Tom Beaulieu

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, committee wishes to consider Supplementary Appropriation No. 1, Operations, and Supplementary Appropriation No. 2, Infrastructure, both for 2016-2017, and Bill 5, An Act to Amend the Vital Statistics Act. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Mr. Speaker, as a traditional economy, I'd like to ask the Minister what the full spectrum of supports are there for hunters and trappers?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I'm going to pick up on the Member for Nunakput's Member's statement and ask the Minister of Environment and Natural Resources some questions on traditional economy. I'd like to ask the Minister how much money is there in the traditional economy budgets, whether they rest in ITI or ENR? Thank you.

Can the Minister advise the House how much money has been spent on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder programs in the GNWT?

Marci cho, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, in my Member's statement I talked about early childhood development and the impacts of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. I'd like to ask the Minister of Health and Social Services if he could update the House on what activities or what work has been going on at the national level in this area of FASD? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I'm satisfied with that response. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I'm okay with calling the page first.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, as general comments, without asking questions, I apologize. In general, I know that the Housing Corporation has this infrastructure plan for, for the most part, improving the public housing inventory that they have on hand. I think it's very good. I notice that in my community where the Housing Corporation has been slowly renovating all of their inventory. It is getting to a stage where the authorities almost have new inventory.

One of the things that has become a point of contention or a difficult one to pin down seems to be the contribution as opposed to...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, committee wishes to continue the deliberation of Tabled Document 14318(2), Capital Estimates 20172018, and we would like to consider the NWT Housing Corporation first, followed by Health and Social Services. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Mr. Speaker, that is the same process we've been following for quite a number of years and, as a result, the number stays around 300. What I was talking about in my Member's statement is trying to find a way to actually increase that number substantially, so just talking about it more is probably not going to do that. So I'm going to ask the Minister if the Minister is prepared to sit down with Cabinet and set some concrete numbers for each department and have the departments hold to those numbers?