Thank you, Mr. Chair. In early 2013 MACA consulted with industry stakeholders concerning the need for building standards legislation in the NWT. The stakeholders indicated additional time was needed for the study on the topic and to provide meaningful input. So, no further feedback has been received since then.
Some of the stakeholders that we did speak to, we spoke to the NWT Construction Association, the NWT Architects Association and the NWT Association of Communities as well as the Consulting Engineers of the NWT. So those consultations took place, I guess over a year ago now and I guess the next steps are we want to re-engage with them and see if there are any changes. The GNWT did examine this topic in 2008 and determined the current environment at the time offered sufficient protection to help ensure safety of residents. I guess one of the things that we need to move this forward is sufficient evidence needs to exist to justify the expense and effort required to
administer a territorial-wide building standards regime.
So, to sum it up, we have done some consultations. We’re looking at a re-engagement over this summer with the various associations and hopefully we could make a recommendation of where we go from there. Thank you.