R.J. Simpson

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So right now we have a budget before us, and it has in it what it has in it. But with that being said, we've already -- we've recently put a lot of money into service integration, into transitional housing, into better supporting NGOs across the territory, not just here in Yellowknife, and so as we move forward the idea is that we would get better at breaking down barriers and working across departments and government, and we want to move to a place where we don't need pathfinders to work with someone to go and access individual government departments. We want to make...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And thank you for the question. So service integration is the umbrella term we use for our efforts to integrate services across departments and ensure that residents are able to approach the government and get the services they need without having to bounce around between different departments. Under that, we have Integrated Service Delivery Yellowknife which is what used to be called integrated case management. So I just wanted to get the terminology straight while we begin talking about this. And so to monitor and evaluate how we're doing when we roll out the service...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And I think the work with the Council of Leaders is very important to distinguish ourselves from what's happening in the provinces where there was a sense that the provincial governments were offloading their responsibility to the school board -- or to Jordan's Principle. So it's a much different situation here in the territory. We advocate jointly with Indigenous leaders. I believe there's opportunities for Indigenous governments to actually apply for Jordan's Principle and then help support students and other families that way. That type of work, I understand, is...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And I appreciate the Member raising this early on in the process so that as we look to design some sort of a structure, we have that type of input. I agree that Yellowknife is a long way from the Beaufort Delta. We need to ensure we know what's going on on the ground there. But that being said, I don't want to commit to something here on the floor of the House without some careful examination and some further discussions. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Mr. Speaker, I give notice that on Tuesday, February 17, 2026, I will present Bill 42, Tlego'hli Got'ine Final Self-Government Agreement Act, to be read for the first time. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'd like to hand that over to the Minister of Environment and Climate Change. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. All of those things that the Member mentioned are -- would be considered near future. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So I think the question is when will the healthcare system sustainability unit release a report on supported living -- oh okay, I see what the Member's getting at.

So that's not something that's a -- you know, going to be a GNWT document that we table in the House and release. What that is, it's advice for Cabinet. It's looking at the system and looking at the functions, the costs, all those types of things, and it's going to come to Cabinet with recommendations as we look at how we're going to adjust our healthcare system, what we're going to do going forward, and I...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I think there's some confusion here. There's a health and social services report. I am the Minister of the -- that was responsible for the health care systems sustainability unit. It is not responsible for that report. It does look at all of the different reports that the government has generated and all of the different information that it can gather to put together its recommendations, but I am not going to be responsible for implementing recommendations in a report by the department of health. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Mr. Speaker, I wish to advise the House that the honourable Member for Nunakput, the Minister responsible for the Status of Women, will be absent for a portion of the House proceedings today to virtually attend the federal-provincial-territorial Ministers' meeting on missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ peoples. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.