Katrina Nokleby

Thank you. And now I have a whole bunch of questions but I think I'm outside of the scope of what this budget item is about so I will stop there. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So get what done by the summer? Is that the designs, is that the money from the federal government that's needed, the building of the plant itself, geotechnical designs; can the Minister be a Minister be a bit more specific about what's going to be done by the summer? Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I would argue that we well know that increasing money into community pots of funding that work with mental wellness and health and just generally wellness, including nutrition, is always going to be good money invested. Just because a pot of money has not been spent doesn't mean that the need does not exist, and I think that when we talk to any of the NGOs and small community organizations, they often speak about the red tape and the hurdles that they have to jump through, the hoops, the reporting. They're not going to go to all this extra work just to get $10,000. So...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, on February 25th, Home Base Yellowknife hosted the Coldest Night of the Year, inviting residents to walk in the shoes of those experiencing homelessness in Canada's frigid winters. The walk began at Home Base's downtown youth centre and was followed by a hot chili supper cooked by Yellowknife city councillors Steve Payne and Ben Hendricksen.

Several community Members came out, not only to walk and raise funds, but also as volunteers to register walkers, as safety personnel or, as was my task, to run and bid on the silent auction. The Coldest Night of the...

Thank you, Madam Chair. Does the department have the ability to input around this Indigenous equity fund conversation or to at least facilitate that conversation between the federal government and Indigenous governments in the territory? Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. And does the Minister or the department know whether or not or can they somewhat anticipate if that would be part of this funding that's coming from the federal government that we already have been announced, or would we be looking for new funding for these changes or something that would be restructured internally? Thank you.

Yes, that's what I said. So my question is has that been analyzed as part of the supportive living and to see if it's enough for people in the territory or whether or not there's actually a greeter need that hasn't been identified because people aren't aware that they can qualify for programs like that? Thank you.

Thank you for that, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, when I look at the mental wellness and addictions recovery peer support and then just the recovery fund itself, those are both line items that are around a hundred thousand and then $180,000. Those are very low given the sorry, the issues around this problem in our territory.

Can the Minister speak to why we are not seeing any increased money here and why we actually seen a drop? I'm guessing some of that has been COVID money that was just available at that time, the 251 down to $100,000. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm just looking as well at the family violence prevention fund which has had a small increase of about just under $10,000. I do note that we have seen a lot of an increase since 20212022 but I have to wonder if that has to do with the COVID or the lingering pandemic effects.

Can the Minister or the department speak to whether that fund is being completely subscribed and whether or not we feel that we need to be offering more money here. Is this a way that we could get monies into the shelters or communities to do shelter work? Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. And I'm really glad to hear that. It does speak to a lot of the issues that we have heard from many of the smaller communities and the NGOs, and I appreciate that the department has been listening to that.

Given that block funding that's going to be created and I'm sorry, I missed and I'll have to go back and listen to which of those three pots it was that were getting combined will it be available to other organizations within a community, not just the Indigenous governments but, for example, even if just an individual wanted to get together and put an ontheland...