Frieda Martselos

The line for Indigenous language revitalization has gone down from the 20212022 Actuals by 25,000. And I just wonder how serious this department is in Indigenous languages revitalization when you see a decrease in the mains. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, on November 29th, 2021, I had made a Member statement on the RCMP Territorial Police Service Agreement with the NWT. I asked questions of the Minister of Justice about RCMP accountability in relation to the police service agreement and I did not receive any good answers to my questions. In fact, I walked away from that exchange with more questions than answers about the RCMP regarding transparency and accountability in the NWT.

Mr. Speaker, according to the 20222023 Main Estimates, the Government of the Northwest Territories is paying over $50 million for...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I notice that there's a decrease to the NWT Arts Council. Is that going to is that decrease going to continue, or are we going to at some point get back to watching live shows and all these other things? And I'm just wondering why there is the decrease. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Is the airport operations, is that line where they're going to be resurfacing of the runways? Thank you, Madam Chair.

I don't have any other questions, Madam Chair.

So the next question I have is on page 253, you have ten positions allocated for this coming 20222023. The ten positions in the South Slave. How is that divided? For which communities? Thank you, Madam Chair.

So my second question is I don't know a lot about MTS but just from the figures, and so the main contractor is ORC, or whatever, and it's a threeyear contract; am I correct?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I wish to table an article from The Daily dated February 16th, 2022 entitled "Black and Indigenous people's confidence in the police and experiences of discrimination in their daily lives". Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

I don't think it's the only one that I brought forward. I brought forward many, many emails to you, and I never get answers. I remember the two ladies that decided they had to move to Fort Smith to a larger community, and they're both Indigenous, and they were from the Fort Simpson area because of health reasons, and I went back and forth here all I went back and forth every day with emails, and they finally decided to go back south where where they were before because because they never got an answer of getting a house. And one of them both of them had problems, you know, and I never got...

Thank you, Madam Chair. It's really easy to say you want to work with the Indigenous groups but there's no follow up. You know, there's a lot of red tape. There's lack of communication. I mean, as an ordinary MLA, I even have trouble getting answers to my emails. I've gone from July 2020, some of the things that I've brought up I still haven't got answers to or conclusions to from Members that I feel are is they're very you know, they are in dire straits. I keep on going back and forth, and then I list a whole bunch of emails that haven't been answered and sent to this department, and I don...