Jane Weyallon Armstrong

Yeah, well, that's good because we need that too as well because in the region, like, so we can, you know, do better or try to do something that's going to help benefit our young people because maybe this, A, is not working, maybe B will work, you know, whatever it is that, you know, we're trying to do to help our young people. So I'm glad.

And then another one too is that here I see income support. So there's a huge increase. I just want to ask our Minister what are they doing to help the income support assistance client to get off income support to become more selfsufficient?

Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you. And then I would like to say the same thing too. Congratulations, you guys did a good job, especially with the student finance assistance program, lifting the cap for the Indigenous students, because that's good. That's going to help a lot of our students in the small communities because usually the first year that they leave, you know, after graduating high school, they spend their first or second year upgrading and that's not it's a concern for a lot of parents. I'm not discrediting the teachers or anything because we have a lot of good teachers. We have a...

No, I am not saying that remove this because we do need this in schools. In the early years in residential school, it had an impact on a lot of our people, you know, because a lot of them lost our language and way of life. And so I will not ask, you know, to get rid of this in school. But I'm just saying that in general, like, here Indigenous language and education secretariat, you know, some of these cultural and heritage, why not transfer some of those to the Indigenous governments so that they can run their program or, you know, like, that they see fit based on you know, according to their...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, climate change is impacting our ability to get fuel, food, and other resources into small communities. The winter road system we currently use is vulnerable to climate change. In fact, the winter road to Gameti opened on February 27th. This will most likely be one of the shortest winter road seasons on record. I have elders, contractors, and residents who do not feel that they can use the winter road systems due to the rapidly changing ice conditions. Some people do not feel safe.

Mr. Speaker, I don't blame these people because in the past I do not blame...

No, that's good. I just wanted to know. Thank you.

Okay, sorry about that. Yes, thank you for the information. You know, like I mean, I'm it's good to know that so I can pass on the information and then hopefully the Minister of housing is hearing this and will let my constituents know how much they still owe, you know, like, so they can move on with their life.

Another one too is that I don't know if somebody asked this already. Coroner office. There's an increase, and I just wanted to ask how many coroners do we have in the Northwest Territories?

With reference to rental office, I do have some constituents where some other people have been coming to me and saying that they their arrears were garnished. But they haven't received any up to date information about how much they still owe. And they said they don't get nothing. They don't know, and they're still being garnished. And they don't a lot of these people they said they want to know how much they still owe but there's no there's no communication coming from the rental office or whoever was supposed to be communicating with them. So I just wanted to know, like, what else is...

Okay. Well, I just said that he should they should create a position in Whati so that way people can work with their you know, deal with work with the people over there in that community because the two yes, the in Behchoko, we have there's over 2,000 people there and the last in January, when they had the court, I know a lot of our young people's name were on the list and it's you know, it's sad, you know. And a lot of these young people, you know, there are a lot there's a lot of good people but everything involves drugs and alcohol. So if we do have more positions, we have more...

Okay, thank you. Well, then okay, this crime rate, community corrections, correction administration and all that, of the total fund here, so how many of this funds is allocated to Tlicho region, because I know I know we're still in the high, you know, with the crime rate. So how much of this money is allocated to Tlicho region alone?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I live in the area. A couple years ago I know, due to climate change, the road to the communities, to Gameti was closed early, and to Wekweeti as well. So, yeah, I think she doesn't need to tell me, but we do know because we live there.

So, Mr. Speaker, we see a lot of benefits for energy and food security with allseason roads to our communities. What future planning is being doing to connect all the Tlicho communities to clean and renewable energy? When can the communities of Gameti and Whati expect a transmission line? Thank you.