Committee Motion 9-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): Main Estimates 2024-2025, Deferral of Department - Health and Social Services, Carried Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I am lucky enough to serve on Cabinet with a housing Minister who also calls one of our small communities home and is also very passionate about making sure that the teachers who live in her community and in other communities in the Nort
June 5th, 2024Assembly debate Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Committee Motion 9-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): Main Estimates 2024-2025, Deferral of Department - Health and Social Services, Carried Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, when looking at the priorities of this entire Assembly, each department was tasked with seeing themselves in all of our priorities. And so for starters, with our looking for available land, we are specifically looking for is there ways t
June 5th, 2024Assembly debate Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Committee Motion 9-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): Main Estimates 2024-2025, Deferral of Department - Health and Social Services, Carried Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I have a headquarters number of 38. And sorry, the policy planning -- sorry, planning, research, and evaluation is seven.
June 5th, 2024Assembly debate Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Committee Motion 9-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): Main Estimates 2024-2025, Deferral of Department - Health and Social Services, Carried Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. And, Mr. Chair, I appreciate the comments of the Member. And I'd say one of the crucial things -- or comment that the Member made that really struck me was his comments around know what we are doing and commit to doing it better and know what we're
June 5th, 2024Assembly debate Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Committee Motion 9-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): Main Estimates 2024-2025, Deferral of Department - Health and Social Services, Carried Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, on my left I have Mr. Jamie Fulford. And on my right, I have Ms. Catherine McDonald.
June 5th, 2024Assembly debate Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
June 5th, 2024Assembly debate Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Committee Motion 9-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): Main Estimates 2024-2025, Deferral of Department - Health and Social Services, Carried Thank you, Mr. Chair. I am pleased to present the 2024-2025 Main Estimates for the Department of Education, Culture and Employment. Overall, the department's estimates propose a decrease of $9.858 million or 2.6 percent over the 2023-2024 Main Estimates. These estimates support t
June 5th, 2024Assembly debate Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Tabled Document 109-20(1): NWT Office of the Regulator of Oil and Gas Operations Annual Report 2023-2024 Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I wish to table the following document: NWT Office of the Regulator of Oil and Gas Operations Annual Report 2023-2024. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
June 4th, 2024Assembly debate Tabling of Documents
Question 237-29(1): Aurora College Transformation Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I think this is a really exciting opportunity for the Northwest Territories to be able to transition into a polytechnic. Because I think that there is this idea that we're talking about bricks and mortar. But what we're talking about
June 4th, 2024Assembly debate Oral Questions
Question 237-29(1): Aurora College Transformation Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the most significant tool that I have at my fingertips is the mandate letter that is issued to the board. That letter has -- or the next letter, because the one that is an interim letter expires in July so the next reiteration of tha
June 4th, 2024Assembly debate Oral Questions
Question 237-29(1): Aurora College Transformation Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the transformation team had a goal to accomplish 66 goals, 66 milestones. They accomplished all of them. There are a total of 80 milestones. And since the transformation team was disbanded, the college itself has completed three mile
June 4th, 2024Assembly debate Oral Questions
Question 237-29(1): Aurora College Transformation Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, in this House the board of governors does not have a seat and so you get to hold me accountable. Thank you.
June 4th, 2024Assembly debate Oral Questions
Question 236-20(1): Income Assistance Statistics So to the first question that the Member asked, Mr. Speaker, about whether or not they're big C counsellors or little C counsellors, I'm not sure if that means are they mental health counsellors; no, they're not mental health counsellors if that's what meant. Sorry, I was talking
June 4th, 2024Assembly debate Oral Questions
Question 236-20(1): Income Assistance Statistics Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we have a host of client navigators across the territory that work in small communities. They work in regional centres. And they work in Yellowknife. And these client navigators work closely with career development officers. They hav
June 4th, 2024Assembly debate Oral Questions
Question 236-20(1): Income Assistance Statistics Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the Member is asking what we previously track. And so as I'm saying that this is a new program and so going forward, we're going to have the opportunity to look at a lot more data and see what is going on. But that's not information
June 4th, 2024Assembly debate Oral Questions