Thank you, Mr. Chair. Okay, so to be clear, no reduction in service there.
Similarly, population and public health services, there's a $1.2 million cut. Is there a service cut associated with that? Thank you.
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Lesa Semmler Inuvik Twin Lakes
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I will pass that on to the ADM for the detail.
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Jeannie Mathison
Thank you, Mr. Chair. It's similar reasoning for that reduction. It's actually made up of two agreements, that reduction. One is health system investments where there's a sunset of time limited funding for one-time projects associated with sexual health as well as cultural safety and antiracism. And then the second one is there is an allocation in that budget that is funded through the Northern Wellness Agreement as well, and once that agreement gets renegotiated, which is currently in process, that will fix that gap there again. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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Julian Morse Frame Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chair. The next item is just in the top line of the second paragraph there on page 205, compensation and benefits is reducing by about $2 million. Is this, again, a service level cut of any sort, or can the department help us understand what that -- what's associated with that funding decrease. Thank you.
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Jeannie Mathison
Thank you, Mr. Chair. No service cuts. The line items below, the expenditure category there are just showing the types of costs that are being reduced from areas above. And so the Northern Wellness Agreement is the same answer. The Northern Wellness Agreement was actually funding compensation and benefits for positions which, when the agreement gets renegotiated, will be returned to the budget. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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Julian Morse Frame Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you for all those answers, explaining those various adjustments in there.
The next question is can the Minister explain what progress has been made in investigating the feasibility of adding an Office of the Practitioner Experience?
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Lesa Semmler Inuvik Twin Lakes
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, we brought that back to the -- I believe the committee, or we responded; I can't recall. When we had the conversation with NTHSSA, I know that we are working on our new people strategy and so that we were looking at incorporating ways to work with all of our staff within the NTHSSA through that people strategy. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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Julian Morse Frame Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Those are all the questions I have from this section. Thank you.
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Kieron Testart Range Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chair. So I'm curious about the funding to health and social services authorities, $370 million. Can the Minister clarify just how this whole budgeting process works for the authorities? Because on the floor of the House, we heard that the budget comes after the mains and I'm still a bit befuddled by this because we do have an information item later that we'll get into that has some numbers there, but we also have this new piece of information that the Minister has not actually received the working budget and, I mean, this is a much longer conversation that gets into how we fund the health authorities through supplementary appropriations that get higher and higher every year. So can the minister kind of straighten out this budgeting question. Thank you.
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Lesa Semmler Inuvik Twin Lakes
Thank you, Mr. Chair. I am going to give that to the ADM to try and explain how that works, and see if that helps. Thanks.
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Jeannie Mathison
Thank you, Mr. Chair. So the process has been as such for at least 20 plus years of my time, and so this document here is how the department intends to spend its money, and it intends to spend its money by giving some of that money to the health authorities for them to deliver services. In doing that, we provide the health authorities with a target for which, you know, the money that we're planning to give them and what we want to give them the money for, then we request that they develop a budget, a detailed budget, that they submit to us by February 15th of every year. We do a review process of that budget at the same time as we're reviewing the budget and the budget is getting reviewed here in the House for the main estimates so that by the time the main estimates gets approved, which gives us permission to give the funding to the authorities, we also can then tie the two together and we have authority's detailed budget reconciled with the funding that we're planning to give them so we have the detail of how the actual money is getting spent. So hopefully that clears it up. But the idea is that the authority budgets that gets submitted are approved shortly after the main estimates are approved, both of which need to occur before April 1st of the year to comply with the Financial Administration Act. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
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Kieron Testart Range Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chair. That does make sense. Thank you. So the detail, though, that we are -- again, I know I'm jumping ahead but it's just an information item, but, like, the detail we have in that information item, is that your estimates, or is it -- like, what -- sorry, what -- where are we getting these numbers from? Is it from last year's actuals, or is it your estimates based on what you're giving to the authorities based on what you believe there needs to be? Thank you.