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Chamber Meeting Day Yukon Legislative Assembly Number 265 1st Session 33rd Legislature HANSARD Wednesday, May 4, 2016 — 1:00 p.m. Speaker: The Honourable David Laxton YUKON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY SPEAKER — Hon. David Laxton, MLA, Porter Creek Centre DEPUTY SPEAKER — Patti McLeod, MLA, Watson Lake CABINET MINISTERS NAME CONSTITUENCY PORTFOLIO Hon. Darrell Pasloski Mountainview Premier Minister responsible for Finance; Executive Council Office Hon. Elaine Taylor Whitehorse West Deputy Premier Minister responsible for Tourism and Culture; Women’s Directorate; French Language Services Directorate Hon. Brad Cathers Lake Laberge Minister responsible for Justice; Yukon Development Corporation/ Yukon Energy Corporation Hon. Doug Graham Porter Creek North Minister responsible for Education Hon. Scott Kent Riverdale North Minister responsible for Energy, Mines and Resources; Highways and Public Works Hon. Currie Dixon Copperbelt North Minister responsible for Community Services; Public Service Commission Hon. Wade Istchenko Kluane Minister responsible for Environment Hon. Mike Nixon Porter Creek South Minister responsible for Health and Social Services; Workers’ Compensation Health and Safety Board Hon. Stacey Hassard Pelly-Nisutlin Minister responsible for Economic Development; Yukon Housing Corporation; Yukon Liquor Corporation GOVERNMENT PRIVATE MEMBERS Yukon Party Darius Elias Government House Leader Vuntut Gwitchin Hon. David Laxton Porter Creek Centre Patti McLeod Watson Lake OPPOSITION MEMBERS New Democratic Party Elizabeth Hanson Leader of the Official Opposition Whitehorse Centre Jan Stick Official Opposition House Leader Riverdale South Kevin Barr Mount Lorne-Southern Lakes Lois Moorcroft Copperbelt South Jim Tredger Mayo-Tatchun Kate White Takhini-Kopper King Liberal Party Sandy Silver Leader of the Third Party Klondike LEGISLATIVE STAFF Clerk of the Assembly Floyd McCormick Deputy Clerk Linda Kolody Clerk of Committees Allison Lloyd Sergeant-at-Arms Rudy Couture Deputy Sergeant-at-Arms Doris McLean Hansard Administrator Deana Lemke Published under the authority of the Speaker of the Yukon Legislative Assembly May 4, 2016 HANSARD 7957 Yukon Legislative Assembly you will find lots of information and ideas for implementing Whitehorse, Yukon the Flourishing pillars into your life. Wednesday, May 4, 2016 — 1:00 p.m. To acknowledge this is very important this week. I invite you to join those who participated in the walk this afternoon. Speaker: I will now call the House to order. We will We saw a number of people in the lobby and we extend our proceed at this time with prayers. thanks to those who participated in the walk today. Your participation is a statement that the issue of mental health is Prayers important and affects us all. I would like to conclude by sending my appreciation to DAILY ROUTINE every individual and every organization working toward Speaker: We will proceed at this time with the Order ending stigma around mental illness in Yukon. I also thank Paper. those who have worked with us on developing the Yukon’s Tributes. mental wellness strategy; they can expect to see how their efforts were used very shortly. TRIBUTES I’m also calling on Yukoners to reduce stigma so that In recognition of Mental Health Week people with mental health problems and mental illnesses can Hon. Mr. Nixon: Mr. Speaker, I rise in the House be treated respectfully and equally. today to acknowledge national Mental Health Week, which is I would just like to take an opportunity — if all members held May 2 to May 8 this year. The Canadian Mental Health can join me in welcoming a few individuals to the gallery Association introduced Mental Health Week in 1951 as an today. We have Krista Prochazka, Kim Solonick and annual event to encourage people from all walks of life to Susan Stanley joining us. Thank you very much and welcome. learn, talk, reflect and engage with others on all issues relating Applause to mental health. Mental health is an integral part of health; indeed, health starts with mental health and there is no health Ms. Stick: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise on behalf of without mental health. the Official Opposition to pay tribute to national Mental There are different ways of describing mental well-being. Health Week also. The Canadian Mental Health Association Yukon captures the concepts in one word: flourishing. has declared this week a time to get loud for mental health. Flourishing includes the ability to enjoy life, cope with life’s This means raising our voices to end discrimination, stigma difficulties, believe in others, feel we have a place in the and shame. world and believe that we have something we can give to We all have mental health, just as we all have physical others. To flourish is to feel good and function well. It is the health. Mental health is more the absence of mental illness. experience of pleasure