Members, and those following along in the public gallery and at home, you have previously confirmed a process to select a Premier that varies somewhat
from the past. Your predecessors from the 18th Legislative Assembly divided the process for the selection of Premier from a one-day process to a two-day process. As you have agreed, the process for selecting a Premier for the 19th Legislative Assembly will be divided into two distinct stages. Today those Members wishing to allow their names to stand for Premier will each identify themselves publicly and make a speech of up to 20 minutes. Following these speeches, each Member will be entitled to ask up to two questions to each candidate for Premier. Your questions should be addressed equally to all candidates, and I ask that you keep them short and specific. Likewise, I ask that candidates limit their responses to no more than five minutes.
Following this question-and-answer exchange, the Territorial Leadership Committee will adjourn for roughly one week until Thursday, October 24, 2019, at 9:00 a.m., when you will first select a Speaker. Following this, each Member will be provided the opportunity to ask one final question to the candidates for Premier. This final exchange will be followed by the secret ballot election of the Premier.
Later that afternoon, you will proceed to identify, hear speeches from, ask questions to, and elect Members of the Executive Council according to the 2-2-2, or north-south-Yellowknife, custom that has been used by previous Assemblies.
Now, with regard to technical matters, Members should be aware that you are not required to turn on your microphones when you rise to speak. That will be done automatically for you. Also, in front of Members and built into your desks are the timing mechanisms. When speeches are being made, the clocks will count down the time available to you, and you are asked to be mindful of the time limits that have been set and agreed to by all Members.
I wish to make Members aware that today's proceedings are being broadcast live on the Legislative Assembly Television Network and on social media. Our proceedings today are being simultaneously translated in the following languages: in booth 2 on channel 2, Tlicho; in booth 3, Chipewyan; in booth 4, South Slavey; in booth 5, North Slavey; in booth 6, Inuvialuktun; in booth 7, Inuktitut; and in booth 8, French.
I would also like to remind Members that, although this is a less formal committee than the House itself, Members are please asked to stand while speaking.