Thank you. Minister.

Thank you, Madam Chair. No, just one last quick question. The mental health wellness recovery capacity and in regards to sending out people in for treatment, we need to be working more of that with the smaller communities that people are asking for treatment and being able to have -- make it easier for them to get to treatment. I think that we have to really try to get this one sorted out because the mental illness in regards to, you know, anxiety and depression and all this, it has to be -- we have to take it on full steam ahead in regards to try to help the people. So I think if we -- if the Minister's okay with that, I mean we could start -- we're working on community tours with Jordan Tootoo again and for doing the whole Delta and getting everybody motivated and happy. Yeah, thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you. Member for Nunakput.

Yes, thank you. When there's a suicide in a community, obviously it affects the whole community, and I personally reach out to community leadership and ask how they want to be supported. And in the case of Tuktoyaktuk last fall, they told me that they wanted to bring in Jordan Tootoo as a speaker and to launch the House of Hope in Kitty Hall to provide things for the youth to do. It is youth mostly involved. And also to provide them with inspiration to fend off the darkness and depression. So this fund is about money that communities can apply for. The interventions that happen after a suicide, or potentially even an attempted suicide, those are in the operational budget of the NTHSSA. There is a team. They can be called into operation on short notice to go in and support a community, provide extra counsellors, spell off people who are exhausted, and so on. So we kind of have a number of different approaches to this. Some of it comes directly from our staff and some of it goes to the communities to develop their own responses.

Thank you. Minister.

Thank you, Madam Chair. No, thank the Minister for that. In regards to the community-based suicide prevention, is our government looking at making our own in regards to, like -- when something like that happens, like, putting in -- making a -- how we're getting doctors or psychiatrists to come into the community for the impacts that happened for the -- like, for a short term, you know, to help alleviate the pressure on the families and individuals. Is there a plan in place like, you know, for the Beaufort Delta for something like that? Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you. Member for Nunakput.

Yes, thank you. So the IRC I know has used mental wellness and addictions recovery funding to fund Project Jewel. And I believe that they report on that annually. I don't know if they've done their own evaluation of that program but we would certainly welcome them doing that because it is a program that's been around for quite a while.

I think it's fair to say that the mental health needs of the population of the planet have escalated since the pandemic began, and people are struggling to keep up with the demands for counselling and other kind of supports. We have community counselling. We have apps for people who have connectivity and the interest in that and so on. We're trying to develop an approach that has a lot of different pieces to it.

With respect to the IRC in particular, they've developed their own suicide prevention strategy, and officials at the Department of Health and Social Services have met with the IRC to talk about how we can help them implement their suicide strategy. And I'm very impressed with that strategy, and I encourage other Indigenous governments to look at it and use it as a template for creating a regional response to mental health and suicide needs in their communities. Thank you.

Thank you. Minister.

Thank you, Madam Chair. No, just in regards to community clinics and health centres in my riding, you know, my nursing staff are really run ragged. They're tired. And I'm really hoping that we could, you know, not only compensate them, I guess, but try to get them a little bit of help for the communities of Tuk and Paulatuk, Ulu and Sachs, because they're really been -- they've took the brunt of this over the last two years, and I'm hoping that there's a way that we could try to help them out and, you know, put relief nurses in there to help them out so they could have a little bit of rest too. That's just a comment on that, Madam Chair.

Community mental wellness and addictions recovery plan. You know, we've been -- in my riding over the last year, I had a lot of suicides and mental health is the biggest thing. We've been having mental health issues since COVID, and it's only been getting worse in the communities. So people need help. We need to see people coming in, like, motivational speakers and like stuff I've been working on to try to get our youth engaged and our middle aged and our elders. Like, you know, they've been really put in a tough position because mental health, and it only leads to addiction. The addiction part, you know, of alcohol and the drugs, and we're getting new drugs in the communities. Like, we're getting crack cocaine and cocaine in my riding. And that's going to stop. And I think -- I think what we do have to do is we really have to try to work together in holding -- working with the GNWT, working with our side of the House, and working with the IRC, I guess, to try to provide something like that because I -- you know, again, thank you for this past year for the assistance that you give the mayor of Tuk and the community of Tuktoyaktuk and what we've been through there. But thank you for that. And I just want to work with you, Madam Minister, in regards to doing something like that, again, because it's starting to come -- like, sun's back now. It's not as bad. But still it's still bad in regards to people need help. That's a comment for that.

But so under contributions, the anti-poverty fund, the child and family service fund, the community-based suicide prevention fund, the healthy family program, the mental wellness and addictions recovery fund, in regards to all of that under contributions, how do we hold the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation or the funds that we have available, how do we hold them accountable in regards to showing us our bang for our buck what we're getting; how do we do that? Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you. Member for Nunakput.

Yes, thank you. I expect it to be signed this summer.

Thank you. Minister.

Thank you, Madam Chair. What time is that agreement going to be signed off on? Thank you, Madam Chair.