Mr. Chairman, I should certainly make way for other Members, but I would like to pick up on one comment the Premier made about the enlarged role of the Legislature and its considerable activity in dealing with issues. I would like to ask the Premier whether she feels that, given this high level of activity in the Legislature, the Legislature is now the primary policy-making, decision-making body, especially with regard to new initiatives, as opposed to the Cabinet. Traditionally, it has been the government that proposes initiatives and the legislature that disposes of them. I sense, from what she said, and from the form of consultation papers before this House, which are not strategies, as I see them, but rather towards strategies. They raise all the questions and all the issues very capably, but they don't necessarily suggest or lead the discussion toward an end. I am just looking at tabled documents before this House, Towards an NWT Mineral Strategy, Towards a Strategy to 2010, Building a Strategy for Dealing with Violence in the Northwest Territories. Is it the Premier's view that it is the full Legislature that has this primary responsibility now to determine direction on new initiatives, rather than the Cabinet perhaps screwing up its courage and suggesting a direction, laying out a direction? Thank you.
Dennis Patterson on Committee Motion 3-12(5): To Adopt Recommendation No. 3, Carried
In the Legislative Assembly on February 17th, 1994. See this statement in context.
Committee Motion 3-12(5): To Adopt Recommendation No. 3, Carried
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
February 16th, 1994
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Dennis Patterson Iqaluit
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