I don't want to interject myself too much in the discussions, but the issue that has been raised is when you undertake to do something, inside another jurisdiction...You have taken a broad interpretation of your mandate as the Official Languages Commissioner, who works under an act, which applies to this jurisdiction. So the Member is wondering how you make a priority of something over which you cannot have control through the act? In our own system, we have a government that can control things on behalf of the people of the Northwest Territories. If you go to Alberta or Saskatchewan and become involved in language issues over which our act, and the powers we have as a Legislature, have no control, why is it that you consider this to be part of our jurisdiction? That is what I interpret to be the issue that has been raised by Members.
Brian Lewis on Tabled Document 11-12(5): First Annual Report Of The Languages Commissioner Of The NWT For The Year 1992-93
In the Legislative Assembly on February 16th, 1994. See this statement in context.
Tabled Document 11-12(5): First Annual Report Of The Languages Commissioner Of The NWT For The Year 1992-93
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
February 15th, 1994
Page 172
The Chair Brian Lewis
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