Robert Hawkins

Okay. That’s the type of detail that was very helpful. Thank you very much.

I was able to hear all of that this time around. Thank you very much for repeating it. I apologize for that.

As far as the specialist money, that doctors money tends to be oversubscribed and underfunded, as the deputy minister knows, as well as the Minister, obviously. Does the Minister see that maybe there’s a possibility of paying actuals until we get a new program in place? That’s always treated as a deficit. Sorry. That is one of the causes for Stanton, in particular, to be recognized as always carrying a deficit. That too, as I’ve heard, sounds like a good plan to solve some of the medical...

Mr. Speaker, the Minister can say it’s guesswork on my part, but it was a Fortune Minerals person who told me they were in discussion with the Department of Transportation on this. So if he would like to change departments on the discussion, that’s up to the Minister. In this case, it happens to be the same person which obviously can mean it is.

Maybe for the record officially in this House, what work is being done on that road to the communities of Whati and Gameti and, specifically, how much has been the investment on that work to those communities, because I’m not aware of anything...

Okay. No problem. I understand accidents happen. No, I was always speaking to HSS authorities administration. Maybe, for the record, if we could get the breakdown of exactly what that is. Let’s start with that. Let’s start with the full breakdown in some detail.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I know I’d like to read a motion on this page, but I think I’ll start with a question or two first. That said, the question I have is under grants and contributions to the hospital services that we provide. One of the primary funding problems that we have, and I highlighted it the other day in the opening comments, which was how we fund medical travel and physician services. I’m just wondering, would the Minister speak to that as to what type of funding model he would consider, in the context I’ve asked, the department to think about or consider or even go so far as I...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The realignment of the Tlicho winter road was Premier-directed, not a Cabinet initiative or brought forward by the Members-at-large as Caucus. It has been my understanding that there has been some type of formal instructions with Fortune Minerals about creating a year-round road out all the way to the community of Whati and even to Gameti.

I would like to ask the Minister of Transportation, if this is the case, what is actually happening out there that Regular Members have not been informed of. Thank you.

Is the Minister saying that just, you know, making numbers easy, $14 million is used for travel by the staff in Inuvik?

Nope. That will be fine for now. Thank you.

Then maybe, in case I missed it, where was it reallocated from?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. There was no formal direction on this particular initiative and I have comments that say as such. That only causes me to conclude two things: the discussion of the courthouse future and its followance, missing or absence on any future capital plan, had to have been done in camera; second, with the lack of any formal correspondence, it’s only reasonable to assume the deletion of the courthouse from its capital plan must have formally been done either in Cabinet, which does not include Members. Accordingly, I will speak to the appropriate order, as such, with this sort of...