Supplementary To Question 282-13(3): Sale Of Staff Housing To GNWT Employees
Question 282-13(3): Sale Of Staff Housing To GNWT Employees
Item 6: Oral Questions
Page 508
David Krutko Mackenzie Delta
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In the short time frame we are looking at -- I believe it was August or September -- to try to have the arrangement wrapped up, is there a possibility the Minister could consider looking at the time frame to be extended to allow individuals who are not
living in those residences to consider that and work out the financial arrangements?
Supplementary To Question 282-13(3): Sale Of Staff Housing To GNWT Employees
Question 282-13(3): Sale Of Staff Housing To GNWT Employees
Item 6: Oral Questions
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The Speaker Samuel Gargan
Thank you. Mr. Todd.
Further Return To Question 282-13(3): Sale Of Staff Housing To GNWT Employees
Question 282-13(3): Sale Of Staff Housing To GNWT Employees
Item 6: Oral Questions
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John Todd
I think it's important to point out that we have built a strategy into the budget that X amount of dollars will be available this year and next year. Certainly, we will take my honourable colleague's comments into consideration when Mr. Kakfwi and myself prepare the paper. Thank you.
Further Return To Question 282-13(3): Sale Of Staff Housing To GNWT Employees
Question 282-13(3): Sale Of Staff Housing To GNWT Employees
Item 6: Oral Questions
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The Speaker Samuel Gargan
Thank you. Item 6, oral questions. Supplementary, Mr. Krutko.
Supplementary To Question 282-13(3): Sale Of Staff Housing To GNWT Employees
Question 282-13(3): Sale Of Staff Housing To GNWT Employees
Item 6: Oral Questions
Page 508
David Krutko Mackenzie Delta
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Could the Minister inform this House when that decision is made so we are aware of the time frames that we are looking at, because it is kind of tight? I think the sooner we get this thing up and running, the better it will be for not only the government but also its employees.
Supplementary To Question 282-13(3): Sale Of Staff Housing To GNWT Employees
Question 282-13(3): Sale Of Staff Housing To GNWT Employees
Item 6: Oral Questions
Page 508
The Speaker Samuel Gargan
Mr. Todd.
Further Return To Question 282-13(3): Sale Of Staff Housing To GNWT Employees
Question 282-13(3): Sale Of Staff Housing To GNWT Employees
Item 6: Oral Questions
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John Todd
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As the eternal optimist, I would genuinely hope that our employees who are in those houses will take advantage of the one-time opportunity we're going to give them to purchase them at significant discounts, Mr. Speaker. But I recognize what my honourable colleague is saying, I recognize that we built into the budget for this year and next year dollars based upon the sale of these houses, and we will move as quickly and as expeditiously as possible to accomplish that end, taking my colleague's comments into consideration. Thank you.
Further Return To Question 282-13(3): Sale Of Staff Housing To GNWT Employees
Question 282-13(3): Sale Of Staff Housing To GNWT Employees
Item 6: Oral Questions
Page 508
The Speaker Samuel Gargan
Thank you. Item 6, oral questions. Item 7, written questions. Mr. Barnabas.
Written Question 6-13(3): Nanisivik Mine Training And Employment Agreement
Item 7: Written Questions
May 20th, 1996
Page 508
Levi Barnabas High Arctic
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My written question is to the Minister of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources.
In June 1974, the Government of Canada signed an agreement with Mineral Resources International Limited. Under this agreement, the Commissioner and the Government of the Northwest Territories had certain obligations to northern residents in the areas of training and employment at the Nanisivik Mine.
The 1974 agreement provides that the Commissioner is to appoint an employee of the Government of the Northwest Territories as a counsellor. This position was to provide information, guidance and assistance to northerners and their families with respect to job training and work and living conditions at Nanisivik Mine. Further, the counsellor would have the responsibility for arranging training and upgrading of education of northern residents, ensuring that the mine would have a workforce comprised of at least 60 per cent northern residents, and ensuring the employment objectives of the agreement were met.
Could the Minister please provide the following information:
1 .Whether any GNWT employees were ever appointed to the position of counsellor, as provided for in the 1974 agreement, with their names and the dates and lengths of their appointment.
2. The current percentage of northern residents working at Nanisivik Mine, along with historical percentages of northern residents in the Nanisivik workforce over the life of the mine.
Copies of any minutes or reports of the Training and Employment Advisory Committee to have been established under the terms of the 1974 agreement.
4. Names of GNWT representatives who have served on the Strathcona Sound Monitoring Committee, along with the dates and lengths of their service.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Written Question 6-13(3): Nanisivik Mine Training And Employment Agreement
Item 7: Written Questions
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The Speaker Samuel Gargan
Thank you. Item 7, written questions. Item 8, returns to written questions. Item 9, replies to Opening Address. Item 10, petitions. Mr. Clerk.
Item 10: Petitions
Item 10: Petitions
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Clerk Of The House Mr. David Hamilton
Mr. Speaker, I would like to advise that a Member has filed two petitions under Rule 42(1). The first petition, Mr. Speaker, deals with the matter of MLA compensation report. Mr. Speaker, Petition No. 47-13(3) contains 23 signatures from residents of Baker Le ke. Mr. Speaker, the petitioners request that the MLA compensation package be publicly debated and resolved.
Also, the second petition, Mr. Speaker, deals with the matter of the replacement of an existing and unsafe Arctic College building. Petition No. 48-13(3) is signed by 198 residents of Baker Lake who petition: 'We, the people of Baker Lake, petition the Minister of Education and the Board of Governors of Nunavut Arctic College to replace our existing and unsafe Arctic College building.'
