Shane Thompson

I'm just looking through my notes here. I have one more about the fence issue here. Just so I understand this correctly, inmates who are minimum security will be now mixed with medium or maximum security inmates. Is this correct? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. On page 13, it talks about Charles Yohin School, home economics room. Could the Minister please elaborate further on this project? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. If you look at the people that serve time, you know, two thirds of their time, realistically you need somebody that's going to get six months in minimum security do the full time. That's, you know, maxed out, good behaviour, and that. How is that going to help people that may be minimum security that, you know, get less than three months but need this or want to be part of this process?

I know, when we were at Guthrie House, some of the residents said straight up that this here, they asked for more time. They said, "Whoa, we don't want to go anywhere. We want to stay. We...

Thank you, Mr. Chair, and I thank the Minister for that information. We are not talking about the hospital itself; we are just talking about the long-term care unit? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Okay. Thank you. Is the Minister saying that these inmates who are minimum security are going to be moved to Yellowknife or Fort Smith?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Can the Minister please elaborate on what the body holding unit that is being scheduled for Fort Liard is all about? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Again, here we go, government expecting other people to get that information out to it. I'm asking the Minister will you make a commitment now to tell the town of Hay River this is what we're trying to do and how we're changing it? And it's not a Guthrie House, it's a model and some of the concepts to it. So let's be honest, it's not a Guthrie House model, we are not segregating the inmates, we are looking at putting this facility in there and doing different programming. And my understanding, you'll have minimum to maximum security people in this facility. So, again, the...

I appreciate that from the Minister. I'm hoping these positions can get filled sooner than later. Has the department completed or have they developed a training plan for the staff? Can the Minister advise us of what that training plan is?

I guess the next question is because this is going away from the Guthrie House model. We were talking about dealing with addictions and treatment and that, now we're talking about putting maximum security or going higher than minimum security into this community. So has the department actually reached out to the community and said this is what's going to be happening? Because this is not really a Guthrie model concept. The Guthrie model concept is to segregate the prisoners so they're on their addiction treatment area. I understand we're talking about family violence and working with that, but...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, it's been about six months since the new fiscal year and the budget has been passed. I would like to ask the Minister of Lands some questions about the status of the equity lease issues. Can the Minister advise if the positions have been filled and the location of where the staff is? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.