Thanks. I guess I could -- I'm not going to start that debate on the statutory reviews. But, yeah, I support this recommendation. It is about trying to coordinate the statutory review requirements under these two pieces of legislation and look at the timing of that so that it falls within the timeframe for each of the Assemblies at a better time. That's what this is really aimed at.
But I just -- on the issue of statutory reviews, and I don't want to prolong this too much longer, but, you know, committees are free to set their own priorities at any point. They can decide what they want to do. They can decide that they want to review other legislation that doesn't even require a statutory review of any sorts. That's up to each committee to decide it, and they can do that at any point.
Where these provisions have been put in, and based on my experience in the last Assembly, they were largely inserted into new or contentious legislation. You know, the one that stands out for me is STEP, where the instructional hours were reduced for teachers. There was a lot of public concern around that and it was felt that there needed to be an evaluation of it to try to balance different points of view and interests and so on. And I think the same holds true with the Wildlife Act. It was a very contentious piece of legislation where THE GNWT basically had to be dragged kicking and screaming into working with Indigenous governments and implementing land rights agreements.
Another example, though, of where a statutory review would have been very helpful would have been on the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act. It was passed in 1994 and took literally 25 years to finally get a detailed review. And it just took way way too long, and there was just no interest on the part of Cabinet to actually review it in any way. So I do believe that statutory reviews serve a useful function, a useful check and balance, particularly on new or contentious pieces of legislation. And I'll leave it at that for now, Madam Chair. But I'm happy to engage my colleague from Yellowknife North on this debate moving forward. Thanks.