Kieron Testart

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The program evaluation, what does that entail? Are they engaging will it engage with members of the community as well to get feedback from them in addition to I'll just leave it open ended. Like, what will it evaluate? How will that what's the methodology around the evaluation? Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, it's not only Northerners from smaller communities or remote regions, it's also Yellowknifers who have to deal with the medical travel system that isn't serving their needs.

Last October, one of my constituents went to Stanton Hospital because he was having trouble breathing where it was discovered he had a heart attack. He was sent to Edmonton the next day but on the way developed pneumonia and a blood infection. For a month, he was sedated with a breathing tube but despite the support of his doctor, his spouse was denied medical travel. Imagine how she felt with her husband that...

Thank you. So what's the total expenditure of the program? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So what's the status of that? Because I know that, like, when coming into this Assembly as well, I was kind of unclear if there was a pause because of COVID or because of evac or all the other unmitigated disasters that had befallen the 19th Assembly. So where are we at with the community safety officer pilot? Thank you.

I have general comments rather than questions, but the Premier's free to ask or to answer or speak to what I have to say. But I'm quite pleased with what's being proposed in the main estimates and also the business plan. The legislative agenda for this department is sufficiently robust in both the kind of machinery of government or machinery of the public service that has to bring forward things like Miscellaneous Statute Law Amendment Acts and the Legislation Act and the unsexy pieces of legislation. Forgive that forgive me if that's unparliamentary but that's really what it is. But we do...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the reason I ask that is we're here they're only used for obstetrics, they're only used for these, like, hard to find units, we don't want them to shut down. But the concern is that we're going to lose health centres in small communities. So is the Minister aware of any circumstances right now where a small community health centre is going to be staffed with agency nurses?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I have in that question the Minister responded to, I have the dollar amount spent but not the actual individuals. So can the to be clear, how many times have individual agency nurses been brought in to Northwest Territories health care facilities? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you. And I appreciate that we will I mean, it's legislation, it's going to be proposed, we will see it. I just was curious about what is being contemplated because it's not clear in the list of legislative proposals that are currently out.

Well, yeah no, I think I'm good. Thank you. This has been again, I think this is this is good detail in here. There's good programming and support for the men's healing program. I'm glad to see the funding increased and continued to maintain that level. It was something that we looked at very closely in the 18th Assembly, and I'm glad to see it...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Well, I'm not talking about every case, certainly not every all 50,000 people we move. We're talking about a narrow set of circumstances. When people are in critical care conditions, when they are incapacitated or sedated, they're not able to make decisions for themselves, they may be at end of life, can the Minister agree to review the policy around those individuals who require nonmedical escorts to be their advocates when they're in that situation; can she commit to that? Thank you.