Thank you, Mr. Chair. As was eloquently just spoken by some of my colleagues, there are a number of initiatives on the go here in the Northwest Territories within this department. A lot of them have to do with legislative framework, and I just want to mention some of these here.
As I said earlier, we have the Health and Social Services Professions Act. We’ve got changes to the Child and Family Services Act. We’ve got the Mental Health Act, which is pending. We’ve got a Human Tissue Donation Act, which might have some dollars attached to it potentially during this year. We have, potentially, a Pharmacy Act that we haven’t seen yet that might have some dollars attached. We’ve got the Health Information Act with respect to privacy and a plan that might be underway. We know that there are changes to the ground and ambulance and highway plan, and we’ve got French language services that is an action plan that we have.
That’s not the whole list, but it’s a small list. Yet in this category, being a directorate, I’m looking at we’re putting very little provisions in place for a lot of these one-time costs that might be attributed to a lot of these initiatives. To the question, I know there is some growth here, but as I said, the list is fairly extensive. How is the department and how is the Minister going to deal with a lot of these one-time costs up for this upcoming year which clearly will be well beyond the budget that we have before us? Thank you.