Caitlin Cleveland

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, I move that this committee recommends that the Department of Education, Culture and Employment partner with the northern private sector, nongovernmental organizations, and Indigenous governments to develop oneyear lease agreements and rental assistance payments to accommodate private sector lease requirements to support housing partnerships and increase access to affordable housing. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, the committee's report was read into the record on March 7th, 2023. The Standing Committee on Social Development focused our study on homelessness prevention. Homelessness prevention targets policies, practices, and interventions that prevent a person from experiencing homelessness or reducing the risk of homelessness reoccurring. The Northwest Territories is facing an unprecedented housing crisis directly connected to a rising number of people experiencing homelessness throughout the territory, and in this territory the consequences of homelessness are...

Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, the committee's report was read into the record on March 27, 2023. In October 2022, the Office of the Chief Coroner released the 20212022 early release of suicide data to raise alarms on the upsurge of deaths to suicide in the Northwest Territories. According to the Office of the Chief Coroner, the majority of those impacted were males between the age of 20 and 29 in the Beaufort Delta and North Slave regions of the NWT.

In response to the loss of life among youth to suicide, the committee prioritized speaking to youth on the topic of suicide...

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Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, I move that this committee recommends that the Government of the Northwest Territories provide a response to this report in 120 days. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you very much, Madam Chair. And thank you very much to the Minister and his desire to meet committee halfway here. But there are still concerns that were raised in committee that this motion does not acknowledge. One of the concerns that was raised by committee was the ability of a complainant to disclose the identity sorry, the ability of a child care provider to disclose the the identity of a complainant to legal counsel or to another person assisting them in defending against the complaint. So while this allows somebody to disclose to a lawyer that they've retained, sometimes people...

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, I move that this committee recommends that Housing Northwest Territories work with Indigenous governments and the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation to establish an Indigenous housing fund that will provide Indigenous governments and/or Indigenous nongovernmental organizations financial support to purchase, operate, and manage housing aimed at Indigenous individuals and families. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Yeah, thank you very much, Madam Chair. And for anybody listening, I just wanted to acknowledge that while our report in full does use the 2SLGBTQ IPA plus acronym, that it isn't used here in this motion because the motion refers to a specific course name. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, Bill 68, An Act to Amend the Child Day Care Act, received second reading in the Legislative Assembly on November 3rd, 2022, and was referred to the Standing Committee on Social Development for review.

Bill 68 does not address the existing challenges of the Northwest Territories' early learning and child care sector or fix the damaged relationship between the sector and government. It does, however, put in place necessary basic rules, such as a certification process for educators, and allows the Northwest Territories to catch up with the other...

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, I move that this committee recommends that the Department of Health and Social Services expedite the application approval and reporting requirement process of the On the Land Healing Fund to uphold Indigenous governments and organizations selfdetermination and ensure allocation of annual funds. Thank you, Madam Chair.