Thank you. I'm going to go to the Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The wellness and recovery centre is -- the process has already been awarded. It's already been started. The plan for this facility, which is 100 percent funded through the feds, was in order to replace the emergency shelter that we currently have in the day -- the day program -- our day use centre that's connected together downtown Yellowknife. The history of that building, I'm sure the Member is very well aware of the problems that happened within -- and the struggles that happened within Yellowknife is that this continuously was being bumped around and moved around because of the access to space. So this is a dedicated space now for this home. And I fully understand where the Member is coming from, that, you know, more robust services. But this facility in its whole is to provide overnight services and day use services for those members that are currently accessing the services now.

What the Member -- you know, and I'm not going to put words into their mouth, but when you start to expand on those services, those are other services that, you know, may not be the best place to be attached to this facility but to be able to provide them with, you know, spaces elsewhere. So I'll leave it at that, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. I'm going to go to the Member from Yellowknife North.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So just to confirm, can the Minister confirm that the answer is no, that there will not be opportunities in this new wellness and recovery centre for someone to both sleep there and stay there during the day to access wellness and recovery services, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. I'm going to go to the Minister for the question.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, yes, the -- there is an overnight space for -- and there is currently an overnight space emergency shelter, and those users do use the day facility currently and so they would continue to use that space. How the program evolves, you know, once we're in that space and how we operate the program and, you know, once we're in the space, you know, may change and may be able to provide other supports, but at this time right now what we're -- where we are is we're just replacing what we currently have. And, yes, they do stay overnight and then they can, you know, be there during the day. Thank you.

Thank you. I'm going to go to the Member from Yellowknife North.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So my understanding from the Minister's response to previous questions is that there would be a capacity of 85 people during the day and an overnight capacity of 31 designated sleeping spaces. Is there any potential within the current design to have more designated sleeping spaces, if there's a capacity of 85 people during the day, to allow more of those people to be able to sleep there if they need to? Because as we know, we are really struggling to find enough sleeping spaces for people in Yellowknife. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. I'm going to go to the Minister.

Yes, I believe that there are actually more sleeping spaces in the new facility than we currently have and there is a capacity under, you know -- and I think built into it that can be expanded further. For more detail into that, I can turn it over to Mr. Heath if that's okay with you, Mr. Chair.

Yes, please proceed.

Thank you. I'm going to go to the Member from Yellowknife North.

Okay, thank you for that clarification. Another thing I wanted to flag was the fact that with the current design there is to be, like, a small empty parking lot next door sandwiched between the Tree of Peace and this new wellness and recovery centre. And so it's currently an empty parking lot. And it's unlikely that someone will, you know, take on that lot and choose to, you know, build something new in that particular location. So I'm wondering if the department has considered acquiring this lot and using it as, like, an outdoor space that could benefit people using the wellness and recovery centre and whether there's been any coordination or conversations with Tree of Peace in terms of a space that might be able to benefit both facilities and also help, you know, provide safety downtown in that if there is, you know, safe outdoor spaces for people to be and hang out that is connected to the wellness and recovery centre and the Tree of Peace that that could be sort of a really healthy addition to our downtown. Has that been considered in the design or development of this project? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. I'm going to go to the Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. If I may turn it over to Mr. Heath. Thank you.

Thank you. I'm going to go to the ADM.

Thank you. I'm going to go to the Member from Yellowknife North.

Thank you. That is actually great news to hear that this is being actively worked on and considered. I would urge the department to move forward with this -- you know, to continue to pursue this and, you know, if it's a matter of taking a little bit of extra money, considering bringing this forward in a future capital budget, I can't imagine that, you know, an outdoor space with some seating or something would break the bank in terms of our capital budget. So I would encourage the department to continue to pursue that. I'm running out of time so I'll leave it there. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. I'm going to go to the Member from Yellowknife Centre.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I was just reading some notes there. I just wanted to follow up on a particular area my colleague had just raised a moment ago under the wellness and recovery centre area. Oddly enough, I'm not going to speak specifically to the wellness recovery but sort of how we're going to deal with the broader picture, and she mentioned about sort of space and whatnot for people to stay, whether it's stay overnight or sleep during the day, and we have a perfectly good territorial treatment centre which is, you know, I hate to say it, two blocks over. And is there any consideration about how we're going to deal with the population, and could that provide a solution? The government's been heating that building for two years and, you know, it was a -- it was a place for young people to stay with challenges - let me not understate that, but we don't need to go into the details of what type of challenges. But it, you know, has a large kitchen facility, support area. It even has classrooms that we can offer supportive programming for people in this kind of nature who might need supportive services. Because I'm not sure this build one centre to solve them all will work. The size is concerning with me, but I said I wasn't going to speak to it specifically. But I do view that it's going to attract a larger population than we're anticipating. So is there any way to see about sort of linking the two? Thank you.

Thank you. I'm going to go to the Minister.

Thank you. At this time, that is not in the budget and in the capital plan. But I think where the project on the wellness and recovery centre, you know, is 100 percent funded and was based -- the proposal to the federal government was based on replacing and providing a fixed home for the services that are going into there. As for the other building, I can turn that over to ADM Mr. Heath if that's okay.