Katrina Nokleby

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Yeah, well given that we've had a shortage of health care workers enough and this has been going on for long enough that it was one of the things that we did include in one of our priorities, can the Minister explain why the union wasn't approached sooner to negotiate the labour market supplement?

It's my understanding it was pretty much a give or you know, take it or leave it type scenario with not any room for negotiation. So why was the government not more proactive here versus reactive? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Okay, I'm guessing that maybe the Minister missed my question. It was around when are we going to actually see the work coming out of the working group the ideas, the gaps, the information that they think is needed, etcetera? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Mr. Speaker, this Thursday, March 31st, is the International Transgender Day of Visibility, an annual event dedicated to celebrating transgender people and raising awareness of discrimination faced by them worldwide. It is also a day to celebrate the contributions of transgender people and their achievements in society.

The day was founded by transgender activist Rachel Crandall of Michigan in 2009 as a reaction to the lack of LGBT recognition of transgender people, citing the frustration that the only well known transgendercentered day was the Transgender Day of Remembrance, which mourned the...

Just clarifying, Mr. Chair. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I'm looking at the item on page 31 around increasing the you know what, I've skipped myself ahead. Never mind, Mr. Chair. I'll come back for this section.

Yeah, well, if you're in a community that doesn't have it, of course they're going to want to opt into it. But are you asking the question in the communities that have it about how the satisfaction is. So to me, I wasn't presenting that as an either/or situation. Of course we want to have as many communities getting funding and subsidy from the federal government that we can however that doesn't mean we can't work to improve the program and to really advocate for our communities. Also too, we shouldn't be relying on the communities to tell us necessarily that this isn't working. I think...

Thank you for that. I guess I'm going to try this from a different approach.

So we all know that if we can reduce our fuel consumption, we're going to save us money. So I think where I'm looking to see a commitment is to build out the capacity within the Government of the Northwest Territories to do mitigation because as I listen to the Minister speak, what I'm hearing is we're focused elsewhere, we are other things that we are having to prioritize because of need, and that a lot of that is being directed by the federal government. And as well too, it's very hard for us to drop our fuel...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yeah, that is totally fine if the Minister wants to come back to me. I guess I'm just wondering when committee will start to see some of the recommendations and where the department is going with them.

My next question is around the working with Canada to increase the flexibility of the Nutrition North Program to better serve NWT residents.

I note that the recommendations were provided to Canada. However, it looks like the result has been more about just adding communities to the program, not actually looking to evaluate the program and see what changes need to be made...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. One of the items here is to work with the national and international organizations to advocate for the consideration of our unique perspectives on climate change impacts, adaptation, and mitigation.

I'm concerned when I look at the strategies on the government's website that a lot of talk there is about adaptation but there's not a lot there around the mitigation part of this work, and I'm worried that, again, we're being reactive instead of proactive. And I understand now, from my time with the Minister of ENR at COP, around, you know, the difficulties and from the time...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm just looking at the item around the construction of the fish plant in Hay River, and it does say that the timeline originally is fall 2023, and then it says will be completed in November of 2022. I just want to make sure that that is correct and it's not an error. Thank you, Mr. Chair.