Kieron Testart

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, committee would like to consider Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 1, 2017-2018 and Committee Report 8-18(2), Report on the Review of the 2014-2015 and 2015-2016 Annual Reports and the Information and Privacy Commissioner of the Northwest Territories, in that order. Thank you.

That is a lot clearer, and I appreciate the Minister providing that information. My honourable friend the Member from Yellowknife raised communication issues around public safety concerns related to another department. I am wondering what protocols the department has in place for escapes such as the one that is required by these infrastructure improvements? Is there a protocol in place to let the residents who live next to the facility know as soon as something happens?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, in Committee of the Whole, when we were reviewing the Department of Justice's budget, I asked questions about a fence surrounding the North Slave Correctional Centre. At the time, the Minister of Justice, and I will quote from Hansard, said, "It is turning out this is a more complex and expensive matter than we had anticipated." On further questioning, Mr. Martin Goldney, the deputy minister of the Department of Justice, provided a few more details, noting that specialized and specific engineering studies were completed and that they anticipate things...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I move that the Chair rises and reports progress.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

CONCLUSION

According to the Auditor General, the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs did not do enough to help community governments improve their delivery of some essential services and did not take adequate action to mitigate risks specific to the delivery of essential services, particularly in designated authority communities. Adequate support and community engagement are key to helping ensure that community governments have the capacity they need to provide residents with quality essential services critical to their health and safety.

The committee is...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I move that this Assembly recommends that the Government of the Northwest Territories obtain a legal opinion on whether "information system" as referenced in Section 89 of the Health Information Act is limited to electronic health systems when the act is considered as a whole;

And further, that the Government of the Northwest Territories share that legal opinion with the standing committee, in confidence, once it is completed;

And furthermore, that the Government of the Northwest Territories conduct a privacy impact assessment on the health system transformation initiative...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I also rise today to speak to an issue that my honourable friends have brought up today, which is the cost of living and helping Northerners make ends meet, but also the coming cost pressures and expectations that Northerners have on their government.

We acknowledge that one part of living in the North that is so spectacular is our pristine environment that is unparalleled across the country and in the world. You know, we need to look at ways to promote a healthy environment and also a healthy economy. Across the world, really, carbon pricing has become a...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I move that this Assembly recommends that the Minister of Health and Social Services table the Health Information Act Guide in the Legislative Assembly and provide a televised public briefing to the committee on the Health Information Act and its impacts on the rights of those who access healthcare in the Northwest Territories. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I move that this Assembly recommends that the Government of the Northwest Territories take the necessary steps to ensure that a modernized Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act is brought into force before the end of the 18th Legislative Assembly. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I move that this Assembly recommend that the Government of the Northwest Territories advise the House of specific target dates for the completion of a legislative proposal and the introduction of a bill to modernize and update the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act. Thank you, Mr. Chair.