Wendy Bisaro

Thanks to the Minister for his response. I appreciate that we are going to get some data, some investigation, some evaluation of the current situation and that something is going to come back in the fall. I look forward to that.

I guess I would like to know, then, and interestingly I’m not so sure that the Minister and I are talking to the same people involved in transition housing because there’s differing views obviously. I’d like to know from the Minister, if we’re not going to have a report until the fall sometime, Lord knows legislative amendments would be a long time after that, so I want...

Page 6-27, Municipal and Community Affairs, activity summary, information item, School of Community Government, active positions.

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Ms. Schofield.

Thank you, Minister. Mr. Bromley.

Ms. Schofield.

Welcome back, committee. We will come to order. We are done with opening comments. We are on page 6-7. We’ll defer page 6-7 until we have considered detail. Does committee agree? Mr. Hawkins.

Thank you. Is committee agreed to bring witnesses into the Chamber?

Thank you, committee. Could I have some order please? Thank you, committee. Page 9-19, activity summary, Justice, legal aid services, operations expenditure summary, $5.905 million. Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you, committee. Thank you, Minister. Thank you, witnesses. Minister Abernethy.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. Today I want to speak to the third item in my trilogy about inadequacies in the Residential Tenancies Act.

Most people can appeal to the rental officer for an intervention and a decision to solve their impasse. However, the Residential Tenancies Act does not allow the rental officer to deal with renters and landlords of transitional housing. There is no definition in the act for the term “transitional housing” or “transition home” so the rental officer has no authority over this kind of rental premise.

This failing was recognized by the NWT rental officer in his latest...