He said yes.

As a Regular Member, and as a citizen, and as an employee who used to be in the public service, I have been a supporter of whistleblower legislation for a long time. I have been trying to push it forward. This House has supported that initiative. We agreed to move forward with the Union of Northern Workers, who was a good partner. We worked hand in hand on the Safe Disclosure Policy that we have in place and it is going to form the

background of the legislation. We want to implement the safe disclosure April 1

st . I have to

bring it to committee first for their review, but that’s the target that we are setting. We would like to have it run for a period of time so that we can do an analysis to make sure it is working the way that the union and the GNWT hope and intend. From there, that will give us more information to make sure that any legislation we put forward is going to work. It will be done in the life of this Assembly. We have a plan and we will bring it forward for discussion.

I thank the Member for his comments. If he has any other questions, I’m happy to answer them in detail.