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I’d like to defer the question to the Minister responsible for the NWT Housing Corporation.
Mr. Chair, I didn’t hear the Member, but I think the deputy has and I will ask if she can provide a response. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
The request to the JLC is based on doing something at the regional centres and Yellowknife.
We haven’t thought in depth about the situation outside of what is happening with the day shelter in Yellowknife. Like I indicated, we want to provide direction to YK Health and Social Services to work with them. The objective would be for them to come up with an evaluation that indicates what the problem is and what the solutions are. That kind of thing would most likely be applied to other communities where the situation is similar.
However, what I will commit to doing with that information is to discuss that at the social envelope Ministers meeting which is chaired by our Minister of Justice...
Yes, that is in place now. All provinces and territories are part of the deal and I believe at this time there is only one drug where they are able to buy in bulk at this time. Just one.
Thank you, Madam Chair. I will have the deputy minister respond to that.
We are hoping to proceed with every community that wishes to have a wellness plan. We will work with every community that wishes to have a wellness plan.
Having said that, we have to realize that developing a wellness plan in a city the size of Yellowknife would be a difficult task. It may be portions of the city. We need to do a lot of work, a lot of planning in order to come up with a wellness plan for the city of Yellowknife. Of course, in the smaller communities it would be a lot easier. Most organizations in small communities encompass the entire community, whereas in Yellowknife various...
There’s no target at this time. We don’t know. We know that a couple of authorities have used nurse practitioners and are very interested in building that flexibility into their funding, but we don’t have a target percent at this time.
We have asked the Beaufort-Delta Health and Social Services Authority to work with the community through what we refer to as a Primary Care Team. Included in that is the home care workers, and to re-evaluate the needs in both of those communities of both Tsiigehtchic and McPherson to see if they can provide home care to the residents that need home care. I think if we’re successful in building in this elders daycare, it will be the home support workers that will be working with the adults in Fort McPherson. I think the authority would have to increase the amount of home support workers that...
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’m pleased to recognize Louise Bradley, president and CEO of the Mental Health Commission of Canada; Geoff Couldrey, executive vice-president of the Mental Health Commission of Canada; Michelle McLean, vice-president of public affairs of the Mental Health Commission of Canada; and Dana Heide, associate deputy minister of Health and Social Services.