Bob Bromley

Thank you. This is not assuring, I have to tell the Minister, because we already have a large, high-capacity government that’s failing to do it. You know, making good promises but not doing anything. I know the Minister has the highest of intent here, so I’m just saying, this is a bit of a reality check here.

To start with, I wonder if the Minister would provide me with a description of the five positions and how they relate to the question I’m asking here, and any other thoughts he might have at the same time on how he is truly beefing up the legal capacity to deal with the sorts of...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I will be supporting this motion. I agree with Mr. Menicoche, it is, indeed, a very important program and needs the support that is required to make it successful. I’m confident that the Cabinet can find the way to make savings in the system to cover this.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to follow up on the Premier’s statement.

Cabinet’s vote against a proposal to keep decision-making in the regions was curious, and people are wondering why would they vote against the wishes of their own people.

As details emerge about the devolution of lands and waters to the NWT, people are noticing a disturbing undercurrent. In the process of transferring authority to the NWT, decision-making is being quietly moved from open public processes into the murky world of the GNWT bureaucracy and top secret Cabinet room. There is so much happening that it’s hard to...

I was switching topics a little bit there so I may have not been clear. I’m just wondering: our legal aid lawyers are obviously a very important part of our service delivery here, and I know that they have issues from time to time, and they may very well have suggestions for how the system can improve.

What is the process that we have in place to check with that professional staff, collect up any comments they have and respond to it, and assuming there is a process in place, when did we most recently do that?

That’s all for this page. Thank you.

Thank you. I believe the Minister was talking about ’15-16 for the $1 million contribution, which there I feel that is significant and I’m looking forward to that.

Could I get a cost per day, an average cost per day for an inmate, say an adult male and a juvenile in corrections? Thank you.

I am very happy to hear that about the family law clients. Did the Minister have handy on what the variation is on the 60-day average across the NWT?

Thanks, Mr. Chair, and thanks for that response from the deputy minister. I believe it was 2009 when we passed that legislation, and I guess I would appreciate an update at some point on some of those statistics, and I think it would be useful for the department to look at that and see where we’re at on that. I know it wasn’t without some kerfuffle. So just any sort of evaluation on how that’s working out would be much appreciated. That’s all I had. Thank you.

So, what additional resources would be in this budget – and if there is another area to pursue this, then I am happy to do that – that will provide the increased capacity needed to deal with taking on the enforcement aspects of land and resource management?

Just to follow up a little bit more here, is the Minister able to say in this forum what the time schedule is for rolling out this pilot project? Thank you.