Daryl Dolynny

Range Lake

Statements in Debates

Debates of , 17th Assembly, 5th Session (day 89)

Thank you, committee. I’d like to thank Minister Lafferty, Mr. Grundy and Ms. Murphy. Thank you for joining us this evening. If I can get the Sergeant-at-Arms to please escort the witnesses out of the House, please.

Committee, continuing on with our duties for this evening, we’re going to turn our attention to Bill 49, An Act to Amend the Deh Cho Bridge Act. With that, we’ll turn it over to the Minister responsible. Mr. Beaulieu.

Debates of , 17th Assembly, 5th Session (day 89)

Thank you, Minister Beaulieu. We’ll go to Mr. Neudorf.

Debates of , 17th Assembly, 5th Session (day 89)

Thank you, committee. Thank you, Mr. Bouchard, Ms. McLaughlin and Mr. Mercer for joining us.

Sergeant-at-Arms, if you can please escort the witnesses out of the Chamber.

Continuing on with Committee of the Whole business, we’re going to turn our attention now to Bill 45. With that, we’ll turn it over to the Minister who is responsible for the bill. Mr. Lafferty.

Debates of , 17th Assembly, 5th Session (day 89)

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. We’ll turn it over to the Minister if he has witnesses to bring into the House. Minister Beaulieu.

Debates of , 17th Assembly, 5th Session (day 89)

Thank you, Madam Chair. I appreciate that response. I know we’ve had that high-level discussion already in committee.

Just for the sake of reminding me, we talked about six jurisdictions that were investigated. If we were to pass this act as is, we would probably be the sixth jurisdiction in Canada to basically appease this warrantless seizure of information.

Where are the other five jurisdictions in Canada? Which ones are they? Thank you.

Debates of , 17th Assembly, 5th Session (day 89)

The bill as a whole.

Debates of , 17th Assembly, 5th Session (day 89)

Thank you, Mr. Neudorf. Continuing on with general comments on Bill 60, I have Mr. Hawkins.

Debates of , 17th Assembly, 5th Session (day 89)

The bill as a whole.

Debates of , 17th Assembly, 5th Session (day 89)

Order, committee. Committee, we’re going to continue on with House business. Bill 61, An Act to Amend the Public Airports Act. With that, we’ll turn it over to the Minister responsible, Minister Beaulieu.

Debates of , 17th Assembly, 5th Session (day 89)

So what we’re saying here is if there is a dispute, I have to take my dispute to the courts. I may have to go even as high as the Supreme Court of the NWT to lodge a complaint, which could be very costly to the plaintiff in the event of a dispute.

Does the department consider or will they consider anything that will actually assist a dispute resolution with respect to probate?

Probates become very complicated. They become very emotional and sometimes you have to have safeguards to protect the estate, family members are usually involved and a public trustee is put in a position of power. Again...