I'm ready for that challenge, Mr. Chair. The definition of poverty reduction in the NWT should be we pledge to reduce child poverty in the NWT by 25 per cent in five years. Could the Minister work with that please? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. There was an important piece about the timing there that was new to me. The timing is to have the 258 beds in place by 2026. I heard about the priorities, but is there any staging, that there would be so many by 2020 and then so many more by 2026? Thank you.

Yes. I left my turn too quickly, and I did have another couple of things. When we reviewed the business plan, there was some discussion about a comprehensive review of homecare services taking place in the next fiscal year. I know you mentioned, Mr. Minister, about reviewing homecare services in a response earlier to one of my colleagues. Is this what you are referring to, a comprehensive review of homecare services? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, that response concerns me greatly because what I have heard the Minister say consistently today is that various projects are delayed and behind schedule. This is a place where people live, and so there can't be any delay in meeting their needs, so I am distressed that there is no planning under way for a replacement. I am not an engineer, but I can tell you that that building is clapped out unless somebody is willing to spend major money retrofitting the plumbing system and the heating system. I would feel better about the future of transitional housing for...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I want to follow up a discussion that we had during the business plan review about the status of the grant-inkind for the Rockhill Family Housing program. The department was to look at reinstating the accounting for the grantin-kind. It sounds like some paperwork needed to be done. Is it possible to get an update on the status of the grant-inkind to Rockhill Family Housing program? Thank you.

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. My questions are for the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment on the subject of reducing the total number of instructional hours for students in the NWT schools. At the high school level, Alberta requires 1,000 instructional hours per year while the NWT in the future will require 945 hours. What discussions has the Minister and/or his staff had with Alberta Education about delivering the Alberta high school curriculum in fewer hours than prescribed in that jurisdiction, including details of where and when these discussions took place, who attended and a description...

Thanks to the Minister for that response. I'm going to ask a follow-up question. In what circumstances are they valuable if they are revealing information that is not a conviction but only that a person has had some kind of contact with the justice system or the police?

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my questions are for the Minister of Justice. In response to my questions on the topic of records of non-conviction in November, the Minister said that criminal records checks are intended to protect vulnerable groups and "essential in certain circumstances dealing with vulnerable populations or children." To be clear, does the Minister really believe that the police should be making any records public which do not deal with a conviction for a criminal offence but disclose only that a person has been in contact with the police or justice system? Mahsi, Mr...

Just one more. Yes, I appreciate that that is a goal and not a definition, and for sure this work is going to be hard. I don’t think that we should wait for the federal government. I think that we need to consider in our own context what poverty is. We often hear that people with low income don’t feel like they live in poverty, so it's not only income driven, but we do hear that lots of people don’t have enough food to eat.

So I think that we really have to make the effort to do that, and I think the biggest danger here is overthinking it and making it complicated, and that's why I'm talking...

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I am going to return to a topic I raised during the last sitting, as I have had another constituent bring another case of injustice to my attention.

The issue is records of non-conviction, the reports that are produced by the police when a criminal records check is requested. These reports may contain records of a person having been questioned by the police and not charged, or charged and the charges were later dropped, or charged and the person was later acquitted. In the latest case of my constituent, the person was charged with assault in 1990 and received a...