Katrina Nokleby

No, I think I'm good. I just want to always throw in the faster we can get land I think into the communities' hands, the better. Thank you.

No, thank you, I'm good, Mr. Chair.

Thank you for that. Would it be fair for the Minister to characterize that the communities or municipalities are happy with this approach, or would they rather have seen a bulk transfer of land? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thanks to the Minister for the answer. I guess that sort of brings up the seniors society. One of the they would be obviously a large player in this mandate item and I've noted that their executive director position is up for competition at this moment.

Is that is the Minister aware of perhaps any chance there may be a delay in that role and therefore impacting care for seniors or impacting the ability to carry out some of this this work? I would imagine as an NGO, they also are not super well funded and don't have a ton of capacity, and I'm worried about whether...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you for that answer. I guess my next question is just around is there no commitment here for the moving of jobs into the regional areas in order to increase that decisionmaking authority? I'm just wondering if I'm getting two mandates mixed up or two priorities mixed up. Thank you.

Thank you. I apologize, without having my spot, I'm just going to ask one of the complaints that I'm hearing from seniors is around the processes of being reimbursed for issues and having to pay out of pocket first. And I apologize if this is actually not under the mandate but I'm just going to ask because I can't find my page.

Is there work to improve or change that policy towards making it less burdensome on seniors to get the money for their hearing aids or vaccines, etcetera? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I want to go back to something that the Minister just said around contacting the union back in the fall.

It's my understanding that the union responded with several questions as well, and there was a very a large lack of engagement during the fall time and then into the new year at which point the union was presented with a take it or leave it.

Is it not maybe the Minister could speak to the fact that isn't it under the collective agreement that the government has a responsibility to negotiate with the union and not present take it or leave it scenarios...

Thank you for that. I think that the Minister's colleague over at ECE might want to have some of this be taken care of so we can create some of those day home spaces that seem to be needed under our new policies. And I'm going to move on here. This one actually has so much in it. And really I feel that I would be remiss to not comment that this is one of the most important priorities for myself. I think if our communities are stronger, then Yellowknife will only be stronger so even though it's not riding.

My next question is around the makerspace programs. It does say that it is fulfilled and...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Yeah, well given that we've had a shortage of health care workers enough and this has been going on for long enough that it was one of the things that we did include in one of our priorities, can the Minister explain why the union wasn't approached sooner to negotiate the labour market supplement?

It's my understanding it was pretty much a give or you know, take it or leave it type scenario with not any room for negotiation. So why was the government not more proactive here versus reactive? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Okay, I'm guessing that maybe the Minister missed my question. It was around when are we going to actually see the work coming out of the working group the ideas, the gaps, the information that they think is needed, etcetera? Thank you, Mr. Chair.