This report covers the staff, budget, expenditures, and accomplishments of the Language Commissioner’s office, as well as an overview of complaints and inquiries relating to the OLA. It notes that a new measure was passed in November of 1994 to appoint the next Languages Commissioner on contract, for four-year terms. Harnum’s term would expire in 1995-1996, with a new Commissioner in place from 1996-2000. In addition, the Legislature’s Standing Committee on Agencies, Boards and Commissions took responsibility for reviewing reports and activities from the Office of the Languages Commissioner.

Harnum concludes this report with a comment that the GNWT had yet to develop clear guidelines for implementing the OLA, even though, at the time of writing, it had been 10 years since the Act’s passing. However, in this year the office of the Languages Commissioner was clarified somewhat, and cooperation between Harnum and the GNWT lead to more publically accessible information about the OLA in the form of a booklet explaining the OLA in all official languages.

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Office of the Languages Commissioner of the Northwest Territories [Betty Harnum]. 1984-1994: 10 years of Official Languages in the NWT. 3^rd Annual Report for the period April 1, 1994, to March 31, 1995. Yellowknife, 1995.