Thank you. Member for Great Slave.
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Katrina Nokleby Great Slave
Thank you, Madam Chair. I guess my next question is around emergency management such and given that everything that's happened this weekend, is it that the RCMP does all search and rescue operations in the Northwest Territories or does some of this fall under the purview of the department? Thank you.
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Shane Thompson Nahendeh
I don't want to give the wrong answers so I'm going to turn to the deputy minister. I think I know what the answer is, and I think it starts with Y, but I'm going to turn to the deputy minister for clarity on that. Thank you.
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Gareau
Thank you. Yes, the Minister is correct. It is the RCMP that have the lead currently for search and rescue, with partners, community governments, and the GNWT assisting when and where required. Thank you.
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Katrina Nokleby Great Slave
So can the Minister or the deputy minister explain how that would differ then from the work that Justice is doing with the RCMP, including the work of the coroner? Thank you.
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Shane Thompson Nahendeh
I apologize, we'll have to get back to the Member on that. That there, I'm -- don't know. I don't have the answer, sorry.
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Katrina Nokleby Great Slave
Thank you, Madam Chair. Yeah, that's fine. I sometimes do better when I'm getting something I can read instead of listening, especially at this point in session.
I guess my next question is just I've been looking around in the MACA website, and I don't actually see any definition of what the public safety division's role is in the Northwest Territories. So perhaps that may be why it's a little bit hard to clarify their role and what they're doing with other departments.
So can the Minister or the deputy minister speak to what is the philosophy there and what is the public safety division's guiding principles? Thank you.
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Gareau
Thank you. The public safety division is the lead agency in the GNWT to administer the Emergency Management Act as well as coordinate the emergency management organization.
It also provides other public safety functions around consumer affairs, real estate, the Office of the Fire Marshal, and the 9-1-1 program operated by the NWT.
Yeah, the main function is to assist community governments in those public safety functions that fall within the community government area as well as the lead GNWT department on public safety -- other public safety matters. Thanks.
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Katrina Nokleby Great Slave
Thank you, Madam Chair. I guess then my next question is what role does this department, then, play in arctic defence and up in the North, how do they liaise with the department of natural -- I can't talk -- national defence and the federal government. Thank you.
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Gareau
Thank you. There's a working relationship at the staff level between the public safety staff and the federal defence staff located in the Northwest Territories. They participate on active live exercises. Members may be familiar with things like Operation Nanook, those types of exercises.
There's ongoing training offered between the two organizations, frequent collaboration on Arctic security matters, recognizing that it is the federal government that has the lead for that function. But there's a strong working relationship at the staff level around those matters. Thank you.
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Katrina Nokleby Great Slave
Thank you, Madam Chair. And I'm glad to hear that there is some sort of a collaboration or conversation happening there. I think this is a good time to maybe put forth, again, the idea of a public safety department versus having it piecemeal across several different departments given that we are now living in a new world, as everyone likes to say, our new normal of continuing pandemics, greater climate change emergencies, etcetera. We have heard other colleagues speak to the mystery of why Lands and MACA are two different departments and such and so perhaps maybe an evolution of one of those departments could be a public safety department. Could the Minister speak of whether or not this is being considered? Thank you.
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