Thank you, Mr. Speaker. WHEREAS section 32.1 of the Legislative Assembly and Executive Council Act provides for an automatic annual increase to indemnities, allowances and expenses based on the consumer price index for Canada;

AND WHEREAS the Legislative Assembly enacted Bill 9 to reduce all indemnities payable to Members by seven per cent;

AND WHEREAS Bill 9 also repealed the provision that automatically provided an annual increase to indemnities;

NOW THEREFORE I MOVE, seconded by the honourable Member for Yellowknife Centre, that the Legislative Assembly and Executive Council Act be amended to eliminate all those provisions that permit an annual increase to allowances and expenses;

AND FURTHER, that the increase of 2.1 per cent to allowances and expenses that was effected April 1, 1996, be recovered from Members of the Legislative Assembly for all expenses and allowance payments made since that date.