Thank you, Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs. Final supplementary. Member from Yellowknife Centre.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, it's been a well-known secret within the department that the fire marshal does not do building inspections outside of the city of Yellowknife. The City of Yellowknife has its own process. So my question specifically is how long is this practice of refusal to do this because it's a well-known culture secret within the Department of Infrastructure as well as the GNWT, and I want to make sure this problem stops. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The responsibility of the fire marshal's office is to do building inspections as they develop or also occupancy loads or anything like that. So, you know, the City of Yellowknife also has bylaws that they may have in place for their building inspectors or whatever, but the fire marshal's office has the authority and has the legislative authority to do inspections on buildings in the Northwest Territories. And like I said earlier, our fire marshal in Yellowknife is -- you know, has been -- the workload has been quite a bit and ongoing pressures, so we've added the assistant fire marshal position here in Yellowknife to assist with that. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs. Oral questions. Member from Yellowknife North.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have a question for the Minister of housing and homelessness.

We saw the announcement the end of last November that the renovations had been completed on the building that was formally known as Aspen Apartments to the end of establishing transitional housing units for about -- well, 36 -- 36 units. Can the Minister give us an update now; have people moved in, or how many people have moved in if so? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Member from Yellowknife North. Minister responsible for Housing NWT.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And thank you to the Member for the question. Aspen Apartments was an ongoing renovation for the last couple of years, and we did have the opening. And with that opening, though, we found that there were some electrical that still needed to be done, so we delayed moving clients in. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So does the Minister now have an updated timeline on when they expect either the full suite of clients to move in or sort of a phased-in gradual move in of residents? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the latest update I have from Housing NWT is the apartment building has been shifted over to Yellowknife Housing Authority to move tenants in. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Minister responsible for Housing NWT. Final supplementary. Member from Yellowknife North.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So can the Minister explain what will be different about this model of transitional housing to be set up at Aspen Apartments. Is there going to be enhanced supports on site versus some of the other public housing units in Yellowknife? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you to the Member again for the question. This is really important work that we're doing with Housing NWT because we're finding that sometimes we need to add the element of supportive care, wraparound supports. We're finding it throughout the North that many people are going into housing, and sometimes they don't have those personal living skills, and it's really important that we help them to be successful in housing because, again, we only have limited housing across the North and many times those relationships are fragile. So supportive living and wraparound supports with Aspen Apartments is a new venture we're doing with Yellowknife Housing Authority. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Minister responsible for Housing NWT. Colleagues, time for oral questions is up. Oral questions. Written questions. Returns to written questions. Replies to the Commissioner's address. Petitions. Tabling of documents. Minister of Justice.

Thank you, Minister of Justice. Tabling of documents. Notices of motion. Motions. Notices of motion for the first reading of bills. First reading of bills. Minister of Health and Social Services.

Mr. Speaker, I wish to present to the House Bill 40, An Act to Amend the Vital Statistics Act, to be read for the first time. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Minister. Pursuant to Rule 8.2(3), Bill 40 is deemed to have first reading and is ready for second reading.

First reading of bills. Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs.

Mr. Speaker, I wish to present to the House Bill 41, An Act to Amend the Real Estate Agents Licensing Act, to be read for the first time. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs. Pursuant to Rule 8.2(3), Bill 41 is deemed to have first reading and is ready for seconding reading.

First reading of bills. Second reading of bills. Consideration in Committee of the Whole of bills and other matters, Tabled Document 448-20(1), Tabled Document 453-20(1), Tabled Document 454-20(1), with the Member from Tu Nedhe-Wiilideh in the chair.

I now call the Committee of the Whole to order. I am going to go to the Member -- sorry, what is the wish of the committee? I will go to the Member from Inuvik Boot Lake.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, the committee wishes to consider Tabled Document 448-20(1), 2026-2027 Main Estimates, Department of Health and Social Services and the Department of ECC. Committee also wishes to consider Tabled Document 453-20(1), Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 3, 2025-2026. And, Tabled Document 454-20(1), Supplementary Estimates, (Operations Expenditures and Borrowing Authorization), No. 3, 2025-2026. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. Does committee agree?

Okay, thank you. We'll take a short break.

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