Jane Weyallon Armstrong

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I know my colleague asked about this, but I will say it again. I will ask this question as well.

The department used to produce an income assistance annual report. Why is this report not published anymore? Can the Minister commit to making the income assistance annual report publicly available again. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Does the Minister track demographics of clients; what do we know about the types of clients on income assistance?

Okay, thank you. Thank you, I was looking for a success story.

So, Mr. Speaker, can the Minister provide a percentage of how many people on income assistance, or how many people on income assistance leave the program because they are employed or no longer need assistance? Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, I move, seconded by the Member for Mackenzie Delta, that Committee Report 220(1), Standing Committee on Social Development Report on Bill 2: Missing Persons Act, be received by the Assembly and referred to Committee of the Whole. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Reports of committees on the review of bills. Mr. Speaker, your committee would like to report on its consideration of Bill 2, Missing Persons Act.

Bill 2 received second reading in the Legislative Assembly on February 26, 2024, and was referred to the Standing Committee on Social Development for review. Throughout the committee's review, the committee received five written submissions and held three public hearings in the communities of Yellowknife, Aklavik, and Inuvik where over 55 people attended overall. The committee also heard from the Minister of Justice and the...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Okay, as an Indigenous person, due to colonization we know that it almost the Indigenous language and culture were almost extinct. And based on that, you know, like, I don't really want to support or reduce or delete a budget from this from the corporate management. I don't want to do that because especially concerning Indigenous language and culture. What I would like to see and I did ask the Minister in our briefing, and she said, well, I hope so. I hope I will take this position to the regions. And that's what she said. So I was quite pleased about that. I would...

Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It is yes, it's regarding I know the extended health benefit, there are some some of my constituents, they're going to benefit from this. So it's good that it's there. But I'm going to speak to medical travel benefits.

I do sympathize with the Dehcho because that person, he worked many years, over 20 years, and paid his tax. I don't know him personally but there's a lot of people that know him in Tlicho region. And he paid his tax. He paid income tax, territorial tax. And yet we cannot provide a medical travel assistance to come home.

My constituent went...

Thank you. Okay, this one is for the residential care. Okay, the budget is good for the 20242025. I've been talking to some family members and I have I didn't talk to the people in care, but I've been talking to some family where it is hard for them especially, it is okay to visit the family that are in care, and I know there are some family that were very advocate, they really advocated for the family members that are in care so I know that they brought them back. They brought them back up North. They're in our regions in care. By there are some that are in group home. Family there wants...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. With reference to addiction treatment facility, there's a major difference within the budget. From 20232024, there's reductions for this fiscal year. Can the Minister explain to us why there is a reduction within current the fiscal year or for the upcoming fiscal year 20242025? Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This is also continuing with my questions for ECE Minister.

For income assistance clients that want to go back to school, this is what we heard from many of our constituents or from the small communities due to lack of housing, wants to go back to school and complete their education, can the Minister work with the Minister of housing to ensure that these students have their home to return to after studies? Thank you.