Caitlin Cleveland

Mr. Speaker, employment opportunities, programs and services, and education and training are concentrated in regional centres in Yellowknife. In short, we are an economically and socially uneven territory. To access healthcare, social supports, training, education, and employment opportunities or to flee living arrangements that risk safety or sobriety or to move home to reconnect with family, we first ask Northerners to commit to homelessness. The Northwest Territories Housing Corporation community residency policy requires people to live in a community for varying lengths of time up to one...

Thank you very much, Madam Chair. I'm wondering if, in future, one of the things that we talk about quite a bit is the need for healing within correctional facilities and also the need for cultural programming, as well. I'm wondering if the Department of Justice would be willing to break out the financials that it spends year after year on cultural programming within its correctional facilities so that we can see that, as well? Thank you.

Thank you very much, Madam Chair. One of the conversations that I had with the Minister on the floor was that the Department of Justice was looking at making this an application-based program where communities would be able to design a program that works for them. Given that this really is a prevention program and that Justice deals largely with corrections, kind of downstream, I am wondering if the Minister is having conversations with the Minister of Health and Social Services to move this program upstream to Health and Social Services. Thank you.

Thank you very much, Madam Chair. I really appreciate that, and I look forward to good news down the road. My next question is in regard to the integrated case management program. I am a hundred percent a supporter of this program. I believe it does very good things here in Yellowknife. That being said, it is located here in Yellowknife, and the good work that they do and the way that they serve clients would be wonderful if that could work its way throughout the Northwest Territories. I have had multiple conversations on the floor of the House about the integrated service delivery model or...

Thank you very much, Madam Chair. One of my concerns is that I think, as I go through my other questions, we want to pull a lot out of this, but this page and the funds that go along with it have come down by about $600,000. We are wanting this section of Justice to do a lot more with a lot less money and not the additional funds that we are looking for. That is definitely a concern that I have, but I am happy to know that the action plan is coming. If the action plan does not come with dollars from the federal government, is there room for Justice to move money around to accommodate that plan...

Thank you very much, Madam Chair. I just have one quick question in regard to legal registries. I'm just wondering if the same kind of tracking of turnaround times that happened in the rental office happened within legal registries, as well, and if there is a backlog there? I'll start with that. Thank you.

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. I appreciate that, and I am very appreciative that the government is going through this procurement review. We have been in House now for a year and a half. We are a year and half into our term, and I believe a lot of us came into this job wanting to reform procurement and make sure that we are retaining benefit for northern workers and northern employers. I think that this is something that we need to, as my colleague says, get on the ground sooner than later. We need to have results for the people that we serve, and we need to have results for the businesses...

Thank you very much. Can the Minister confirm if all three new RCMP officers will be stationed in Yellowknife, or will they also be stationed in the communities? Thank you.

I hope questions like that happen in Committee of the Whole for ITI next week. Thank you. My second question is: time is money, Mr. Speaker, especially when you run and own your own business. I am wondering what the average time is between receipt of an application for the Business Incentive Policy and the northern manufacturers policy and confirmation of the application, as well, for the business owner.

Thank you very much, Madam Chair. I've had this conversation with the Minister before, just about concerns with making sure that NWT residents are able to have the same lawyer all the way through their legal aid needs and the consistency that that provides, and so I appreciate that information. Thank you.