Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today it’s a pleasure to rise and welcome a new constituent, Olivia Froese, who was born in Hay River in the middle of January. She came three weeks early and this is special to us because we typically cannot have deliveries in Hay River.
Myself and Sarah and Jason Froese would like to thank the staff at H.H. Williams Hospital for their good work, strong work. It brought great pleasure to those workers, I know, who delivered the baby. We get to see the good side of life as opposed to the illness and the dark side of it, I guess; the bad side, the end of it. This is something that we’re striving to do more of. We’re hoping that this happens more and we get more birth certificates that have Hay River written on them.
My point today is that we’re missing the ability to deliver those babies in Hay River and my questions today will be put to the Minister of Health where the Midwifery Program is and the review that was supposed to be completed.
Like I said in my statement, we’re definitely missing that in Hay River. We want to see more of the ability to deliver babies in Hay River, get to see the joy, experience those joys with our families and share them with the community.
Thank you, Mr. Bouchard. The honourable Member for Yellowknife Centre, Mr. Hawkins.
