Kate Reid

Yeah, thank you, Mr. Chair. No, that's a good news story. I'm sure my colleague from Inuvik Boot Lake could speak more about fueling up from Inuvik instead of Hay River, but I'll leave that for him. I believe that's everything I want to talk about here today. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Are those RFPs, tenders, etcetera, already selected and completed, or is work underway? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Mr. Chair. So if you look at page 44 in the breakdown of the project listing, it includes the children's territorial treatment centre. Can the Minister please provide a substantiation and breakdown of what is going on for that project? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thanks, Mr. Speaker. I also have questions for the Minister of Finance. She used to be known as the Minister of Red Tape Production; I don't know if that's still the case.

I know and she knows, and I think this whole government and this whole House knows, that NGO pockets are not deep. You have to often include liquor sales at events and going and getting a liquor license as a one-off for NGOs that may not do events with liquor sales regularly is a complex process.

I've brought this forward to the Minister in the past, and she's told me they're working on it. So I'm wondering if the Minister can...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And thank you to the Minister for continuing that good work.

Mr. Speaker, in 2022, the Yukon government worked through regulatory changes to their health care insurance plan act that allowed them to provide expanded care to private clinics for gender Yukoners -- Yukonits? Can the Minister tell me if her staff, or the health sustainability unit staff, are able to provide insights and an analysis as to whether gender affirming services that are in line with the Yukon's services could be considered core and/or insured services. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

I don't know how you follow that. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As the Minister knows, I have a nonbinary constituent who has shared their experience in the media with the public health system as current guidelines cannot accommodate in a way that would address their gender-affirming care needs in a timely and safe way. This means that they are seeking life affirming treatment at their own expense in a jurisdiction that is not Alberta. This also means that the 2SLGBTQIAA+ community in Yellowknife raised nearly two-thirds of their surgery costs at a fundraising event two weeks ago. Although this is...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. And thank you to the Minister for that. I also, within this section, was curious if the Minister -- it says here for the wellness and recovery centre, on page 43, that the estimated completion is within fiscal 2026-2027. Are we still on the timeline for that particular asset? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. And thank you to the Minister. Can you tell me -- gosh, how much that is for that line item; how much is estimated? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I look forward to those updates.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, again, as the Minister has mentioned, she sat down with the Northern Mosaic Network this past July, and at that time they requested that the Minister and the GNWT provide formal recognition that trans health is a priority and visible action to back that up at all levels from policy to frontline care. Would the Minister care to comment on this request at this time?