Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thanks to all my colleagues for their comments. I appreciate that the Minister is very active on this file. I won’t attempt to comment on this voluminous statement. I will look forward to studying that and getting on top of all those things. I speak very slowly, Mr. Speaker.
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I do note the Minister is taking this very seriously. I guess the one point I would make is that this was brought to me by the staff. I don’t want to miss out on stressing the vulnerability that patients have to this violence and the need to recognize them in particular.
I think the Minister is keeping our staff aware of what he’s doing. This has been brought forward by the staff at the hospital out of care for themselves as well as the patients.
Again, I appreciate the comments I’ve heard and I know this is an issue throughout the Northwest Territories. Colleagues have raised that and the Minister is on it. This can’t be done at every place and every institution that we have trained staff, as Mrs. Groenewegen has mentioned, but of course, we’re not proposing that. We’re proposing this at the busiest territorial facility in the Northwest Territories by far, where we have repeated incidents being reported.
I know there was a mention of inclusion rooms, and that might be something that each facility could contemplate. I know the Minister has captured that and will look into that.
Again, what we’re talking about here is recognition of respect, as was raised by one of my colleagues, for our workers as well as our patients, maintaining the confidence and trust in the system that our public expects.
I’m going to leave it at that. I think we’ve had a good debate. I know there are some things happening. We want to respond to the call from our workers and our patients. On that basis, I would ask for a recorded vote.