Julie Green

WHEREAS Tabled Document 237-18(3), 2018 Review of Members' Compensation and Benefits Report, has been tabled in this House;

NOW THEREFORE I MOVE, seconded by the Honourable Member for Great Slave, that Tabled Document 237-18(3), 2018 Review of Members' Compensation and Benefits Report, be referred to Committee of the Whole for consideration. Mahsi.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have a question that relates to page 370, which is an information item. It's a revenue summary item. What I understand here is that the Government of the Northwest Territories is providing less money and the CMHC is providing less money to the Housing Corporation in the next fiscal year, to the tune of about $10 million. Just for clarification, this is even after the new bilateral agreement has been taken into consideration. Is that correct?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. A couple of things: I did not realize that the bilateral action plan was not approved. I thought that it was a done deal. Is that not the case? Thank you.

I am delighted that the Minister is interested in better ideas. I think that there it is, right next door in the Yukon. Among the benefits of the Yukon program is the collaboration between the Council of Yukon First Nations, Legal Aid, and the government. Does he see a way that this kind of collaboration could be replicated in the Northwest Territories for the production of these Gladue reports?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. What is it that would then trigger an increase? What is it about the review of applicants that would trigger an increase? Thank you.

Yes, thank you, Mr. Chair. So can the witness confirm that in fact decreasing this category had nothing to do with the money available in the federal bilateral? Thank you.

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. My questions are for the Minister of Justice. As I said in my statement, the Yukon government is piloting a program to train people to write Gladue reports. The purpose of these reports is to inform the court of the Indigenous offender's background so that the judge can take this information into consideration for sentencing. My question is: has the Minister given any thought to funding a report-writing program like the one in the Yukon here in the NWT?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you to the witness for that explanation. Of this money that is coming to the territories through the new bilateral agreement, with all the caveats we've previously heard about, how much of this money is going to be allocated to the North Slave? Thank you.

Sure, Mr. Chair. My observation is that, rather than having an additional $1.5 million available for modernization and improvements, there is actually $750,000 available. My question is: could the difference have been made up in another way, rather than reducing minor modernization and improvements? Thank you.

Thank you.