Thank you the motion is in order. To the motion. Member for Yellowknife North.

Thank you, Madam Chair. It is my intention, outside of my role as SCOGO chair but as an individual Member, to introduce a private Member's bill this sitting and hopefully get some changes to the Ombud Act in the life of this Assembly. Those are to be some of the smaller and easier changes. Some of the larger ones I think do require the government to go out and thoroughly consider them and perhaps engage with the public; you know, something beyond what a committee or an individual Member can do. And I guess this motion here is just reiterating and asking the government to once again look at the Ombud's report and review those recommendations.

I think in the context of other statutory officers, we had an Information and Privacy Commissioner who, for almost 20 years, made the same recommendations to amend the ATIPP Act and that was never done in her career until the very end the government finally got a new ATIPP Act. And I think that it's a disservice to all of our statutory officers when they repeatedly ask for the same changes and then committee repeatedly passes motions and then the government doesn't respond to those motions. So this motion here is reiterating to the government to look at those recommendations and take them seriously. I think it's a larger issue across all of our statutory officers. And I also think it's a bit of a confusion at times of who is responsible for bringing that legislation forward. In the case of the Ombud Act, you know, committee can only make recommendations. We don't have the ability to tell the government what to do. But, yeah, I do believe this act, you know, requires a holistic review after being in operation for a number of years, and we got to work with our Ombuds and all of our stat officers to make sure, you know, we support them and they don't find themselves just repeating themselves and banging their head against the wall, telling the government to do something, for 20 years. Thank you.

Thank you. To the motion.