Katrina Nokleby

With respect, it's a mandate item. So to say that I just find that to be a little bit sort of shunting the responsibility here. Again, if you've put it in the mandate, then you have an obligation to connect with communities and get feedback on that item. Thank you.

I'm just going to run with that commitment. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

I think that I would be surprised if you didn't get support from Indigenous governments to look at this program and do some real evaluation. I do understand that a lot of these programs and such are the feds, and they have their their restrictions or their ideas. But yet again, it is our our government's responsibility, Cabinet's responsibility to tell the feds why their programs don't work just like, you know, constituents come to us to tell you why your programs don't work. So I think this is one where we really need to take back to the federal government that what they're doing is...

I think that just kind of emphasized what I was saying, is that the focus seems to be on adaptation and nothing around the mitigation part, and I guess where I'm going with this is I'm always this comes back to the conversation about putting the money upfront in order to do things right to begin with so that we're not then playing catch up later on. That's exactly what mitigation is. You know, I had mentioned around the flooding last year that I had been hearing for years about erosion of the banks of the river in Fort Simpson. The Minister's well aware himself. And so therefore, you know...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm sure that makes the chair of this committee quite happy right now. I think that's excellent.

I note that there are a lot of within the progress to date comments around supportive development of the food industry, that recommendations are being reviewed currently by the department for a variety of things like the meat regulatory framework as well as just the developing the food production businesses.

Can the Premier or the Minister speak to when we could start to expect to see some of this work start commencing? For example, the last time there, the review and...

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.