Frieda Martselos

Thank you, Madam Chair. The community justice committees and projects, when you look at the active positions, it says two in headquarters and 12 in North Slave and yet it's covering I'm sure this is also covering South Slave. Very confusing the way it's brought forward here.

I think there is a community justice committee in Fort Smith, and I want to say that the people that run the community justice committee in Fort Smith is very productive, and I think that the way things are put forward by Justice is not very clear. Clarity must be very it must be when we're going to vote on this budget...

Thank you, Madam Chair. So it's based on a formula. So the formula is based on programs, or is it based on per capita?

I just have a couple of short questions, Madam Chair. On page 58, what is the northern bonus? I'd like the Minister to answer that. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Madam Chair, could this also be crossreferenced with the teacher education program? Because it would be nice that the teachers that would graduate from the teacher education program also have access to some of the courses that would be offered in the language translator course. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Further to that answer, I still feel that, you know, we pay a lot of money to locums that are not they're not guaranteed residents of the Northwest Territories. Every community does. And when we have someone who is of Indigenous descent and who is a Metis person and going in to be a I don't know if she she is going to graduate, with honors from the University of Saskatchewan, and is going to be a surgeon, and who's willing to come here, you're telling me that she has to go get lines of credits that are payable back and yet we're putting all these other students...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I wish to table Sharing Common Ground Review of Yukon's Police Force Final Report on Implementation, May 2014. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Okay. So the ratio between First Nation policing and the policing agreement, that's a like a $49 million difference. You know, and most of the enforcement is with the you know, with Indigenous people. And, you know, every time I look at this and see what's happening in the communities, it's you know, I've carried this file for this is my 17th year, ever since I got elected as Chief of Salt River. I just don't think you know, you talked about two meetings a year with Justice. That's what they have. That isn't that isn't a lot. Is there dialogue with municipal governments and community...

Mr. Speaker, can the Minister tell us if he or the Department of Justice has ever considered conducting a review of the NWT police force like what has been done in the Yukon? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Madam Chair, this is a really important line for our Indigenous people of the North. It keeps them from getting there's alternative it's alternative justice, and it keeps them out of getting a criminal record. This is a really important line in the overall file on justice. And with those numbers, it's very little. So the alternative to that for Indigenous people is that they plead guilty and they go to they have to be incarcerated. To me, that is the wrong approach, that we should be making sure that our communities are funded properly so that our Indigenous people and people who get into...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, can the Minister of Justice provide any measurable data or evidence that demonstrates a positive benefit to the people of the Northwest Territories in relation to the increasing costs of policing? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.