I certainly welcome the Minister’s comments to see how they can use this money in other regions and certainly if you put it into regions like the Sahtu or any other region that certainly needs this program, you always have to look at training. So you can either do training here or training in the small communities. So I think the point is to provide services for people who really need them. Again, if you don’t have those services in some of the small communities, families then have to make trips into larger centres to spend a few days with their children or with the elderly persons. So I think the Minister needs to really look at this again and see what it means to have trained people in the communities. Sometimes the families are so large, you know, they can help other people in the communities. If it needs training, if it needs to be done in the communities, let it get done in the communities with our people. That’s what I am hearing. I may be hearing something different, but I think I am hearing it might be a burden to have it in the small communities because of the training. You have qualified people here; you may need just a little amount of training. So I hope that she keeps an open mind, keeps an open heart, to look at where these services can make a difference in people’s lives in our small communities. That’s what I am hearing, so I guess I am making a plea to the Minister.
Norman Yakeleya on Committee Motion 1-16(3): Strategy To Improve The Health And Social Services Programs In Small And Remote Communities Carried
In the Legislative Assembly on February 16th, 2009. See this statement in context.
Committee Motion 1-16(3): Strategy To Improve The Health And Social Services Programs In Small And Remote Communities Carried
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
February 15th, 2009
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