Kate Reid

Thank you, Madam Chair. So in that explanation, I understand why it is taking some time. Does that explanation mean that there is quite a lot of granularity in this policy position? I would assume that you would want to be as high level as possible in such a policy document so maybe the Minister can expand on his answer. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. And yeah, I guess I am just -- I realize this is a nitpicky thing, and I realize that the wraparound services funding is greater than this particular line item. I guess I am just trying to understand why this particular part, I guess, as the director said, the work plan has reduced. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I have another question for the Minister of Environment and Climate Change.

Can he tell me if there is contemplation of new and emerging threats such as drought, data centres, water bankruptcy and their impacts, to water quality or quantity in future monitoring under the transboundary agreements or regulation amendments that we will see later this Assembly? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Great. So this actually dovetails really nicely to my next question which is based on the main estimate, page 137. I am noticing that that line item for the wraparound services has dropped quite a lot on this particular key activity. Can the Minister please speak to the substantiation on that. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, is it the Minister's position that ECC is taking adequate precautions to prevent or reduce both water quality and quantity threats to our watershed, both within the territory and from upstream jurisdictions, or are more robust protections required? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Madam Chair. And thank you for that context. It's very good to know. I mean, the good news story here is, Madam Chair, that gender equity sitting in EIA means that with the recent work of EIA to bring in more pieces around NGOs into the fold of things that they're trying to understand and get more of a viewpoint into boots on the ground, the NGOs in our territory, the Native Women's Association, YWCA, have been doing work on this for, as the Premier noted yesterday, for decades. So I think there's some really good touch points that can exist once this unit is staffed up. And I would...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And thank you to my colleague from Range Lake for bringing this forward today.

So I want to differ slightly on some comments from my colleague from Frame Lake. Across Canada it's not always an independent child and youth advocate office. In Quebec, the function is within the Human Rights Commission. And in Ontario and Nova Scotia, the oversight of children and youth are in the ombud's office. And as the Member for Frame Lake earlier said, there has been work done in the previous few months from some Members to look into what a middle path might look like to have this...

Thank you, Madam Chair. Yeah, so I am just going through some of the substantiation that the department has given us on some of the organizations that get this funding. It's not lost on me that the, like, amounts are not enormous when you look at them on a line item basis, but they are quite important to each of these organizations that receive them. So I am happy to hear that the Minister responsible is having these conversations with her colleagues from across Canada. But yeah, until there's a new agreement signed, I am going to keep pestering the Minister responsible on this one because it...

That was a dig.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I always like being promoted. It's pretty fun. That's all for me on this function.