Mr. Chair, as the House will note there is a review of the ATIPP Act being conducted at this very time and that is one of the matters that is going to be considered.

Yes, thank you, Mr. Chair. To my left is Kim Schofield, director of Finance, and to my right, Sylvia Haener, Deputy Minister of Justice.

Yes, I would.

Mr. Speaker, I give notice that on Friday, June 24th, 2016, I will move that Bill 8, An Act to Amend the Children's Law Act, be read for the first time. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Mr. Speaker, I give notice that on Friday, June 24th, 2016, I will move that Bill 6, Miscellaneous Statute Law Amendment Acts 2016, be read for the first time. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

I was one of those sole practitioners until six months ago and found that certainly buying hard cover books are expensive, but I did have my own fairly modest library. I would note, rather, that at one point the Government of the Northwest Territories had libraries in many of the communities which could be used by the lawyers. Hay River used to have a very extensive library, as did Inuvik. Those have all been closed down. I think that what's happened is the nature of legal research has changed, so the vast majority of it, as I understand, is now being done online. Yes, there are certainly services like CanLII which are free; other ones such as Westlaw you must pay for, but I think that's just a part of practising as a lawyer. There are going to be some costs. As I mentioned yesterday and again today, the number of lawyers using the library, the current library, appears to be very small. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Mr. Speaker, a godly number. In fact, most of the cases and many other analyses of cases are free online through CanLII or some of the other services that are provided to the public and also for lawyers. I have not received or done an analysis as to what costs we might incur should we be provided library-type services on a limited basis, but certainly there would be still a very, very large saving, in my belief, because the current costs which I referenced yesterday are very high, and if there's a very small kiosk or something along those lines provided with access through the internet certainly there would be a consider saving in any case.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, as I mentioned yesterday, there is very little activity, of any kind at the library. There are very few people, lawyers or otherwise using that library. There has been a change in the way in which lawyers and other research the law and most of it is done online.

I believe that when the library was reduced from its very large size to its current size, that some of the historic books were given to Archives and some of the other books of interest to the local bar were simply given away to the lawyers. I don’t think the law library is used very much by the lawyers in the government, Mr. Speaker. Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, the Member is quite correct. The Public Utilities Board, PUB, did not approve the Northwest Territories Power Corporation’s interim rate application that was to have come into effect on June 1st. NTPC will reapply for an interim rate, the same 4.8 per cent increase when it submits it GRA later this month with an anticipated effective date of August 1st, 2016. So we’re not anticipating much loss or any loss of money in a significant amount.