Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. There is nothing in this budget about a wellness facility in Fort Smith. There's no line items here. So I'm not replacing the facility with anything. We want to work with the community to access funding to do what the community would like to do and given t

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you. We do not have a formal plan. We recognize there is a facility in the community, that the community is taking a hit with the reduction, and we wanted to ensure that we were proactive in raising the possibility of this facility being repurposed. The leadership in the co

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you for that. And so we have the other facilities in the territory. So there's still a women's correctional facility in Fort Smith. There's South Mackenzie Correctional Centre in Hay River. And there is North Slave Correctional Centre in Yellowknife. And there are vacancies

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Mr. Chair. And that's what this reduction is reflective of, the fact that we no longer need all of that capacity in the system. The South Mackenzie Correctional Facility -- or correctional centre is actually at a lower capacity, but it is something unique that we do no

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you, Mr. Chair. And I will say that this is not an easy -- this was not an easy decision. This has weighed heavily and continues to weigh heavily on me and my Cabinet colleagues. This is not something anyone wants to do. There are 15 full-time positions that are being affec

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you. So this is -- this funding was recently introduced. That's why we don't see anything for the 2022-2023 Actuals. It is part of the therapeutic community model. And to the Member's comments about the measures, I've said this when I was in front of the Members before, I a

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Thank you. With me, I have Charlene Doolittle, deputy minister of the Department of Justice. And James Bancroft, director of corporate services. Thank you.

Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters  Yes.

Question 225-20(1): Cabinet Process and Policy for Responses to Oral Questions  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. There's no hard feelings if Members don't want to provide questions in advance or give Ministers a heads up about what they might be speaking about. Since my very first day as an MLA, I've been very strong on the topic of MLA independence. As a Regular Mem

Question 225-20(1): Cabinet Process and Policy for Responses to Oral Questions  Thank you. And I'm not sure what the Member was listening to, but I never said that the Members are here to set us up to make us look good. There is an expectation that Ministers do know their portfolios. Here in the Northwest Territories, we have a relatively small Cabinet yet w

Question 225-20(1): Cabinet Process and Policy for Responses to Oral Questions  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And no, that is not the policy. It is just the way that we like to do business is by cooperating and communicating. And for the past eight years as I've been an MLA, that has been common practice. In the last government, the Regular Members would actually

Recognition Of Visitors In The Gallery  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to recognize my former colleague and current friend, former Minister Pauline Chinna. She always created a lively atmosphere in Cabinet, and we miss her. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

COMMITTEE Motion 5-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): Main Estimates 2024-2025, Deferral of Department - Executive and Indigenous Affairs, Carried  Thank you. Again, this is another federal program and so we had an agreement with the federal government to receive funding through the Guns and Gang Strategy. The federal government discontinued that strategy but we have recently confirmed that that money is being reprofiled to

COMMITTEE Motion 5-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): Main Estimates 2024-2025, Deferral of Department - Executive and Indigenous Affairs, Carried  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We are always going to the federal government. The Department of Justice hustles to find agreements, to find pots of money that they can access. And so I wouldn't say we're going back to them, but there is a constant dialogue and there's always -- not alwa

COMMITTEE Motion 5-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): Main Estimates 2024-2025, Deferral of Department - Executive and Indigenous Affairs, Carried  Thank you. If you could just give me one moment while I turn to that page, thanks. Thank you. So I don't have a lot of detail on that, but one of the issues that has been identified is who is included in that definition under the Act. And so that's one area that we're looking at