Thank you. Minister of Justice.
Debates of March 1st, 2023
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R.J. Simpson Hay River North
Thank you. I'll have to -- I'm not sure if there's any right now actually. But I can find out and get back to the Member. Thank you.
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Rocky Simpson Hay River South
Thank you, Madam Chair. Can the Minister tell me if the caseload in Hay River is sufficient to warrant a -- you know, or to support a territorial judge at this time? Thank you.
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R.J. Simpson Hay River North
Thank you. So when you're a territorial judge, you travel the whole territory; you hear cases across the territory. And so if the judges would want to set up in Hay River, then we can have that discussion. But it's currently up to the courts to make that determination. Thank you.
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Rocky Simpson Hay River South
Thank you, Madam Chair. And has there been any territorial judges that may be interested in coming to Hay River?
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The Chair Lesa Semmler
All right. Members, are there any further questions under court services? Seeing none, please turn to page 307. Justice, court services, operations expenditure summary, 2023-2024 Main Estimates, $15,321,000. Does committee agree?
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair Lesa Semmler
Thank you. Please turn now to legal aid services, beginning on page 310 with information items on page 311. Any questions under legal aid services? Seeing none, please turn to page 310. Justice, legal aid services, operation -- what? We called it.
Well, do you have questions for legal aid services, because I'm calling that right now. I called that page. All right, does committee agree we'll go back?
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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Kevin O'Reilly Frame Lake
I'm trying to do triple duty. Okay. I just had one or two questions about the M.M. DeWeerdt Public Legal Resource Centre. This used to be the court library. We know this was a problem in the last Assembly. We're the only place in Canada that doesn't have a court library. What is this centre now and is it actually open to the public? Thanks, Madam Chair.
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Doolittle
Thank you, Madam Chair. Yes, it is open to the public. It is in the courthouse. It's a resource centre. We have been trying to work to find front space to combine some services for sort of an information -- a legal information centre. That's been proving difficult to do that. We are still trying to do that but, yes, it is available to the public in the courthouse. Thank you, Madam Chair.
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Kevin O'Reilly Frame Lake
Okay, thanks. In my week off, I'm going to go over and check it out because I've heard little stories about this being a cubbyhole or a closet somewhere or something, so. And I do think that -- you know, look, there's probably some efficiencies there, having some legal aid stuff next to it or whatever in case somebody walks in there and bumps into a legal aid lawyer or something. But I think we can and probably should do better. But I'm going to go by in my week off and I'm going to check it out. Thanks, Madam Chair.
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The Chair Lesa Semmler
All right. Any further questions or comments? I think we've gone through everybody. So Justice, court services, operations expenditure summary, 2023-2024 Main Estimates, $15,321,000. Does committee agree?
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair Lesa Semmler
Thank you. We'll now move to legal aid services beginning on page 310, with information items on page 311. If there are no questions, please turn to page 310.
Justice, legal aid services, operations expenditure summary, Main Estimates 2023-2024, $7,991,000. Does committee agree?