Human Resources committee  Perhaps I'll just add to that. The best source of information for this would probably be the women's groups in Whitehorse, either Les EssentiElles or the Victoria Faulkner Women's Centre. They've been doing quite a bit of work on the national and territorial agenda. I think rig

Human Resources committee  Among our clients I categorize types of disabilities, and we do include addiction. That would be our fifth-largest category of client, the first being permanent disabilities, the second being mental health, then learning disabilities, multiple disabilities, and then addiction.

Human Resources committee  Our organization doesn't look specifically at a housing questionnaire, because employment and education are our primary focus. The reason we actually applied for an advocate, or one of the largest reasons, was because people kept coming to us and saying, “I can't work. I don't ha

Human Resources committee  I don't have any statistics to represent this, but again, if somebody were coming into Whitehorse for a day, it would appear that it's a fairly well-off community. But I feel that the middle class here is very small. We have people who are making well over $50,000 a year and then

Human Resources committee  As Laurie mentioned, there is in the works a national housing strategy. But also there is a meeting, which I wasn't able to attend. Maybe she could speak on that. You weren't there? On Wednesday, there was a gathering of non-profits from Whitehorse to work on specific housin

Human Resources committee  I think the way it works is that they're eligible for social assistance, and then on top of that there is a territorial subsidy for people with long-term disabilities.

Human Resources committee  It depends on whether they're working or not. There's a formula. I believe it's somewhere around $5,000 a year that a person can make before starting to lose benefits.

Human Resources committee  Good morning. Thank you for inviting us. I'm from the Yukon Council on disABILITY. We deal primarily with education and employment as well as advocacy and community education for persons with disabilities. So that will be the group I'm focusing on today. We're seeing the same tr