Made-in-Nunavut Corrections Act bill will die with assembly dissolution – NunatsiaqOnline

September 21, 2017

“This assembly has simply run out of time”

A made-in-Nunavut Corrections Act bill, meant to replace decades-old legislation grandfathered from the Northwest Territories, will be buried alongside another failed bill amending Nunavut’s Education Act, after MLAs quietly dropped the legislation on the final day of their last sitting before government dissolved for elections.

“This assembly has simply run out of time,” said the chair of the standing committee on legislation, Rankin Inlet North-Chesterfield South MLA, Tom Sammurok, Sept. 19.

Known as Bill 40, the proposed new Corrections Act was supposed to provide “robust appeals and grievance mechanisms for inmates, introduce an independent Investigations officer, and establish an Inuit Societal Values Committee,” according to a summary in the nearly 80-page copy of the final legislation, which had its second reading in Nunavut’s assembly, March 17.

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