Thank you, Madam Speaker. My question for the Minister of Justice is will the Minister be getting rid of the time change once and for all? Thank you, Madam Speaker.
Thank you, Member. Minister of Justice.
Thank you, Madam Speaker. I wish. Unfortunately, there's likely going to be at least one or two or three more time changes. Of course, we've recently engaged with the public. There was a sixweek engagement session. Within the first couple days, there were thousands of responses, and 3,500 about 3,500 responses to the question of "do you want to get rid of seasonal time change?" And 87 percent, so over 3,000 of those 3,500 people, wanted to get rid of seasonal time change.
When it comes to sticking with daylight savings, or standard time, the territory's a bit more split. Just over half wanted to go with daylight savings time permanently and while the rest wanted to stick with standard time.
And so that is just the beginning of the conversation. The Yukon recently changed got rid of seasonal time change, and there's a lot of lessons learned from there. It is not a simple task. It might sound simple but it is by no means simple. There are, you know, hundreds, if not thousands of actions that need to be taken in a specific order in order to ensure that it is done correctly. And it's not only government who has to be involved. Every individual has to be involved. The government isn't going to come and change your alarm clock. You know, satellite companies, railroads, airlines, you know, Microsoft, Apple, all of these companies need to be engaged. And so the Department of Justice, you know, myself, we can't do it alone so we are reaching out to the rest of government and trying to figure out is this something we can do. I know that personally I would like to see it happen but is it worth the cost to government and the cost of the public and potential cost to the residents of the territory? So we have to do that work now that we've received this information from residents, that they do want to get rid of time change, and we have to figure out how we might be able to do that, if we can, going forward. Thank you. And I will just say there will be a What We Heard report summarizing all of this information released in the next couple weeks. Thank you.
Thank you, Madam Speaker. I think the Minister answered all of my subsequent questions there. So thank you for that. I look forward to the report.
Oral questions. Member for Monfwi.
