Katrina Nokleby

Thank you, Madam Chair. I think that one of the things that I'm realizing, and I'm hearing from my colleagues, is there is a bit of a disconnect between LHOs and what they're telling people out there and sort of, I think, the direction and the want of the department. Like, it's my understanding these opportunities just really aren't available in all of the communities. And one of my colleagues just mentioned that to me. Also I have had instances where I have communications with the department about a client or a constituent's file, and then what they're being told from the LHO side is much...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I just wanted to come back to the sort of training manual and move towards that empowering, I guess, clients to do repairs. And even as a homeowner myself, I could definitely use some help in, you know, how to keep maintaining my home better.

So my question, is there any move with this renewal or this client focus to bring back the idea of superintendents or people that are living within the public housing units that are then responsible more for, like, maintaining? So what would be a super back in the day they would call it, so somebody that lives in the building that...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that you will be or the Premier will be getting some information to correct her misinformation. Perhaps if she had met with the Red Cross, as she promised to last year, she would know these things directly.

My next question is to do with why does the GNWT keep using the term "contract" when answering me when I'm talking about a memorandum of understanding, not a moratorium of understanding, which the Premier mentioned on Friday in her response, but a memorandum of understanding. This does not have any costs associated with it, and it is not a...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Yeah, it's actually a really live problem given that some people's rent just recently went up $1,000 a month here in Yellowknife, in the Premier's riding actually. So I'm not sure if she's done anything about it, but I'm highly doubtful, so does the Minister my apologies, Mr. Speaker.

Does the Minister have any plans to deal with the Birchwood Apartment situation that is ongoing right now? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my questions are for the Minister of Justice. I've inquired with our legal team, and I'm looking around the Rental Tenancy Act and I'm finding it very confusing. So the Act allows for public housing clients to be charged a maximum security deposit, which is equal to the maximum amount of one month's rent. Given that public housing clients are subsidized and some of them are paying like $80 in rent, most of them cannot afford a $1,600 security deposit.

So my question is, since the Minister spoke in March of this past year and agreed that there was a lot of...

Mr. Speaker, Happy Friday. I rise today, like many of my colleagues, to acknowledge the wonderful work of all of the athletes, staff, parents, etcetera, that attended the Arctic Winter Games in Wood Buffalo. I had several constituents from Great Slave that participated, and I would like to acknowledge them here today. So we had Arctic Sports. We had Danicka Taylor in basketball. We had Abigale Nevet Jazard, Ashton Mercado, Emanuel Ramos, and Francesco Stefanos. And I'm probably going to butcher a few more names here, Mr. Speaker. We also had Adam Clinton and his coach Steven Dunbar, who we're...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, clearly the Minister does not have his ear to the ground. It's the only thing that I've been seeing all over social media right now is this increase in rent which can only really be called a forced eviction. It's shocking to me to hear a Minister say that he is not live to the situation of what is going on here in the capital.

I'm going to move on, though, because I think my opinions of this Cabinet are pretty clear.

News articles have pointed out that there is a new tenants’ association being formed. Are any plans being made to collaborate with this new...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I've seen on social media that a petition has been started to instill a maximum rent or rent cap for the NWT. Is this something that the Department of Justice could work on proactively ahead of receiving this petition? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Before I recognize my visitors in the gallery, I would like to say that I misspoke during my statement and didn't realize that Oliver Williams was in fact Cabin Radio's Ollie Williams, and I would like to just clarify that. I was sent a memo just to let me know that that was the case.

I would like to recognize CKLB's reporter Ian Down, who is in the gallery today, and his parents, Richard and Valerie Down who are visiting Yellowknife for the first time. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I agree with my colleague from Yellowknife North. I, again, in my former life prior to being an MLA, spent a lot of time in the territories' landfills. I was very lucky to be some of those people categorizing waste or working with land farms.

I do want to caution, though, that one thing that and sort of touched upon by my colleague, that the capacity of communities is often overtaxed. And this is an area where I think that is very much the case. And as well too that it doesn't always make sense necessarily for each community itself to be having maybe their own landfill...