Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have some questions today for the Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs. I want to thank the Minister at the outset for the response to my oral question which he tabled yesterday, read into Hansard yesterday.
It doesn’t go all the way to answering some of the questions that I wanted to ask him last month, so I want to ask a few more.
One of the recommendations from the Information and Privacy Commissioner, in regards to access to information and protection of privacy legislation for municipalities, was that the government ought to consider a phased-in approach to implementing this particular legislation, that tax-based communities are probably better able to respond than non-tax-based communities.
I’d like to task the Minister, first of all, is that an option for the department? Will he and the department consider a phased-in approach to the implementation of legislation for municipalities? Thank you.
Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs, Mr. McLeod.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I take that question. I will respond to the Member’s question. That could be an option, and it’s a discussion that we have to have with NWTAC because they are huge stakeholders in this. We can have that discussion with them and see if there’s an appetite from them to have a phased-in approach or have it phased in at all. Thank you.
Thanks to the Minister for considering that. That’s great. I appreciate that commitment.
One of the things in the fall MACA update, there was a little blurb on municipal access to information and protection of privacy legislation, and that was my initial reason for asking some questions. It states in the MACA fall update that it is expected that this report will be completed during the life of the 17th Assembly. In the response yesterday, the Minister said that they’re working on it, they’re talking to senior staff at communities, but I didn’t really get a sense of when the report is going to be completed.
So I’d like to know from him, if he can tell me, is it going to be done in the life of the 17th Assembly? Thank you.
The report will be done during the life of the 17th Assembly. As to exact time, I’m not quite sure; I’d have to get that information. But it will be done during the life of the 17th Assembly. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Mr. McLeod. Member for Deh Cho, Mr. Nadli.
