Thank you, Madam Chair. Yeah, I guess that this is sort of again one of those areas where I think we need to shift our thinking. And rather than having a pot of money because we want to make this type of organization be able to put on an event, but instead we looked at these kinds of pots of money of, like, this is small community money; this is regional centre money; this is Yellowknife money. Everybody knows upfront what everybody's getting and then we allow the organizations within that -- that definition to then decide how they're spending their money themselves, whether that be an event, whether that be a sports meet. I don't really think the nature of the event really warrants a different administrative task. And maybe I'm wrong. But I think that is something that perhaps could ease some of the burden from -- particularly small communities of always having to apply for government funding or the onus being put back on them that well, there's money out there; what do you mean, you didn't get it? Like -- you know, and again, I come back to this government being a little bit -- it's difficult to find information and you don't know what you don't know and you can't ask questions that you don't know you should be asking sometimes. And I think we're burdening our small communities and our regional centres probably with unnecessary paperwork. Thank you.
Debates of March 7th, 2022
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Jane Weyallon Armstrong Monfwi
I see there's seven positions here that's for sports and recreations, active positions, and they're all located in headquarters, and there's six other regions. Any position is open and -- and is important for us, especially in the small communities in the regions where there's not too many employment. I think these positions, seven positions, or you know, like, one for each regions here -- there's six regions besides Yellowknife -- would be better utilized in the regions where -- because it's working with youth, and we -- working with youth volunteers. I see the budget has increased, not, you know, much, but as -- there's an increase in there. So is there any plan in the future to move to -- to move some -- those positions to the regions?
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Shane Thompson Nahendeh
Thank you. No. We have five regional positions out there. Well, we have ten right now. But we're looking at relocating five EMOs. But we have those positions out in the regions right now. Thank you.
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Minister -- just wait for your mic, Member for Monfwi. Minister, would you repeat your answer.
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Shane Thompson Nahendeh
Okay, so no, we're not looking at relocating those seven positions from headquarters, but we do have regional positions presently in the regional offices. Thank you.
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Jane Weyallon Armstrong Monfwi
Like, regional superintendent? I know there's three positions in Tlicho region. What I'm talking about is the sports and recreation position is very important for many of the regions. Just like my colleague here, they -- you know, they talked about it, the importance to -- especially for youth, and we need to keep our youth active and busy, you know, to -- so that they don't, you know, get into trouble or, you know, in the communities. So I think those positions, I believe that we should have more positions in the communities, in the regions, especially from this seven. I don't know what they do here, but there's seven positions. I would like to see those positions being transferred to the regions. There's six regions besides headquarters. We can -- you know, they will be utilized well. They will be -- you know, and they're going to be working with the volunteers and youth. Because I serve four communities, and some of my colleagues, they serve four or five communities as well. So I think -- I would like to see that in the future, that these positions that deals with youth and recreation through sports be transferred to the communities. Thank you.
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Shane Thompson Nahendeh
Thank you. So each region has a regional recreation development officer or a position in the region. So North Slave has one. The South Slave has one. The Deh Cho has one. The Sahtu has one. And the Inuvik region has one. So we have regional positions out there that work with the youth and sport and rec positions. These are headquarters functions to do with territorial and national activities. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Jane Weyallon Armstrong Monfwi
I just want to tell you again, Tlicho region is not part of North Slave region. So there's nothing in Tlicho region. I would like to see a position in Tlicho region because we have four communities that we are representing. So I would like to change that, you know, instead of North Slave, I would like to see one in North Slave region -- in Tlicho region, I mean. Sorry about that. Thank you.
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Shane Thompson Nahendeh
So the position is out of Behchoko. It is in Behchoko and then in that office there. So we had two but we're moving one to EMO, but the position is in -- out of Behchoko. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Jane Weyallon Armstrong Monfwi
Thank you. Well, I will follow up with that and check because I know there is a regional superintendent position that's in the community. So, but I -- there's nothing for the sports and recreation, and I know that we work with Yellowknife on that. So I'll follow up. I'll check. I'll talk to the deputy minister after. Thank you.
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Thank you. No further questions, Member for Monfwi? Okay, thank you. Sorry, I cut off Member for Great Slave. I didn't think she had a question. She still had a minute and a half left on the clock. So I'll give it back for a minute and a half to finish up her questions. The regional, I think it was. So you can reask it again.
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Katrina Nokleby Great Slave
I appreciate that. Thank you, Madam Chair. And I just want to actually reiterate the question I was asking. I don't have anything further after that. It's just what would be the barriers -- I'll frame it better.
What would be the barriers to the options I suggested around changing the way the funding is set up? So is there a specific reason, say, from where the money is coming from federally that we couldn't go to more of a model where it's small community/regional centre/Yellowknife? Thank you.
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Thank you. One of the barriers could potentially be just, you know, there's -- there is quite a bit of demand for sport, rec, and youth funding. And even just the wide variety of activities that we're able to support with our budget, for example, you know, like a high performance athlete, and the -- the funds that we -- that we provide for that purpose, like, you know, just even their training needs, is just so, so different from, you know, funding to communities to, you know, here's $10,000 for how you can help seniors get active. Like, there's such a wide range of projects and types of events that we do fund through this. So we just want to ensure that we continue to fund those activities because communities have previously told us that that's what they -- the activities that they would like supported. Thank you.