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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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Department summary, total capital expenditures, $37.358 million. That's revised. It's in your book as $37.408 million. It's been revised to reflect the changes. Let's go back over it again. Total capital expenditures, $37.358 million.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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Jeannie Marie-Jewell Thebacha
Mr. Chairman, the committee would like to continue addressing the Special Committee on Health and Social Services' report.
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Some Hon. Members
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Committee Report 1-12(4), Talking And Working Together
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The Chair Tony Whitford
The committee concurs. We will continue with Committee Report 1-12(4), Talking and Working Together. When we left off we were on page 27, recommendation 11. Who will be start off? Member for Thebacha, Mrs. Marie-Jewell.
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Jeannie Marie-Jewell Thebacha
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Air transportation is a vital link in our system of health and social services. But this link is in desperate need of repair. A complete review of this service is urgently required. The relationship between northern preference policies and the cost of this service must be examined. We must determine whether the most appropriate aircraft are being used. The method of awarding contracts must also be reviewed.
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Jeannie Marie-Jewell Thebacha
Therefore, Mr. Chairman, I move that this committee recommend that an independent review of the medical air transportation program is required immediately. The results should be presented to the 1994 fall session of the Legislative Assembly. Thank you.
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The Chair Tony Whitford
Thank you, Member for Thebacha. We have a motion on the floor. To the motion. Member for Hay River.
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John Pollard Hay River
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I agree with the recommendation totally. This issue has to be looked at. The problem I have, Mr. Chairman...I feel I should advise the committee that we're already looking at this issue. Review is under way. Consultation is under way. Standardization of the kinds of aircraft we need is under way. There is some research being done right now, in-house. This calls for an independent review. I certainly would hope that I could move on this particular thing as early as the winter session, Mr. Chairman. It is a pressing issue. So, just to advise the committee that a lot of this work is under way at the present time and is being done in-house, in consultation with the industry. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
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The Chair Tony Whitford
Thank you, Minister Pollard. Great minds think alike. The chair recognizes the Member for Yellowknife Frame Lake, Mr. Dent.
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Charles Dent Yellowknife Frame Lake
Mr. Chairman, I think our concern is that a number of operators told us they had some concerns with how the department was supervising the operation right now. When the Minister says that the review is being done internally, I think the reason we suggested it should be done as an independent review was to reflect the concerns we had heard about the department's oversight at present on this program. It's going to call into question the methods used. The government has always had its option to take or not take the advice of this committee, but I would suggest if we look at any study that comes back, we could call into question the methodology and whether or not it was done on an impartial basis and looked at with a non-biased and non-jaundiced eye. We'll have to assess that situation at that time. I think as far as the committee is concerned, we saw reason to feel it was important to have somebody independent take a look at the situation.
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An Hon. Member
Question.
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The Chair Tony Whitford
Question has been called. Do we have a quorum? I will sound the bells to summon one more
person. Thank you very much. We have a motion on the floor and question has been called. All those in favour? All those opposed? The motion is carried.
---Carried
General comments. Recommendation 12. Member for Thebacha, Mrs. Marie-Jewell.
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Jeannie Marie-Jewell Thebacha
Mr. Chairman, the availability of adequate ground transportation must also be addressed. The cost of providing every health centre with a vehicle is simply too great. Other, more community-based solutions must be found. These solutions could involve the pooling or sharing of existing resources. Volunteers and organizations like local fire departments should be approached to participate in these arrangements.
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Jeannie Marie-Jewell Thebacha
Therefore, Mr. Chairman, I move that this committee recommend that communities should be encouraged and assisted in developing their own medical ground transportation services.
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The Chair Tony Whitford
Thank you, Mrs. Marie-Jewell. We have a motion on the floor. The motion is in order. To the motion.
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An Hon. Member
Question.
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The Chair Tony Whitford
Question has been called. All those in favour? All those opposed? Motion is carried.
---Carried
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John Ningark Natilikmiot
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Let me get organized here first. Mr. Chairman, at the same time, it is clear that a number of recipients of assistants...Where are we?
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The Chair Tony Whitford
There seems to be two documents you're reading from. I think one is a script and the page may not coincide with the brown book, which is page 27. We seem to have that in order now. Proceed, Mr. Ningark.
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