combined with meaning and purpose. It’s a state of well-being. If we don’t personally struggle with People who flourish feel satisfied and interested in life and are our own mental health, we pretty much are guaranteed to generally happy. know somebody who does. Mental health is an essential part The CMHA encourages us to be loud about mental of our healthy delivery in this territory and we have lots to do health. This includes attending to the principles of mental in addressing the mental health needs of all Yukoners. well-being and discouraging stigma toward those who suffer The calls to action of the Truth and Reconciliation from mental health problems. To those ends, there is a new Commission identified closing the gap between aboriginal and opportunity for young Yukoners to access skills for increasing non-aboriginal communities in health indicators, including their mental well-being. This past February, our government suicide and mental health, as a priority for reconciliation. We — in partnership with both Bell, Let’s Talk and Northwestel can and must address this. — announced a new youth mental health program titled I would like to thank the many health professionals who FRIENDS. FRIENDS is a group-based program that helps work in this field in the Yukon, including our physicians, children and youth cope by building resilience and self-esteem nurses in communities and hospitals, and organizations such and teaches cognitive, behavioural and emotional skills in a as Many Rivers Counselling and Support Services, the Mental simple format. Maintaining positive mental health, just like Health Association of Yukon and Second Opinion Society — physical health, requires a little effort each and every day. all working hard to address the mental health needs and Flourishing encourages all Yukoners to take small steps provide support to Yukoners. to improve their mental well-being and the mental well-being I urge everyone to mark this week by talking with your of those close to them. As individuals take steps to improve family, your friends, your neighbours and your colleagues their mental well-being, communities start to thrive. Healthy about mental health. Let’s get loud. communities have energy and momentum that generates new ideas and more energy and the whole community flourishes. Mr. Silver: Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. I am This year we are inviting everyone to participate in the two- honoured to also rise today on behalf of the Liberal caucus to hour Flourishing workshop put on by Mental Health Services pay tribute to Mental Health Week. on May 4 at the Canada Games Centre from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Visit our website at www.yukonwellness.ca, where 7958 HANSARD May 4, 2016 Once again, the Canadian Mental Health Association is where landslides or severe weather may derail travel plans, we calling on us to get loud about mental health, get loud to know the value of being prepared and being ready to help. maintain positive mental health, and get loud to get it back. Basic emergency preparedness starts with each Mental illness does not discriminate about who it chooses individual. I encourage you now, during Emergency to affect. Many of us — young or old, rich or poor, male or Preparedness Week, to take a few simple steps. This year’s female — can suffer from mental illness. Those with the theme is “Plan. Prepare. Be Aware.” It matches the steps we illness are not the only victims either. Mental illness can affect all need to take. First of all, be aware of risks facing your families, friends and co-workers it not addressed or managed community and region — for example, forest fires, landslides, properly. floods or severe weather. Second is to make a plan so your For too long there has been a stigma attached to mental family and you will know what to do in an emergency. Third illness and this needs to stop. We as individuals and we as is to prepare an emergency kit so you have the basic supplies legislators must create an environment where victims can feel needed to look after yourself, your family and your pets in the welcomed and supported. Yukoners are starting to talk more event you do not have access to electricity or tap water, or you about mental health and more often putting it as one of their need to leave your home. top concerns. There are more events raising awareness and Be prepared to be self-sufficient for a minimum of 72 funds to support local and national organizations taking action hours. Being able to care for yourself and your family in the to fight mental illness. Now is the time for us to give our first 72 hours of an emergency allows emergency responders support to them. to tend to those with the most urgent needs. Preparing a About a year ago, Mr. Speaker, I put forth a motion for 72-hour emergency kit — one for home and one for the car — this government to create a mental health strategy for Yukon.
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