Caitlin Cleveland

Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Just further to the questions from my colleague from Yellowknife North, further than just the tendering process, there's definitely a sense in communities of kind of not knowing what direction Housing is going in or when their units might be updated or retrofitted or what kind of the future of housing looks like in the Northwest Territories. And that's not just even in small communities; that's regional centres. That's even here in Yellowknife. And so even though there's not, I guess, a willingness to put out a public document talking about tendering dollars...

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, Bill 48, Arbitration Act, received second reading in the Legislative Assembly on March 30th, 2022, and was referred to the Standing Committee on Social Development for review.

Bill 48 replaces the existing Arbitration Act with a more modern law modelled after the Uniform Arbitration Act of 2016. This update is to modernize old arbitration legislation and bring it in line with international best practices. Committee received no submissions from the public on Bill 48.

On October 5th, 2022, the standing committee held a public hearing with the Minister of...

I'll ask more if you let me.

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, that calculation that the Minister was talking about was for rent, not for the repayment of arrears. And so currently in the Northwest Territories, we have elders, at the age of 87, paying over half of their monthly income towards their arrears and for their housing. So their combined amount that they're paying back to Housing NWT exceeds half of what they're bringing in. That means an elder living in a small community in the Northwest Territories is trying to pay for all the rest of their monthly expenses with less than $300. And by my...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my questions today are for the Minister of NWT Housing. Mr. Speaker, I'm wondering if, to start, the Minister can let the House know how or what portion of arrears, rather, are held by elders? Thank you

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I move, seconded by the Member for Great Slave, that the Standing Committee on Social Development Report on Bill 48, Arbitration Act, be received and adopted by the Assembly. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, I move that this committee defer further consideration of the estimates for the Department of Lands at this time. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Mr. Speaker, your Standing Committee on Social Development is pleased to provide its report on Bill 48, Arbitration Act, and commends it to the House.

Bill 48, Arbitration Act, was referred to the Standing Committee on Social Development for review on March 30, 2022. A Plain Language Summary for Bill 48 was tabled on the same day.

Bill 48 proposes replacing the existing Northwest Territories Arbitration Act with a more modern law modelled after the Uniform Arbitration Act, known as the Model Act. The proposed new NWT arbitration governance includes updates on:

How to begin and conclude...

Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, I move that this committee defer further consideration of the estimates for the Northwest Territories Housing Corporation at this time. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you very much, Madam Chair. The beauty of the internet is I've now got the annual report in front of me here. And the annual report doesn't tell us what houses in what communities are going to be retrofitted by Housing NWT. It doesn't tell us what communities are going to see new houses. And what I'm thinking of here is that if there are community governments or Indigenous governments that want to get involved in housing and don't have kind of the ability to see where Housing NWT is going, it's hard for them to work in partnership with Housing NWT and to really support that work and to...