Rylund Johnson

Thank you, Madam Chair. Yeah, and part of the reason well, I'm interested is because our current leasing policy requires us to do a lease versus ownership analysis every time we enter into a lease. I'm quite confident we're not doing that, especially not on renewals. But could the Minister perhaps commit to looking at all of this leasing money and just doing some sort of desktop lease versus ownership exercise. And I get sometimes we do it for new space but we kind of just seem to roll over and renew the buildings last minute without doing that required analysis as per the policy. Can we do...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I just have one last followup. I heard the Minister of MACA/ENR say that the Dog Act is perhaps not the place to mandate that all dogs be vaccinated for rabies. And in Ontario, it was actually done under public health. I really don't care, I just think that we should be making sure can the Minister of health look into whether it's possible that, under public health, we mandate that dogs are up to date for their rabies vaccine. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Can maybe this is in the weeds but I or, you know, somewhere and perhaps we can update it, I'm sure there's some sort of DIIMS work plan. Can someone just tell me when the license for the software for DIIMS goes to? One of my great fears is that we're going to get everyone on and then every once in a while we get these notices from Microsoft or someone saying oh, we're not renewing this software, and we're going to have to restart with a whole new information management system. Are we confident that when we're done all this that we have a license for this software for...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have a third set of questions, and surprise, it's about rabies again. Mr. Speaker, my question is really, my interest in doing this is making sure that no humans die of rabies. So my question's for the Minister of health and social services, just how quickly after a potential exposure to rabies must someone get treated. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you. You know, I think we started the DIIMS project about a decade ago. Can I just confirm if everybody is now on DIIMS? Thank you.

I've got some more rabies questions, Mr. Speaker. So once we move on to wildlife, we get to pets. And dogs is actually the number one way that humans can contract rabies. In many jurisdictions, it's actually required that all dog owners have uptodate vaccinations for their dogs for the rabies. That is not currently the case in the Northwest Territories. So my question for the Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs is whether he will consider mandating that every pet owner, every dog owner make sure that their dog has the rabies vaccine. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Madam Chair. And then I guess there is, you know, there is to me, there's the goal of reporting on the quality and condition and all the work that we're doing with all the assets everywhere that we own, the multibillion dollars worth, and then I'm wondering if the dashboard would speak to kind of tracking ongoing infrastructure projects or whether that would be another initiative. What I picture is, you know, we often pass these capital estimates and they and some community says they're going to get a small local project done and then it gets carried over and carried over and it...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My first set of questions is for ENR. I'm going to start with the foxes, Mr. Speaker. That's where the rabies are most present, and then they get into dogs, and then they get into humans. So can the Minister of ENR just tell us whether the department is presently concerned with their rabies outbreak in the current fox Arctic Fox population. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I promise I'm only going to try and only talk for about ten minutes this whole main estimates review, and all of it's going to be about asset management. And I know this section's called asset management but I guess more in regards to all of the assets in the department.

Last earlier in this session, the Minister gave an update on road construction and she said there was, you know, $45 million improving our highways and bridges and 160 kilometres of chip seal. And as she was giving that statement, I tried to look through previous, you know, main estimates and the...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Northwest Territories, unfortunately, is having a banner year for rabies and, unfortunately, Mr. Speaker, last year was also a banner year for rabies. And there's a couple of reasons for this. One is it's cyclical in the Arctic fox population so it tends to spike. The other reason is that with changes in climate and warmer weather, rabies outbreaks are becoming more and more common. And, Mr. Speaker, it's worth noting that rabies is one of those public health campaigns of the 20th century that we largely solved. There are still 60,000 human deaths a year from rabies...