Tom Beaulieu

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Marsi cho, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, today, I'm going to talk about the effects of alcohol in our small communities. Mr. Speaker, I do believe that, in my 10 years here in the Legislative Assembly, this will be the first time I am going to attempt to do a complete Member's statement in my language.

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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I don't have any further questions at this point.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, committee would like to consider Tabled Document 63-18(3), Main Estimates 2018-2019, with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

The social development committee has been working on this whole Justice file, of course, from the beginning. I would like to ask the Minister if he would work with the Minister responsible for the Northwest Territories Housing Corporation so that inmates are not released into homelessness?

Marsi cho, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, today in my Member's statement I talked about the justice system. I would like to ask the Minister of Justice questions. I would like to ask the Minister, Mr. Speaker, if the Department of Justice is working with other departments to reduce Indigenous inmate population? Thank you.

Marsi cho, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, today I would like to speak about the justice system in Canada. Over the past few weeks, we have seen two high-profile court cases in Manitoba and Saskatchewan that have sparked mass outrage and protest within Indigenous communities across the country. The court cases I'm speaking about are that of Colten Boushie and Tina Fontaine, both of whom are young Indigenous youth who were murdered.

Colten Boushie was shot in the back of the head in 2016 and Tina Fontaine was a missing girl whose body was found in the Winnipeg Red River in 2014. The suspects in both...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I have a question for the contaminated site remediation section. I notice the budget here of $319,000. I am wondering: how come there is so little money in that budget when there are so many sites? I recognize that the sites are split between the federal government and the GNWT at the time that the devolution agreement was signed, but I just can't imagine what you can do with that much money, or that little money, I should say, maybe. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I have spoken to former inmates, some who have long records and long incarceration backgrounds. Particularly two adult former inmates indicate to me that the biggest help that they had while they were incarcerated was working with mental health workers. I would like to ask the Minister if he could commit to looking at increasing the number of mental health workers, I guess, maybe working with the Department of Health or on their own to have mental health workers in the correction facilities to work with the inmates? Thank you.