Mahsi. I was hoping someone here would have had that information because it would have led to my next question, and I don't know if you'll be able to answer that also, is I was hoping to have it broken out by communities about the complaints or, yeah, the lodging of all the complaints. Mahsi.

Thank you. Do you have any -- you have no further questions?

Pardon?

Do you have any further questions?

Yes, I was wondering if you could provide information if they break it out by communities.

Minister of Justice.

Thank you. So I'm flipping through the Residential Tenancies Act right now. I just -- or the report of the rental officer. I just Googled it. So it doesn't appear that they have it broken down by community. But let me just continue to flip through.

So in 2021 -- so 2020-2021, there were 297 applications filed but I do not have the numbers by community. So perhaps we can ask the office if they can provide that information. Thank you.

Thank you. Member for Deh Cho.

Yes, mahsi for that. Yes, that would be great stats to have because as MLAs, I think we're hearing a lot of these complaints and we're addressing it and we have an office there, then we need tenants to be aware of those services that's being offered. But no further questions. Mahsi.

Thank you, Member for Deh Cho. Member for Monfwi.

I think I just wanted to ask here, the active positions, services to government. We did talk about decentralizations and headquarters. Here it says headquarters only. So headquarters have -- okay, they went from 61 to 63. Why, like there is increase, like, in this -- I know there was, like -- I can understand about the pandemic. That's what's always being used as an excuse, but --

Member, we're just -- we are on services to the public now. So we passed services to government.

Sorry about that. [Inaudible]

Okay. Member for Monfwi.

Okay, thank you. Sorry about that. Well, still the same, though. I mean, like, 61 in Yellowknife -- or it went up to 63, and office of the public's trustee is an important -- you know, it's an important -- it's important for a lot of small communities, this department, because a lot of times our people, they always contact public trustee. What I would like to see is that if we can have the public trustee office transfer to the regions or to the small communities because -- so, yeah, they're -- they are greatly needed. I think even the Members -- the Ministers file they also said the same thing too before. So what I would like to see is I would like to see more of this positions going out to the regions. Is there any plan that they're going to transfer some positions to the regions? Thank you.

Thank you, Minister of Justice.

Thank you. Not in this budget, but it is a constant conversation I'm having with the department and, in some cases, investments in technology are going to make that possible, but not currently. Thank you.

Thank you. Member for Monfwi.

At least it's in there -- they're thinking about it so which is good, you know. And, yeah, that's about it. But there was another one. It's just a comment, okay.

I know that when I said that we need more healing programs in the regions than incarcerations of our young people especially -- when you look at the -- when you look at it, it's mostly young boys. So we need more programs and services for them in the regions. I think that will really help a lot of -- it's not just our region that's going through this. It's also the other regions. It's going to help small communities. So that's all I wanted to say. Thank you.

Thank you. Minister of Justice.

Thank you. And my colleague, the Minister of Health and Social Services, is well aware and I will reiterate the comments to her on that. Thank you.

Thank you. Any further questions to public -- sorry, service to the public. Member for Yellowknife North.

Thank you, Madam Chair. In the rental officer's annual report -- well, all their annual reports going back quite a while, there's been recommendations for amendments to the act. There's a number I would agree with. I think there's been some -- well, there was a court case about when it applies to transitional housing and shelters and there's -- I think we are long overdue for some changes to beef up our tenancy law. As well as I know the rental officer has made comments before that she can only -- or they can only adjudicate individual complaints. So if a corporate landlord is found to have violate one tenant relationship, there's no remedy that she can order it to remedy it for the, you know, thousands of other people. They would each have to bring an individual complaint, unless she wants to take that landlord to court.

So really my question coming out of this is given the kind of reports and a few issues, is there any plans to bring forward changes to the Residential Tenancies Act? Thank you.

Thank you, Member. Minister of Justice.