Thank you, Madam Chair. Where the policy paper stands right now is we did convene a workshop of all the stakeholders that are involved in the sport and recreation discussions last fall in October. They spent two days working through the proposals in the paper looking at options for creating a new territorial sport and recreation board, how that board should be structured, what the role of existing organizations would be and so on and they set some evaluation criteria. That included things like making sure there was adequate representation from smaller communities, making sure that the lottery revenues were distributed equally throughout the Northwest Territories. They generated a number of different options for a structure for a new board. Since that time, the partners have been consulting with their membership and they have a final workshop scheduled for March, at which time they are going to be asked to come forward with a recommendation to the Minister for a new board structure. Concurrently with that, we are also looking at reviewing and updating the lottery regulations, so hopefully we will have some progress on this early in the new fiscal year. Thank you.
Ms. Delancey on Bill 3: Appropriation Act, 2003-2004
In the Legislative Assembly on February 20th, 2003. See this statement in context.
Bill 3: Appropriation Act, 2003-2004
Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
February 19th, 2003
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Delancey
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