Thank you, Mr. Chair. As noted in our report on page 10, the inclusion of local housing associations is something that the committee identified as a concern. However, as with any clause-by-clause review of legislation, the committee's role is to determine how best to address that concern. In this case, committee felt that amendment to the law would be inconsistent with how the legislation operates to be inclusive of government agencies or public bodies. That is through regulations. The committee felt that the best way to address this concern of ensuring that local housing associations are properly included under the Access to Information regime is through the regulations. However, committee cannot change those regulations. That remains the sole prerogative of the Minister and the Commissioner in Executive Council.

The purpose of this motion is to send clear advice and direction to government that this is a concern. It needs to be addressed through changes to the regulations, and we hope that the government will carefully consider what's being proposed. Review the very substantial commentary on this that is contained in the report and the committee's findings and make those changes so that we can ensure that our access regime affects all public bodies in the Northwest Territories that are holding personal information of our citizens. Thank you, Mr. Chair.