Shauna Morgan

Thank you, Mr. Chair. My first question is about the Taltson pre-construction planning. So the Minister said that they're hoping that they would be at the beginning of an environmental assessment stage by the end of 2026-2027. So that would imply that, you know, you would have sort of terms of reference or be moving towards a report that you can make public. So keeping in mind that this is for the next three years, but at what point in the next three years or at what point in the process will the public be able to see, well, first the estimated cost of this project and the business case being...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I definitely want to thank the other committee members and Minister and his staff and all of the members of the public who helped give us insights and advice on this bill. And I do think we ended up making some positive changes and we have a bill that is going to make some positive changes in terms of addressing family violence.

I just wanted to note, this came up again and again with some of our witnesses, this bill itself, and certainly the Protection Against Family Violence Act, can only tackle a small part of all of the work that needs to be done to address family...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have a written question for the Minister of Health and Social Services regarding changes to child and youth counselling services.

So it has been just over two years since health and social services child and youth counsellors were shifted out of schools and the number of health and social services counsellors reduced, so my questions are to the Minister of Health and Social Services:

1. Can the Minister provide the number of children and youth, broken down by community or region, who have been accessing child and youth counselling services over each of the past two...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Well, certainly I would appreciate if the department wanted to bring forward in a budget, you know, an extra pot of money just to make sure we get caught up and have those assessments done every five years, I would certainly be in support of that because the last thing we need is for buildings to be falling apart and us not even know because we haven't assessed them.

And so once we do those assessments, I assume there's a list or a prioritization of the different safety issues -- well, life safety issues, things that are threatening the future of that asset being able to...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So that is excellent news. Can the Minister explain how quickly they expect to be able to staff up, you know, get the site ready, but particularly in terms of staffing, because I know that's one of our biggest challenges, including training of staff. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I wanted to delve more into the children's territorial treatment centre to understand where this is going.

So my understanding is that we had a children's territorial treatment centre that closed in October of 2021. It was an eight-bed facility, and that was due to the contractor we had at the time not being able to operate the facility or find enough staff or with the budget they were given. Are we talking about the same building that closed in 2021 or a different building? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

So, like, I'm trying to understand -- I don't want to harp too much on this, but I'm trying to understand the process. This is the first time they've had a vehicle, and it was decided that it was an infrastructure priority, like overall in our capital plan, that the lottery commission needed a vehicle. I'm trying to understand what that was weighed against in terms of priorities, like what were the other possible things that we could be spending infrastructure on and, you know, looking at some of the other areas - housing, other departments - where people are really under the gun to cut off...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So the after-action report details the story of how the hamlet of Enterprise was excluded from fire risk communications with ECC and the EMO until it was almost too late to evacuate and that that was due to lack of situational awareness, lack of clarity on decision-making roles. So what exactly has changed to ensure that will not happen again? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I wanted to ask the Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs, following up on questions I was asking last week.

So the after-action review said that a lack of a unified command between the GNWT municipalities and Indigenous governments led to overlapping operational priorities, decision-making delays, and public confusion. While there was not an official recommendation about this, will the Minister undertake, as the report did recommend sort of -- within the text of the report, to practice unified incident command with the city of Yellowknife and other large NWT...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So will the government only be reaching out to identified stakeholder organizations to meet privately, or will there be a wider call for public input or perhaps public meetings to be held? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.