NL 7-1 Government Question Hour Act

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NL 7-1 Government Question Hour Act

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The current law is here, https://cdsdemocracy.org/faqs/nl-7-1-go ... -hour-act/

I propose that we update this law to change the requirement of a meeting transcript to simply a summary. Specifically, section 5 states, "The Chair will post a transcript of the meeting to the CDS forums, which may also include a summary of the content of the meeting. At the start, participants shall be informed that a transcript will be posted.".

The intent of the act as stated in the Rationale is, "to make the government more accessible this Act establishes an informal Government Question Hour". A formal transcript is at odds with the intended informal nature of the meeting. Casual chit-chat is what makes the GQH unique and valuable.

I suggest that section 5 be revised to, "The Chair will post a summary of the content of the meeting to the CDS forums. At the start, participants shall be informed that a summary will be posted.".

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We had an extensive discussion about this during today's RA meeting. It was agreed to post this topic to General Discussion to continue our discussion.

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I volunteer to open a topic on General Discussion with the relevant quotes from the RA meeting asap after the transcript is posted.

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