Caitlin Cleveland

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, climate action is reconciliation. We're on the heels of a dry summer season of record heat and wildfire in many parts of the world spurred by a rapidly warming planet and marked by a significant absence of global climate action ambition. Yesterday we heard an excellent synopsis of this government's persistence to overpromise and under deliver on climate action and the grim reality of the progress of energy alternatives. Globally, Indigenous people protect 80 percent of the world's biodiversity but account for less than 5 percent of the global population...

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Madam Chair, I move that this committee defer further consideration of Tabled Document 97319(2), 20242025 Capital Estimates, at this time. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, your committee would like to report on its consideration of Bill 94, Miscellaneous Statute Law Amendment Act, 2023.

Bill 94 received second reading in the Legislative Assembly on June 2nd, 2023, and was referred to the Standing Committee on Social Development for review. On June 29th, 2023, the standing committee held a clausebyclause reading with the Minister of Justice.

Madam Chair, the committee reports that Bill 94, Miscellaneous Statute Law Amendment Act, 2023 is ready for consideration in Committee of the Whole. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm going to go back to that one because I'd like to hear it from housing because I'm not going to make assumptions on that one. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, I move that this committee recommends the Department of Education, Culture and Employment review the territorialbased support team function to ensure teachers and students receive the support they need in a way that meets the community’s needs and establish outcomefocused measures to determine if the team is achieving its goals. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you very much, Madam Chair. What I'd like to know is if these units that are incurring major retrofits, are they currently empty or are they currently being lived in. If they're empty, then I would assume this will reduce the wait time. And so I'm wondering if Mr. Martin can also speak to that. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, I move that this committee recommends that the Department of Education, Culture and Employment build a northernspecific model of coordinated wraparound services for NWT schools. Thank you.

Sure. Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, whenever we review the budgets for Housing Northwest Territories, I find that I get very frustrated. And one of the reasons for that is we never have a really good indication of what kind of investment we're making in housing and what specifically we're getting for that, especially when we're talking to residents of the Northwest Territories.

And so one example of that is if you look at the 20232024 Capital Estimates, the capital estimates were $35 million, 35 five, and then when you look at the revised estimates, all of a sudden we have 136...

Madam Chair, I move that this committee recommends that the Department of Education, Culture and Employment draft aspirational legislation for its next iteration of the Education Act that takes a holistic, traumainformed, and culturally-responsive approach to education that is accountable to all NWT communities, its residents and, most of all, its youth. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I move, seconded by the Member for Inuvik Twin Lakes, that Committee Report 7219(2), Standing Committee on Social Development Report on Bill 75: Council for Women and Gender Diversity Act, be received and adopted by the Assembly. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.