Thank you, Madam Chair. I caution the department. Early 2023 means there are a couple of sittings and then an election. It's very hard to get legislation passed early 2023. I think with this one, specifically, getting an LP in 2022, if it's not going in the right direction, we are at risk of not passing this once again. One of those directions, as has been repeatedly asked by the NWT Association of Communities, is that this actually be a building standards act, that we look at the work of developing a northern building code; we look at how the GNWT Good Building Practices apply to the Northwest Territories; we look at accessibility standards, how disability legislation applies. I can't emphasize the amount of work that is. I believe that the Department of Infrastructure's GNWT Good Building Practices is over 400 pages of architects, engineers, builders, every community involved in building it. I don't see that capacity in the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs. I question whether the department should even have the Fire Prevention Act in the first place, given the scope of work. My first question is: is the Fire Prevention Act LP that we are expecting to see going to be a building standards act? Thank you, Madam Chair.
Rylund Johnson on Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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