Jackson Lafferty
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, 16th Assembly, 2nd Session (day 19)
Mr. Chair, we do make contributions to the community. It’s at the discretion of the community to employ a coordinator out of their funding that they receive from the GNWT. In one community a coordinator may be making more than the other one. We give the money to the community, and it’s at their discretion to decide where the money should be going within the criteria of the proposal. Mahsi.
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We don’t have that detailed information at this time, but we can certainly provide that to the Members. Mahsi.
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Mr. Chair, that is certainly highlighted. We’ve already initiated with other departments and also with the federal government, so I think we are slowly moving in that direction. When we talk about per capita funding, that’s before us. So certainly the Member’s comments are taken into consideration. I think that’s an avenue that we need to explore with our Justice department and with other departments as well.
Interjection.
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The proposed savings by eliminating the position would be $87,000. Mahsi.
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Mahsi, Mr. Chair. These positions that are highlighted here are based on each region’s…. The corrections or programs that are being delivered. It is not necessarily a headquarters position, but those are positions like Hay River, the South Slave Corrections. Those are the positions that are in that riding.
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Certainly there are incidents at the Corrections. The avenue that, I guess, we’ll access will be at Stanton. But we will certainly continue to monitor that. Mahsi.
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Mahsi, Mr. Chair. That is something we need to look at. It is part of the process of going through the Main Estimates. Certainly we’ll take that into account.
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Mahsi, Mr. Chair. My understanding is that the federal funding is only provided to the young offenders, not the adults.
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Mahsi, Mr. Chair. We do have some breakdown of per capita funding, with all the five regions: North Slave, South Slave, Inuvik, Sahtu and Deh Cho. I am not sure if you want to get into each community and how much they are getting. I can do that if the Member wants.
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Mahsi, Mr. Chair. To date we have two inmates at Arctic Tern.