Agreed.

---Agreed

Do Members agree that Bill 17 is ready for third reading?

Agreed.

---Agreed

Bill 17 is now ready for third reading. I would like to thank you, Mr. Pollard and Mr. Nielsen for being with us and helping us with this bill.

What would the committee like to do next? Mr. Zoe.

The motion is in order. To the motion.

Question.

Question has been called. All those in favour? All those opposed? Motion is carried.

---Carried

I'll rise and report progress.

I call the House back to order. Item 19, report of committee of the whole. The honourable Member for Yellowknife Centre, Mr. Lewis.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. Your committee has been considering Bill 15 and Bill 17 and would like to report that Bills 15 and 17 are ready for third reading. Madam Speaker, I move that the report of the committee of the whole be concurred with.

Thank you. Is there a seconder for the motion? The honourable Member for North Slave, Mr. Zoe. The motion is in order. To the motion.

Question.

Question has been called. All those in favour? All those opposed? Motion is carried.

---Carried

The honourable Member for Deh Cho, Mr. Gargan.

Madam Speaker, I would like to seek unanimous consent to go back to item 3, Members' statements.

The honourable Member for Deh Cho is seeking unanimous consent to return to Members' statements. Are there any nays? There are no nays. Proceed.

Thank you, Madam Speaker.

---Laughter

And I would like to thank my colleagues, too. Bill 9, An Act to Amend the Motor Vehicles Act, is filled with buzz words and phrases, as most legislation we adopt is. Buzz words such as maybe, may, may sell, may buy, consider, shall not and shall provide. Madam Speaker, to my way of thinking, a lot of these buzz words and phrases imply there is room for compromise for those interpreting the legislation.

However, Madam Speaker, clause 24 of Bill 9 now reads, "No person shall operate or park a motor vehicle on a highway unless license plates attached to the motor vehicle are free of dirt and obstructions." Madam Speaker, I really wonder what difference it would make if you cannot read a license plate of a vehicle parked on the side of a highway.

Madam Speaker, I drive over 80,000 kilometres a year. I have been 40 miles out of Yellowknife in a rain storm or behind a watering truck where there would be no way that my rear plate was clear. My problem with the wording of this clause is that there is no room for leeway on the part of the law enforcers. The way the clause reads now, they have no choice but to ticket offenders, regardless of the fact it is pouring cats and dogs outside.

Madam Speaker, I am thinking of going into business selling a revolutionary new product...

---Laughter

...to deal with the problem of mud on the highways. I'm going to market the LPCA kit, the license plate cleaning agent kit.

---Laughter

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I also have, for those people lucky enough to live in a community where there are paved streets, an Arctic turtle wax...

---Laughter

...that fits in the glove compartment to keep their licence plates nice and shiny.

---Laughter

Thank you, Madam Speaker.

---Applause

Thank you. Item 3, Members' statements. Item 20, third reading of bills. The honourable Member for Hay River.

Madam Speaker, on behalf of Mr. Todd...

---Laughter

...I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Baffin Central, that Bill 9, An Act to Amend the Motor Vehicles Act, be read for the third time.

Shame, shame.

---Laughter

Thank you. The motion is in order. To the motion.

Question.

Question has been called. All those in favour? All those opposed? Motion is carried.

---Carried

Bill 9 has had third reading. Item 20, third reading of bills. The honourable Member for Mackenzie Delta.