Lucy Kuptana

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I can't confirm at this moment because I don't know if it's absolutely true or not, So I can't stand here and say I can't confirm. But as the Minister and as working with the president and working with Housing NWT, we are strong believers in collaboration and partnership and that means at the local housing level. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, what we've begun with is we found that Hay River is hit with a lot of illegal activities. Considering the situation, the geographical location and the highway system, Hay River is hit with a lot of legal activities. We see a lot of illegal activities within our public housing. So we began with Hay River. We've reached out to Fort Smith to begin the work there. Again, a highway system. We're having discussions with another community. We haven't finalized that community yet, Mr. Speaker. We were thinking perhaps Fort Resolution. We have to do more discussions...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you to the Member for the question. Safe growth training is going to be instrumental in this territory over the next number of years. We've begun with three communities and three communities that are facing a lot of illegal activities within their community. So we pulled in safe growth to work with our LHOs as partners within the community with the RCMP, with the local housing organization, with the municipality, with Housing NWT and the district office, to work together on identifying issues within that community and how we can prevent that or how we can look at...

Thank you, Madam Chair. Can I defer that question to the deputy minister, please?

Thank you, Madam Chair. I think that's a really important question and thank the Member for asking that question. The national action plan to end gender-based violence, we signed an agreement in 2023 and it was a five-year agreement, but it was a 10-year funding plan. And at last July's FPT, federal-provincial-territorial table for -- status of women table, we had that conversation with our provinces and with Canada. How are we, how is the federal government going to extend this national action plan for additional five years, because it was a 10-year commitment. So it's really important that...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I don't have that detail right at my hands, but I can provide that information to the MLA for the Dehcho region. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we're happy to report that housing has been in discussions with Canada, CMHC, on future opportunities for Inuvik, and we look forward to having an announcement shortly that will include more units for Inuvik and the Blueberry Patch. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Mr. Speaker, last fall, the auditor general released its report on housing in the Northwest Territories. This was a call to action, and we are answering it. Staff and leadership remain committed to transparency and view the audit findings as an opportunity to improve the suitability, accessibility, and affordability of housing across the territory.

The audit highlighted opportunities to strengthen our programs and services, our partnerships with the local housing organizations, and our capacity to equitably serve residents. It also reinforced areas that we knew required attention and where, in...

I am not sure if this mic is working here, but I think the efforts to understand NGO needs -- and this is something that the Premier and EIA are working on. But as the Minister for Status of Women, having these conversations with the Native Women's Association, with the YWCA, with all our NGOs that work with gender-based violence or supportive living components, it's important to understand these needs and have these conversations and also have the face-to-face meetings and visiting their facilities. It's really important that we continue to do that. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. The family information liaison unit through Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women is one full-time position, and there's an additional position that's a coordinator position, two full-time positions. And with this unit itself, it travels throughout the Northwest Territories and it talks to families, especially those affected by missing family members or those that have been murdered through gender-based violence or any other circumstances. So there's a lot of work that the family information liaison unit does and a lot of travel it conducts, and we commonly call it FILU...