Kate Reid

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have one more question of the project listing. On all of the major retrofit listings, they are identified as public housing units save one which is one unit of market housing in Fort Liard. Can the Minister please speak to why that one unit is market housing? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. There is one item on the list -- the project listing on page 74, biomass projects public housing, and it lists the location as territorial. Could the Minister please give more detail about what locations the biomass projects are projected to go to in public housing? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I'm specifically interested in the women's society's recommendation that asks for resourcing for Street Outreach here in Yellowknife to be a 24/7 team alleviating pressures on the RCMP. Can the Minister commit for his department to seek funding pots for services across the GNWT, departments across the GNWT that might address this crucial need? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, would the Minister of Justice be willing to explore a formalized relationship with an external oversight agency of the NWT's RCMP, an arrangement such as the one between the Yukon and the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Mr. Speaker, I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Hay River South, that Committee Report 17-20(1), Standing Committee on Procedure and Privileges Report on the Review of the Rules of the Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly, be received by the Assembly and referred to Committee of the Whole. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Mr. Speaker, today I would like to speak to reviewing policing outcomes. As discussed in this House many times, including our last sitting, with a motion on supporting mental health response, the NWT relies a great deal on the services of the RCMP. The NWT asks more of them than what is truly their role, Mr. Speaker, and I don't believe it's fair to treat them as social workers.

RCMP services are one of the last places we should be asking people to do more with less. I'm glad that there is some change on that front, for instance through partnerships between NGOs and multiple levels of...

Thanks, Mr. Chair. Nothing else at this time.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So just a really basic question to start. The capital asset retrofit fund, there's two lines here, TCA and DM. Could the Minister explain to me what the difference is, please. Thank you.

Yeah, thank you, Mr. Chair. And thank you to the Minister for that. I know the PAC for Sir John has reached out to her and is looking for a path forward on this project, obviously not in this particular budget but maybe for next year's budget. And so I'm wondering if I could get a commitment from the Minister to respond to the PAC to look at different funding pots that may exist for this kind of work if the money is tight for her? Thank you.

Thank you. So I can respect that answer. I just -- I guess I'd like to hear from the Minister of Environment and Climate Change that, in fact, yes, having -- even though there aren't any other options, vehicles, all of our infrastructure that emits greenhouse gases, does impact climate change. Thank you, Mr. Chair.