Wendy Bisaro

Thank you. I’m just trying to clarify. Minister Beaulieu.

Thank you, Mr. Beaulieu. Mr. Moses, your time is up. I can put you back on the list if necessary. Next on the list is Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. Minister Beaulieu.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I have a number of questions in this section. I want to first talk about midwifery, and we’ve talked a great deal about midwifery in our statements and oral questions in the House, but I want to try and get my point across to the Minister here that I don’t believe we need a clinical coordinator position, which is what is called for in this budget. I believe that we don’t need to do any more planning. I believe that we have the act on the regulations in place which are currently governing the Midwifery Program in Fort Smith, and I believe really strongly that we can hire...

Thank you, Minister. Ms. Mathison, please.

I hope that’s August of 2013, not ’14.

Another question I have revolves around legislation. There are a number of pieces of legislation that have been referenced. I know I spoke in the House last week about the Child and Family Services Act and legislation changes or amendments with that particular act. The Minister has talked about governance and governance changes, and that we want to try and streamline our authorities and provide a different model of governance for our authorities. I believe that there is a governance act that is being proposed at some point in time. Could I get the Minister...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would like to move a motion in this section.

I move that this committee strongly recommends that the government take immediate action to identify additional funding for prevention and promotion-related activities to place greater importance and urgency on the prevention of diabetes, tuberculosis, heart disease and other chronic diseases.

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. Minister Beaulieu.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Thanks to Ms. DeLancey for the clarification. My frustration was rising because it has been a very long time. I appreciate it’s a difficult issue and it is very out of date, but I’m glad to hear that there’s going to be public consultation on this because everybody who has ever had to travel for a medical reason is going to have an opinion on it, similar to education. Everybody has an opinion on how we should be educating our children because we’ve all been through it. I’ll just leave that at that and the sooner the better, I guess, in terms of getting a new policy out...

Thanks, Madam Chair. I just have one question here with regard to the cost to us as a government for… We have many of our residents who are covered under the federal Supplementary Health Benefits Program, the NIHB program, and it’s always a mystery to me whether or not we top up the NIHB payments to us, whether we provide a service which costs us more than what we get back from the federal government and I’m thinking particularly of travel costs. So I’d like to know from the Minister whether or not this budget includes any funding, any expenses, which are an expense to this government to top...