Kevin O'Reilly

Thanks, Madam Chair. There's, yeah, three positions that are being lost in legal aid services, and I would just like to know more about why that's happening, especially if we're interested in increasing access to justice. Thanks, Madam Chair.

Merci, Monsieur le President. I want to thank the Minister for that. That's probably some of the best reasons I've ever heard to change the large emitter trust account and the policy around that. I talked to the Minister of Finance about it. She committed to review it. Nothing's changed. Nothing.

But I want to turn to the report on biofuels identified that 75 percent of the territory's emissions come from industry. I understand that De Beers is a large emitter, as a corporation has committed to carbon neutral by 2030. Yukon government is relying on biofuels as part of its climate change work...

Thanks, Madam Chair. Yeah, again, we've got, like, three activities for almost $40 million. I'm sure the Minister will work towards getting a better breakdown of this in the future.

But I want to ask about the community advisory boards that were supposed to be set up for correctional facilities and whether they're indeed in place now and are there any costs associated with that? And I'm not opposed to costs associated with that. I think these serve a useful purpose, and they were, you know, built into the new legislation. So if I could get some details from the Minister. Thank you, Madam Chair...

Merci, Monsieur le President. I want to thank the Minister for that. It's my understanding that there's quite a bit of unallocated money remaining from the federal Low Carbon Economy Leadership Fund but that there's some conditions that prevent its use to fund trials.

Can the Minister tell us how much money is left to be allocated and whether her department will ask the federal government to permit use of these funds for trials of biofuels? Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.

Thanks, Madam Chair. Yeah, I would hope that the Minister would be a little more flexible there. Look, you can't transplant what is being done here to regional centres but there's lots of lessons learned, and so I guess the Minister's answer is that integrated service delivery's going to subsume what's happening with integrated case management and somehow that's going to roll out across the Northwest Territories? Is that what I'm hearing the Minister say? Thank you.

Merci, Monsieur le President. I rise to acknowledge the passing of Eva Henderson at 96. Eva came here in 1974 with her husband and family. A registered nurse, she worked at Stanton Hospital and helped establish Yellowknife home care services. She was the founding and lifetime member of the Northwest Territories Nursing Association. In later years, she ran a bed and breakfast with husband Eric. Eva's vivacious nature and ready smile will be missed, while her influence will be felt for years to come. Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.

Thanks for that, Madam Chair. And thanks to the Minister and his staff. Can we get that split out somehow in next year's main estimates? Like, we're spending $6 million on community justice and it's like two lines in the program detail. Community justice is a big lump sum of $5.6 million. Protection against family violence is 500 come on. Can we get some more program detail, a better breakdown next year? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Okay, thanks. And so moving forward in this set of main estimates, there's a reduction that was made, and now that I have the Minister's opening remarks in front of me I see basically that there was some forced growth in the departmental budget. There's some initiatives. There's something called other adjustments. There was reductions in travel and sunsets.

So out of those, the five bulleted items here on the Minister's opening remarks, where does this reduction to the OROGO budget actually fit in in these bulleted categories? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Thanks, Madam Chair. I think this is where the integrated case management program is found, but there's no line item; there's no nothing. It's hard to know what expenditures there are on the program. Can I get some detail about that and whether the budget is increasing, decreasing? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Thanks for that. Yeah, I'm looking at this. It's clearly a reduction. That's not the way it's classified, though, by the Financial Management Board. I believe this is classified as an FMB approved adjustment. Can the Minister confirm that, yes or no? Thanks, Madam Chair.