Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and thank you, Mr. Menicoche.
Reviews of Reports of the Auditor General
The committee reviewed the following reports of the Auditor General:
• Report on the NWT Housing Corporation: Public
Housing and Ownership Program - 2008;
• Report on Contracting for Goods and Services
in the NWT - 2009;
• Report on Education of the Northwest
Territories - 2010;
• Report on the Northwest Territories Deh Cho
Bridge Project - 2011;
• Report on Northwest Territories Health
Programs and Services - 2011.
The committee continues to monitor the issues identified in the Report on Contracting for Goods and Services. Progress on the issues identified in the Public Housing and Ownership Programs report is being monitored by the Standing Committee on Economic Development and Infrastructure and progress issues identified in the education report is being monitored by the Standing Committee on Social Programs. All those committees’ respective mandates include oversight of the NWT Housing Corporation and the Department of Education, Culture and Employment.
The committee anticipates that the government’s responses to its reports on the 2011 reports of the Auditor General will be tabled during the August 2011 sitting.
Reviews of Reports of Statutory Officers
Over the course of the 16th Assembly the
committee made a number of recommendations following its review of the annual reports of the Languages Commissioner, Human Rights Commissioner, and Information and Privacy Commissioner, and continues to monitor the progress on the issues identified.
In May 2011 the committee reported to the Legislative Assembly on the 2009-2010 Annual Report of the Information and Privacy Commissioner and the Human Rights Commission, and in both cases provided recommendations to the government. The committee anticipates that the government’s response to its report will be tabled in the August 2011 sitting. In addition to its report, the committee supported a formal motion of the House recommending that the government undertake a comprehensive review of the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act. It also expects a response to this motion during the August sitting.
I’d like to pass the final part of the report and its presentation to Mr. Abernethy, MLA for Great Slave.