Tom Beaulieu

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I apologize to the Minister of Lands for not giving him a heads-up, but it's just a bit of a continuation of the honourable Member from Nahendeh. Mr. Speaker, I'd like to ask the Minister if this 10 per cent policy is a policy that is left over from the equity lease, where leases were paid out in full in 10 years? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my mother is 83 years old, and she lives in Hay River, and it is appropriate that Members are here from Hay River, who come from Hay River. Some of them may know my mom. She continues to be a strong leader in our family. I asked her if I could do the Member's statement. She said, "Make sure you talk about my sewing. I have been doing it for 75 years," so I thought I would mention that she had made all kinds of things, including slippers and card holders with Montreal Canadiens crests on them, for me. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker.

Marci cho, Mr. Speaker. [Translation] Last week, Mr. Speaker, CBC Radio -- Health and Social Services had wanted to work with the children and the children who are taken away from their home the way they had first starting working on there when they first came up here to work with the people and the kids that were taken away from their home and taken to the residential schools the way -- up to 2014 the federal government had a look at it and made a report. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. [Translation ends]

CBC Radio reported that the Department of Health and Social Services will start requiring NWT...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I move that the Chair rise and report progress.

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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I move that consideration of Tabled Document 316-18(2), Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures) No. 2, 2016-2017, now be concluded, and that Tabled Document 316-18(2) be reported and recommended as ready for further consideration, in a formal session, through the form of an appropriation bill. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. That is correct, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to thank the Minister for that answer. It would be good if the department could look into more income. To another question, foster parent and foster home screening was flagged by the Auditor General in the 2014 report. I understand that internal reviews show that the issues continue to challenge family services. What changes to a foster parents screening can we expect this spring? Thank you.

If we know the commonalities between the families with children in care we can act on addressing them. I'd like to ask the Minister: what information, such as household income, does Health and Social Services collect on the families of children in care?

Marci cho, Mr. Speaker. It is my belief that a family's household income directly affects many cases beyond that 8 per cent.

Mr. Speaker, it is violence, too: violence that is not within the family or within the home, but instead, violence that is done to Northerners, when their government isn't prepared to step to the plate and make it a top priority to alleviate brutal poverty.

I will have questions on the impact of household income on families engaged with child and family services at the appropriate time. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I move that consideration of Tabled Document 317-18(2), Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 1, 2017-2018 now be concluded and that Tabled Document 317-18(2) be reported and recommended as ready for consideration in a formal session through the form of an appropriation bill. Thank you, Mr. Chair.