Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to the committee for inviting me to speak to you today. As you mentioned, my name is Danielle Mager. I'm the Manager of Public Affairs and Communications with the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories. In my role, I am responsible

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We do. We have a bank of interpreters that we go to. For instance, for our Tlicho interpretation, we have one main interpreter we go to, but if she's not available, there is someone else we can go to. It's the same for most of the languages.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We do.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It is the same as in the Yukon. It would be the members who would provide us with the written documentation that we could provide to Hansard.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It would be a matter of the time involved. Because some of the interpreters have to come from different northern communities, “reasonable request” means whether we would be able to provide them with transportation to the city in a timely fashion.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I don't have the exact number, but our interpreters range from $300 to $450 per hour, and if they are travelling from outside the capital city, we will pay for their travel and accommodation and provide them with a per diem.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The Dene language has a family of languages within it. Chipewyan is part of the Dene language: Chipewyan, Cree, and Gwich'in.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  —Gwich'in.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's correct.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Absolutely. If there are members who speak an official language on the floor of the House on a regular basis, we will aim toward those languages more than toward the other non-spoken languages.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Right now we do not. As Senator Patterson mentioned earlier, when Nunavut was still a part of our territory, we did have some members who spoke only Inuktitut.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We would have to go outside of the capital city, because there are not many official language speakers who could capture that broad a language base. We would have to go outside of Yellowknife.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Absolutely. I don't have those numbers right now, but it's something I could definitely work on with your analysts.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Sorry, is that to me?