Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I can confirm. There is certainly a will to maintain a specialist pool in the north. We have worked hard to develop in conjunction with the boards and supporting them and funding them, developing specialist services to be as close to home as possible no matter what community they may be in. I just wanted to correct the Member. The specialist services in the Baffin and Keewatin are not supplied through Yellowknife. A majority of bills come from other jurisdictions for the Keewatin and Baffin, but certainly for the Kitikmeot, my area and the western Arctic as the Member refers to, a lot of the clientele coming from those areas went to Yellowknife for some of the specialist services that are available here. It is our intent to try to maintain, as I indicated, specialists services in the north, and we would not try to jeopardize that because of the fact, it would make sense to try to retain that service as close to home as possible. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
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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