Robert Bouchard

Thank you, Minister Ramsay. Next on my list I have Mr. Moses.

Thank you, Minister Ramsay.

Agreed. Return to page 9-7, department summary, operations expenditure summary, $124.955 million.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. I’ll take that as a note, a comment. Next on the list I have Mr. Menicoche.

Thank you, Deputy Minister. Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Your committee has been considering Tabled Document 22-17(5), Northwest Territories Main Estimates 2014-2015, and would like to report progress. Mr. Speaker, I move that the report of Committee of the Whole be concurred with. Thank you.

I am just wondering if we’ve used any professionals such as an actuary to look at those actual costs.

Thank you, Madam Chair. A couple of quick questions about the Hay River Health Authority and the positions there. If the department could give me a little more detail and discussion on the union there. They are obviously not a union of ours, but they are highly interested. Have we been having discussions with them about including them in our union? It seems like it’s difficult and inconsistent with this authority versus all the other ones.

I wonder what the other barriers are, I guess. Is it all financial? What are the complications of not having them in the GNWT system?

It’s not getting any cheaper. It is something we were interested in seeing, I guess. Is the department going to continue to analyze it? When do you think you will have that analysis complete? When would we be able to look at what the net costs are of doing that?