Caroline Wawzonek

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, so in December of 2023, it was a nineyear agreement that was fully executed. So, you know, in that sense, can I say it's permanent I suppose not. It is nine years, though. So that's far into the future and certainly creates an expectation that and that includes these positions for the nine positions for 20232024 and the four additional ones for 20242025. Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, again, I want to ensure that we do track these positions and we track the hard to fill positions. They are done by region. I'm just trying to see if I was able to give the Member an example. Well, and so that December 31st date that I'm using, there was 108 vacancies in the Beaufort Delta. That's 12 percent of the region's funded or rather funded positions so you can note slightly higher than the overall total. So perhaps lightly different slightly more difficult to recruit. But, again, would have to look at the underlying reasons. It may well be that there are some positions...

Thanks, Mr. Chair. So the evacuation travel support was only was quite narrow actually in its application. It was so only four there was $400 available by vehicle for folks who had been evacuated and were able to stay within the territory and stay at evacuation centres within the territory. Up to $750 per vehicle for those who had to travel south upon evacuation. And, you know and, again, I can certainly go through some of the rationale behind that with respect to the availabilities of accommodations and food at centres and flights. And I'm well aware that not everyone was able to make...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I don't I do believe that NTHSSA is likely to be running the program for 20242025 and then obviously the beginning of that business planning has only begun, we're only at the point of a mandate, and then developing the budget to support it, but this would then be one of those items that, with a commitment to continue to run it knowing that the last two years' budgeting is as I've described, that would be the kind of circumstance where the department would be expected to bring forward an adjustment to their budget to accommodate this cost. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I do believe that the Department of Infrastructure and ECC do work together in terms of having hydrologists. In fact, I'm certain they do. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So we certainly have received an advance under the I was going to say the DFA; I hope I've got the acronym correctly but I don't have that in front of me. That, though, goes to MACA. That's more on the recovery side as opposed to on the recovery and a response as opposed to the firefighting. The firefighting we may see some recoveries. There's a division as between firefighting generally versus firefighting as it applies to a community for which the federal government would provide some supports. But we've received $84 million to date, again as an estimate, advance on...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So I think I do understand the question. So the sup here is only because the collective agreement was overdue in terms of being reached. So there was an amount owing under the collective agreement. Once it was finalized, that falls under this fiscal year. Only it wasn't built into the budgeting for the fiscal year because it was still being concluded. Now that that agreement's been concluded, we can bring it forward to the Assembly to reflect what the 20232024 total amounts would be. That collective agreement as it applies going forward will form part of the budget of...

Mr. Chair, I'm sure that the Department of ITI would be happy to provide a briefing on their film strategy. I think they've seen some successes with it. Thank you.

Yes, Mr. Chair, we'll certainly look into it and seeing if we can find out from the Department of Justice what the history of this ask is and whether or not there was any denials. Mr. Chair, it is a supplementary appropriation request, so I am trying having been admonished many times to stay within the boundaries of what the parameters are by the Speaker and now by yourself, I'm simply trying to think to the boundaries of the supplementary appropriation requests. But I made quite a lengthy number of commitments to give additional departmental operational information to Members, and I...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, there is a variety of different tracking mechanisms that are underway. Every department is responsible to manage all of their internal positions. Finance, through the human resources division, then elects and collates that information. Mr. Speaker, I would commend our annual public service report. It doesn't put vacancies in there, but it does put a fair bit of information that shows the ascensions, so the different hiring of employees, retention rates, retirement rates, and certainly does give a good sense of what some of the movements are, and it does...