Katrina Nokleby

Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm glad to hear that it's fully subscribed and the Minister's support of it.

How much does the department work with the communities to help them prepare those proposals? You know, we often hear about the capacity issues. So it's one thing if they're having to write the federal government for money but then we're even making them write proposals to us. So I just want to know how much the department helps with that? Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, with the increase or the look at the money coming in and the plans for the future, I also have concern about, you know, the licensed daycare spaces or childcare spaces in communities. Is there going to be an opportunity or a way that family members can access funding through the new federal funding to provide that daycare for their own, you know, grandchildren or nieces and nephews? I would rather we paid family members to take care of their children versus people having to go out necessarily and work or grandparents that are just doing it at their own...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I asked an either/or question, not a yes or no. So will you be coming back for more money from us?

Mr. Speaker, as a child in BC in the 80s, I was one of the first to take part in CARE, an innovative program to raise awareness in young children about inappropriate touching and sexual assault. At that time the messaging around "stranger danger" was the caricature of the flasher in a trench coat lurking in the local park, something that happened to my sister once near our home and to me along my paper route as an 11yearold. Fast forward decades and our young people now face a new "stranger lurking in the dark" in the form of online cyber predators.

Mr. Speaker, since the election, I have made...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I guess I just wanted to sort of reiterate a little bit of what my colleague from Kam Lake is saying around just these numbers around the homelessness initiatives.

As I'm looking further into the housing issues in my riding, one of the things that's coming becoming apparent to me is that the lack of support services for the homeless and vulnerable populations then impacting the housing clients that are now in those apartments that are neighboring the downtown core, and so at first I was under the impression it was other people within the building but now I'm sort of...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, risk factors that increase the risk of experiencing sexual violence in Canada include being a young woman or girl living in a remote or northern community, being Indigenous, an immigrant, or black, being disabled, or identifying as gender diverse or 2SLGBTQ+.

How is the work being done by the status of women being sorry, executed in order to specifically reach or help the most at risk? What accommodations are being made or steps being taken to protect those at risk given the small town nature of the Northwest Territories? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my questions are for the Minister responsible for the Status of Women.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I guess I'm just a little bit worried about a strategy that's going to take a while and then it'll take a bit more time to implement, and I'm just worried that in the meantime the people in the downtown core are falling further and further behind, as well too the impacts and social impacts on families living in the downtown core is huge when I hear 7yearolds tell me that they're scared to come home or walk into the building with their mom, that's worrisome to me, or a mother with a fourmonth old that's not even living in her unit because she doesn't want to bring her...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and I have been using my questions to sneak in a few more stats. So sexual violence is very underreported. Only five percent of sexual assaults are reported. Last year, I spoke about Clare's Law.

Is the NWT any closer to adopting this law to protect Northerners against intimate partner violence? Has there been any progress regarding GNWT process or procedures to ensure greater safety for our people dealing with sexual assault and violence? And I do recognize that's probably just a lot of the same responses as my last question. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And Mr. Speaker, I thank the Minister for that response, as she is not the Minister of Justice so I do appreciate that her background does allow her to know those answers.

My next question is that the Status of Women Council has created a safety planning tool that can be found at SafePathwayNT.com for those experiencing sexual violence.

Can the Minister speak to what these tools are, how they were developed, and how will be they be distributed in order to reach all the vulnerable communities? Thank you.