Legislative committee meetings to be live streamed this fall

All legislativecommittee meetings held when the house is not in session will now take place in theColesBuilding legislative chamber and will be live streamed starting Sept. 1.

The ColesBuilding is where the legislature now sits, while Province House is under renovation.

Emily Doiron, a clerk assistant with the Legislative Assembly, said the legislative assembly received arequest to live streamcommittee meetingsearlier this year.

Members of the all-party Standing Committee on LegislativeManagement met and agreed to the request.

Doiron saidminimalchanges will be required forthe ColesBuilding chamber to accommodatethe streams.

"A lot of the technical infrastructure was in place in the chamber which was the reason for the decision to have them held here," she said.

Available on Facebooktoo

In live streaming the committee meetings in the Colesbuilding, Doiron added, government wants to "keep the feel" of previous committee meetings held in the J. Angus MacLeanBuilding across the street.

"We want to ensure the members of the committee can see the the presentations and the witnesses, and that the witnesses feel comfortable and can see the members while they're presenting."

Committee meeting streams will be available on the government's website and on Facebook live.

Legislative sittings are already streamed live.

"We're encouraged to see people using these services, so we're hoping that when we start the live video broadcast of committee meetings that there will be an uptick of that from the public."

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