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Return To Written Question 8-12(6): Costs Associated With Special Needs Persons In The Nwt
Item 8: Returns To Written Questions

November 1st, 1994

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Clerk Of The House Mr. David Hamilton

The Department of Health and Social Services defines special needs as "any physical and/or mental disability."

1. The annual cost of the department for special needs assessments and treatment in 1993-94 was $14.581 million.

2. The percentage of this cost spent in the NWT was approximately 80 per cent or $11.535 million.

3. The annual cost for the operation and maintenance of group homes for special needs adults in the NWT was $947,500 for 1993-94.

4. The number of special needs adults living in group homes was 24 in 1993-94.

5. A number of psychological assessments of mentally challenged clients are carried out in the NWT by southern-based psychiatric consultants who visit the regions on an intermittent basis.

Psychological assessments are also available through a psychiatrist who is resident in Yellowknife.

6. Clients are also referred for full psychological/psychiatric assessments at hospitals in Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto and Montreal.

Clerk Of The House Mr. David Hamilton

Return to Written Question 10-12(6) asked by Mr. Koe to the Minister of Health and Social Services concerning speech therapist services and private practices.

1.(a) Records kept by the Stanton Yellowknife Hospital and the health boards indicate that referrals/funding of school-aged students from the western Arctic and Kitikmeot for speech therapy services outside the territory are minimal. There are no children currently being funded, but the average would be less than one referral per month.

(b) In the eastern Arctic, there are no school-aged children receiving speech therapy services in Manitoba, according to information provided by Keewatin Regional Health Board.

2. Current legislation in the NWT does not prohibit a speech and language pathologist from establishing a private practice in the NWT.

3. The health insurance program does not permit direct billing by speech therapists or reimburse clients for services obtained directly through speech therapists in private practice.

The Speaker Jeannie Marie-Jewell

Thank you. Item 9, replies to opening address. Item 10, petitions. Item 11, reports of standing and special committees. Item 12, reports of committees on the review of bills. Item 13, tabling of documents. The honourable Member for High Arctic, Mr. Pudluk.

Item 13: Tabling Of Documents
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Ludy Pudluk High Arctic

Thank you, Madam Speaker. Tabled Document 53-12(6) is a letter I received on November 1, 1994, from the Arctic Bay Ikajutit HTA requesting a new community freezer. Thank you.

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The Speaker Jeannie Marie-Jewell

Thank you. Item 13, tabling of documents. The honourable Member for Iqaluit, Mr. Patterson.

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Dennis Patterson Iqaluit

Thank you, Madam Speaker. I would like to table a document that has been circulated to Members. Tabled Document 54-12(6) is entitled Proposed Bill, the Northwest Territories Power Corporation Privatization Act. Thank you.

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The Speaker Jeannie Marie-Jewell

Thank you. Item 13, tabling of documents. Item 14, notices of motion. Item 15, notices of motions for first

reading of bills. The honourable Member for Hay River, Mr. Pollard.

Bill 19: Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 1, 1994-95
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John Pollard Hay River

Thank you, Madam Speaker. Madam Speaker, I give notice that on Friday, November 4, 1994, I shall move that Bill 19, Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 1, 1994-95, be read for the first time. Thank you, Madam Speaker.

Bill 19: Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 1, 1994-95
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The Speaker Jeannie Marie-Jewell

Thank you. Your motion is in order. To the motion. Oh, I'm sorry, it's notices of motions for first reading of bills. Item 15, notices of motions for first reading of bills. Item 16, motions. Item 17, first reading of bills. Item 18, second reading of bills. Item 19, consideration in committee of the whole of bills and other matters: Tabled Document 14-12(6), "Open for Business" - Privatizing the Northwest Territories Power Corporation; Tabled Document 23-12(6), Report of the 1993-94 Electoral District Boundaries Commission Northwest Territories; Tabled Document 36-12(6), "Action Plan - Consolidation - Health and Social Services"; Minister's Statement 11-12(6), Return to Session; Committee Report 10-12(6), Report on the Review of the 1995-96 Capital Estimates; Committee Report 11-12(6), Report on the First Annual Report (1992-93) of the Languages Commissioner of the NWT; Committee Report 13-12(6), Report on the Elimination of the Alcohol and Drug Board of Management; Committee Report 15-12(6), Report on the Northwest Territories Arts Council; Bill 1, Appropriation Act, No. 1, 1995-96; Bill 2, Aboriginal Custom Adoption Recognition Act; Bill 3, Guardianship and Trusteeship Act; Bill 8, An Act to Amend the Public Utilities Act; Bill 13, An Act to Amend the Motor Vehicles Act; Bill 14, An Act to Repeal the Public Service Vehicles Act; Bill 15, An Act to Amend the Legislative Assembly and Executive Council Act; and, Bill 18, Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 4, 1993-94, with Mr. Ningark in the chair. Thank you.

Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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The Chair John Ningark

Thank you. This committee will come to order. Yesterday, in committee of the whole, we concluded a number of items. What is the wish of the committee? Mr. Dent.

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Charles Dent

Charles Dent Yellowknife Frame Lake

Mr. Chairman, I would like to recommend to committee that we consider Bill 3, Bill 15, and then move into Bill 1 to consider the budget of the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs.

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The Chair John Ningark

Thank you, Mr. Dent. Do we agree that we deal with Bill 3, Bill 15 and Committee Report 10-12(6) that's dealing with the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs, in that order?

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Some Hon. Members

Agreed.

---Agreed

Bill 3: Guardianship And Trusteeship Act
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The Chair John Ningark

Thank you. We were dealing with Bill 3 already. The bill is the Guardianship and Trusteeship Act. There was a motion to defer. Mr. Lewis, do you wish to speak? Mr. Lewis.

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Brian Lewis Yellowknife Centre

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. After quite a bit of discussion with the two sponsoring Ministers, I decided to withdraw that motion to amend because the government intends to introduce it's own amendments. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

---Withdrawn

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The Chair John Ningark

Thank you. The motion has been withdrawn by the honourable Member, Mr. Brian Lewis. Mr. Minister, would you like to bring in your witnesses?

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The Chair John Ningark

Thank you. Do we agree that the Minister will bring in his witnesses?

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Some Hon. Members

Agreed.

---Agreed

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The Chair John Ningark

Sergeant-at-Arms, escort the witnesses, please.

For the record, Mr. Minister, would you please introduce the witnesses to the committee.

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Stephen Kakfwi

Stephen Kakfwi Sahtu

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have with me today Shawn Flynn from the legislation division, Department of Justice, and Larry Pontus, Department of Justice, on my left.

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The Chair John Ningark

Thank you. Are we ready for clause by clause?

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Some Hon. Members

Agreed.

---Agreed

Clause By Clause

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The Chair John Ningark

Thank you. We are dealing with Bill 3, Guardianship and Trusteeship Act. Clause 1.

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Some Hon. Members

Agreed.

---Agreed