Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the honourable Member is correct. Through some of the funds that we will be disbursing directly to the boards, some of the non-medical escort funding will be reduced. As many Members know, a lot of the compassionary travel was reduced last year. There is a need to take another look at some of the other non-medical escort travel. If I can use for an example, sometimes you have somebody come down that needs an escort. They come down with the escort and it ends up being an extended stay, and the escort gets tired and wants to go back to their home community. They send down somebody else to accompany that individual. Those types of situations have to be tightened up, with an understanding that if you come down, you would have to stay for the duration. If somebody chose to go home, there would not be another escort sent down. For example, sometimes an individual coming out of day surgery, because they might have been under anaesthetic, the doctor would recommend they have an escort. We would look at possibly eliminating that and having somebody, not necessarily come to escort them, but to see them through that time period until they are able to travel back to their community, 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 February 19th, 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
February 18th, 1997
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Kelvin Ng Kitikmeot
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