Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. The honourable Minister responsible for Health and Social Services, Mr. Beaulieu.

The Department of Health and Social Services funds the health and social services authorities across the North and they deliver the chronic diseases programing, including diabetes. Right now the department is piloting a Chronic Disease Prevention and Management Program in a few of the communities across the North with the intention of improving the situation for people with chronic diseases.

Thank you for the overview. My question for the Minister will be: Are all communities receiving support in diabetes moving forward?

Like I indicated, running through the local health authorities across the North – and we have all the communities in one of the health authorities across the North – and right now the Diabetes Pilot Program and management of chronic diseases, the outcome to hopefully have better long-term results in diabetes prevention is being piloted in Norman Wells, Yellowknife and Behchoko.

Thank you for that reply. My final question for the Minister. On the subject of diabetes and diabetes alone, will the Minister provide any progress report in terms of the development and successes of this chronic disease in the near future?

The intention, again, is to use the pilot programs to try to improve the programs, management of chronic diseases. Once we have the report or results of the piloting in those few communities, our intention is to expand it into all of the communities. Once we get the results of the pilot program we will share it with the House.

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

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions are addressed to the Minister of Transportation. I listened, with interest, as he gave us an update today on the Deh Cho Bridge. I have to admit there was a bit of a smile on my face when he indicated he’s spoken about this issue many times before, not necessarily from the chair that he’s in at the moment. Towards the middle of his statement the Minister mentioned that it’s now estimated we will require additional funding to complete construction. Again I had to say to myself, I went, yeah, that’s not much of a big surprise. He goes on to cite some of the things that are going to require additional funding, and I just wondered if the Minister could give us a bit more of an explanation of what kind of additional funding are we talking about. Is it a minimal amount like $5 million or $10 million, or are we talking a larger amount like $50 million or $100 million?

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. The honourable Minister responsible for Transportation, Mr. David Ramsay.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Member would be privy to that information as it’s coming up later on in today’s proceedings.

I thank the Minister for his elaborate comment. I’d like to also ask the Minister, later on in his statement he talked about undertaking a retrospective analysis of the project after it’s completed. I know we’re aiming for completion somewhere around November 2012 but that retrospective analysis presumably is in the works to a certain extent at this point, looking at the staff time that’s required and so on. I’d like to ask the Minister when he thinks that we might be able to get a full retrospective analysis of this total bridge project. Thank you.

I would suspect that the bridge will be complete next fall, in the fall of 2012. The Member is right; a lot of that work has been cumulatively done as the project proceeds. Wrapping that up and doing a thorough analysis on the project itself I could see possibly taking inside of six months, and certainly we would share any of that information when it is complete with Members of this House. Thank you.

Thanks to the Minister. The Minister talks about sharing that information with Members of the House. I would like to know whether or not that information would also be shared with the general public. Thank you.

My intention and the department’s intention is to get the information out to the public in due course. Once that work is complete, you can rest assured that it will be available to Members and to the public. I think this project has been followed closely by the public and the information should get out there. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. The Member for Frame Lake, Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My last question has to do with the reference in the Minister’s statement to collection of tolls. I’m really pleased to see that we’re going to doing it electronically and that it’s not going to require paper and killing of trees and so on. I’d like to know from the Minister, in the development of regulations for the collections of tolls, has he, has the department consulted with the public. Thank you.

Yes, the department has consulted with the trucking industry and folks that will be utilizing that system. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. The honourable Member for Sahtu, Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I want to continue my questions to the Minister of Justice on the communities that do not have RCMP detachments. I want to ask the Minister if, being Christmas, we were to wish for a detachment in Colville Lake, what will it cost this government to have a position in Colville Lake.

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. The honourable Minister of Justice, Mr. Abernethy.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I don’t have that information at hand, but I’m happy to pull it together and provide it to the Member. Thank you.

I look forward to the information coming forth from the Minister. I want to ask the Minister, in his role as the lead Minister for the security and safety of the people, has his department put together a long-term strategic plan and put RCMP detachments in the 10 communities who do not have one today?

That would be done in cooperation with the federal government. We haven’t had that kind of specific detail, but we have been looking at alternative options, the options that I provided in an earlier response. We are having

those discussions, but ultimately there is some federal responsibility here. Thank you.

I understand that it is a federal government responsibility and a huge chunk of that cost is on the federal government’s hands. I want to ask the Minister here, for these 10 communities without RCMP officers, we are going to look at projects such as the Deh Cho Bridge and we’re looking at putting additional dollars to that project. Why not to the communities without RCMP officers such as Tsiigehtchic, Nahanni, Wrigley, Kakisa, Colville? People are more important than steel and metal. I want to ask the Minister if he would go to his colleagues and say let’s put an RCMP detachment in those communities, because right now we’re going to discuss how we’re going to put more dollars into the Deh Cho Bridge. Can the Minister go to his colleagues and say we need to put RCMP detachments into a community, a bunch of people, for their safety? Would he do that?