Bill Braden

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. In 2004, at the insistence of this Assembly, a human resource review was undertaken at the North Slave correction facility, Mr. Speaker. This plan tells us that there is, or should, be a strong focus at the North Slave Correctional Centre shifting from a penal or punishment approach to one of healing and rehabilitation of inmates. This is a very positive step, but from some things that I’ve heard from some inmates, constituents, over the course of the past few months, from what I’ve heard, Mr. Speaker, we’re not there yet.

Mr. Speaker, it appears that adequate staffing at...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I move that we report progress.

I guess that's enough on Internet. I take it that it's not going anywhere.

Mr. Chairman, something that is always a consideration with a bill of this nature is that there's usually a large package of regulations also bolted onto it. The legislation, of course, is the platform. The detail is implemented through regulation. I wanted to ask the Minister if he could give us some sense of when we will see the regulations that affect this new legislation completed and when this new legislation could potentially come into effect, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This has been an interesting, multi-faceted piece of legislation. It's been working its way through committee for some time now and I'm pleased to speak in favour of the bill, as a member of the standing committee. I guess in general comments, very general comments, a couple of things that the public, as consumers, may be interested in in relation to pharmacies and the business of dispensing drugs. One of the things that has been quite controversial for the last couple or three years, in Canada especially, is the industry established through Internet purchase and...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Does the new act then at least take the option or the avenue of bringing in timelines by which stakeholders or agencies are required to reply or not? Again, this is in the context that if an operator simply has the onus to show consultation and approval, we all know the difficulty of arranging meetings and getting everybody to look at the same thing at the same time. Sometimes this could take months or even a year or more for an operator to get a single approval from a single organization based on getting people together and being able to get to that level of the...

Thank you. Good afternoon, Madam Chair. Committee would like to consider two bills; Bill 11, Tourism Act, and Bill 7, Pharmacy Act, in that order, Madam Chair.

Mr. Speaker, related to the overall performance of our correction centre, the correction service has a values and mission and vision statement. I won’t read it here. I don’t have too much time. Actually, the way it is written, Mr. Speaker, might get me cited for the CBC "What Are They Saying" contest here. Is there a regularly scheduled program of performance operational review? When was the last one conducted? When might we see the next one, Mr. Speaker?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I appreciate the Minister’s initiative in this area. Kind of related to this, Mr. Speaker, is there has been a service provided by some volunteer organizations in our community, especially the John Howard Society which, on a volunteer basis of late at least, has gone into the North Slave Correctional Centre, and had face-to-face involvement opportunity to work with inmates in their rehabilitation. But this summer, I understand for a variety of reasons that access by these volunteers was curtailed quite extensively, Mr. Speaker. I wanted to ask whether we have a...

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. It's my pleasure today to read into the record the report of the Accountability and Oversight committee of the review of the Report of the Auditor General on the Workers' Compensation of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.

Mr. Speaker, the Standing Committee on Accountability and Oversight held its public reviews on the Report of the Auditor General on the Workers’ Compensation Board of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut from June 28 to 30, 2006, and on September 20, 2006. The committee was pleased that Mr. Keith Peterson, a Member of the Nunavut...

Thank you. That will do for now, Mr. Chairman.