Shauna Morgan

Thank you, Mr. Chair. First, I just wanted to ask, on page 21, when we look at the 2025-2026 Capital Estimates and then the revised estimates, it was -- the approved estimate was $2.3 million and then the revised estimates ended up being $37.2 million, and I wonder if the Minister can just explain how we got such a huge jump last year. I know there was overruns and extra costs in relation to the Mangilaluk School in Tuktoyaktuk. But does that account for all of that jump; can the Minister explain. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So given that -- certainly by talking to residents, you can understand their experiences but they may not understand the why of different things that may happen to them in the healthcare system, and some of these why answers could only come from talking to the practitioners. Will this process/investigation that's happening involve interviewing and talking to the practitioners at every stage of the journey to understand some of the whys as to what is happening to patients along the way? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So I realize we define our seasons in pretty broad terms here, and there are a few leaves still on the trees, but we do have snow on the ground, so I would say fall could be officially deemed over.

Finally, what is the government doing to ensure that tenants are aware of their existing legal rights, including providing enhanced access to legal aid supports? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions are for the Minister of Justice. So every year, the NWT Rental Office makes many of the same recommendations over and over on ways that the Residential Tenancies Act should be changed to better protect both tenants and landlords. Has the government formally responded to any of these recommendations? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I believe that everyone needs and deserves to have a stable roof over their head, no matter how poor they are, even if, and especially if, they're struggling with addictions. There is a tension, though, between that principle and the reality that housing in Canada is a private commodity, one that we need more of. Lots of people cannot afford to own and maintain their own house so rental options are necessary. If we want more housing to be built and if we want landlords, including Housing NWT to survive, then we cannot afford so much ongoing damage to rental...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yeah, I am encouraged to hear about those new possibilities, and I do urge the department to consider that in, you know, choosing the technology going forward in the scope.

Does this mean that there will be a possibility -- I don't know what it's called but in some other places, the 9-1-1 system can get a GPS location for a caller, for example if they don't know exactly where they are or if they don't know the exact address or if there isn't an exact address of the place that they are, that there would be an ability for the 9-1-1 dispatch to get a GPS location of where...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So I also wanted to ask about the NWT 9-1-1 and med-response -- well, first the computer-aided dispatch system.

So 9-1-1 was launched in November 2019, so that is less than six years ago. How is it possible that we're already at the end of life for a system that just launched less than six years ago? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Okay, thank you, Mr. Chair. So in order to figure out what we need to do maintenance on and what gets on the list, I assume we would need to be doing facility assessments. And so how often are we doing facility assessments to figure out, you know, what needs repair and maintenance? For example, you know, schools, health centres, all of the government major infrastructure and buildings. Do we have a policy on how often we generally do these facility assessments? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And in terms of options for out of territory psychiatric treatment, my understanding currently is that to get your child enrolled you have to go to social services and prove that you've exhausted all in-territory options. So given that many families may avoid going to social services for fear of having their kids taken away, worst case scenario, will the Minister investigate other options for approving out of territory psychiatric treatment for children, such as referral by a psychiatrist for example? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So given that this project is saving us millions of dollars annually, has the department looked at opportunities to scale up this project? Are there more energy efficiency projects we could do if we had more money? Because it sounds like, you know, the sooner we do them, the sooner we can save more millions of dollars. Thank you, Mr. Chair.