Thank you, Mr. Speaker. One of the difficulties that we have had is in planning for the appointment of new boards as the Members know, one of the board members has been recently appointed as the new Commissioner of the Northwest Territories, Mr. Dan Marion. Another board member recently left, we had a change in the president of the development corporation as well. It is my information that the auditor general and our staff understand a quorum to be not of a particular number, but a quorum would be defined as being a majority of the members appointed, according to the act, at the time a meeting may be called. Although we have not had seven members appointed to the board since something like 1996, we have had duly constituted quorums for board meetings since that time. I think we have consistently had five members on the board and we have been able to legally meet the definition of what a quorum is to conduct our business since that time. Of course, the idea of filling vacancies and seats on boards is an ongoing discussion and responsibility of staff so, of course, it has come up a number of times over the years and it will continue to do so. We hope to appoint additional members to the board sometime this week. Thank you.
Stephen Kakfwi on Question 125-13(7): Vacancies On NWT Development Corporation Board Of Directors
In the Legislative Assembly on April 26th, 1999. See this statement in context.
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Item 6: Oral Questions
April 25th, 1999
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