Mr. Speaker, after we leave this House today I would like to get somebody to go back and do a word check and see how many times we heard the words "under review" during the last eight days, because it was quite significant.
But, Mr. Speaker, my questions today are for the Minister of Health and Social Services, the Minister responsible for perpetual planning. That's his own phrase that I've stolen from him there. Mr. Speaker, the emergency response services in our communities, I raised this last time in the House, I asked for a measly $10,000 to give to our local
emergency response volunteer group in Hay River so that they could come up with a proposal for what they need so that they could engage the support of industry, and the government, and the municipality and different departments, and this request was denied and yet we have hundreds of thousands of dollars to study other things. Apparently a comprehensive report has come out. I believe the Minister has briefed the mayor of Hay River on this particular subject, but I still don't know exactly what the Minister is going to do to address these issues about emergency response volunteers. I don't know what he's going to do about liability. I don't know what he's going to do about compensation. These are all outstanding questions and I'd like some answers from the Minister today before we leave for the summer. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.