Jackson Lafferty

Mahsi. Currently, we have eight students that will be working within the Department of Justice. So that’s the resources that we have. If there are additional resources, by all means, we need to work within the framework or the budget that we’re going to have for summer students. Mahsi.

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. Within the Justice department we’ve been working closely with the Department of Human Resources since December to identify those students. We try to keep track of the students that have potential to be lawyers, or in that capacity. So of the students that we have, there are approximately eight students and some of them have started. I don’t have the specific dates of when they started, but we want to get those students on board, all of them, as soon as possible, if they’re not on board already. Mahsi.

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Thebacha, that Bill 3, Electronic Transactions Act, be read for the third time. Mahsi.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am very pleased to advise this House that a ceremony was held today to celebrate the tremendous contributions that people across this territory have made to education.

The Department of Education, Culture and Employment launched the Education Hall of Fame in 2010. We recognize that we all play an important role in supporting the education of our children and the Education Hall of Fame reflects the valuable contributions that people make as educators, volunteers, board members, administrators, and other community members.

In February 2011 we distributed advertisements...

Mr. Speaker, I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Inuvik Boot Lake, that Bill 4, Miscellaneous Statute Law Amendment Act, 2011, be read for the third time. Thank you.

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. I’d just like to highlight the inductees for 2011 Education Hall of Fame that are here with us: Ethel Blondin-Andrew, Lucy Lafferty, Ed Jeske, Margaret Field, Dorothy Beaulieu and Garth Brasseur. Congratulations.

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Mr. Speaker, I did commit to the Member that we will be going to the school. I believe we’re working on a date with the Member to go into the community and also look at the particular school and the complex it is under. Working towards the next capital planning project, I will work with the Member and also the Members at large that this along with other projects, what are the priorities? What should come to us first? Those are the discussions that we need to have, as we do every year with the capital projects process. Mahsi.

Mahsi, Mr. Chair. I have Mark Aitken with me, the director of the legislation division within Justice.

Mr. Speaker, there are processes that we need to follow. As I stated, we have identified funds for technical upgrades and then having somebody, a consultant or departmental staff, going to the community to identify what’s needed and what’s the capacity. Right now, Mr. Speaker, the capacity is 48 percent utilized in the community. We have to look at that as well. Is it a space issue? Is it a building issue? The students, how many students are there? There are 16 students right now, Mr. Speaker. We’re talking about those specific matters and we need to highlight and analyze all those key areas...

Mr. Chair, the purpose of Bill 4, Miscellaneous Statute Law Amendment Act, 2011, 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.

The departments responsible for the various statutes being amended have reviewed and...