as the Minister has indicated, for a number of years going back to the 14th Assembly. If records were checked, I have clear recollections of discussing this issue and the concerns about not wanting to renovate the existing building because of its age and state of disrepair, and of looking at other options starting way back with potential options of Somba K'e as an example. We did that year after year. Every time we met with committee we reviewed the mains. This year the circumstances were such that there was a...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the first three scheduled workshops are going to be rolled out relatively quickly. As we complete that process and review the results and we look to the future in terms of next steps, we will be considering looking further afield at other possible impacted areas on a secondary or tertiary level that may require some similar attention. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. Madam Speaker, there should be in the Members’ in-trays, a copy of a message I received from Dr. Gus Rozycki who runs Bosco Homes indicating their support and willingness to work with us in this transfer and their support for the decision to in fact do that. Dr. Rozycki is the head of Bosco Homes. He’s very qualified in this area. He has a long history. He has very many good staff who he has access to not only in the North, but in Edmonton and other jurisdictions that they bring to bear on the children in care.

I, as well, have some background of my own working with...