Daryl Dolynny

Page 5-50, NWT Housing Corporation, information item, finance and infrastructure services. Mr. Bromley.

I agree with the Minister. Talking to the number of lawyers that I have, we don’t have enough lawyers even to serve the needs of the residents who don’t use legal aid in the Northwest Territories. That could open up another set of questions as to do we need to rethink where you’re indicating that there’s going to be new update to the act. That’s just framework. We still need bodies. Are we going to have to look at opening up the doors to changing drastically enough so that we can actually have more government payrolled lawyers? I’ll start with that.

Thank you, Minister McLeod. One final supplementary, Mr. Bromley.

Please proceed, Mr. McLeod.

Thank you. We will commence after a short break.

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Thank you, Mr. Moses. For that response we’ll go to Mr. Stewart.

Thank you, Madam Chair. By just the name justice, the name itself implies the need for assistance, the need for intervention and my questions obviously are going to be revolving around the legal aid accessibility to our clients and to our residents.

With applications rising as high as they have in the last number of years, and we went in our business planning preparation phase to address this with the Minister and his team, and I know that I’m very pleased to hear that the Minister will be bringing forward a supp and I appreciate that. But even by doing that, by virtue of adding that one extra...

Page 5-44, NWT Housing Corporation, information item, active positions by region. Any questions? Page 5-47, NWT Housing Corporation, information item, executive. Mr. Bromley.

Thank you very much. I’d like to thank the Minister. I’d like to thank Mr. Stewart, Mr. Anderson, and if we can get the Sergeant-at-Arms to please escort them out of the Chamber. Thank you very much.

Committee, we’ll be continuing on with the next department, Municipal and Community Affairs. Does the Minister have any opening comments?

I’d like to call Committee of the Whole to order. We’ve got five items on today’s agenda: Tabled Document 2-17(3), Commissioner’s Opening Address: Creating the Conditions for Success; Tabled Document 3-17(3), Northwest Territories Main Estimates 2012-2013; Bill 1, An Act to Amend the Student Financial Assistance Act; Committee Report 1-17(3), Standing Committee on Government Operations Report on the Review of the 2010-2011 Annual Report of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of the Northwest Territories; and Committee Report 2-17(3), Standing Committee on Government Operations Report on...