Rocky Simpson

Mr. Martin.

Thank you. Minister.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, will the Minister of Justice confirm if there has been, throughout this pandemic, any measured rise in drug trade in the NWT and has it resulted in a corresponding increase in drug enforcement or staff? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Martin. Member.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I guess what it comes down to, like, you know, as we talk about housing, it just comes down to dollar and cents. There's just not enough money there to go around, and, you know, with what we have, we going to have to, you know, make better use of it. With the increase of, you know, materials and labour and that, like, it's just driving the cost up where, you know, a million and a half dollars just doesn't do anything anymore. You know, in Yellowknife here, it'd probably eat that up in no time and people would still be you know, there'd still be a lot of people looking...

Thank you, Member. Minister.

Thank you, Madam Chair. You know, this program I think is very important to probably more so to Yellowknife and the regional centres where there is market housing and, you know, private homes. And I think it's very important that we look that we look at trying to increase increase that amount and trying to put more out there.

When we look around the Northwest Territories and like again Yellowknife and Hay River, you know, Inuvik and Simpson and Smith, there's a lot of modular units; there's a lot of trailers out there, and they seem to you know, they seem to have a lot of problems, and you...

Thank you, Minister. Member. Ms. Nokleby? No? Ms. Semmler?

Thank you, Madam Chair. And just a quick comment. You know, I'm pleased to hear, you know, all the all the right terms and all the right words with with the direction that that the department's going and working with other with other departments as well because, you know, for myself, I'm on the ground in Hay River. So I'm talking to the people that are affected. I'm talking to the people that are providing the service. So, you know, I can gauge what's being done and what's not being done. And, you know and I'll make sure that, you know, when I see any gaps or anything, any issues, that I...

The motion is in order. Nondebatable. All those in favour? Opposed? Motion carried.

Carried