Wendy Bisaro

Thank you, Minister. Committee, we are open for general comments. Are there any general comments on the Department of Health and Social Services? Seeing none, we will move on to detail. We will bypass the department summary on page 6-2 and move to page 6-4, Health and Social Services, activity summary, health services programs, infrastructure investment summary, total infrastructure investment summary, $28.089 million. Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. I didn’t hear a question there. Did you want to respond, Minister Lafferty?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Your committee has been considering Tabled Document 2-17(1), Northwest Territories Capital Estimates 2012-2013, and would like to report progress. I move that the report of Committee of the Whole be concurred with. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you. Sergeant-at-Arms, would you escort the witnesses – Sorry. I always forget this. Does the committee agree that we will have the witnesses enter the Chamber?

Thank you. Anything further, Mr. Hawkins? Mr. Hawkins is done. Next on the list, Mr. Bromley.

Thank you to the Minister, thank you to the witnesses. Sergeant-at-Arms, please escort the witnesses from the Chamber. What is the wish of committee? Mr. Hawkins.

Is committee agreed that we have concluded consideration of the Department of Education, Culture and Employment?

Both the response from the Minister and from Mr. Guy indicates to me that what we have is piecemealed. We don’t have an all-encompassing policy that goes across all our departments. At the moment every office, almost every department it sounds like, does their own thing and I think there’s an opportunity for us to provide a bit of an incentive, a bit of a shot in the arm and some support for arts in every one of our communities. Existing buildings aside, I think future buildings could – if we had a policy in place – provide a base for arts. I didn’t hear the Minister say that. He said the...

Okay, committee, we’ll now return to page 6-2, department summary, Health and Social Services, infrastructure investment summary, total infrastructure investment summary, $36.189 million.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to thank the Premier for his response. I do have to say, though, and I appreciate the work that is being done under the Shelter Policy review. I am eagerly anticipating their results, which I hope are forthcoming soon, but the Shelter Policy review really is only being done by the Housing Corporation, and homelessness, I think the Premier knows, cuts across other areas of our government and our programs and services. I would hope that we don’t base our decision on a secretariat, only, on the Shelter Policy review.

Another recommendation within the Falvo...