Kieron Testart

The Recreational Land Use Planning Framework, does that only deal with recreational land, as its name would imply, or does it deal with all other types of land that would be subject to a land use plan?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I didn't so much ask for an assessment, but if the department had done that work. So did they do a cost assessment for each of our regional centres and the average household cost of travel and how it will be impacted by the increased fees of our gateway airport? Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, today marks International Women's Day, and the theme this year is "Be bold for change." The Northwest Territories certainly has no shortage of bold women leaders who have made an indelible mark on our political landscape, from Lena Pederson, our first elected MLA in 1970, at a time when the territory was just beginning to form responsible government, to Ethel Blondin-Andrew, the first Indigenous woman elected to federal parliament in 1988 and later federal Cabinet Minister. In 1991, Nellie Cournoyea was appointed as the first female Premier of a territory...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. On Thursday, March 2, 2017, the Standing Committee on Government Operations presented its report on the review of the Northwest Territories Information and Privacy Commissioner's 2014-2015 and 2015-2016 Annual Reports. The report, which includes eight recommendations, was read into the record by the chair of the committee, and a motion was passed that moved the report into Committee of the Whole.

Mr. Chair, the standing committee's recommendations largely centre around two key pieces of legislation and the government's work related to them. They are the Access to...

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...