Territorial Leadership Committee on Dec. 10th, 1998

Transcript of meeting #3 for Territorial Leadership Committee in the 13th Assembly.

The winning word was chairman.

On the agenda

Item 3: Election Of Premier
Item 3: Election Of Premier

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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, it is, indeed, a great honour by the Members here in the House for this privilege to be Premier. I would like to also thank Steve, I thought he did very good work in his presentations, as well. I certainly would like to tell Steve here that I certainly would like to continue working with him in Cabinet and with all the Members of Cabinet, as well and all the Members of the Legislative Assembly. I will certainly do what I said here in my speech and in all the questions I just want to say that I am here to try to work as best I can with you and to try to finish off our terms, the commitment we have all made to serve the people here in the Northwest Territories and with the work that is ahead of us. We know what we have to do and what has to take place. With that, I would like to thank everybody here. Mahsi.

--Applause

Item 3: Election Of Premier
Item 3: Election Of Premier

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The Chair Samuel Gargan

Mr. Kakfwi.

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Item 3: Election Of Premier

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Stephen Kakfwi Sahtu

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I think there is a need to send a message to the public, to the communities, certainly the Members of the Cabinet and the Legislature, as well as the public, that we will change the way we do business. We will change the way we conduct ourselves, both Jim and I have committed to that. I do not see any particular difference in the views and the positions that we took this morning. I will be supporting Jim in his role. I committed to that last week. I committed that this morning to him and I will do that for the remainder of our term. I have been doing it for a long time. We said this morning, Jim and I have worked together for many, many years and we will continue to do that. I think perhaps, it will give you an example of how things should be done. Thank you very much.

--Applause

Item 3: Election Of Premier
Item 3: Election Of Premier

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The Chair Samuel Gargan

Thank you. I think regarding the broadcasting of the leadership, it is now over. We will take a five minute break because I know that the future Minister is anxious to get on with his job, so we will do that and congratulations.

--Break

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Item 3: Election Of Premier

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The Chair Samuel Gargan

We are in the second phase of our Territorial Leadership Committee meeting. The process for electing the Cabinet Members will be the same except that the time limits for speeches will be ten minutes for each candidate and there will be no question period. I would now ask for people to nominate their candidates for the Cabinet seats. Mr. Picco.