Thank you, Mr. Chair. What we are recommending here is the wording "access by design" because that is the wording the GNWT uses. This is really about open and transparent government. It's about proactive disclosure. I would like to thank my colleague from Frame Lake. He asked a number of questions of the Minister of Justice today about proactive disclosure. This recommendation has long come from the Information and Privacy Commissioner, largely with a lens that this ultimately saves us time and resources, saves our media headache; it saves people in departments hassles. I don't know how often I send emails to Ministers simply to find information, to find policies, to find things that should already be proactively disclosed. There is an abundance of emails and information requests flying around government for information that should be publicly available.
The federal government has done a lot of great work on their document management system. Ours is known as DIIMS. Many sections of that are simply open to the public already. I think there is no reason we can't put our working documents, we can't put our policies, we can't put our templates out there. Additionally, this goes to really how we publish information. Quite often, as this government, we release information, and there is not the underlying data set. I all the time request Excel spreadsheets, and it's as if it's an impossible ask to get what actually went into a graphic. We have a long way to go to be an open and transparent government. This motion is really speaking to that. Once again, I encourage this Cabinet to be a leader in this area. Thank you, Mr. Chair.