Thank you, Madam Chair. Also in the area of the directorate is a responsibility outlined for records management. Of late, Madam Chair, this hasn't been a high profile item, but in recent years it has been, Madam Chair. From my recollection on serving on standing committees and looking on budgets over the past few years, one thing that has come to light is our government is not very consistent across departments, Madam Chair, on how it undertakes records management. Some departments, I understand, are fairly progressive. They are able to stay on top of editing and storing and keeping current their records management systems using new technologies, while others, apparently, were occupying a heck of a lot of storage space and shelving space at government warehouses with boxes and boxes of files that, again, some departments have not undertaken so much of an initiative to stay on top of.
Through this, Madam Chair, it became apparent that while this department, Public Works and Services, does have
an overall records mandate for the GNWT, a lot of the actual authority, and decision-making, and budgeting and tasking is still in the jurisdiction of each individual department. So, Madam Chair, I wanted to ask, as of today, does our government have a central overriding policy and program for records management, or is it something that is still largely disbursed at the discretion of each department?