Shauna Morgan

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, after our public briefing this morning with Aurora College, I want to speak further about the community learning centres because there remains so much misunderstanding and confusion as to what has been happening at the CLCs, what the vision for starting them was in the first place, and then what is the path forward that communities have been trying to sketch out.

The community learning centres are rooted in an initiative started by Frontier College in the 1960s and '70s and was rooted in a philosophy of community development. So that means providing...

Thank you, Madam Chair. So if we focus back on prolific offenders, would it be the department or would it be the RCMP that would take a lead on, you know, identifying and keeping track of or reporting on prolific offenders? So what role exactly would the department play? Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I have a question about part of the business plan that I think might fit into this section, but it might span across a couple sections. It's around targets to establish first a baseline of numbers of prolific offenders, so, you know, offenders who keep repeatedly offending, and to define what that means and then report data on it to help identify appropriate interventions, so trying to look at people who keep coming back through the system over and over and over again and then figure out what are better ways to address this as opposed to continuing to just arrest them...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I just wanted to quickly ask: I know we're maintaining a leased space in Ottawa for, you know, business that happens in Ottawa and intergovernmental affairs in that way. But can the Minister confirm whether we're -- we still have a staff person based in Ottawa that is managing that office? Like, do we still have an office manager or are we just leasing the space? My understanding is that we're trying to find creative ways to, like, share that leased space with other groups, like Indigenous governments who might want to use it from time to time. But do we still pay an...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I very much appreciate that willingness by this unit to sort of be flexible or work with the other initiatives that are underway to sort of change the plan as necessary. I mean, I'll be honest and say my biggest fear about the sort of initial exercise of sorting it into core or non-core services and what's needed and not needed is that we'll just take a big look at everything we're already doing and then ask the question what are people going to miss most if we take it away, and if we feel like people won't notice as much or miss it as much then we'll just sort of take...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So given that one of our most urgent labour mobility issues is around doctors and a pan-Canadian licensure of doctors which certainly the Canadian Medical Association has been calling for and -- so would that be included in this work around overarching labour mobility legislation, or is that become pursued through other means? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Madam Chair. So can the Minister confirm that that's the only way, then, for children to access services of the Office of the Children's Lawyer, is that they have to wait for a judge to appoint that lawyer for them or to recommend the appointment for them? Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions are, again, for the Minister of Industry, Tourism and Investment.

There was mention that labour mobility is a priority given the internal/external trade challenges. So can the Minister explain whether there is work underway by the GNWT to create standalone overarching GNWT labour mobility legislation to ensure that we can facilitate better labour mobility between the NWT and other provinces and territories? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Okay, thank you, Madam Chair, for those stats. So given the fact that I believe -- according to the last annual report of child and family services, there were at least 106 children in permanent care. Can the Minister clarify whether all children that are going into permanent care have access to the Office of the Children's Lawyer or why -- and I know the Office of the Children's Lawyer is not just for children in care but it might be one major area where the office provides services. Can the Minister clarify why the number of children is relatively low that are being served by the office...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Will the Minister commit that by the end of this fiscal year, she will not only figure out how much money ECE has been allocating to Aurora College for the Literacy Outreach Centre but reallocate that funding to other partners who may want to carry on with the program? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.