Katrina Nokleby

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...

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, when I look at the contributions funding in this section, there's a lot of really good pots of funding here that are helpful to communities, Indigenous organizations, etcetera, to get money into the communities and help their people. When I look at the numbers, a lot of that is remaining fairly stagnant. The antipoverty fund, which I know we've done, has increased over the terms of this Assembly, which is great. However, you know, there's things like the family violence prevention fund, which has only gone up slightly; the communitybased suicide prevention...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I hope that we'll have a seat at the table. I think always that any of the experience that I'm sure the department can offer would be well you know, something that would be good to input on. I'm sure you know a lot better than the federal government necessarily what needs to happen. I think that's it for me now. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. And is there any funding that's potentially coming from the federal government or something we could access around Indigenous supports, particularly for people working in the communities or living in the communities, sorry. And the reason, again, I ask is that I'm aware of people that have had to move to Yellowknife in order to access the services here for their children or to another regional centre. And I guess my question is is there some way to leverage attention from the federal government on Indigenous issues and reconciliation to get some money to sort of...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would appreciate that, but I'm disappointed the Minister can't tell the public right now what they are.

Another issue within engineering is that there are only about 13 percent of engineers in Canada who are women, and this is a very stagnant number. When we look at the Department of Infrastructure, it does counter a lot of the other GNWT departments in that it is not a department that has a lot women and particularly not a lot of women that are in technical roles.

Can the Minister speak to how the department is working to increase the diversity of the workforce...

Wrong end of the room. I would like to welcome Natalie Pressman with the CBC that has joined us. It's always nice to have media here. And I can imagine it gets to be quite a long day at times listening to us here. So I appreciate she comes. Thank you.

Thank you. And I play soccer so if I ever get back to that with one of the people that work there, I will let them know that they should maybe schedule a meeting with the Minister and have a chat.

You know, I look at some of these line items and I recognize that there's been some influx of money, as mentioned to my colleague, for the Aurora College; however, given that we had the recent conversation with Giant Mine and the different proponents, I won't rehash all of that but, you know, I think this is an area where it's a good place again to get money, training, skills, and capacity into the...