Kate Reid

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Last October, my colleague from Yellowknife North expressed frustration with the lack of transparency on what changes are made for improvement based on data collected by the Office of Client Experience and also with past iterations of the NWT patient experience questionnaire. While I am happy that the desire to understand the patient experience continues, Mr. Speaker, and while the 2025 questionnaire Have Your Say website notes that a what-we-heard report will be produced that will guide delivery -- service delivery and quality improvements, I want to get back to an...

Okay, thank you. Nothing further. Thank you, Mr. Chair; I am good.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Sort of pulling on the thread that my colleague from Monfwi was speaking about just earlier, in corporate management only two of the corporate management positions in infrastructure are outside of Yellowknife, and given that 73 percent of infrastructure staff are in regional offices, how does the Minister and his department ensure that regional needs and priorities are reflected in corporate decision-making given the concentration in Yellowknife? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. And taking a slightly different tact, I want to focus on the upcoming energy strategy that is merging, I believe, with the climate strategy so it's a whole of government strategy that I think is supposed to be released in the parlance of the government soon. Is this work on track? Can you provide a timeline as to when committee will be engaged on the new energy and climate strategy? And, really, when will the public start seeing some of that story to be told? I know I have a lot of anxious energy around seeing that and diving into that topic, and I know I have a lot of constituents...

Thanks. Yeah, no. And I am just very interested in that because I see in Standing Committee on Government Operations an ongoing pressure and tension around making sure that we are making building standards better, making buildings more accessible, but also considering the financial needs of smaller communities. So it's good to hear that particular answer. If the Minister wants to extrapolate any more, that's great. If not, I have another question. I will just go on to that question. It's more of a comment, Mr. Chair.

Under asset management under the facilities and properties line, there is...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. And I think, you know, there is a healthy amount of skepticism around this project. It is a multi-billion dollar project. It's hard to see how it's a silver bullet. So I think a lot of people will have continual questions until there are those shovels in the ground, so. Has Canada given assurances that they will support this project to completion? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I am going to push back gently on the work-from-home piece impacting this in any really great meaningful sense. I don't think the GNWT has scads of people working from home currently; I could be wrong. But I would also be very much interested in whatever documentation that the Minister is comfortable sharing with the Department of Finance's work on that own versus lease mix, and perhaps she could commit to sharing that with committee. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you. I appreciate that. And just one last item on the mains. There is a decrease of slightly over, I think, $600,000 for land use and sustainability from last year's mains to this year's mains. Can the Minister please explain what will be affected by this reduction. Thank you.

Yeah, thanks, Mr. Chair. I was just trying to confirm it wasn't more cable work. So thank you for that. Nothing further.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Under conservation planning and sustainable livelihoods, there was quite a large difference between the 2025-2026 Mains and the revised estimates, and now in this proposed 2026-2027 Main Estimates, there is a slight reduction to that line item. Can the Minister please explain that variation. It's quite a big swing. Thank you, Mr. Chair.