Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, we are a government that is taking necessary steps to conduct our affairs in public, and I would like to ask the Minister responsible for Public Engagement and Transparency if he could provide the House an update and maybe some specifics, if possible, on what work is being done with regard to the Open Government Policy? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
We have created a working group that is guiding the development of the Open Government Policy and part of this work, of course, will be consulting with residents and we will be undertaking to do that in the early part of the next year.
Masi. Member for Yellowknife North.
Thank you Mr. Speaker and thank you to the Minister for his response. Further to that, this government made a commitment that we, within the first two years of our term, were going to create legislation in support of an Office of the Ombudsman. Can the Minister please provide us an update on what work is being done to establish that legislation? Thank you.
Mr. Speaker, of course this is a priority under the mandate of this government and I think all Members will recall we had an interesting discussion on this very issue at the Caucus retreat in August. I expect to have a legislative proposal to committee on the establishment of the ombudsman in the first half of 2017.
Masi. Oral questions. Member for Sahtu.
