Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions are, again, for the Minister of Industry, Tourism and Investment.
There was mention that labour mobility is a priority given the internal/external trade challenges. So can the Minister explain whether there is work underway by the GNWT to create standalone overarching GNWT labour mobility legislation to ensure that we can facilitate better labour mobility between the NWT and other provinces and territories? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Member from Yellowknife North. Minister of ITI.
Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, this one falls under my ECE hat. There are other jurisdictions that have overarching labour mobility pieces of legislation, and the Member is absolutely right, we in the territory don't have a piece of this legislation as it stands today so that is certainly something that is being considered. Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Does the Minister have an anticipated timeline for when the government might be able to bring forward such legislation? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, it's almost as if the Member was on some of my earlier phone calls last week. So other jurisdictions are in a position where if they put an overarching piece of legislation in like that, then it goes to all their regulatory bodies. But here in the territory, some of our regulatory bodies are here in the territory and some of them are regulatory bodies in other jurisdictions that we use for some of our licensing. So an example of that would be, for example, a physiotherapist. We don't have a regulatory body here in the territory and so physiotherapists can pick any jurisdiction across Canada to register themselves in, and we'll accept that here in the territory.
With a piece of legislation like this, I would need to ensure that we're aligning with other jurisdictions and that they also have matching legislation so that I'm not indicating that, you know, this has to be a -- licensing has to be accomplished within, say, a 30-day timeframe and imposing that on another jurisdiction simply wouldn't work. So that's where it's really important that as a country we're working together, and that is work that is currently being looked at under the FTP table for labour Ministers across Canada. Thank you.
Thank you, Minister of Education, Culture and Employment. Final supplementary. Member from Yellowknife North.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So given that one of our most urgent labour mobility issues is around doctors and a pan-Canadian licensure of doctors which certainly the Canadian Medical Association has been calling for and -- so would that be included in this work around overarching labour mobility legislation, or is that become pursued through other means? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. So, Mr. Speaker, this is a conversation specifically one around health care workers that's currently happening in the context of labour mobility and how we go about doing some work both under the envelope of Team Canada to ensure that we're aligned at the end of the day and to ensure that we are moving forward in a way that respects the diversities of regions across Canada. As you can imagine, every time we peel back a layer, there's another one underneath it. It's a bit of a national onion but certainly a very important one that we work through, and health care workers is absolutely at the top of that conversation. Thank you.
Thank you, Minister of Education, Culture and Employment. Oral questions. Member from Range Lake.
