Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, it would lay with the Department of Health and Social Services in a ministry function, I think. That is what we have had to do quite frankly as I indicated in my opening comments is try to maintain first of all that there is some stability in the system in respect to funding for Health and Social Services boards in the area of treatment first with the programs that we had given that we had to undergo some changes in that scheme of things. But as we did that and tried to identify and having, after stabilizing that the funding and certainty out there and the treatment programs, tried to look at areas for reinvestment towards preventative programs that will show some long term improvements towards improving social conditions throughout the Northwest Territories; we cannot do this in isolation of other social envelope partners, as we know. That is why there is the social envelope within this government where we have to include the planning of the Department Education, Culture and Employment; the Department of Justice and the Housing Corporation in respect to their programs as well that lead to the overall improvements of social conditions in general, Mr. Chairman. Thank you.
Kelvin Ng on Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on October 23rd, 1997. See this statement in context.
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
October 22nd, 1997
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Kelvin Ng Kitikmeot
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