Lesa Semmler

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we send thousands of people to Alberta so if a Member wants to know about a specific instance, is this something that he has multiple constituents that are coming to him and so if he wants to bring this forward to my office, I would gladly look into it. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I will commit to getting the numbers that people that are being sent out from Yellowknife necessarily  you know, if they come back to Yellowknife doesn't mean that this may be their end location because if somebody goes out and is getting well  has gotten well, recovered from  you know, and they may go to  back to their home communities as they may have supports in those communities, so I  what I can commit to is knowing the people that have been sent out from Yellowknife to the Member. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, while the five to six spaces may not address the full need of the  once we start to, you know, monitor who's coming back and whether or not what the type of facility or recovery or aftercare that they're going to need, housing they're going to need, it's  this specific area is for those that are returning back and being able to support them through transitioning on to living on their own; however, I understand the Member's concern that right now we don't know how many we're going to need this. You know, we may. You know, at this time, I can't  I couldn't...

Mr. Speaker, today I want to congratulate the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation on 40 years since signing this monumental land claim agreement. I want to thank the current chair of the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation, Duane Smith, and the board of directors on the work that they do to lead this organization.

I want to take this time to honour the many people who have worked together to make this agreement a reality 40 years ago today. Many of the signatories to the Inuvialuit Final Agreement have now passed on, but their families live on and thrive. The Inuvialuit people continue to be stewards...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, before we even had electronic medical records, our patients traveled so, like I say again, if this is a specific instance because if it is and if there are many people that are going to appointments, they are not complaining through my office so maybe they're going through the Office of Client Experience and that's where I would tell these clients to also go. I would encourage any MLAs to encourage their constituents to go through the Office of Client Experience. This way we can document what the issues are and then we can rectify them if this is a bigger...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. At this time right now, what we have in the budget for and in our business plan is to have these two programs, one in Yellowknife and one in Inuvik, as it is a partnership with an NGO and health, infrastructure, and housing. And so right now where we're at is getting these two up and running and hopefully to have that and, you know, and, I mean, if there's a way to be able to work with Indigenous governments and with other partners, if there's federal dollars that we can access that we could try to bring more of those facilities in the territory, you know, I fully...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, the medical travel policy and I hear the Member, you know. And if people leave the territory on their own for whatever reason and it's not through being sent out for a medical through medical travel for access to an appointment or surgery or services, then this program doesn't apply to those people. So any residents or any people that are travelling out of territory, that's why I was saying in the House it's very important that you know what your coverage is, and I was saying some people have credit cards. And I hear the Member, you know, and I'm sure she'll...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. In this section, there is the out of territory use facilities but in the previous section, there was the community wellness and addiction recovery fund that is that fund that's been amalgamated to incorporate all of the old there was two or three different pots of funding. So it streamlines the process so that access to communities can access it if it's for addictions, it's aftercare, it's mental wellness, they can access through that program. And I think Indigenous communities can access up to a certain like up to $200,000, I believe, per year. And regional...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. You know, I hear the Member, and I'm you know, my thoughts and prayers go out to the family and her community and, you know, her constituents. You know, this is these decisions and some of the things with medical travel and this is why there's this is the hard part of this, you know, is that there's only so much money in the territory, and we want to do everything for everybody. But we as a government can't operate on single individual cases case by case. You know, and I hear the Member and I understand the concerns. You know, there's but at this time, that's why we...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, we have this is the work that's been done on the access to out of territory treatment addictions are the request of some people in the territory. So we have to ensure that we have those facilities and we have contracts with those facilities. We have one Indigenous facility that we have a contract with right now. And I know that within the Northwest Territories, what we're trying to do is we're working with you know, providing funding for Indigenous governments to be able to and we've heard them loud and clear, that they want to be able to run ontheland...