Caroline Cochrane

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The one witness I have is Mr. Martin Goldney, the secretary for Cabinet and also the deputy minister for Executive and Indigenous Affairs. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Mr. Chair, actually on this one, I beg to defer with the Member. Being the housing Minister for a few years the last Assembly, I do know that every single program within the Housing Corporation is considered a program, not just operating and maintenance. There's lots of care and mobility, care, care of what 13 programs, and they're all not all of them are just about operate and maintenance, about fixing up homes. Some of them are about fixing up putting technology in so that people can age in place. Some of them are about doing homeownership programs. There's a whole vast of them. They're...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, as we pass the mid point for the 19th Legislative Assembly, it's important to take stock of where we are as a government and the progress we're making in fulfilling the commitments we made to advance the 22 shared priorities that we, as the 19th Legislative Assembly, developed at the beginning of this Assembly.

I'm proud of the collaboration that we as an Assembly demonstrated in creating these 22 shared priorities, and I'm grateful for the insight and feedback that Regular Members provided Cabinet on the items and specific actions found in the mandate.

Collabor...

For.

Thank you for the clarification. I thought she was looking at a different one but this is fine.

What I do recommend I'm not going to change all of these mandates. That's not going to happen. But what I will do with the status is put fulfilled and ongoing, if the Member's okay with that. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

In favour.

For.

Mr. Chair, if you can divert that to the Minister of Housing, Minister

Mr. Speaker, over the last three days, the community of Fort Smith and its residents have been faced with a difficult and scary situation that has shaken their sense of safety

to the core. As a result of a significant police operation in the community, residents were forced to lock themselves in their homes, businesses, or wherever they could seek safety, while the RCMP searched for an individual considered to be armed and dangerous. Thankfully the individual has been brought into custody.

Mr. Speaker, we have lost others to violent crimes in the NWT. We acknowledge that the impacts of crime on...

Mr. Speaker, it has been two years since COVID19 changed our lives here in the territory. When the outbreak started, we didn't know what to expect, how long it would last, when vaccines would be available, and how we would have to adapt. We also didn't fully understand the toll it would take on all of us, especially health care providers.

Our communities have been hard hit. We lost 19 residents, including elders and knowledgekeepers. Others have suffered from serious illness. Another reality is that we still don't know the longterm affects of COVID19.

Mr. Speaker, it would be challenging to...