Katrina Nokleby

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just want to make one last comment as I appreciate the Minister's comments around the training and awareness. A new thing that I recently had a constituent make me more aware of where we're often talking about traumainformed approaches to things, but I think we also need to have an FASD approach to our work and it's going to be something that you're now going to start to hear me saying to a lot of the Ministers on that side of the room, that just as much as we are affected by trauma in the North we're affected by fetal alcohol syndrome as well. So I think that there's...

Thank you, Madam Speaker. I would also like to ask questions of the Minister of Housing. In the government renewable strategy process that the Housing Corporation is undertaking, how is the government going to work with the private sector to address the skyrocketing cost of housing in the North? Is there is a plan to diversify where those leases are held or to build new housing units? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. And, yeah, that I would expect. I guess, then, leading to my next question would be has there been an ability or an interest or looking at what it would cost to put some of these programs on put them virtually, and could they even be put virtually because it is a trade type or some of it is very handson training. And then as well too, I think this is a great way to support skill sets so or to increase capacity within communities. So is there a want to, like, increase this funding over the next while, or is this going to be high? Is this high just as a catchup, and we...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. And I just, yeah, want to continue on with this conversation. I too find this all to be quite confusing and think that it definitely needs to not be a onesizefitsall answer because for me, if an Indigenous organization is doing it, that's great; we're going to empower them and then to take care of their people. But in Yellowknife, I find it hard because I don't know how I can ask or intervene because it is a third party entity. It doesn't make sense here because we don't have an entity that's, you know, an Indigenous organize or government that's specific to Yellowknife...

Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chair. So would this be an area or an item, then, that we would look to maybe want to remove from the act and put into regulations so that in the future it could be changed more easily without having to take a legislative change? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I just wanted to ask a bit of a question for more detail on the dust suppressant that the deputy minister mentioned. I'm just curious to know is this for the tailings that's adjacent to the roadway and which type of dust suppressant are they looking at? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So I guess just further along about the disaster compensation program, do we anticipate that there's going to be a lot of claims this year coming from the flooding that happened around in the Deh Cho last year? Are we prepared for that, or are we going to see more issues? Are we going to be back looking for more money later? Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. That's good to know that the families can also access the youth counsellors; it's not just for children.

My next question is does the Department of Health record statistics for children on overdose, suicide attempts, mental health assistance, medivacs, etcetera? If Ontario can provide us with the statistics that one in five children are having mental health problems, where are those statistics for the NWT? How many children are in our mental health system and how is their progress tracked and recorded? Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. Madam Speaker, my questions are for the Minister of Health and Social Services.

In the 2017 Child and Youth Mental Wellness Action Plan 20172022, HSS identifies numerous actions in several departments that were to have been implemented to improve the situation for young people. As it's now 2022, can the Minister please provide an update on the plan such as what has been completed, how have the outcomes been measured, and will there be a report and update coming? Thank you, Madam Speaker.

I'm good. Thank you, Mr. Chair.