What is Red Tape?

Regulations are necessary for public health and safety, social wellbeing, consumer confidence, education/training, and environmental protection. Regulations sometimes impose a burden. However, regulations are red tape when they are:

• trying to solve a problem that is better addressed by the private sector or through education;
• unclear or overly complex and take stakeholders too long to comply with;
• inflexible;
• unfair or inequitable; or
• duplication.

Mandate:

The Red Tape Reduction Working Group exists to support increasing economic diversification by reducing red tape and regulatory burdens on small businesses

Responsibilities:

• Develop regulatory database;

• Establish processes, tools and methods to help advance regulatory best practices; and

• Create an annual work plan of actions.

Membership:

• One official each from departments of Finance, Industry Tourism and Investment, and Infrastructure;
• Two Business Advisory Council representatives and a NWT Association of Communities representative.

Tell us about Red Tape:

Do you have an example of Red Tape that you'd like the Working Group to address? Let us know:

• by completing the online Red Tape Survey; or
• sending us an email at redtape@gov.nt.ca