Caitlin Cleveland

In favour.

Mr. Chair, I move that this committee recommends that the Department of Health and Social Services establish a recruitment strategy to increase the number of Indigenous foster families, including encouraging extended families to care for children by providing additional financial resources and support. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Mr. Speaker, I know colleagues have questions so I will sit down, thank you.

Mr. Chair, I move that this committee recommends that the Department of Health and Social Services lead work with communities to establish culturally safe and genderinclusive family violence emergency shelters in each Northwest Territories community with sustainable funding. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, on this one here I was looking for kind of commitments around what conversations are happening at federal tables in order to protect NWT businesses in contracts that they have entered into before COVID, before inflation, and that they are now bound to in this new market. And especially where we heard today a contract was signed in 2019, it is now 2022, and the work is still being expected to be on time well, it's not on time, on budget, under the same scope. And so you how is the GNWT working with the federal government to protect northern...

Mr. Chair, I move that this committee recommends that the Department of Health and Social Services establish family mentorship pilot projects that pair vulnerable parents with grandparents or elders to share encouragement, childrearing practices and Indigenous knowledge. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. And I guess that's a question that I'll have to come back around to once MACA has had these audited statements and are able to take a look at them after the end of the fiscal year. But we're two years in now, and so I guess a better question is given the results of the 2020 year end statements MACA would have already seen some changes to that. And so is the GNWT working to address these additional expenses, then, that would not have been part of the original municipal funding formula? Thank you.

In favour.

Mr. Chair, I move that this committee recommends that the Department of Health and Social Services tailor the healthy family program for vulnerable families to access culturally safe and affirming childrearing practices and expand the program to all 33 communities. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. So has the Minister received any requests from communities for influxes of funding for the end of the public health emergency to bring communities together through cultural, sport, or any kind of recreation events? Thank you.