Item 10: Petitions
Item 10: Petitions
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The Speaker Samuel Gargan
Thank you. Item 10, petitions. Item 11, reports of standing and special committees. Item 12, reports of committees on the review of bills. Item 13, tabling of documents. Item 14, notices of motion. Item 15, notices of motions for first reading of bills. Item 16, motions, Motion 9-13(3). Mrs. Groenewegen.
Motion 9-13(3): Removal And Recovery Of Consumer Price Index Increase To Members' Allowances And Expenses, Carried
Item 16: Motions
Page 509
Jane Groenewegen Hay River
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.
Motion 9-13(3): Removal And Recovery Of Consumer Price Index Increase To Members' Allowances And Expenses, Carried
Item 16: Motions
Page 509
The Speaker Samuel Gargan
Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen. Your motion is in order. To the motion.
Motion 9-13(3): Removal And Recovery Of Consumer Price Index Increase To Members' Allowances And Expenses, Carried
Item 16: Motions
Page 509
Some Hon. Members
Question.
Motion 9-13(3): Removal And Recovery Of Consumer Price Index Increase To Members' Allowances And Expenses, Carried
Item 16: Motions
Page 509
The Speaker Samuel Gargan
Question has been called. All those in favour? Mr. Miltenberger.
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Mr. Ootes.
Motion 9-13(3): Removal And Recovery Of Consumer Price Index Increase To Members' Allowances And Expenses, Carried
Item 16: Motions
Page 509
Jake Ootes Yellowknife Centre
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to make short mention of the motion. According to the Legislative Assembly and Executive Council Act, constituency expenses were tied to the consumer price index. Thus, on April 1 st of this year, it was an automatic increase of allowances and expenses of 2.1 per cent. Considering our effort to tackle the budget in all ways and means, I felt that it's in order for us to set an example and support this motion and eliminate the 2.1 per cent. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Motion 9-13(3): Removal And Recovery Of Consumer Price Index Increase To Members' Allowances And Expenses, Carried
Item 16: Motions
Page 509
The Speaker Samuel Gargan
Thank you. To the motion. Mr. Miltenberger.
Motion 9-13(3): Removal And Recovery Of Consumer Price Index Increase To Members' Allowances And Expenses, Carried
Item 16: Motions
Page 509
Michael Miltenberger Thebacha
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This issue first came to my attention on April 9th, at which time I wrote to MSB. That's where I was told it should it should be brought to Caucus, which it was, so I'm happy to support a motion brought forward by the Member of Hay River that is through Caucus. I think it will put to rest an issue that has nagged us since then. Thank you.
Motion 9-13(3): Removal And Recovery Of Consumer Price Index Increase To Members' Allowances And Expenses, Carried
Item 16: Motions
Page 509
The Speaker Samuel Gargan
Thank you. To the motion. Mr. Steen.
Motion 9-13(3): Removal And Recovery Of Consumer Price Index Increase To Members' Allowances And Expenses, Carried
Item 16: Motions
Page 510
Vince Steen Nunakput
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I have no problem, personally, with the rollback of the 2.1 per cent. However, I don't believe that we're going to be helping the overall deficit situation all that much, with a 2.1 per cent rollback of our living allowance. I think if the public knew we were only talking about $2 a day per Member, that there wouldn't be such a big outcry. My concern is I feel it would be far more effective for me to take that $2 and give it to the first poor people I see, rather than funnel it through this government because it will never reach those poor people. That's the problem I have. It's going to end up in somebody's BIP.
--- Laughter
That's where I have a problem.
--- Applause
Motion 9-13(3): Removal And Recovery Of Consumer Price Index Increase To Members' Allowances And Expenses, Carried
Item 16: Motions
Page 510
The Speaker Samuel Gargan
Are you finished, Mr. Steen?
--- Interjection
Motion 9-13(3): Removal And Recovery Of Consumer Price Index Increase To Members' Allowances And Expenses, Carried
Item 16: Motions
Page 510
The Speaker Samuel Gargan
To the motion.
Motion 9-13(3): Removal And Recovery Of Consumer Price Index Increase To Members' Allowances And Expenses, Carried
Item 16: Motions
Page 510
Some Hon. Members
Question.
Motion 9-13(3): Removal And Recovery Of Consumer Price Index Increase To Members' Allowances And Expenses, Carried
Item 16: Motions
Page 510
The Speaker Samuel Gargan
Question is being called. All those in favour? All those opposed? The motion is carried.
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(Translation) The chair would like to advise that I have reviewed Motion 10-13(3) which appears on the order paper for today. It is noted that Motion 9-13(3), which has just been carried, is on the same subject and, in fact, is identical to Motion 10-13(3). I therefore rule that Motion 10-13(3) cannot proceed and, by order, it is dropped from the order paper. Thank you. (Translation ends)
---Motion 10-13(3) ruled out of order
Item 17, first reading of bills. Item 18, second reading of bills. Item 19, consideration in Committee of the Whole of bills and other matters: Bill 8, An Act to Amend the Income Tax Act; Bill 11, Appropriation Act, 1996-97; Committee Report 1-13(3), Standing Committee on Government Operations Report on the Review of the 1996-97 Main Estimates; Committee Report 2-13(3), Standing Committee on Infrastructure Report on the Review of the 1996-97 Main Estimates; Committee Report 3-13(3), Standing Committee on Resource Management and Development Report on the Review of the 1996-97 Main Estimates; Committee Report 4-13(3), Standing Committee on Social Programs Report on the Review of the 1996-97 Main Estimates; and, Tabled Document 1-13(3), Report of the Commission on MLA Compensation, with Mr. Ningark in the chair.
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