Shauna Morgan

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So I appreciate that explanation. What puzzles me is that it feels like a bit of a chicken and egg, that you'll do a technical assessment when you're ready to do a retrofit, but how do you know that there's a need for a retrofit or major capital repair if you haven't done the technical assessment? I understand that sometimes there's a schedule for, you know, a midlife retrofit, and so regardless of what's actually going on in the school, you might sort of have a scheduled midlife that, okay, we expect to do retrofits so we're going to do a technical assessment. But saving...

Okay, thank you for that explanation.

I wanted to pick up on the threads that some of my colleagues have been talking about in terms of the need for assessments of schools because before we even know what the problems are or the extent of the problems, we have to be doing assessments. And I wonder if the Minister can explain -- I know we have a policy for how we conduct capital improvements, so like capital standards, but is there a policy on when or how often assessments are conducted in each of these schools just to figure out what is the state of repair of the buildings in the first place...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So, finally, when will we see some sort of outcome or change coming out of this project? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I wanted to ask questions to the Minister of Health and Social Services following up on the statement that she made earlier today about Deh Cho patient journey mapping, which does sound like a very important and promising approach to reforming our primary health care to really respond to what people's needs are. So it talks about a process that is going to be following the real experiences of residents, and it sounds to me almost like a research project, so I'm wondering if the Minister can explain is this a research project we're talking about? I know in the past, HSS...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and thank you to the Minister. So I'm interested if the Minister can tell us some more details about the timeline for reviewing the Residential Tenancies Act and how the scope of the changes to the Act will be determined. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and to my colleague.

The Standing Committee on Social Development recommends the Government of the Northwest Territories sign Memorandums of Understanding with Indigenous Governments who have settled land claims with land use policies to encourage housing development.

The Standing Committee on Social Development recommends that the Government of the Northwest Territories develop policies that improve coordination between Housing NWT and other GNWT departments to remove barriers to housing development. This includes urgently increasing the supply of land suitable for...

I'll just leave it by saying I also want to follow up with the Minister and the Minister of health in looking into what future capabilities that the med-response system could have. I know when it was first announced several Assemblies ago, the intention was for it to -- you know, that was the first phase, and then it was going to expand and have more and more capabilities. And I don't see that that's happened. So this technology change might be an opportunity to investigate how the capability of the med-response system could be sort of made more sophisticated and more helpful in terms of what...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I mean, this poses a bit of a mystery to me that perhaps I can follow up on later because I do know for a fact that 9-1-1 launched in November 2019, and so I can't quite figure out why we would have launched using a system that was already 5 to 10 years old. Anyway, I do hope that going forward we are making a wise investment in technology that we have some assurance will last more than five years so we won't be back here again.

With this opportunity to sort of reboot the system, to use a very poor technology pun because I know very little about technology, are there -- in...

Thank you, Madam Chair. That's fair enough. I mean, my priority here is that we get into a habit of having enough in our capital budget that actually addresses the urgent needs in our various education facilities. And it is concerning to me when I hear the Minister say that, you know, only 30 percent of the asks that came forward this year are being funded. And I don't know if all of those asks are -- you know, how serious the structural issues or repairs needed to the schools are or if it's, you know, gosh, we wish we had this extra function in the school, you know, and how those things are...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So I certainly do appreciate that commitment to do those assessments for the Yellowknife schools that, you know, are overdue on their regular assessments. But could the Minister or her staff explain what is the expected cadence? There was a reference to every five years. Is that generally happening? And, also, I wanted to clarify, we've been talking about assessments. My understanding is that there might be different levels of assessments. There might be a sort of a routine assessment, assuming that things are probably fine, but just sort of to do a look over, and then...