Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I wanted to follow up a bit on the line of questioning I had with the Premier earlier. He mentioned that the review of the intergovernmental agreement is going to be done by a contractor; however, the business plan that they just shared with us a few weeks ago says an internal IGCS committee and terms of reference for that review have been established and that they have been meeting regularly to advance the review. So can the Premier just clarify for us is this being done by a contractor or a committee? Thank you.
Thank you, Member from Frame Lake. Mr. Premier.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So the way I understand it, at the last intergovernmental council meeting, we tasked the intergovernmental council secretariat, which is the officials level group representing each of the governments at the intergovernmental council, with developing terms of reference that -- for the review that we could put out to a contractor to actually administer the review. So the intergovernmental council secretariat was working on the terms of reference, on developing the framework to figure out what we need to -- what questions we need to ask, what we need to get the contractors to look into, and then that will be converted into an RFP that will then go out for tender. Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Will the Assembly or MLAs have any opportunity to contribute to those terms of reference or at least see them before they're set in stone and put out for RFP? 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. Premier. Final supplementary. Member from Frame Lake.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I appreciate that they are listening to us on the floor, and I hope that they've been hearing the comments that have been made by previous standing committees and Members in this House about how it would be appreciated if the IGCS conducted itself more publicly. To that point, Mr. Speaker, will the contractor be engaging with the Assembly and the public and reporting publicly on their findings? Thank you.
Thank you. I will have to get back to the Member. Thanks.
Oral questions. Member from the Yellowknife Centre.
