Vince McKay

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We are, yes.

Thank you. I'll pass that to the deputy minister to respond.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. That is a good question. I think we'll have to take that back and get a response for you if that's okay, to get that clarified and see if we can get that for you. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The department is supporting the working group for that. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. That is a very good question. I don't have that handy in front of me right now, but I'll -- I know I sent out the community fact sheets, and they're on there, but I'll ask the deputy minister here.

I would have to say that's depending on what the job description is for the facility, rec facility maintainer. I mean, some facilities or some municipalities like Fort Simpson, for an example, you know, being a bigger facility would need a recreational coordinator or recreational facility maintainer more qualified than some place like a recreational coordinator in, let's say, Jean Marie River for an example. So, yeah, depending on what kind of facilities they're operating is the type of training they would need. Thank you.

Yes, thank you, Mr. Chair. So the federal government did do an update to the disaster federal -- the DFAA, and that is the federal government's policy, so our disaster assistance policy somewhat aligns to that, so that's going to be updated a little bit to align to that or -- yes, so, but what it comes down to -- I'll just leave it at that. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. For those positions, you know, being the technical part that they are, they would need certain qualifications in order to train, like facility maintainers or, you know, the firefighter training, stuff like that. So those -- the trainers would need the training, and also the people on the ground would need the training to operate the water treatment plants, the facility maintainers, and the other programs that are offered. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes, and I -- you know, I agree with the Member. There's definitely -- once the afteraction review is completed, there's probably going to be some changes. But we also can't speculate what those changes are so we obviously have to wait to see what potentially the identifying costs are going to be and how we're going to act on them. Some of them may not be costs. Some of them just may be operational. So you know, once the afteraction review is complete and we're able to see what we have to do, then we can start putting feelers out there for costs in regards to what...

Yeah, thank you, Mr. Chair. So we're always looking at ways to get positions into the communities. You know, some of the most recent positions were the emergency management coordinators to assist with the regions for the position -- or for emergencies and stuff. So we have currently those two positions that are one in the South Slave and then one in the Beaufort Delta that are relatively new, and we're constantly looking at ways to getting more positions in the smaller communities through training initiatives or anything like that. Thank you.