Brendan Bell

Mr. Chairman, I am not sure how the Law Society handled the consultation with their own membership. We brought it to their attention and presumably they took it to their membership. Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, I give notice that on Monday, May 14, 2007, I will move that Bill 11, Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act, 2007, be read for the first time. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Yes, the lawyers representing both parties would be from separate offices, the files are separate. Obviously, we need them physically separated. We need to avoid any appearance of conflict of interest. The employer would still be the Legal Services Board or the GNWT, but we do feel it’s important to have that separation, that physical separation. That’s how it currently exists today. We are going even further to make sure that administration is separated from the local clinics as well, so there is a further barrier and no file sharing.

The one other issue I think that...

Mr. Speaker, I would propose that I could meet with the NWTT to talk about this. They have identified the segment as outdoor adventure. I think, in their minds, this includes ecotourism. If there are some specific nuances here or references here to programs internationally that have been successful, that’s certainly something that I’d like to learn more about. I could talk to the Member. I’m also, Mr. Speaker, in the process of trying to plan for a trip south of the lake to both Hay River and Fort Smith and when I have some acceptable dates identified, I will come back to the Members of those...

Thank you. We’ll have Lucy Austin, who’s the executive director of Legal Services Board, joining us and Mark Aitken, as well. Thank you.

Madam Chair, there is regulation development work that has to happen here once the legislation is passed. In order to do that, we will be sitting down with the condo corporations themselves. We do have a list of stakeholders, a distribution list that we communicate with. I have indicated some of those who are on that list. We will make sure that they have this information and we get it out to them. Thank you.

Madam Chair, it is our department’s act. We are the department that brought this forward. We do have currently available on the website, and I understand it goes out. There are condo owners or interested condo buyers. We have brochures and information that can go out about the existing legislation, existing state today. We are proposing that we would revise that once this legislation is passed and get some more information out there to those who might be interested in buying or selling. We will make them aware of the changes we have made to the legislation. I think the Member is right...

Madam Chair, I am pleased to appear before the committee to review Bill 2, An Act to Amend the Condominium Act.

This bill would bring the Condominium Act up to date. A number of amendments were made to address specific issues since the act was first passed in 1969 and the first condominiums were established in 1986, but a thorough review of the act had never been undertaken.

With this in mind, the Department of Justice developed a consultation paper in the fall of 2005. The paper was made available on the department's website and a copy was distributed to numerous stakeholders, including...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I believe the Member is looking for a commitment that I gave in standing committee the other day about our desire to move forward, look at professional corporations and work towards introducing that in the next government. It does involve some other departments. We think Finance, certainly Health with the Medical Professions Act and possibly some others. So we have flagged it. We are going to bring those departments, which we would logically be involved, together and discuss how we could move this forward. There are also some questions as to why we didn’t deal with this...

Mr. Speaker, further to my Return to Written Question 3-15(6), I wish to table the following document entitled Department of Industry, Tourism and Investment Traditional Economies. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.