Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just wanted to bring up a concern that’s been raised up in the Mackenzie Delta. As you know, for the last number of years the communities have asked for a long-term care facility. I know that we are expecting some elder homes, but many of the elders would like to stay within the community. I know it’s more difficult as they move on in age, but I think it’s time that we decentralize this care. I know right now we are practising bringing them into the regional centres, but I think we need to step back and go to the models that we once had. For example, the Joe Greenland Centre. I just wanted to raise that issue. Thank you.
Debates of Oct. 23rd, 2013
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Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
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Tom Beaulieu Tu Nedhe
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The example the Member uses, the Joe Greenland facility, is an NWT Housing Corporation facility. The Member is correct that at one point Health and Social Services had more involvement in supporting the seniors and the facility such as this. We are currently working with the Housing Corporation on providing that level of service again to the individuals at both the Joe Greenland Centre, eight units that added on to the seniors citizens home in Aklavik, and a new facility that is planned for Fort McPherson of approximately eight or nine units
that’s an assisted living facility. Part of the Housing Corporation’s inventory, but Health and Social Services is going forward with an enhanced home care project or program and our intention is to try to keep individuals in their home communities and even in their homes working, again, with the Housing Corporation on some homeownership stuff in their home communities, possibly in their homes, as long as possible as part of the continuum of care that we provide for seniors in part of a national project that is called Aging in Place.
That is what the Health and Social Services will be working on, and we agree that we need to provide a certain level of service to those communities to keep their seniors there as long as possible. However, it is very difficult and very costly to provide what we refer to as long-term care. That rating of care is expensive. It’s over $100,000 per person and is best housed in an area like Avens here in Yellowknife, Inuvik’s Woodland Manor, Northern Lights in Fort Smith, and a couple of the newer facilities that we’re earmarking as long-term care facilities, called long-term because that’s what they are. There are more services there but we can provide a certain level of service that’s required in the next level community that was essentially talked a bit about here in our last response.
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
The Chair Daryl Dolynny
Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. We do have a motion on the floor to report progress. If I can get Minister Beaulieu to take his Cabinet seat, please.
---Carried
I would like to thank our witnesses here tonight. If I can get the Sergeant-at-Arms to escort the witnesses out, thank you.
Report of Committee of the Whole
Report of Committee of the Whole
Report of Committee of the Whole
Report of Committee of the Whole
Daryl Dolynny Range Lake
Mr. Speaker, your committee has been considering Tabled Document 107-17(4), NWT Capital Estimates 2014-2015, and would like to report progress. I move that the report of Committee of the Whole be concurred with. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Report of Committee of the Whole
Report of Committee of the Whole
The Speaker Jackie Jacobson
Thank you. Do I have a seconder? Mr. Blake.
---Carried
Item 22, third reading of bills. Mr. Clerk, orders of the day.
Orders of the Day
Orders of the Day
Doug Schauerte Deputy Clerk Of The House
Mr. Speaker, orders of the day for Thursday, October 24, 2013, 1:30 p.m.:
1. Prayer
2. Ministers’
Statements
3. Members’
Statements
4. Reports of Standing and Special Committees
5. Returns to Oral Questions
6. Recognition of Visitors in the Gallery
7. Acknowledgements
8. Oral
Questions
9. Written
Questions
10. Returns to Written Questions
11. Replies to Opening Address
12. Petitions
13. Reports of Committees on the Review of Bills
14. Tabling of Documents
15. Notices of Motion
16. Notices of Motion for First Reading of Bills
17. Motions
- Motion 24-17(4), Extended Adjournment of the House to October 28, 2013
18. First Reading of Bills
19. Second Reading of Bills
20. Consideration in Committee of the Whole of
Bills and Other Matters
- Bill 3, Wildlife Act
- Bill 13, An Act to Repeal the Curfew Act
- Bill 14, An Act to Repeal the Pawnbrokers and Second-hand Dealers Act
- Bill 15, Gunshot and Stab Wound Mandatory Disclosure Act
- Bill 16, An Act to Amend the Justices of the Peace Act
- Bill 17, An Act to Amend the Protection Against Family Violence Act
- Bill 18, Apology Act
- Bill 19, Miscellaneous Statute Law Amendment Act, 2013
- Bill 21, An Act to Amend the Dental Profession Act
- Bill 22, Territorial Emblems and Honours Act
- Bill 24, An Act to Amend the Liquor Act
- Committee Report 6-17(4), Report on the Review of Bill 3: Wildlife Act
- Committee Report 7-17(4), Report on the Review of Bill 24: An Act to Amend the Liquor Act
- Tabled Document 70-17(4), Electoral Boundaries Commission, Final Report, May 2013
- Tabled Document 107-17(4), NWT Capital Estimates 2014-2015
- Tabled Document 134-17(4), Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 3, 2013-2014
- Tabled Document 135-17(4), Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 3, 2013-2014
21. Report of Committee of the Whole
22. Third Reading of Bills
23. Orders of the Day
Orders of the Day
Orders of the Day
The Speaker Jackie Jacobson
Thank you, Mr. Clerk. Accordingly, this House stands adjourned until Wednesday, October 24th , at 1:30 p.m.
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The House adjourned at 6:04 p.m.