I can’t say specifically. I need to do a little bit more research myself and talk to the department to figure out what they’ve come to as far as a correlation between what we have in-house and what we would require outside by way of mental health court. I will commit to getting the Member and committee some additional information on that.

Mr. Speaker, to live in poverty in Canada is to live with insufficient and often poor quality food. It is to sleep in poor quality and/or unaffordable housing, in homeless shelters, or on city streets and parks. It means making difficult and painful decisions on a daily basis involving trade-offs, whether to pay the rent or feed the kids, pay the electric bill or go to the dentist, buy a new bus pass or forego socializing with friends. To live in poverty is also to be at greater risk of poor health, family or neighborhood violence, and a shorter lifespan. It is to be unable to participate...

With land titles it’s already up on-line and available, but I’ll go to the deputy for a few specifics if the Member is interested in some specifics.

Thank you, Madam Chair. We have a number of things available, different programs available. As I’ve indicated previously, when an inmate comes in, we do a classification or assessment with the individual where we identify their individual needs and focus them in on programs that will suit their individual needs. At the Fort Smith centre – River Ridge, right? At River Ridge we have some additional programming available for individuals with cognitive or other challenges specifically for those individuals who have those types of needs. I can’t remember the names of the specific programs but they...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The Member is correct; we are doing that work. Consultation regarding the potential amendments to the legislation is expected to occur spring/summer 2013 and we expect an LP to come forward as early as fall 2013.

I do, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. We have coroners in almost every community in the Northwest Territories and we have coroners who are Aboriginal, non-Aboriginal, male, female, young, old – I think all the old ones just rolled their eyes. Maybe so did the young ones. I apologize. We’ve got coroners all over the Territories in a significant number of our communities, as I’ve indicated. I feel comfortable saying that they try to take into consideration Aboriginal traditions and Aboriginal beliefs when they’re doing their reports. Does it always satisfy everybody? I would say no, but they try to do what...

Mr. Speaker, I have already listed off a significant number of the programs that are available to our inmates, including the programs in some of our specific facilities. We have the facility in Fort Smith for adult males, which is actually set up for individuals who are having or experiencing cognitive challenges or other addictions issues. There is some specific programming there. We have specific programming at SMCC, which I listed earlier, as well, which was a result of good work done by the committee with us to put in that programming in Hay River. There are a number of programs there.

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The Member mentioned yet another program that’s available, and that’s Parenting After Separation, which is actually a course that’s available to help individuals who maybe haven’t gone through the mediation. There are a number of these programs available to help maintain family structure when living in separate homes. The children’s lawyer is available to make sure the interests of the child are heard and taken into consideration in all three of these situations. There are limitations when that service can be used as a result of a child apprehension but, where appropriate, they have been able...

Thank you, Madam Chair. The feasibility study is scheduled to be completed by March 31st. I’ve had discussions about the early draft that’s out there that’s within the department being worked on by the committee, which includes Health and Social Services, Justice and Education, Culture and Employment are also participating. I’m really close to taking that to Cabinet. Once it’s gone through Cabinet we’ll be bringing it to committee for discussion and about how we move forward, and the exact things the Member is talking about is the discussion we’re going to have to have once we’ve got all the...