Thank you, Mr. Speaker. First of all I want to thank very much my colleague Mr. Abernethy, MLA for Great Slave, for his determination in bringing this motion forward. It’s not an easy thing to do and I think he has shown a lot of courage and conviction in bringing this issue forward to the House today in an effort to get some answers for the family. I couldn’t agree with him more in his statement that the family deserves answers.
Stanton has to be taken to task for providing answers. We owe it to the public that we serve to have answers provided to that family. It’s this family in this case and, God forbid, that an incident like this takes place again at that hospital. We have to make sure that we are doing the best that we can to provide not only safety for the patients at that hospital but for the staff that work there and for the public that go there.
The answers might not be easy to come by but I think the Minister certainly should order an external investigation into this matter sooner rather than later. To me it’s a shame that it’s come to this. The
Minister and the government should have done the right thing: listened to the family. If the family wanted an external investigation into what happened to their brother, their son, they should have got that. They should have got that respect from this government. They didn’t. Again, I’m very glad that my colleague Mr. Abernethy has brought this motion forward today and I certainly will be supporting the motion.