Tom Beaulieu

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In my Member’s statement I talked about the needs of daycare and preschool in Fort Resolution. I have questions for the Minister of Education.

Mr. Speaker, on an interim basis, can the Minister direct the Department of Education, Culture and Employment to provide some emergency funding for immediate repairs that are needed to the daycare and the preschool in Fort Resolution? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Mr. Chairman, I move to report progress.

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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I move that this committee defer consideration on the department summary for the Department of Health and Social Services. Thank you.

Mr. Chairman, I wasn’t talking about financial resources; I was referring to human resources. When this department administers these programs under work performed on behalf of others with transitional health funding contribution agreements or Nats’ejee K’eh pan-territorial social marketing project, I am asking if there is actually human resources there to support individuals to apply. Because I think that it would be good if everybody maybe had a computer or was able to go to the website, pull it up, fill out the information on their own, sign it and send it off and so on. That is not exactly...

Mr. Chairman, on the non-insured health benefits, we have almost $10 million for work performed on behalf of others. That is, I think, a Health Canada funding provided to First Nations and Inuit residents that are not covered under a hospital or a medical care program. My understanding from this is that the department delivers a program. So far, in the inquiries that have come from my constituents in the communities, I have generally been sending them to the website, because other than filling out the applications myself, sending them to a website asking them to pull the documentation off the...

That’s good, Mr. Chairman. This is what I had the idea that it was going to provide service in those areas, places that were just mentioned by the Minister, and what happens in that case is the majority of that treatment and that care is provided to people, and I recognize that people from all the small communities also end up here in Yellowknife, but it is provided to the folks, most of the folks here in YK.

There’s really nothing more that I can add other than it’s good to see that if they’re going to look at something like this in the future to shift away from this type of care that they...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. On page 8-31, non-government organizations residential care, the…

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am not sure if I said a half-time student but I think I meant a half-time teacher.

Mr. Speaker, earlier he talked about buildings that don’t belong to the GNWT. Would the Minister look at Education, Culture and Employment’s infrastructure plan to add funding to build a new building to house daycare and preschool in Fort Resolution? Thank you.

To start with, can the Minister have her department facilitate, coordinate some community meetings with the end means of developing some sort of community strategy on addictions and using some of the money she’s indicated already to begin the process of developing? I think that the community will build some momentum towards addressing addiction issues.

Mahsi cho, Mr. Speaker. In my Member’s statement I spoke of addictions in the small communities. I have questions for the Minister of Health and Social Services. Mr. Speaker, does the Department of Health and Social Services have a strategy to address the issue of heavy alcohol consumption in the small communities? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.