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Debates of , 16th Assembly, 5th Session (day 35)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I give notice that on Thursday, February 10, 2011, I will move the following motion: I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Thebacha, that the Speaker be authorized to set such sitting days and hours as the Speaker, after consultation, deems fit to assist with the business before the House.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 5th Session (day 35)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thanks to the Premier again. I didn’t, unfortunately, hear an answer to my question. I do hope that the Premier will reconsider this proposed round of consultation and change it to be more meaningful.

I’d like to know from the Premier if this working group and advisory group and whoever else may be involved will be able to give us a definition of poverty prior to September 2011.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 5th Session (day 35)

Thanks to the Premier. I have to disagree. I think the original Anti-Poverty Alliance is a large group, but it’s not all of the members of the Anti-Poverty Alliance who needed to be on the government’s working group. They certainly would have been happy with a couple of representatives who were not government members.

I think the Premier also suggested that all of the recommendations from the anti-poverty report, the No Place for Poverty report, needed to be accepted by the government and that’s not true. I think if the report is read carefully, there are a couple of priorities that the report...

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 5th Session (day 35)

I’ll have to go and check Hansard tomorrow, but I don’t believe in either of my questions I mentioned the words “working poor.” I’ll leave it at that.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 5th Session (day 35)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to welcome and recognize Mr. Dave Reid, the president of the NWT Teachers’ Association.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 5th Session (day 34)

Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thanks for that clarification as well. I did wonder in terms of the medical travel review and I certainly support an evaluation of sort of the clinical decisions and how we do that, but it’s my understanding that the Program Review Office is also undertaking to look at medical travel and efficiencies there. I wondered if these two reviews are being done in conjunction. Thank you.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 5th Session (day 34)

Thanks for the explanation. It does go back to a pet peeve of mine, which I’ve been harping on since I got here. We’re being asked to approve $1.1 million basically without any kind of other information. So could I get a breakdown, please, of what the $1.1 million of THSSI funding is being used for? Thank you.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 5th Session (day 34)

So does that mean that it is a shuffling of the money from one pot to another and nothing has changed, the totals haven’t changed? I need an interpretation. Thank you.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 5th Session (day 34)

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I beg your indulgence and ask if we can return to page 8-13.

Debates of , 16th Assembly, 5th Session (day 34)

Okay. Have we made changes, then, to the implementation of the program, or was it in anticipation and they may perhaps not be needed?