Member for Great Slave.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Well, I'm sure I will continue to talk to the Minister offline about this. And I appreciate those comments. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you. No further questions, we'll go to -- please turn to page 307.

Justice, community justice, operations expenditure summary, 2025-2026 Main Estimates, $7,902,000. Does the committee agree?

Thank you. Moving on to corrections, beginning on page 310 with information items on page 313. Are there any questions? Member for Yellowknife North.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I have a question about part of the business plan that I think might fit into this section, but it might span across a couple sections. It's around targets to establish first a baseline of numbers of prolific offenders, so, you know, offenders who keep repeatedly offending, and to define what that means and then report data on it to help identify appropriate interventions, so trying to look at people who keep coming back through the system over and over and over again and then figure out what are better ways to address this as opposed to continuing to just arrest them, you know, put them in jail, keep cycling them through the system. So can the Minister explain a bit more about what steps the government is going to take on this and if you have any timelines on that work. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Minister of Justice.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Perhaps I can hand it to deputy minister for some more information on that. Thank you.

Deputy minister Doolittle.

Member for Yellowknife North.

Thank you, Madam Chair. And so many other jurisdictions, including Alberta and BC and Ontario, they form, like, special teams with representatives from police and corrections and prosecution services, but also non-profit groups, to help try to create, like, individualized plans for a prolific offender based on whatever their particular needs might be. I wonder if -- is that part of the vision or the plan of this government around dealing with prolific offenders? Thank you, Madam Chair.

Minister of Justice.

Thank you. So the department is looking into what other jurisdictions actually do and how we can adopt or adapt any of those models or what lessons we can learn. And so that is all part of it. And I'll say that this is sort of a -- you know, we're talking at a territorial-wide level here. Within communities as well, RCMP detachments have their own prolific offender databases and that they work locally as well. So on many -- on multiple levels, this work is happening. Thank you.

Member for Yellowknife North.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I know at some points in the past there had been the establishment of some different forms of interagency groups. At least within the city of Yellowknife when I was over at city council, I know there were times when groups were established that included the RCMP but also, you know, staff from ambulance services and staff from bylaw and just to try to coordinate their efforts. Because often it was the same person, you know, moving between those different services and if people could better understand what was happening with a particular person and what they were going through, it could be more effective than each of those agencies just dealing, you know, separately, not understanding the circumstances that that person was in. Is that something that this government has been looking at, or are there barriers that have been identified to try to revive that sort of interagency approach to dealing with people who are struggling and may be involved with the criminal justice system but certainly are also -- might be frequently accessing the hospital or various other services? Thank you, Madam Chair.

Minister of Justice.

Thank you. So, you know, much of what the Member is talking about is what the department of EIA is seized with in terms of looking at the whole system and how a single person might move through it. And so there's individuals who work with the integrated case management unit when they're dealing with multiple different departments, and they try to play a coordinating role there as well.

In communities, there's community justice committees which are often integrated with the community and have relationships with the RCMP, other NGOs. At EIA, we're working on -- working with NGOs to try and get everyone on a similar database so that we can actually share information and so that we know about the clientele that we're working with.

There's also considerations with the -- our privacy legislation. And so the review of the ATIPP Act and the Health Information Act, I've asked that those things be taken into consideration so we're not hindering our ability to actually help people in the way that makes sense because we have this legislation in place. So, you know, lots of that work is happening, and as the Member knows -- I know she has extensive non-profit background -- sometimes groups don't want to work together and sometimes interagency groups fall apart because personalities or different priorities at the time. So it's an ongoing -- I'll say it's an ongoing struggle. That sounds negative, but it's an ongoing effort to ensure that we're all working together and we are putting in an honest effort. Thank you.

Member for Yellowknife North.

Thank you, Madam Chair. So if we focus back on prolific offenders, would it be the department or would it be the RCMP that would take a lead on, you know, identifying and keeping track of or reporting on prolific offenders? So what role exactly would the department play? Thank you, Madam Chair.

Minister of Justice.

Thank you. So it would be the RCMP who actually maintains that database and has that information, and the department would work to support them. I'm not sure if the deputy minister has anything to add to that, but I can hand it to her, Madam Chair. Thanks.

Deputy minister Doolittle.