Kevin O'Reilly

Merci, Monsieur le President. Today I will speak about the complex legal issues involving parental payments following separation between spouses and their dependent children.

Our Children's Law Act provides the legal framework for this support under Child Support Guidelines which also specify how maintenance payments will be calculated. Typically, a court order is issued specifying the amount of child support owed and establishing an annual process for evaluating and resetting the amount of support to be paid. These court orders usually say that parties will exchange financial information...

Okay, thanks, Madam Chair. Yeah, okay, when I look at page 361, I can see the COVID relief funding for 20202021 but there's nothing after that. So, you know, why then I'm going to go back now to page 360 and, you know, the main estimates for 20212022, $5.507 million. And then for 20222023, $5.38 million. Why is there still a decline even though the COVID relief money is not being there's none in last year or in 20222023, why is this declining? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Yeah, thanks, Madam Chair. I know our government seems to be pretty good at building highways. You know, Inuvik to Tuk but there's still no road that doesn't quite go into Whati. And we just keep building these roads and we don't really do very good planning around them, including public safety. So I just want to urge the Minister and the department to get on with this important work. Thanks, Madam Chair.

Yeah okay, no, thanks for that; I appreciate that. As part of that process, are we going to be looking at, you know, response times, use of various languages, and effectiveness/efficiency measures of the system as well? Thanks, Madam Chair.

Okay, thanks, Madam Chair. So does a fee increase require CRTC approval? Thanks.

Thanks, Madam Chair. So I guess I don't see it anywhere in here, unless I missed it somewhere, but what are the annual like, how much do we take in on an annual basis with 911 from the fees that are collected? Say over the last couple of years, what's the ballpark figure? That's, Madam Chair.

Merci, Madam la Presidente. Committee wishes to consider Tabled Document 56119(2): Main Estimates 20222023, with Municipal and Community Affairs and Executive and Indigenous Affairs. Mahsi, Madam Chair.

Merci, Monsieur le President. I want to thank the Minister for that and, of course, we're starting to get the word out right now.

Obviously, delays in receiving child support payments can have serious consequences for wellbeing of children. I've dealt with my instances of money paid to or some of these cases myself for my constituents where constituents have not been paid promptly.

Can the Minister say what provisions are in place to treat instances such as emergencies and takes swift action to recover and disburse payments for child support? Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.

Merci, Monsieur le President. My questions are for the Minister of Justice responsible for the maintenance enforcement program.

My statement outlined the complexities of adjusting the amount of maintenance enforcement payments and the difficulties of enacting these changes. The Minister told me that an automatic adjustment regime would be coming into place at the beginning of the year. Can the Minister tell me the status of this improvement? Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.

Thanks. Maybe I'll take another try at this. Okay, so there are staff presumably in this activity, and I'm just going to turn the page over to seven. So I would have thought that there would be at least a collective agreement increase but what we actually see is that the budget for this activity actually going down at a time when a collective agreement increase should be here. So where's that money being found, and why is it this activity getting less money in 20222023 than the year before? Thanks, Madam Chair.