Thank you. The Minister says broad standards. I am hoping that the system that we have now in place, which has not been working very well, is not what he is saying that he is going to continue with. Is he talking about continuing with the same system or not?
Debates of Oct. 24th, 2002
This is page numbers 1141 - 1168 of the Hansard for the 14th Assembly, 5th Session. The original version can be accessed on the Legislative Assembly's website or by contacting the Legislative Assembly Library. The word of the day was chairman.
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Committee Motion 35-14(5): To Delete $800,000 From Special Warrant, Regional Operations, Maca In Bill 26, Ruled Out Of Order
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Leon Lafferty North Slave
Committee Motion 35-14(5): To Delete $800,000 From Special Warrant, Regional Operations, Maca In Bill 26, Ruled Out Of Order
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Committee Motion 35-14(5): To Delete $800,000 From Special Warrant, Regional Operations, Maca In Bill 26, Ruled Out Of Order
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Michael Miltenberger Thebacha
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, there has been some significant changes made since January in terms of how boards are structured and how we do business together and that process will continue to evolve.
We also have to recognize that as we set up the health and social services authorities there is an interest, for example, in some corners of looking at community service boards or regional services boards similar to the approach taken by the people in the Dogrib region.
We have to recognize as well that there are self-government agreements which are being negotiated which we are going to have to be able to respond to. So we have a system that is going to continue to evolve. We have made some improvements but it is not a finished product. Thank you.
Committee Motion 35-14(5): To Delete $800,000 From Special Warrant, Regional Operations, Maca In Bill 26, Ruled Out Of Order
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The Chair Paul Delorey
Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Health and Social Services, operations expenditures, ministry and corporate services, not previously authorized, $611,650. Mr. Krutko.
Committee Motion 35-14(5): To Delete $800,000 From Special Warrant, Regional Operations, Maca In Bill 26, Ruled Out Of Order
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David Krutko Mackenzie Delta
I would like to ask the Minister, regarding the $100,000 for the communications plan or the action plan, will that be going out through a contract?
Committee Motion 35-14(5): To Delete $800,000 From Special Warrant, Regional Operations, Maca In Bill 26, Ruled Out Of Order
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Committee Motion 35-14(5): To Delete $800,000 From Special Warrant, Regional Operations, Maca In Bill 26, Ruled Out Of Order
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Michael Miltenberger Thebacha
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, in fact, I have the latest update here in draft form that we are trying to get finalized. We are going to try to do the vast majority of it in-house, and whatever contracts will be done will be very small and short-term. Thank you.
Committee Motion 35-14(5): To Delete $800,000 From Special Warrant, Regional Operations, Maca In Bill 26, Ruled Out Of Order
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Committee Motion 35-14(5): To Delete $800,000 From Special Warrant, Regional Operations, Maca In Bill 26, Ruled Out Of Order
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David Krutko Mackenzie Delta
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In regard to the communication plan, there is going to be money needed in regard to the communications side of it. I would like to ask the Minister exactly how much will it cost us to promote the action plan, and are we going to be spending money in regard to the promotion of it by way of buying radio time or television time or newspaper or whatever/ There is a clause associated with the communication plan, so are we going to be going out for contracts from different parties to be able to establish a communications system?
Committee Motion 35-14(5): To Delete $800,000 From Special Warrant, Regional Operations, Maca In Bill 26, Ruled Out Of Order
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Committee Motion 35-14(5): To Delete $800,000 From Special Warrant, Regional Operations, Maca In Bill 26, Ruled Out Of Order
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Michael Miltenberger Thebacha
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the intent is not to necessarily promote the action plan, but it is part of the process of accountability and trying to make sure that everybody across the Northwest Territories has access to the information on what is being dones to put out updates that lay out very clearly in relation to the 45 action items, what has been accomplished, the dates that have been hit, the dates that have been missed, and accomplishments to date. Thank you.
Committee Motion 35-14(5): To Delete $800,000 From Special Warrant, Regional Operations, Maca In Bill 26, Ruled Out Of Order
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Committee Motion 35-14(5): To Delete $800,000 From Special Warrant, Regional Operations, Maca In Bill 26, Ruled Out Of Order
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David Krutko Mackenzie Delta
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, looking at it through the budget, there is $45,000 in regard to the launching of the communication plan, so I would like to ask the Minister exactly how are we intending to launch the communication plan?
Committee Motion 35-14(5): To Delete $800,000 From Special Warrant, Regional Operations, Maca In Bill 26, Ruled Out Of Order
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Committee Motion 35-14(5): To Delete $800,000 From Special Warrant, Regional Operations, Maca In Bill 26, Ruled Out Of Order
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Michael Miltenberger Thebacha
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, some of that was already done in the work when the action plan was initially laid out in January of 2002. There was information sent to all of the communities. There were posters and a fairly extensive amount of work was done at the front end to lay that out. Thank you.
Committee Motion 35-14(5): To Delete $800,000 From Special Warrant, Regional Operations, Maca In Bill 26, Ruled Out Of Order
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Committee Motion 35-14(5): To Delete $800,000 From Special Warrant, Regional Operations, Maca In Bill 26, Ruled Out Of Order
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Committee Motion 35-14(5): To Delete $800,000 From Special Warrant, Regional Operations, Maca In Bill 26, Ruled Out Of Order
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Committee Motion 35-14(5): To Delete $800,000 From Special Warrant, Regional Operations, Maca In Bill 26, Ruled Out Of Order
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Michael Miltenberger Thebacha
It was done subsequent to January 16th, when we had the formal -- I think the 16th was the date, if my memory serves me correctly -- where we had the official launch of the action plan where we had a press conference here with all of the board chairs and we laid out the action plan for the public for the first time. Thank you.
Committee Motion 35-14(5): To Delete $800,000 From Special Warrant, Regional Operations, Maca In Bill 26, Ruled Out Of Order
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Committee Motion 35-14(5): To Delete $800,000 From Special Warrant, Regional Operations, Maca In Bill 26, Ruled Out Of Order
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David Krutko Mackenzie Delta
Well, I would like to ask the Minister, why was this not part of the business plan for the department, since the budget came forth for April 1st until the next fiscal year. Instead, this is coming forth through a not previously authorized. So if it has already been authorized, why is it in the budget?
Committee Motion 35-14(5): To Delete $800,000 From Special Warrant, Regional Operations, Maca In Bill 26, Ruled Out Of Order
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Committee Motion 35-14(5): To Delete $800,000 From Special Warrant, Regional Operations, Maca In Bill 26, Ruled Out Of Order
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Michael Miltenberger Thebacha
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Last year, we caught the process part-way through. There was a commitment made to the Social Programs Committee that the other major issues would be coming through the business plan, like the Continuing Care Strategy and the Alcohol and Drug Strategy, and the other ones that are in the works. There are some things that we picked up late and we had to move on. We were too late to put it into the business plan for last year, or this current year. Thank you.
Committee Motion 35-14(5): To Delete $800,000 From Special Warrant, Regional Operations, Maca In Bill 26, Ruled Out Of Order
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Committee Motion 35-14(5): To Delete $800,000 From Special Warrant, Regional Operations, Maca In Bill 26, Ruled Out Of Order
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David Krutko Mackenzie Delta
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Can the Minister tell me if there have been other expenditures over and above the amount that is presently in the budget right now?