Thank you. Member for Yellowknife North.
Clause 2, does committee agree?
Debates of March 11th, 2022
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair Lesa Semmler
Committee, to the bill as a whole, does committee agree that Bill 37: An Act to Amend the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act, is now ready for third reading?
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair Lesa Semmler
Thank you, committee. Bill 37: An Act to Amend the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act, is now ready for third reading.
Does the committee agree that this concludes our consideration of Bill 37: An Act to Amend the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act?
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair Lesa Semmler
Thank you. Thank you, Minister, and thank you to our witnesses. Sergeant-at-Arms, please escort the witnesses from the Chamber.
Committee, we've agreed to consider Bill 38: Miscellaneous Statute Law Amendment Act, 2021. I will ask the Minister of Justice to introduce the bill.
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R.J. Simpson Hay River North
Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm here today to present Bill 38: Miscellaneous Statute Law Amendment Act, 2021.
The purpose of Bill 38 is to amend various statutes of the Northwest Territories for which minor changes are proposed or errors or inconsistencies have been identified. Each amendment included in the bill had to meet the following criteria:
- It must not be controversial;
- It must not involve the spending of public funds;
- It must not prejudicially affect rights; and
- It must not create a new offence or subject a new class of persons to an existing offence.
Departments responsible for the various statutes being amended have reviewed and approved the changes. The amendments proposed in Bill 38 are minor, uncontroversial, or non-substantive, and many consist of technical corrections. The amendments are of such a nature that the preparation and legislative consideration of individual bills to correct each statute would be time-consuming for the Government and the Legislative Assembly.
This concludes my opening remarks, and I would be pleased to answer any questions that Members may have regarding Bill 38. Thank you.
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The Chair Lesa Semmler
Thank you, Minister. I will now turn to the chair of Standing Committee of Social Development, the committee that considered the bill for opening comments. Member for Kam Lake.
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Caitlin Cleveland Kam Lake
Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, Bill 38: Miscellaneous Statute Law Amendment Act, 2021, received second reading in the Legislative Assembly on November 25th, 2021, and was referred to the Standing Committee on Social Development for review.
On February 3rd, 2022, the standing committee held a public hearing with the Minister of Justice and completed its clause-by-clause review of the bill. Individual Members may have additional comments or questions. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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The Chair Lesa Semmler
Sergeant-at-Arms, please escort the witnesses into the Chamber. Minister, please introduce your witness.
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R.J. Simpson Hay River North
Thank you, Madam Chair. This is Mr. Ian Rennie from the last bill. Thank you.
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The Chair Lesa Semmler
Thank you. I will now open the floor to general comments on Bill 38. Member for Yellowknife North.
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Rylund Johnson Yellowknife North
Thank you, Madam Chair. I am going to make a comment that I'm sure the Minister will note is well out of the scope of this bill.
I'm a huge fan of the Miscellaneous Statute Amendments law, and I think we should look to expand it more. Getting legislation passed in this House is a grueling and very difficult process, and we have a giant legislative backlog. The GNWT in its history has never passed an omnibus bill, has never attempted to combine a bunch of pieces of legislation, or get a whole suite of amendments done, and I really think they should. And this is about as close as we come, is these little administrative ones. But I think the GNWT could probably push the limits of what it could sneak by the legislature and catch up a lot of the outstanding recommendations. And I would encourage the Minister of Justice to look into how to do that. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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R.J. Simpson Hay River North
Thank you. I'm not going to look into how to sneak things by the Legislature Assembly. Thank you.
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The Chair Lesa Semmler
Thank you. Does committee agree that there are no further general comments? Can we proceed to a clause by clause we review of the bill?
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair Lesa Semmler
Committee, we will defer the bill number and title until after consideration of the clauses. We will consider the clauses in groups.
Please turn to page 1 of the bill. Clauses 1 through 5, does committee agree?