Question 1547-19(2): Housing for Youth Aging Out of Care  Yes, thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, that would be a great topic to bring up with the 20th Assembly who will be doing the next business plan for the 2024-2025 fiscal year. I think that some of this is a coordination effort. I know that Home Base Yellowknife does enable peopl

Question 1547-19(2): Housing for Youth Aging Out of Care  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I will certainly make a point of looking at the website agedout.com. In terms of the Child and Family Services Act, we have received recommendations from the Member and from the social development committee. I'm not in a position to make a co

Question 1547-19(2): Housing for Youth Aging Out of Care  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, our concern is for youth who have some interaction with child and family services. I think the youth homelessness issue is bigger than that, and it does require a number of parties to come to the table to try and understand the scope of the pr

Question 1547-19(2): Housing for Youth Aging Out of Care  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the question. I remember the Member's statement, and I wanted to localize the number of youth who have applied for support services agreements related to their housing situation. In 2021, that was 18 youth who applied for that out

Question 1542-19(2): Territorial Health Initiative  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And thank you to the Member for that. Each region has a regional wellness council with seven members, and they meet every other month or four times a year, and they provide direct feedback to the leadership council of the NTHSSA on what the health needs, g

Question 1542-19(2): Territorial Health Initiative  Yeah, thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, one of the things that we will be doing is to minimize the amount of administration that goes with this money, since it is such a small amount, that we don't want to turn ourselves inside out for it, we already report a number of importa

Question 1542-19(2): Territorial Health Initiative  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, this is not program specific funding. There are four areas that the tailored bilaterals cover, and the spending has to be tied to health outcomes that are measured by the Canadian Institute for Health Information. There's some work going on no

Question 1542-19(2): Territorial Health Initiative  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And thank you to the Member for the question. The total increase in health spending for this year from the Government of Canada was $12 million. $12 million. Our budget in the Department of Health and Social Services is $610 million for this year. You can

Question 1539-19(2): Trailcross Treatment Centre  Yes, thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, Trailcross was used for youth and it will continue to be used for youth in the new pilot program. Thank you.

Question 1539-19(2): Trailcross Treatment Centre  Yeah, thank you, Mr. Speaker. And thank you to the Member for the question. Without knowing what the programming looks like, it's hard for me to comment on what an ideal location would be. Thank you.

Question 1539-19(2): Trailcross Treatment Centre  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And I appreciate the question. We, as you know, have been working to strengthen both addictions aftercare and detox as to weak links in our continuum of care for people with addictions, and we are less focused at this point on where that's going to take pl

Question 1539-19(2): Trailcross Treatment Centre  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the Trailcross home for teenagers closed in October of last year because there was a very low attendance rate, and it was no longer worth having an entire building. So the youth were accommodated in therapeutic foster homes and the building si

Recognition Of Visitors In The Gallery(reversion)  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I apologize for the embarrassment this is going to cause my page, Amelia Bishop, who is here with us today from St. Pat's School where she is in grade 8. And I would like to thank her and all the pages for the work that they're doing for us in this session

Recognition Of Visitors In The Gallery(reversion)  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I wondered if we can go back to number 5 on the order paper, recognition of visitors. I would like to recognize my page. Thank you.

Question 1512-19(2): Permitting for Frontier Lodge  Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, as I mentioned, the regulations themselves haven't changed, and the department is working with the operator to resolve the situation around the permits. And so I encourage the MLA to transmit that message to the operator. I certainly don't wan