Thank you, Minister of Health and Social Services. Oral questions. Member from Monfwi.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my question is to ECC Minister. It's regarding the statement that I did yesterday on Rayrock Mine.

First, I want to ask the Minister of ECC, can he confirm whether territorial testing of the surrounding water near the Rayrock site has been completed to assess potential contamination and ensure the safety of Behchoko residents? Thank you.

Thank you, Member for Monfwi. Minister of Environment and Climate Change.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the Rayrock site was -- there's a site there that's a 12-square-kilometer area around the former mine site. This site was excluded from the devolution agreements under Part B of section 7 and remains under the control of the Government of Canada. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you. So how is the government working with the responsible authorities, just like he said, to share clear and accessible information with the community of Behchoko about testing results and the impact on the surrounding area? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, between 2018 and 2020, CERNAC worked in collaboration with the Tlicho government on a remedial action plan. That action plan was put into action in 2024 and is projected to take three years. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Minister of ECC. Final supplementary. Member from Monfwi.

Thank you. Thank you for the information. Will the government commit to working with the responsible authority to provide regular updates to the community of Behchoko as the Rayrock Mine remediation project moves forward? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the department is not directly involved in the remediation of this site. You know, it is a collaborative effort between the Tlicho government and the Government of Canada. I think that, you know, we're happy to reach out and see if there is information available and direct the appropriate participant within the process to relay that -- ensure that information is relayed to the Tlicho government. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Minister of ECC. Oral questions. Member from Inuvik Boot Lake.

Thank you, Member from Inuvik Boot Lake. Minister of Infrastructure.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Sorry, I was waiting for the light to come on there. That was last year's Minister. I can't commit to anything -- no. Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I'm not going to take away that commitment at all. I'll work with the department to commit to trying to make sure that we're completed that by the end of our Assembly as the previous Minister has done so also, and I share the same response there, that I think it's important that we finish that off there. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Just one quick follow-up, Mr. Speaker. I heard a "trying to commit" in there, so just to ensure that we did get a commitment from the Minister to ensure that that does get paved in this Assembly -- or chip sealed.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I don't run the chipping machine but we'll work on it, and hopefully we can commit to getting that done. As I stated, whatever the previous Minister said, I will try to stick with. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs. Oral questions. Member from Inuvik Boot Lake. No? Go ahead; you've got one left.

Well, I thought I was done. But I think I got a "hopefully" and a "maybe" in there that time. I'm not sure, Mr. Speaker. But, again, I appreciate the Minister's support on this. And, again, looking for the commitment to ensure that we do get this done.

Yes, we're committed to looking at getting it done.

Thank you, Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs. Oral questions. Member from Great Slave.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, a priority of mine is public service in the sense of how we serve the public. So I did see from the BearNet recently service improvement boot camps and individual workshops for staff. So My question today is for the Minister of Finance. These programs have been going on for quite some time now, about six years. How many of these programs are fully subscribed? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Member from Great Slave. Minister of Finance.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I believe for anyone watching and eager to take one of these programs, it's the certified service professional I believe. Certified service professional and certified service manager work. They have been going on for many years, but they have shifted a few years ago to being an online program so they wouldn't necessarily get fully subscribed, Mr. Speaker. But so folks who are interested certainly can contact -- it's the OCIO that actually manages this particular program as that is our contact point within the Department of Finance, and they continue to receive quite a number of attention, quite a lot of attention from public servants. So I'm not concerned about oversubscription. If people are interested, they should check in with the OCIO. Thank you.

Yes, thank you, Mr. Speaker. And thank you to the Minister for that. What I really like about these programs is that it talks about citizen-centric service, so we're putting the people that we serve first. So that's really good that they're popular.

I'd like to ask the Minister is there any way that we are measuring or demonstrating that the public service is improving as a result of these workshops? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we do conduct every two years the Employee Engagement and Satisfaction Survey, which obviously is internal, wouldn't necessarily be an outward-facing with respect to the perspective of the clients of the front-facing -- front-service providers but certainly does engage in it and measure the degree to which public servants themselves are sensing their improvement or seeing their engagement are feeling the level of delivery of service that they provide. There's a number of different measures, and, in fact, it's a little plug, Mr. Speaker, because that survey has just gone out again. I know I look at them. The deputy ministers certainly look at them. So that is one way that I would suggest we are able to measure a bit of what's happening in terms of the development and the benefit of training. Thank you.