Tom Beaulieu

Nobody’s really to blame. I’m just saying that this service is needed, and in the facility and how well it runs is largely dependent upon on who’s using the service. Thank you.

We do want to go to an RFP. The issue was that the request as we were dealing with the Health and Social Services Authority, the request for them to recommend that we go through an RFP process. So they would perhaps look at other providers. It was very late in the fiscal year and we didn’t think we could achieve the proper requests for proposals at that late juncture. So we decided to continue with the cash flow, and then during the process, as we’re continuing to operate, then go for an RFP. So in future years if it’s deemed that the facility should remain open, then it will be done under the...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The provider of the day shelter, I think the initial intent was exactly what they think indicates as a shelter, a place for some people to get out of the weather and go and have a warm place to go to. Within that, as they were operating the shelter, they made themselves, the John Howard Society themselves made recommendations to provide some training to staff. They thought that the operation of the shelter would require some training of their own staff on various things like First Aid and so on. Also, trying to provide some referrals. So individuals that are using the...

I don’t have the statistics on the Hope Foundation, but I will ask the department, through the deputy minister, to try to get that information to determine how many donations were made from people that live in the NWT to the Hope Foundation.

Mahsi cho, Mr. Speaker. The hospitals in the NWT are currently unable to receive harvested organs and tissue donation; however, they are working with the Hope Foundation, which is a human organ procurement exchange out of Edmonton. They work with them to try to harvest or do organ donation, if the possibility exists and the opportunity exists.

I think I indicated that they had requested some training in certain areas, and that they have requested that they be allowed to deal with some of the other organizations in the community in which they can refer their clientele. I think the original concept of its shelter was to provide a warm, safe place for individuals to go during the day. These are people that don’t have anywhere else to attend. But the opportunity of getting the people together, the provider thought that these things had been added and had requested that, and had not actually changed the agreement in any way or the...

The role of the provider, as I laid out earlier, is to provide a warm place for the individuals to attend, and then they recommended a couple of additional things that they would like to do. Those things were like referrals, and training of staff and so on, and various aspects of the staff.

I’m not really sure where the Member is indicating that there has been blame issued to anybody on the running of the facility. It is what it is. How we provide a service is dependent upon our clientele.

Thank you. It would be very difficult to guarantee that something like a shelter will be running better in the future. What we can do is we can guarantee that some of the things that the society indicated would be an important part of running a shelter, such as I indicated earlier, training staff on things like First Aid. There is also crisis intervention; there is also communication skills of the people working in there, how they communicate with the users of the facility. So if we’re able to achieve those, then it should run better. That will largely depend on the people that are using the...

Thank you. No money is held back. So, money will continue to flow in that way. Obligations I speak of are exactly what I said, the report so that we have an opportunity to review it. The contribution agreement, which is actually a contribution agreement between ourselves and YKHSS so that we can have the money flow through them and then they will then get a proposal from the society, which they haven’t received. So there could be an idea that the society will be adding more to what they want to do and that may form the proposal. At this time we don’t have that information, but we’re not...

If there is some bit of a backlog because people were not notified through the regular notification system, then the department will do what it can to get that caught up as soon as possible. If we have specific individuals that have not received notification advice either through their MLA or one of the authorities or even Stanton to let people know in the system that they haven’t received their health card, then we will get on that and try to get the health cards to individuals as soon as possible.