Thank you, Mr. Nitah. The honourable Minister responsible for the Department of Health and Social Services, Mrs. Groenewegen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we already do provide practicums to nursing students in the hospitals here, through Yellowknife, I know in Hay River, Inuvik. There is work that is done with students. It is part of their training to serve a practicum in a hospital setting. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Minister. Supplementary, Mr. Nitah.

Thank you, Mr. Nitah. The honourable Minister responsible for the Department of Health and Social Services, Mrs. Groenewegen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The training that the students receive, just in and of itself, is not enough to launch them into a small community where there may only be two or three health care professionals. What we have in place is a mentorship program where an experienced nurse would go with the student and would work with them for a number of months. I am not sure if it is three or four months.

That would not necessarily give them the nurse practitioner credentials. It would not. That is another level of training and another level of education. It would hopefully give them enough support for those first several months that they would be able then to work in a small community setting. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Minister. Your final, short supplementary, Mr. Nitah.

Thank you, Mr. Nitah. The honourable Minister responsible for the Department of Health and Social Services, Mrs. Groenewegen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, there is really no shortcut to the kind of experience that may prepare a nurse to deal with the inevitable situations that might arise in a small community. Some of it is learned as you go.

The practicum is something which is attached to the actual nurse training. The mentorship is where they would work one-on-one with an experienced nurse for a period of time. After that, there is still a necessity for nurses to get a certain amount of experience to give them the kind of competencies and kind of background that would probably enable them to meet any situation. There is no way of shortcutting the experience that would lead to that. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Minister. Item 6, oral questions. The honourable Member for Mackenzie Delta, Mr. Krutko.

Thank you, Mr. Krutko. The honourable Minister responsible for the Department of Transportation, Mr. Steen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the department has information that has confirmed that Campbell Creek is in the Inuvik Boot Lake riding.

Thank you, Minister Steen. Supplementary, Mr. Krutko.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, in light of the information that has just been revealed by the Minister on this particular project, does the Minister agree that I should have been notified in writing, knowing that two projects in my riding were deferred because there were not enough resources to construct this bridge in Mr. Roland's riding?

Thank you, Mr. Krutko. The honourable Minister responsible for the Department of Transportation, Mr. Steen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, there is no requirement that the department advise the Member simply because the money is going from one riding to another. There are other conditions to this that have to come into play under the FAA.

In particular, the FAA requires notice to the Member and to the appropriate standing committees if the money is being moved from one budgeted project to another budgeted project. In this particular case, the budgeted project, which is the Dempster Highway, is budgeted for $5 million.

Within that budgeted project, there are 13 subprojects, which include the two projects the Member is talking about. There is no requirement to inform the Member of this because it is not a budgeted project. Therefore, we are not changing anything that is not in the budget.

Thank you, Minister Steen. Supplementary, Mr. Krutko.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I believe that is where the disagreement is between myself and the Minister. Under the guidelines, under directive 4.3, regarding consultation guidelines on capital projects, adjustments, under (b):

"When the department makes any adjustment to capital projects that significantly affects the scope of the project, $100,000 or 20 percent of the project, whichever is greater..."

And it goes on to talk about:

"The appropriate MLA and standing committee shall be consulted on this matter."

The scope of the project, which I understand was $1.1 million when it was put out to bid, that was the adjustment. Now the project is almost $1,500,000. The scope of the project has increased...

Question, please.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Because of an increase over the 20 percent, I believe that gives me a directive where you have to notify me. Will you notify me in regard to that project?

Thank you, Mr. Krutko. The honourable Minister responsible for the Department of Transportation, Mr. Steen.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, as I indicated, the only budgeted project is the Dempster Highway for $5 million. The bridge is included within the $5 million. It is one of the 13 projects. However, it is not a budgeted project. The budgeted project that is listed in the main estimates is the Dempster Highway for $5 million. That is the one we are referring to at this time. Although there is no requirement to do this, I had the department inform the Member after he requested us. Mr. Speaker, I would like to point out to the House that there was no written request, it was simply a verbal request. We responded. Thank you.