Caroline Cochrane

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The NGO Stabilization Fund is actually one that I am very familiar with. It is a resource very critical to these social agencies, the non-government social agencies within communities in the Northwest Territories. It was presented during the capital planning process.

There was a bit of miscommunication. It was promoted as it was really to support volunteers. That is a little bit incorrect. The assumption is that non-government organizations do use a lot of volunteers for their boards. A lot of the boards actually have to have volunteers. They cannot be paid positions. The...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Currently, the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs has nine unfunded positions. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. At this point, no, we are not inviting other communities to the table. We are looking at the communities that have some kind of ground ambulance or rescue services in place to be able to provide those provisions, so only those that have the services that can provide ground ambulance currently are going to be at the table. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Currently, we are not looking at turning it over to LGANT. Currently, LGANT only provides support services to their membership, whereas we provide supports to all municipal and Aboriginal governments. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I wish to table the following document entitled "Follow-up Letter for Oral Question 477-18(2): Housing Engagement Strategy." Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The department provides supports to all community governments in the administration of their obligations as a government. When we notice that communities are having a little bit of difficulty, we actually bump up our support to those governments and offer to go in. It can be one-on-one. We can be working with them intensely. Again, once communities have identified a problem or we see a problem, we intensify our support to that community. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Our beginning meeting will be at the beginning of the fiscal year in April. I am very hopeful that we will have it done in time for the end of the fiscal year. The reality is we are dealing with five organizations, so what I would like to see as a timeline might not be the same timeline that all of the five organizations -- there are some issues that need to be hashed out, so I do see it taking a little bit of time to deal with it appropriately. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. One thing that I did forget to mention also, besides the radio and television, was the social media that we use as well. I do see it as quite cumbersome, and perhaps not very safe, actually, to be knocking on doors or calling residents individually, but when we develop the emergency plan, we will take that into consideration. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. No, that was a master trainer position. It was a two-year term that sunsets, and it was never filled the whole time. That is why you are not seeing the difference. The money from that sunset was returned to Brilliant North, so we returned $100,000 to Brilliant North. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Currently, our commitment is that we would provide the findings of the survey to the Aboriginal and municipal governments. If they wanted to provide some feedback to us, we would be open to receiving it. However, we have asked each municipal government and each Aboriginal government to fill in the survey, not only independently but as a group, individual groups. We have them identified within the survey, so we will be taking the feedback from the municipalities and the Aboriginal governments and we will be considering that impact as well within our survey. Will I be doing another open house on...