Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman. I too would like to recognize the work of the Electoral Boundaries Commission members, the extensive public consultations that they undertook and the recommendations from the report after having public input from the communities and from written submissions that they took in. I think I myself had written in a submission to them and recommended a smaller than the 20 to 22 Member constituencies that they were given the mandate to look at, I am glad to say that other members of the public also expressed concern about the size of a Nunavut Legislature of 20 to 22 Members, possibly being excessive and the Boundaries Commission recognizing that and coming back with the proposal, a recommendation in one of their models for a 17 Member Nunavut Legislature which I support. The one issue I do have with the recommendation is more specific to my own constituency of Kitikmeot where they have made a recommendation that the smaller communities of Umingmaktok and Bathurst Inlet be placed in the Kugluktuk constituency. I will be putting forward a motion to amend that, Mr. Chairman, at the appropriate time to have those two communities moved back in with Cambridge Bay and at the time of the motion, I will speak to the reasons why I would ask Members to support that, Mr. Chairman. Thank you.
Kelvin Ng on Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on October 3rd, 1997. See this statement in context.
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
October 2nd, 1997
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Kelvin Ng Kitikmeot
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