Thank you, Mr. Chair. I was just wondering: With respect to the residency and the agreement in trade, does this essentially mean that if we have a local dentist in a community that’s barely big enough to support a dentist, but through good fortune we’ve managed to capture one and have him reside there, that now another dentist can come in and undercut this dentist by avoiding the steep costs of maintaining infrastructure locally and employees locally? Is that in fact what this is doing? Is it enabling non-resident dentists to do this under the agreement in trade?
Debates of Oct. 28th, 2013
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Committee Motion 95-17(4): Concurrence Of Tabled Document 137-17(4), Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 3, 2013, 2014, Carried
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Committee Motion 95-17(4): Concurrence Of Tabled Document 137-17(4), Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 3, 2013, 2014, Carried
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Committee Motion 95-17(4): Concurrence Of Tabled Document 137-17(4), Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 3, 2013, 2014, Carried
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Tom Beaulieu Tu Nedhe
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This will only prevent us from not registering a dentist from practising in the NWT as opposed to specific community by community but for the whole territory as a whole.
Committee Motion 95-17(4): Concurrence Of Tabled Document 137-17(4), Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 3, 2013, 2014, Carried
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Committee Motion 95-17(4): Concurrence Of Tabled Document 137-17(4), Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 3, 2013, 2014, Carried
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Committee Motion 95-17(4): Concurrence Of Tabled Document 137-17(4), Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 3, 2013, 2014, Carried
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Bob Bromley Weledeh
I think it falls under that be careful what you ask for. This is the sort of thing that many governments are pursuing now, to the cost of their residents and especially to the cost of local sustainability, and that’s why I raised this question. I will be voting against this bill.
Committee Motion 95-17(4): Concurrence Of Tabled Document 137-17(4), Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 3, 2013, 2014, Carried
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Tom Beaulieu Tu Nedhe
From our perspective, if the other dentists wish to practise in the NWT that would provide more services. We’re short dentists, as we hear in the Legislative Assembly frequently, so we would welcome other dentists to come in and practise.
Committee Motion 95-17(4): Concurrence Of Tabled Document 137-17(4), Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 3, 2013, 2014, Carried
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Committee Motion 95-17(4): Concurrence Of Tabled Document 137-17(4), Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 3, 2013, 2014, Carried
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Daryl Dolynny Range Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chair. If we can maybe get some clarity. We assume that this amendment was reviewed by the dental profession itself of the Northwest Territories. Did the department receive any submissions to speak against this amendment that we have here today from the Dental Association?
Committee Motion 95-17(4): Concurrence Of Tabled Document 137-17(4), Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 3, 2013, 2014, Carried
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Committee Motion 95-17(4): Concurrence Of Tabled Document 137-17(4), Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 3, 2013, 2014, Carried
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Tom Beaulieu Tu Nedhe
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We did not receive opposition. We received an e-mail of support from them.
Committee Motion 95-17(4): Concurrence Of Tabled Document 137-17(4), Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 3, 2013, 2014, Carried
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Daryl Dolynny Range Lake
My second question has to do with individual dentists. Did we receive any individual dentists submit any type of notation, letter, e-mail or phone call that spoke against this amendment that we have before us today?
Committee Motion 95-17(4): Concurrence Of Tabled Document 137-17(4), Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 3, 2013, 2014, Carried
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Committee Motion 95-17(4): Concurrence Of Tabled Document 137-17(4), Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 3, 2013, 2014, Carried
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Daryl Dolynny Range Lake
Finally, and I thank the Minister for his response, did we receive any submission whatsoever from any health care professional or residents of the Northwest Territories that is opposing the amendment we have today?
Committee Motion 95-17(4): Concurrence Of Tabled Document 137-17(4), Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 3, 2013, 2014, Carried
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Tom Beaulieu Tu Nedhe
We did not receive any letter opposing this from any resident or health care profession of the Northwest Territories.
Committee Motion 95-17(4): Concurrence Of Tabled Document 137-17(4), Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 3, 2013, 2014, Carried
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Committee Motion 95-17(4): Concurrence Of Tabled Document 137-17(4), Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 3, 2013, 2014, Carried
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
The Chair Robert Bouchard
Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Is committee agreed that there are no further general comments?
Committee Motion 95-17(4): Concurrence Of Tabled Document 137-17(4), Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 3, 2013, 2014, Carried
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
Committee Motion 95-17(4): Concurrence Of Tabled Document 137-17(4), Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 3, 2013, 2014, Carried
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The Chair Robert Bouchard
We’ll do a clause-by-clause review of Bill 21, An Act to Amend the Dental Profession Act. Clause 1.
---Clause 1 approved
Committee Motion 95-17(4): Concurrence Of Tabled Document 137-17(4), Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 3, 2013, 2014, Carried
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Committee Motion 96-17(4): Amend Clause 2 Of Bill 21, An Act To Amend The Dental Profession Act, Carried
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Daryl Dolynny Range Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have a motion I would like to share with committee. An Act to Amend the Dental Profession Act, I move that clause 2 of Bill 21 be deleted and the following substituted:
2. Section 1 is amended by adding the following definitions in alphabetical order:
“Registrar” means the registrar of the dental profession appointed under Section 82.1; (registraire)
“unrestricted licence or registration” means a licence or registration to practice dentistry that is not suspended, cancelled or revoked or subject to the imposition of any term, condition, restriction or other requirement (licence sans restrictions ou inscription).
Committee Motion 96-17(4): Amend Clause 2 Of Bill 21, An Act To Amend The Dental Profession Act, Carried
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Committee Motion 96-17(4): Amend Clause 2 Of Bill 21, An Act To Amend The Dental Profession Act, Carried
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
An Hon. Member
Question.
Committee Motion 96-17(4): Amend Clause 2 Of Bill 21, An Act To Amend The Dental Profession Act, Carried
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Committee Motion 96-17(4): Amend Clause 2 Of Bill 21, An Act To Amend The Dental Profession Act, Carried
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters