Rylund Johnson

Thank you, Madam Chair. We have a $300 million new hospital. The City of Yellowknife assesses it. We agree with that assessment. We pay this $3.5 million. What I am looking for is can I get a sense of: is this now an ongoing $3.5 million? I don't have an understanding of a hospital's value. Is this a depreciating asset? Will we continue to have this $3.5 million? Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. My question is: the Stanton Territorial Hospital makes up $3.5 million of the amount being requested here; what is the value of that asset, then?

This program for men who use domestic violence. Is there a tracking mechanism for measuring the success of the program?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am a strong advocate for restorative justice programming, as I believe that every time we can keep an offender from re-offending, it not only saves us money, but it prevents a victim from being traumatized once again. My questions today are for the Minister of Justice in regard to one specific program, the A New Day Program, which is for men who use domestic violence. My question to the Minister is: how many men are currently using this program?

Thank you, Madam Chair. Looking at this, our short-term borrowing limit is $525 million. Our long-term debt appears to be $419. We've now surpasses short-term over long-term. I really get a sense that this is a bit of a shell game in that we're moving money around, and I don't think that this is correctly characterized as short-term debt. Much of this, I am quite confident, is in fact long-term debt. Perhaps the Minister of Finance can tell me, I recognize this is getting largely into the budget, but what the expectation is for converting this short-term debt to long-term debt. Thank you...

Thank you, Madam Chair. Can the Minister of Finance tell us what the interest we will pay on this $135-million supplemental is?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I wish to table the Draft Rules of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories, dated December 2019. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

I believe that it is important that we are doing our own internal audits as well as a much longer discussion which I hope is brought to Committee, of whether not only are we complying with our own policies but whether they are the correct policies that ultimately will lower the number of children in care.

My question to the Minister is whether those internal audits will be shared with Members and brought to Committee.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I wanted to make my first questions today to the Minister of Health and Social Services on child and family services. What has happened in the past is we have had a number of audits from the Auditor General which were scathing of the treatment of children in care. There is no issue that requires greater oversight and accountability than when the state takes a person's child.

My concern is that what happens in this Assembly is at times we get the reports and a lot of noise is made, and then there is some media, and then it falls off, often between audits or between...

Along with my colleagues, I would like to recognize that today is World Human Rights Day, which marks the conclusion of The 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence. After publishing the priorities of this 19th Assembly, it was pointed out by a number of my constituents that any mention of working to address violence against women was missing from the list. This is an omission that I believe this Assembly must rectify. It must be made clear that taking action to end domestic violence and gender-based violence is a priority of this Assembly.

In the throne speech last week, the federal...