Thank you, Mr. Chair, and as I said during the public hearing, the Department of Health and Social Services is not the expert on languages or fonts. Education, Culture and Employment certainly has a lot more of knowledge and awareness in this area. I do know that fonts are available. They exist in different formats and databases that are used across the Northwest Territories by different groups of bodies, and there are keyboards with different fonts on them. So, you know, I imagine fonts can be used in many, many different avenues other than just birth certificates. But for us, if someone's going to register their name and put it on a birth certificate we are open to using the traditional fonts, but other components like the date of their birth or their birth community, still have to be based on the official names and this does not require us to change official names as registered of communities.
Glen Abernethy on Committee Motion 34-18(2): Concurrence Of Tabled Document 198-18(2): Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 2, 2016-2017
In the Legislative Assembly on October 28th, 2016. See this statement in context.
Committee Motion 34-18(2): Concurrence Of Tabled Document 198-18(2): Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 2, 2016-2017
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
October 27th, 2016
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