R.J. Simpson

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Over the past number of years, those discussions have largely been confined to the -- at the officials' level, but recently we have started having conversations at the elected officials level about LNG and the Inuvialuit's -- how we can work together to advance projects that the Inuvialuit might want to see, how we can work together to attract investors and industry if that's the desire. And so we are starting those conversations now. We had representatives from IRC here last week, and I raised this subject because it is of great interest to myself as well as, of course...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So security guards, as was mentioned, are unregulated so they are private citizens. And so the same rules that would govern you or I when we're out in public would govern security guards. So the Criminal Code is the legislation I would look to for that. There are provisions in the Criminal Code allowing for a citizen's arrest and those allow for reasonable force to be used, as well as detention. So that is -- that's in the federal realm. That's in the courts and, you know, any type of force that is used would be tested against that standard. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Mr. Speaker, the honourable Member for Kam Lake, Minister of Industry, Tourism, and Investment, will be absent from the House today to attend the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada's conference in Toronto, Ontario.

As well, Mr. Speaker, the honourable Member for Thebacha, Minister of Justice, and the honourable Member for Hay River South, the Minister of Infrastructure, will be absent from the House for a portion of today's proceedings to meet with the federal Minister of Public Safety here in Yellowknife. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And, once again, the IGC is not the GNWT and so we don't have ultimate say over the final decisions there. That being said, the Members have been contributing to the terms of reference. Every time the Member gets up and talks about the IGC timelines and processes, that information is heard by myself. I relay it to the department that, listen, we're getting some good ideas out of the Assembly, let's ensure that we're feeding these into that process. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And I will also say that we'll share the RFP with the Member as well. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. That is not within the administrative authority of the Government of the Northwest Territories to decide. When the Assembly says it wants more Members in the House, then the budget for government at large goes up. So if there's more Members, hopefully we'll have at least one more Minister to share the workload, which would mean another office, some staff. So there will be cost implications, but we'll take that when it comes, if it comes. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So what will be looked at in the review is what I mentioned earlier, and I can see how the funding piece would play into that, but we are not waiting for a review to look at how we have Indigenous governments participate or how they're funded to participate in this process. Just the other day -- you know, it could have been yesterday, maybe the day before -- we were down at PDAC, the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada's conference, the largest mining conference in the world, where the Minister of Environment and Climate Change signed a memorandum of...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So the review is going to look at the governance system, how well is our governance system functioning, examining the period from signing of devolution until 2023. We're going to look at what works well, what's been working well, what doesn't work well, what lessons have been learned, are the current processes sufficient, in particular in terms of how we deal with roadblocks when we run into roadblocks, are we letting them linger too long at the working group without elevating them up to the officials or the political level. So it's definitely -- we're looking at the...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'd have to go look through the archives to see if there is such a thing. But as I think you all know, there is no consistent administrative region of the GNWT. Depending on the department, the borders are different. The Naka and education, culture and employment, infrastructure, they all have different borders for the administrative regions. And so we don't have a process to do this. It's not something that is done very often. And so I guess that's the answer, that there is no process right now. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I don't have that level of detail, and I have to admit this is more in the Minister of ITI's realm. That being said, if the Member would like, I would be happy to invite him to sit down with officials and have a discussion so we can get some in-depth background information and, you know, provide his comments on what he would like to see going forward. I'd be happy to do that because I know how interested the Member is, and I am sure he'd provide some valuable insight. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I don't see it in the RFP here. I believe I saw something in there so I don't have the information at hand, but this is a publicly available document that speaks about the expectations for how security guards will behave in environments where they're providing their services. There is an expectation that if there is the need to physically detain someone to protect the staff, protect the other residents at a facility or patients in a health centre, that that would be within the scope of the duties of the security guard, all while remaining within the scope of the -- or...