Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions are for the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment who's responsible for the Employment Standards Act. Really, all I can say is I've brought this up many times before, and will the Minister introduce paid sick leave in the Northwest Territories? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Member for Yellowknife North. Minister responsible for Education, Culture and Employment.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I won't be the Minister to introduce legislation for paid sick leave but as I stated when the Member asked these questions back in February and then before that in December, we are looking the department is looking into amendments to the Employment Standards Act. They've completed a crossjurisdictional scan across Canada and discovered there's a number of areas where we need to improve our legislation to modernize it. As part of that work, we are going to go out and engage with employers, with employees, and ask these types of questions. You know, do you provide sick leave? Do you want to see something like this legislated? So that work is happening. We expect all of the engagement to be done by the end of this Assembly, leaving the door wide open for the next government to look at making those types of changes. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
I don't have any further questions. I hope the next Assembly gets this done. Thank you.
Thank you, Member for Yellowknife North, take that as a comment.
Colleagues, before we continue, I'd like to recognize my new CA Ms. Diane Koe. Welcome to the Chamber. Thank you. Oral questions. Member for Inuvik Twin Lakes.
