Caroline Cochrane

I agree, Madam Chair. We need to have some kind of a way of monitoring it and evaluating it. On one hand, over the last four years, I have heard, "Train our people. Give our people the skills. Put them in our jobs." On the other hand, I hear, "You can't have my people in there because they are friends with this family and that family." We do have to make sure that there is a monitoring to make sure that biases do not persist, especially in the smaller regions where that is more of a liability. Thank you, Madam Chair.

I'm a little bit cautious because I do know how big the reading is and training is not usually at that level. What I can actually request for departments is that they look at any cultural awareness training that they actually have key points from all of the recommendations and calls to action in their key points. I don't think it would be appropriate to ask every person in training to read the whole report.

Thank you, Madam Chair. It would help, maybe, to do that first. However, I am not telling people to wait for it. There are issues happening, and the federal government is going to be doing it. BC claims that they were the first; they've got it done. BC is having problems with it now. I mean, they've just said that they've got it made into legislation, and now they've got a pipeline that the Indigenous governments are saying, "You never even consulted us."

It's one thing to put it in policy. I'm not willing to put it into policy. I mean, that would be my get-out-of-jail-free card. I think this...

Thank you, Madam Chair. That is one tool that will be different. We will still have our environmental economy Cabinet committee, but I took heed that that was nothing changed from the other Assembly. We are looking for change, so we will add the climate change into our decision-making at the Cabinet table. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I had to get clarification. It has been a couple of years since I was the housing Minister. Housing owns their own property. The housing units that would be transferred to home ownership, the land tenure would go with those homes. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. The training right now doesn't have a blueprint. It will depend on the first item within it that talks about that we will be looking at where decision-making can do. Then we will be having to assess what training is needed. It is a bit early today to say what training will look like when we don't know what we are dealing with at this point. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'd like to start by recognizing the honourable Member for noticing. It is a huge issue that should not only be important for all Indigenous women, but it should be important for all women, and all men, actually. This is a serious issue that is affecting our people, and it's not okay. I do know I kind of had to get some okays because I have looked at the recommendations and I know that they are huge binders, so what I will commit to, recognizing that, is I will share the binders, all of the report, with the Ministers. I will ask that they read the second section of the...

Thank you, Madam Chair. Like I said, I think that everything should be on the table and open for discussion. Anything that's within the Government of the Northwest Territories' purview, then I am open to discussion. I have to make sure that people do have basic rights, but I think that the core principles are something that we could negotiate. It's something that some Indigenous governments are fine with now, other ones who are fighting a bit more. It might not be a one size fit all, but, I mean, if it's only in the GNWT, I am willing to sit down and talk to them about it. That was my...

Thank you, Madam Chair. With every decision that comes across Cabinet, absolutely, there is a risk-management assessment that happens. For example, two that come to my head right now are: are there any legal ramifications of this? The other one is financial. Are there any financial ramifications? Again, to add to climate change, are there any climate change impacts? That's something that would be done. Every department that puts forward a proposal to Cabinet has to fill those out. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I will take it as a comment. I didn't hear a real question. I do appreciate that we're on the same track. We just talk different, though.