Julian Morse

Okay. Thank you, Mr. Chair. And really appreciate that information and certainly encourage the department to pursue that work, which they're already doing. So I guess, yeah, appreciate that that work's taking place. Because -- and I guess I would just say, I mean, yeah, in a market-based community, that makes perfect sense to me. I'm wondering if do we need, then, to maybe think about splitting up the requirements of this program because, you know, again, I can't stop highlighting the work that social development's been doing and some of the great presentations that committee's been receiving...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Could the Minister or her staff kind of elaborate a bit further on that. Like, what are the real barriers that are getting in the way because -- and I wanted to talk about this one because it comes up very often. Some of our community MLAs in particular, you know, speak to -- and we heard about this a lot when we were doing our priority setting. We heard it from Indigenous governments. You know, people want to have a sense of ownership with their homes. And it's just -- it seems to be a goal that everybody agrees is a great goal to have, and yet here we have even quite a...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I think that is -- that's it for me on this page. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Maybe to give a bit more of a specific question, I do want to note that, you know, I've heard from constituents, and I certainly experienced when I was on the -- when I was on the board of the Yellowknife Housing Authority, that we're still working on perfecting the housing first model in terms of ensuring that there's adequate wraparound service, that it's a model that is getting people into housing. And, you know, one of the issues I heard about recently was a constituent who is -- got themselves into housing first and they're now homeless again because they were kicked...

Okay, thank you, Mr. Chair. On emergency management, something that was brought up to me when I was going door to door during the election is -- and pointed out to me is that emergency management operations tend to be managed in other governments, or at least are managed in other governments in some cases, by kind of a separate emergency management organization. Is this something that MACA's ever looked to whether there would be any benefit to it? I mean, I think certainly considering in a time of fiscal responsibility if it required setting up different structures, it may not be the...

Okay, thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm not sure if this is actually the right spot to ask this question, but it's one that I wanted to ask. Mr. Chair, how is Housing NWT collaborating with the health and social services to enhance support for transitional housing for individuals in recovery or addictions. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I continue to recognize that we've just got too many darn lakes in this Assembly.

Mr. Chair, has MACA considered assuming responsibility for other departmental emergency disaster programs such as hunters and trappers disaster compensation, fire damage compensation? These are both programs that are currently contained under ECE to perhaps -- or sorry, ECC. Thank you, Member from Great Slave -- to integrate service delivery and streamline emergency response responsibilities within the GNWT. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, what strategies does Housing NWT have in place to meet the current base budget shortfall related to funding emergency shelters in the NWT? I note that there's been a pretty significant drop in the funding over the years, so can the department -- or Minister, sorry, speak to this.

Excellent. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I really appreciate those answers and understanding better what's going on within the division.

I do note that the president kind of mentioned in her answer the community housing plans, and I am curious is that -- was updating the community housing plans, has that project been completed? Is there -- or is that ongoing work?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And thank you to the Minister for that answer. And so, Mr. Speaker, I understand that workplace morale can be a bit of a difficult thing to track and to measure. So I'm just curious has the department thought or the Minister thought about how she's going to track progress on this issue? Are they establishing measures? Are they, you know, taking a baseline to understand from staff where things are at now and where things are going? How are they going to be measuring success on this important issue in our health care system. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.