Rylund Johnson

Thank you, Madam Chair. Can the there's a number here, other adjustments including $1.8 million, mainly for collective agreement increases. Can the Minister just provide how much the RCMP's collective agreement increases were specifically?

No further questions. I'll bring it up another time. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I believe right now, according to my count, there's four lawyers in the territory who don't live in Yellowknife and one of them is a Member of this House.

Have we looked into I know we have some positions that work for legal aid in the communities. None of them are lawyers. Have we looked into the feasibility of moving one of the legal aid clinics outside of Yellowknife? I'm a believer that access to justice requires lawyers in places even, you know, just to have someone to talk to in a community. And is that something that the department has reviewed? Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I was wondering if we could get a breakdown of how many would be in the Hay River men's facility, Fort Smith men's facility, and North Slave men's facility. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. We're spending 30 about $40 million on corrections here under can I just get an explanation of what the difference between community corrections is and corrections administration and facilities? Thank you, Madam Chair.

Yeah, thank you, Madam Chair. I guess I would just you know, I think these community justice committees are just a long way away from where we would like them to be. I you know, I know many times they've struggled to retain members and retain staff which has made diversion, you know, difficult. Even here in Yellowknife when, you know, there's been times where we've been unable to divert files because the community justice committee just is not operating. And I think this is an area where we really could be a leader. You know, there's sentencing circles happening in other jurisdictions. There...

Thank you, Madam Chair. Are there any advancements or talks about increased RCMP presence in Tsiigehtchic?

Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm looking at the community justice committees line on 280. I notice last fiscal's actuals were $1,658,000, and we have the same budget of $2 million. So there's, you know, there's about $500,000 there that's not being spent. Can I just get an explanation why, and is the reason because we just are not always having community justice committees operate in all of the communities? Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. So I kind of get the math here. It makes sense for the Housing Corp to build RCMP units because then we get the 70 percent rate covered under the agreement thus giving the Housing Corp a little revenue. Is this $809,000 our portion or is this then under the 70/30 split? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And I'm sure the Minister will keep us apprised of his different approach.

One of the things I would really like the Minister to look into is tieing our minimum wage to inflation. I know we have the second highest right now, but we're kind of in a tie with Yukon and BC and it looks like Yukon's going to pass us on April 1 when inflation goes up. And so we're kind of in this constant battle where we have a political choice to raise the minimum wage as opposed to many jurisdictions who just automatically raise it with inflation. Is pegging the minimum wage to the consumer...