Thank you very much, Madam Chair. I think it will be a really quick question, perhaps. I know that we asked a lot of questions last week about the Northwest Territories Health and Social Services Authority and the deficit that's in it. One of the things that I struggle with, and I think it was evident in the fact that I kept asking all last week, where different items from NTHSSA fell within that budget. I know that it's fairly new that we have a conglomerate of health authorities. I am wondering if there is any plan moving forward for the health authority to actually break out some of this $314 million so that we can see what actually goes into that going forward. Thank you.
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Julie Green Yellowknife Centre
Thank you, Madam Chair. It is my understanding that the health authorities do do their own budgets, and they present them to us. We get a level of detail there about what their planned spending is. For more information, I will ask Ms. Mathison if she wants to add anything. Thank you.
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Mathison
Thank you, Madam Chair. Yes, we do table, annually, the authorities' budgets with a little bit more detail than we have here. That level of detail, of course, can be adjusted if it makes sense to provide a little bit more information. This template here is a template for the main estimates, as you know, and there could be conversations with the Department of Finance to discuss whether or not we could add more information to this page to further break out the authority budgets. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Caitlin Cleveland Kam Lake
Thank you very much, Madam Chair. That makes me happy to hear. I think that it's important for us to have fulsome conversations about things that are important to us. We talk a lot about addiction. We talk a lot about after-care. We talk a lot about FASD and front-line service providers. A lot of that is found within that budget. I think it would be nice if it was not something we had to switch to go find and that it was all together in the main estimates process. Thank you.
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Katrina Nokleby Great Slave
Thank you, Madam Chair. I am looking at page 196 at the Centre Square Tower office space. Can the Minister speak to what does that lease cover? Thank you.
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Mathison
Thank you, Madam Chair. This lease covers the COVID secretariat space that is being used in the Centre Square Tower on the sixth and seventh floors. We have a lease there in place for this coming fiscal year which expires March 31, 2022. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Katrina Nokleby Great Slave
Thank you, Madam Chair. I am curious about this. Why does this lease commitment show up here in Health and Social Services rather than under the COVID secretariat section? Thank you.
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Katrina Nokleby Great Slave
Thank you for that. Is the reason, then, that this lease is not being done through Infrastructure as our leases do normally because it would be expiring and is not a long-term lease? Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Thank you, Madam Chair. Yes, that is the reason. Thank you.
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Katrina Nokleby Great Slave
Thank you, Madam Chair. I think I am just getting mixed up from our conversation when we had it the first time around in the briefings. My question is then: if this lease is set to go to March 31, 2022, yet a lot of the COVID secretariat spending we have been told will be wrapping up towards the fall and end of the next calendar yea, can the Minister speak to what happens for the additional three months of payments? Are we liable for them? Thank you.