Shauna Morgan

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So just to continue along my previous line of questions and also to build upon the questions of my colleague from Great Slave, so we see in the business plan that employee turnover rates between 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 actually got a bit worse. They've been pretty stable but got slightly worse, and employee turnover is about 15 percent. I know the Minister has referred to a new people strategy that we can expect to see soon, but we have been talking about staff recruitment -- sorry, especially staff retention over the last two years and as far as we can tell, we don't see...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So that, I think -- I think that gives us assurance that those positions won't be cut, as far as we can tell.

I wanted to ask, because I did see there was a reduction of one position due to the sunset of Public Health Agency of Canada funding, and it was related to hospitals injury reporting and prevention program. So I am wondering if -- if that -- the hospitals injury reporting and prevention program is concluded now or if that's continuing, but I wondered what was accomplished during the term of that position before it has sunsetted. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. And so, I mean, the overall purpose of my questions here are just so we have a clear sense of how much the public service and our healthcare providers, how much the staff workforce is growing or not, like at an overall level. And so I wonder if I can also ask at this time about a similar question for the health and social services authorities. And so, similarly, my understanding is that there are federal agreements sunsetting that we expect to renegotiate, and my understanding was there's about 50 positions in the authorities that we expect to renegotiate and would...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have four written questions to submit. The first one, 26-20, Application of Waters Act Provisions to the Sale or Transfer of Mining Assets.

There is concern that the sale of mining assets to smaller operators may increase the risk of bankruptcy and unfunded remediation liabilities. The Waters Act contains provisions that allow for financial testing of new owners when licenses are assigned, but the Department of Environment and Climate Change has indicated through correspondence that the applicability of such testing depends on whether a transaction is structured as an...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So given discussions around a potential new campus for Aurora College in Yellowknife, is there a role for Housing NWT in brokering discussions between the NWT Community Services Corporation and other GNWT departments, or Aurora College, about being able to use that space as a new anchor tenant? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Mr. Speaker, I am not here to defend government, and I am not here to defend Cabinet. What I am defending, unapologetically, is public servants. I would never pretend that the GNWT is a model of a well-functioning institution.

My first job when I moved here almost 18 years ago was with the GNWT, and I found myself in a little unit that was such a terrifyingly dysfunctional place that I quit after only a few months. And I never went back. I swore I did not want to work for government. But I did fall in love with this place and especially its people. This community and communities across the NWT...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions today are for the Minister of Industry, Tourism and Investment around what progress has been made on some of the promised economic and investment strategies.

So the 2030 tourism strategy was slated to be complete by March 2025. That was my understanding. So what is the status of that strategy; when is it going to be released and start to be implemented? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Okay, no, I'll leave it there. Thank you for that information. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So, okay, first question, so we have heard that about a year ago, January 2025, the CRTC, the Canadian Radio Television and Telecommunications Commission, announced that they were going to introduce some sort of subsidy for internet services in the North, and so I wonder if the Minister can update us what is happening with this promised subsidy for internet. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Okay, thank you, Mr. Chair. So that's one reason employees should be reading that Bear Net newsletter.

So I'll just move on now to the macroeconomic policy framework. I don't want to repeat what my colleague had talked about. One of the concerns that I have had -- I mean, I think this kind of thing is necessary. We do need to put a macroeconomic lens on decision-making. But when I've looked through the framework so far, it seems that there are no -- there's no direction or tools on how to compare the stats that are given to anything else. So if it says, okay, we've made this proposal, it's...