Daniel McNeely

Thank you, Mr. Thompson. Minister Sebert.

Thank you, Minister Sebert. Ms. Green.

Thank you, Mr. Thompson. Minister Sebert.

Thank you, Mr. Thompson. Minister Sebert.

Agreed. Okay. We will move on to the next activity, starting on page 295. I will read this activity page out, and we will discuss the detail. Department of Justice, services to the public, operations expenditure summary, $4,249,000. We can now proceed on with the detail following that. Ms. Green, did you want to speak to this activity? Okay, Ms. Green, you've got the floor.

Thank you, Mr. Thompson. Minister Sebert.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The Minister, in his opening remarks, had mentioned to the highlight bullet number one here on forced growth funding to provide these types of initiatives, including training. Years ago, the special constable really played a vital role in assisting the police officers here years ago and, in some case, even survival on the land as they made their trips out to the different outpost camps.

Can the Minister elaborate if some of this forced growth amount will be or is looking at being designated towards a special constable program in some of the communities that do not have...

Thank you, Ms. Green. Minister Sebert.

Yes, thank you, Mr. Chair. We will move that to the appropriate page there, as you mentioned. The overall Justice Department, when you look at the pie, expenditures are good. I am in support of the department moving further once the budget is passed, if it is passed, and implementing the expenditures to improve some of the areas that we are going to be suggesting here today.

One of the areas that I think we really need improvement in is rehabilitation and reconciliation program delivery in our North Slave Correctional Centre. At any given time, if we went there with a taxi later on, I think you...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Looking at the expenditures that are going to kick in here in a few months, or a few weeks, it still allows time for scheduling and planning. My first question related to that is on the funding provided by the federal government for cannabis education. Is the department going to be developing, or has it developed, a community-by-community education plan and schedule? If the Minister recalls, take the Sahtu, for example, only one of five communities was visited by our committee to discuss the legalization of cannabis. Now that we have some money to provide some education...