Caroline Wawzonek

Mr. Speaker, one in five Canadians experience a psychological health problem or illness in any given year. Only 23 percent of Canadian workers feel comfortable talking to their employer about a psychological health issue. Today I want to share how the Government of the Northwest Territories is recognizing the importance of our employees' psychological health and safety.

As an employer, the Government of the Northwest Territories is responsible for safeguarding the health, safety, and wellbeing of territorial public servants to ensure we have a strong workforce. Traditionally, eliminating...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I don't I'm happy to come back perhaps tomorrow if there's questions on the floor regarding the total estimated or projected costs related to both the emergency response as well as to the fire response. I'm hesitant to give rough estimates when I don't have that information before me. I don't want to contribute to the conversation in a way that won't advance it with accurate numbers. So, again, I hear the Member asking. As I said, I'll go back and make sure that we have those numbers put together. Numbers can values do still continue to come in. There's still...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I mean, as of right now, or at least as of February 20th, I understand there were only seven agency nurses employed. So the number can vary fairly significantly. And obviously it's certainly hoped for reasons already described to not require any. In order to offset the need for agency nurses with vacancies within the department, those staffing dollars, when a position is vacant, can then be utilized to deal with the vacancy, namely, by bringing in an agency nurse. It's not supposed to be a longterm solution. So obviously if they're fully staff or more fully staffed, then...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So this comes in under the framework of from Environment and Climate Change Canada, the panCanadian framework on clean growth and climate change is meant to support different regions across Canada meeting GHG reduction targets, the 2016 Paris Agreement reduction targets. So these different funds are negotiated with all jurisdictions to provide funding towards that goal and specifically towards the goal of having projects that will help either generate economic growth that is under a clean growth envelope and/or projects that help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Thank...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Firstly, those two positions are staffed and just to follow up. But then with respect to climate change preparedness, public reporting, Mr. Chair, I believe there would be. There is sorry, I'm just trying to see that one. So there's the panterritorial adaption partnership which runs over this fiscal year. And, yes, as far as what kind of reporting is under that, I don't have the detail here, Mr. Chair. I can certainly ensure that we provide it to the public.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, that is going to be a key question in order to resolve this both for ourselves and the department of health. I don't have a detail of that operational plan in front of me but I, again, will certainly ensure that between myself and my colleague that we will have that ready and start to communicate that to Members and to the public. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, so, I mean, there's certainly there's the specific items that are here on the supplementary appropriation request. But, yes, there's different contracts that come due at different times. So, for instance, facilitybased addictions treatment, we'll be having we'll see an RFP go out in 2024 and then for that would be expected to begin for the following fiscal year. But I know that there's a fairly lengthy list of contracts that are administered by Health and Social Services and could perhaps convey to my colleague that that information could be provided as part...

That's correct, Mr. Chair. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, there's a chance. There's a chance they would support the travel support, not the income disruption. So income disruption wouldn't, as far as we understand, qualify under the financial assistance arrangement which is really meant to support the emergency piece. So, again, so yes, that $3.6 million was a decision made early in the fire season to try to support folks who had been subject to multiple evacuations. The Travel support program came a little bit later in the fire season. Again, we made the request; we've put it in. I believe it will be going in...

That is on the total, Mr. Chair. Thank you.