Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I wish to table letters of support for the Premier enclosed in the document here. Thank you.

Thank you. Item 13, tabling of documents. The honourable Member for Range Lake, Ms. Lee.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I wish to table three documents. One is a letter from the office of the Conflict of Interest Commissioner, dated October 24th.

The second one is comments by Mr. Charles McGee, who is a solicitor for Mr. John Bayly, with respect to the Report of the Special Committee on Conflict Process.

The third letter is comments written by Ms. Sarah Kay, who is the solicitor for Mrs. Lynda Sorensen, dated October 28th, which is a comment on the special committee report. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Ms. Lee. Item 13, tabling of documents.

In accordance with section 23 of the Official Languages Act, I wish to table the English and French Annual Report of the Languages Commissioner for the fiscal year 2000-2001.

Item 13, tabling of documents. Item 14, notices of motion. The honourable Member for Tu Nedhe, Mr. Nitah.

Thank you, Mr. Nitah. Item 14, notices of motion. Item 15, notices of motion for first reading of bills. Item 16, motions. The honourable Member for Tu Nedhe, Mr. Nitah.

Thank you, Mr. Nitah. The honourable Member is seeking unanimous consent to deal with this motion. Are there any nays? There are no nays, Mr. Nitah, your motion.

Thank you, Mr. Nitah. We have a motion on the floor. The motion is in order. To the motion. Question has been called. All those in favour? Thank you. All those opposed? The motion is carried. Item 16, motions. 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: Bills 8, 9, 10, 12, 14; Tabled Documents 42-14(4), 51-14(4); Committee Report 7-14(4) and Committee Report 8-14(4), with Mr. Delorey in the chair.

I would like to call committee of the whole to order. We have a number of issues to consider in committee. What is the wish of the committee? Mr. Dent.

Mr. Chairman, I would like to recommend that we initially commence with Committee Report 8 and see if we cannot wrap that up and then move into consideration of Bill 14, followed by Bill 8. Then we will see how much time is left, whether or not we keep going.

Thank you, Mr. Dent. We will take a short break and come back. Thank you.

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I will call the committee of the whole back to order. We are reviewing Committee Report 8-14(4). General comments. Mrs. Groenewegen, you were up last. Did you complete your general comments or did you want to make more general comments?

I do not have any more comments for right now, Mr. Chairman. If I have more time allotted later, depending on what is said, I might. I do not have any further comments. Thank you.

Thank you, Mrs. Groenewegen. Mr. Braden.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I wanted to seek committee's approval on the agenda to consider a motion regarding a supplementary pension plan, so I would just request that you recognize me at an appropriate time during committee of the whole. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Braden. A more appropriate time would probably be when the committee gets around to dealing with the report and the independent commission on Members' compensation. There has been no wish of the committee so far to deal with this issue. We are on general comments on Committee Report 8-14(4). Any more general comments? Does the committee agree that Committee Report 8-14(4) is concluded?

We will move on to Bill 14, Supplementary Appropriation Act, No 2, 2001-2002. Mr. Handley, do you have any opening remarks?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Supplementary Appropriation Act, No. 2, requests authority for operations expenditure appropriations of $8,364,500 and capital investment appropriations of $1,254,000. These requirements are within the estimated supplementary reserves. Major items included in the operations expenditure requests are as follows:

1. A special warrant was approved for $1 million to undertake research into hydroelectrical potential.
2. $1.5 million for forced growth in a domestic power subsidy program.
3. $2.7 million for various departments for forced growth and expenditures resulting from significant increases to the cost of heating fuel and power in the Northwest Territories.
4. $600,000 for the establishment of the Energy Secretariat.
5. $550,000 for aboriginal governments participation in the Intergovernmental Forum discussions.

The request for additional capital investment includes $834,000 for the Department of Justice to complete the Inuvik Young Offenders' Facility Project. Of this amount, $234,000 will be financed by advancing the current approved cash flow for the project.

Mr. Chairman, I am prepared to review the details of the supplementary appropriation requests. Thank you.