Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Despite my flu, I am still willing to go at it. Mr. Speaker, the issue I raised today in my Member’s statement is the idea of establishing an ombudsman’s office. I can go into numerous examples, but I think even our good Premier has probably had some experience where some decisions have been made in the past when he was a Regular MLA. It was tough to get to the bottom of them. What I am suggesting is that we establish an ombudsman’s office, not unlike any of the other statutory offices we have here in the Northwest Territories, to help both constituents and ourselves to get to the bottom of why certain decisions are made and to make sure that they are both fair, balanced and definitely respectful. Mr. Speaker, my question directed to the Premier, of course, is would he take a look at this initiative and see if there are certain merits to do something similar as they do in the Yukon to establish an NWT ombudsman’s office here in the North? Thank you.
Robert Hawkins on Question 176-16(3): Creation Of Ombudsman Office
In the Legislative Assembly on February 20th, 2009. See this statement in context.
Question 176-16(3): Creation Of Ombudsman Office
Oral Questions
February 19th, 2009
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