Jane Weyallon Armstrong

Mr. Speaker, can the Minister of Health and Social Services commit to working with the local organizations Tlicho Government Friendship Centre, Tlicho Community Services Agency, and other agency in other regions as well, and the Minister of Housing, to find solutions to address the need for shelter space in communities? Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, people dealing with mental health and addictions need safe places. There are no shelters in the Tlicho region for those struggling with mental health and addictions.

Can the Minister of Health and Social Services commit to establishing a shelter in Tlicho communities? Thank you.

I see there's seven positions here that's for sports and recreations, active positions, and they're all located in headquarters, and there's six other regions. Any position is open and and is important for us, especially in the small communities in the regions where there's not too many employment. I think these positions, seven positions, or you know, like, one for each regions here there's six regions besides Yellowknife would be better utilized in the regions where because it's working with youth, and we working with youth volunteers. I see the budget has increased, not, you know, much...

Okay, with the recent experience in Tlicho region, that was an emergency for us because having, you know, access to clean water, and that's one of the mandate for the government too, is that to have to provide funding for program and services in the communities. This was an emergency. Flooding and fire is also an emergency situation. That's natural disaster. And so I just wanted to see I wanted to know why water and sewer, especially for water, having access to clean drinking water was not part is not seen or part of an emergency situation for communities as large as Tlicho region...

It would be nice if we could see that formula, how the funding's being allocated. And this also this other one too, community government mandate funding, that one that to close the gap. How is that funding going to be allocated among 33 communities?

I was going to ask we are on regional operations? Here, community government funding, it's 49 for this fiscal year and still the same in the new fiscal year. Does this reflect the current because we know that the inflation fluctuates and we talked about it before. I'm just wondering if it's added within this 49 for the next fiscal year?

Thank you. Okay, thank you, Mr. Speaker.

I am concerned, Mr. Speaker, that if the population of jails has decreased, does that mean that we are seeing people overfill or bottleneck in other parts of the justice system? Can the Minister provide me at a later time the statistics on the number of people people under probation by ethnicity, age, and gender in the NWT over the last five years?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Can the Minister provide to me at a later time the statistics on population of jails in the NWT over the last five years? Can this information include Indigenous male and female, and the ages. Thank you.

I just want to tell you again, Tlicho region is not part of North Slave region. So there's nothing in Tlicho region. I would like to see a position in Tlicho region because we have four communities that we are representing. So I would like to change that, you know, instead of North Slave, I would like to see one in North Slave region in Tlicho region, I mean. Sorry about that. Thank you.

Can you repeat that again?