Wendy Bisaro

We’re agreed, committee. Page 6-22, Municipal and Community Affairs, activity summary, community operations, grants and contributions, contributions, $185,000.

General comments are concluded. We will defer page 9-7 and go to page 9-8. Justice, information item, infrastructure investment summary, any questions?

Page 9-27, Justice, activity summary, court services, operations expenditure summary, Mr. Bromley.

Thanks to the Minister. It’s good to hear government at work and moving quickly. That’s wonderful. I’d like to ask the Minister whether or not he can give me any idea of the gist of what’s going to be in the policy. Are there any, sort of, general directions that were given to these senior officials that they were sent away with to develop a policy?

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Minister McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Mr. Abernethy.

Thank you, Mr. Nadli. Minister McLeod.

Thank you, Minister Abernethy. Members, we will start with general comments on the Department of Justice.

Page 9-23, Justice, activity summary, legal aid services, operations expenditure summary, $6.141 million.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. One of the statutory officers of this Assembly is the Information and Privacy Commissioner. The commissioner does excellent work, not only carrying out her regular duties but also advocating for areas in need of further attention. Unfortunately, the government is not heeding all of her recommendations.

For almost 10 years now the Information and Privacy Commissioner has recommended that this government amend the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy legislation, ATIPP, to include municipal governments under the act. This has yet to happen. The most recent...