Thank you, Mr. Chairperson. Under community wellness and addiction recovery support fund, they look very similar to mental health -- sorry, mental wellness and addictions recovery. So you have a 3. -- we'll call it -- 055 budget and a $125,000 budget. What is the true distinct difference between the two; why aren't they collapsed and put together? Thank you. Because they say similar things.
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Lesa Semmler Inuvik Twin Lakes
Sorry, Mr. Chair. Just trying to get that. Are you asking -- I'm going to have to get back to the Member unless he can clarify which line item are you?
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The Chair Richard Edjericon
Thank you. I'll go back to the Member from Yellowknife Centre to clarify.
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Robert Hawkins Yellowknife Centre
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The community wellness and addiction recovery fund, we have just over $3 million, and then under mental health and addictions recovery fund, which is just over a hundred thousand dollars, why isn't -- what's the distinct difference to have two specific different line items? They say similar things, and I'm trying to understand why we don't collapse and make one. Thank you.
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Lesa Semmler Inuvik Twin Lakes
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Sorry, the $3.055 million is the community wellness and addiction recovery fund, the one that I keep kind of talking about that Indigenous governments can apply on. And that is separate from the mental wellness and addiction recovery capacity building fund -- or no, sorry, the mental wellness and addiction recovery fund. In the one here is, 125, is used for the youth addiction prevention and youth detox model.
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Robert Hawkins Yellowknife Centre
Of course I'd recommend a hundred percent reprint of the whole budget just so we add the word youth. No, I don't. But I would recommend if it's targeted at our youth, then we should put in brackets youth just to help clarity. More of an edit there than concerns.
So maybe we could jump to one of my favorite topics, doctors. Why don't we start with how many doctors do we have employed under this service, and where do we find them? Thank you. In which authority -- thank you -- when I say where do we find them.
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Lesa Semmler Inuvik Twin Lakes
Thank you, Mr. Chair. You'll find doctors under all three authorities and so that -- here, well, you'll see grants, contributions, and transfers, when we transfer those dollars from the department to the health authorities and later on you'll see in the activities where we -- the health authorities later in the budget, so. But we do have a list of all of the different, like, FPTs, and I think we have a subtotal of 56.5, yes, regular physicians.
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Robert Hawkins Yellowknife Centre
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, amongst the three authorities, if I understand it correctly, could I get the breakout of how many in each authority and adding the specific dollar amount of contribution to that allotment? So in other words how many are in the Inuvik authority and how much that's distributed financially and then sucessively. Thank you.
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Robert Hawkins Yellowknife Centre
Yes, I'll take that. Is it lengthy? Because then it makes it difficult to ask my next question. But I'll take it as well in paper. Thank you.
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Lesa Semmler Inuvik Twin Lakes
Yes, we can provide that the Member. Just, we don't have all of it -- like, I have the number, 56.5. How we break it out, I'd have to provide that later unless you want to sit here all night, we can calculate it.
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Robert Hawkins Yellowknife Centre
Thank you. It makes it difficult to ask my next question but I'm willing to work with you folks. The challenge, of course, on my next question is I'd like to know what the normal staffing capacity at each region authority thereafter including what dollars amounts are being not spent for doctors. So that makes it very difficult to ask my next question. Perhaps the Minister sees where I'm going and maybe someone, including herself, is able to answer that. Thank you.
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Lesa Semmler Inuvik Twin Lakes
Thank you. I'm going to pass it to my ADM, Jeannie Mathison, to see if she can help answer this question. Thank you.
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Jeannie Mathison
Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll speak in terms of FTEs just to -- I don't have the dollars tied here on this page. But there are 56 and a half funded family physicians, and 28.9 of those are currently filled. So that's about 50 percent. There are 25 specialists, and about half of those are also filled with resident doctors right now. So in total, 81 funded physicians, and 41 of them are currently filled. The vacancies are generally staffed with locums. Thank you, Mr. Chair.