Wendy Bisaro

Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Are there any further comments to the motion?

Question has been called. Motion is carried.

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Thank you, committee. Does committee agree that we have concluded consideration of Committee Report 4-17(3)?

I thank the Minister for telling me that yes, they’ve had a chance to look at it. There were five recommendations in the report. Three of them were addressed to the Minister responsible for Homelessness. One talked about accountability and the creation of a homelessness secretariat; another one talked about keeping the Yellowknife Homelessness Coalition advised; the third one talked about establishing a working group to develop shelter standards. There was one addressed to the Minister responsible for the Housing Corporation – I think the Minister for Homelessness knows that Minister – about...

Question has been called. The motion is carried.

---Carried

Mr. Dolynny.

Question has been called. The motion is carried.

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Mr. Nadli.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I, too, would like to welcome the members of the Coalition Against Family Violence, those that are still here and those that left already. I’m glad to see that you were here. I’d like also to recognize a couple of Frame Lake Pages who have been working very hard today and I think other days within this session: Conor Holick and Ryan O’Brien. Thank you to them specifically for the work they’ve done and thank you to all the Pages that have helped us with this long-day session.

Question has been called. The motion is carried.

---Carried

Mr. Nadli.

Thank you, Mr. Moses. To the motion. Mr. Dolynny.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The 2010-2011 budget for the office of the Languages Commissioner was $220,000, up by $77,000 over the previous year. Approximately $35,000 remained unspent because an administrative assistant position was not filled until close to the end of the fiscal year.

At the public hearing, the Commissioner noted that additional funds were received to create and publish a directory of interpreters and translators for all official languages. While some funds again remained unspent, Ms. Jerome said that all of the outstanding surplus would be taken up in the first quarter of 2012...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I want to speak to this motion as well. This is one that again has been recommended by the Information and Privacy Commissioner for quite some time. The report of the Gov Ops committee mentions that as far back as 2008-2009, the Information and Privacy Commissioner has been recommending a general review of the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act. Again, it’s a recommendation year after year that the Commissioner makes that has been ignored by the government.

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