Alfred Moses

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you, Ms. Bisaro.

Since the 2009 review, the department has done a great deal of work to restructure the delivery of official languages programs and services in the Northwest Territories. The Minister has referred to this as the department’s “new approach.”

In the absence of a final response from ECE to the 2009 review, the standing committee has struggled to reconcile the direction that ECE has taken with this “new approach,” with the vision outlined in the standing committee’s 2009 report, which was based on the development of an official languages services model...

Some of our highest rates of health risks and health incidents are in the Northwest Territories and fall into the area of people who live in poverty, who live on income assistance and housing, who can’t afford to go to Yellowknife or Edmonton to get that second medical opinion. Some of them are even afraid to go to the hospital and will take their word as trust.

I’m asking the Minister if he would be willing to look at paying costs up front for individuals to have the right to go get the specialized medical diagnoses in areas that might provide those such as Edmonton, who I know we have...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I think you’ve heard from my colleagues in support of the office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner to have input into how we develop our legislation here within the Government of the Northwest Territories and not to have her give input during the consultation phase after second reading or also with our policies as we develop them. One case in particular was the online registration. She made reference to how that was put forth without any information on online registration for vehicles without any input from her. With all the work and information that’s being...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The Standing Committee on Social Programs has been considering Bill 36, Health and Social Services Professions Act. Members may recall last week we read a five-page report on the committee’s review of Bill 36 that was presented to the Legislative Assembly on March 5, 2015.

By motion, the House received the report and it was moved into Committee of the Whole for further consideration. The committee commends the Minister for developing the bill as a result of five years of hard work by the Department of Health and Social Services, professional stakeholders and the public.

Th...

Mr. Speaker, I seek unanimous consent to waive Rule 93(4) to have Committee Report 13-17(5), Report of the Standing Committee on Social Programs on the Review of Bill 42: An Act to Amend the Residential Tenancies Act, moved into Committee of the Whole for consideration later today.

---Unanimous consent granted

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, your Standing Committee on Social Programs is pleased to provide its Report on the Review of Bill 42: An Act to Amend the Residential Tenancies Act and commends it to the House.

Bill 42, An Act to Amend the Residential Tenancies Act, makes substantial improvements to the Residential Tenancies Act. The Standing Committee on Social Programs commends the Minister for presenting the bill. It is the result of extensive consultation with stakeholders and the public.

Bill 42 will amend the act in a number of ways, including: allowing decisions of the rental officer...

In terms of individuals who do fall out of the Wellness Court system or don’t even get to the Wellness Court system, they do become institutionalized and spend some time in the North Slave Correctional Centre, or any of our institutions for that matter.

I was wondering if the Minister had any information on how much it costs to house one inmate per day in the North Slave Correctional Centre. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have questions today for the Minister of Justice. Yesterday in his Minister’s statement, he mentioned that we had some individuals who are participating in the Wellness Court. There were five that he mentioned and 13 were actually referred. If five are participating and 13 were actually referred to the Wellness Court, what programs do the five who are participating in the Wellness Court, what kind of diversion programs are they participating in instead of being institutionalized? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Mr. Chair, I move that this committee recommends that the Government of the Northwest Territories work with the Information and Privacy Commissioner to incorporate access by design considerations into the design phase of program, policy and legislation development, giving particular thought to how these considerations can be built into the legislative proposal process. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Along with the members from committee, I’d also like to just acknowledge the hard work of our staff. Law Clerks and research were doing all the work and obviously coordinating with the staff in Nunavut to bring this bill before us.

It is history in terms of having mirror legislation between two jurisdictions and working with the department to make sure that we get the best piece of legislation out there for the ones who are going to be affected by this bill. I think it goes to show that there was definitely interest in terms of, as Mr. Dolynny put it, with the consultation...