Thank you, Mr. Abernethy. The honourable Minister responsible for Health and Social Services, Ms. Lee.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I appreciate the Member’s comments. I listened carefully to what he said in the Member’s statement. I would be happy to convey his concerns and the questions he has to the administration of Stanton Hospital and get back to the Member.

I’m quite happy to hear that. I’m glad that the information is going to be sent to them. I’m more interested in getting a commitment from the Minister that she will have Stanton implement a comprehensive transition plan. Given that there is an empty office out there and I saw with my own eyes that there was nobody in there, it was completely vacant, no sign of anybody using

that, I think it would be good if the Minister would commit to bringing back one of the medical travel officers and putting them in that office for a transition period to give the people an opportunity to transition from a face-to-face, open system to one that obviously the department is not interested in having face-to-face contact. Will the Minister commit to doing that?

Mr. Speaker, I would absolutely, yes, commit to the Member to get all of the details that he is asking for, transitional measures and the plans, and discuss with the Member and get input from the Member. Thank you.

I’ll go back and read Hansard, but I’m pretty sure I’m talking about some action, not just a request for some information. I’m asking the Minister to commit to actually taking one of the medical travel officers back, putting him in that vacant office as part of the transition plan. If eventually we want that person to move out because we want to move to a phone and digital service, that’s fine, but help us understand and build a transition plan so it’s not a turn off of the switch, it’s not a no service from service. So will the Minister commit to putting somebody back in that office?

Thank you, Ms. Lee. Your final supplementary, Mr. Abernethy.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I look forward to working with the Minister on that. I understand this base issue and I’m glad the Minister brought it up, because it’s my understanding that they’re taking the medical travel out of there, which is a face-to-face and has traditionally been a face-to-face sort of service, and instead they’ve put the director of medical services in there, which isn’t a face-to-face service type position. In fact, the services that that director is responsible for is ophthalmology, clinical services and medical travel, all of which are out of Stanton. So why did we take a director, which has no face-to-face service with clients, and stick him in prime, prime client service face-to-face contact location and move medical travel, which is historically a face-to-face service, and stick him behind closed

doors? It kind of seems to me, Mr. Speaker, that they got it exactly backwards. I’m hoping the Minister can help me understand the logic behind that, because, quite frankly, I don’t see any.

Mr. Speaker, I take the Member’s point and he’s asking questions and making suggestions. He brought this issue to me yesterday. I’m committing to the Member to get the information from the authority as to exactly what their plans are. They may have a very good explanation as to the move and what other plans that are part of this move. So I think it’s important for us to get a full picture of if there are any other related issues surrounding that, and then when we get the full picture, of course, I’ll welcome the Member’s input on what we can do better or do differently or anything else. Thank you.

Thank you, Ms. Lee. The honourable Member for Frame Lake, Ms. Bisaro.