Julie Green

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, in the Deh Cho region, there are no vacancies. In the Tlicho region, there is one vacancy in Whati with a competition in progress.

In the Sahtu, there are no vacancies oh, no. I beg your pardon. There's one in Fort Good Hope with a competition in progress.

In the Beaufort Delta, there is a vacancy in Ulukhaktok, and there is a vacancy that looks like a verbal offer has been accepted in Tuk. So that position has been filled.

Yellowknife region looks like everything's filled. South Slave, one vacancy in Fort Smith. Hay River, positions are filled. Fort...

I didn't hear it.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, Happy New Year. This is the end of the fiscal year and the end of the public health emergency.

Mr. Speaker, as you know it's been two years since we declared a public health emergency in the Northwest Territories and doing so disrupted the lives of NWT residents, along with people around the world, and they have been disrupted again and again by public health orders restricting travel and gatherings, closing schools to inperson learning, sending workers home, and preventing nonresidents free movement across our borders all to prevent the spread of COVID19...

Favour.

In favour.

In favour.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I wish to table the following the document: Additional Information for Written Question 3619(2): Mental Health Supports for Residents. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the vaccines that come to the Northwest Territories come from the federal stockpile. You need a specific licence, I've learned, in order to reallocate unused vaccine outside of the Northwest Territories. So we try to order only as much vaccine as we need so that the federal government has a grip on how much surplus they have to devote to other parts of the country or to other parts of the world as the Member referenced. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, when a resident of the Northwest Territories, who has been to a southernbased addiction treatment centre is ready to be discharged, the centre creates a discharge plan which puts the resident in touch with local resources such as the community counselling program. That would be the primary method.

The resident would then go on to attend counselling appointments; AA, if it's available in the community where the person is. We have a peer support fund which would enable people to create groups like AA in their communities if they thought that would be useful...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we we raised the value of the ontheland healing program in the fiscal year before this one. It's now worth $1.825 million. And so I feel that the money is adequate.

I note, and I have done this before, that the Tlicho are not taking advantage of all the different funds that are available to them for communitybased mental health and addictions support. So we've talked about the northern Indigenous wellness counsellors, who are here today. There was an open call to Indigenous governments to use our money, a milliondollar pot, to hire these counsellors. We do...