Page 7-26, information item, legal aid services, active positions, $27,000.
Debates of March 7th, 2005
This is page numbers 1797 - 1856 of the Hansard for the 15th Assembly, 3rd Session. The original version can be accessed on the Legislative Assembly's website or by contacting the Legislative Assembly Library. The word of the day was chairman.
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Committee Motion 27-15(3) Recommendation To Develop Plan To Address Absence Of Policing Services In Small Communities, Carried
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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Committee Motion 27-15(3) Recommendation To Develop Plan To Address Absence Of Policing Services In Small Communities, Carried
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
Committee Motion 27-15(3) Recommendation To Develop Plan To Address Absence Of Policing Services In Small Communities, Carried
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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Committee Motion 27-15(3) Recommendation To Develop Plan To Address Absence Of Policing Services In Small Communities, Carried
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
Committee Motion 27-15(3) Recommendation To Develop Plan To Address Absence Of Policing Services In Small Communities, Carried
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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The Chair Calvin Pokiak
Page 7-29, activity summary, courts, operations expenditure summary, $7.895 million.
Committee Motion 27-15(3) Recommendation To Develop Plan To Address Absence Of Policing Services In Small Communities, Carried
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
Committee Motion 27-15(3) Recommendation To Develop Plan To Address Absence Of Policing Services In Small Communities, Carried
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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Committee Motion 27-15(3) Recommendation To Develop Plan To Address Absence Of Policing Services In Small Communities, Carried
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Page 1842
Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
Committee Motion 27-15(3) Recommendation To Develop Plan To Address Absence Of Policing Services In Small Communities, Carried
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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The Chair Calvin Pokiak
Page 7-35, activity summary, community justice and corrections, operations expenditure summary, $31.101 million. Ms. Lee.
Committee Motion 28-15(3) Recommendation That Funding For Remand Unit For South Mackenzie Correctional Centre Be Reinstated, Carried
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
March 7th, 2005
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Sandy Lee Range Lake
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have a motion. I move that this committee recommends that funding for the remand unit for the South Mackenzie Correctional Centre be reinstated in the 2005-06 Main Estimates for the Department of Justice.
Committee Motion 28-15(3) Recommendation That Funding For Remand Unit For South Mackenzie Correctional Centre Be Reinstated, Carried
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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Committee Motion 28-15(3) Recommendation That Funding For Remand Unit For South Mackenzie Correctional Centre Be Reinstated, Carried
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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Some Hon. Members
Question.
Committee Motion 28-15(3) Recommendation That Funding For Remand Unit For South Mackenzie Correctional Centre Be Reinstated, Carried
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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The Chair Calvin Pokiak
The clerk is handing out the motion. The motion has been circulated. The motion is in order. To the motion. Mrs. Groenewegen.
Committee Motion 28-15(3) Recommendation That Funding For Remand Unit For South Mackenzie Correctional Centre Be Reinstated, Carried
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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Jane Groenewegen Hay River South
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would like to speak in favour of the motion.
---Laughter
Mr. Chairman, I would like to take a moment to thank all the Members who have taken an interest in this subject and who have spoken to this. I really appreciate it. I know there are a lot of issues on everybody's agenda. This remand unit at the South Slave Correctional Centre, Mr. Chairman, is something that has been there for awhile. It has provided a good and sound service. I just hope that the government will hear our voice on this motion and will respect the will of the House on this and that the Minister will carry this motion forward to his colleagues with enthusiasm and support. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
---Applause
Committee Motion 28-15(3) Recommendation That Funding For Remand Unit For South Mackenzie Correctional Centre Be Reinstated, Carried
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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Committee Motion 28-15(3) Recommendation That Funding For Remand Unit For South Mackenzie Correctional Centre Be Reinstated, Carried
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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Sandy Lee Range Lake
Just a very short addition to that, as the Member for Hay River South mentioned earlier, there are many priorities that Members of this House have stated with regard to their priorities for Justice and that is what we are supposed to be doing. We are doing exactly what we would like the Minister and the government to know in terms of what we think should be done. I think this motion should be taken as a recommendation in a consensus government for the government to review the decision that they have made. It doesn't necessarily mean that the department has to eat whatever is the lost revenue or the budget deficit from within. I would like to ask FMB to consider bringing a supplementary appropriation forward, if they try to meet these deficits from within and can't do it without cutting the essential programs that we have all suggested.
I do appreciate the Minister's position. At one point or another we are all speaking to priorities, but the Member for Hay River South and I have been here long enough to know that it doesn't necessarily have to be that way. The government does have means and ways to find money when the majority of Members have stated a priority. So I just wanted to make it clear that endorsement of this motion is on the merit of the motion. I have already explained that and it doesn't say anything about lessening other priorities we have stated in other areas. I don't think it has to necessarily be that way. Thank you.
Committee Motion 28-15(3) Recommendation That Funding For Remand Unit For South Mackenzie Correctional Centre Be Reinstated, Carried
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Committee Motion 28-15(3) Recommendation That Funding For Remand Unit For South Mackenzie Correctional Centre Be Reinstated, Carried
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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Kevin A. Menicoche Nahendeh
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I, too, vote in favour of this motion. The main concern is that one of the goals and objectives of this line item is to provide safe custody and detention for adults. I am not convinced that the safety of the adults who are passing through the facility will be taken care of with the reduction of services. Thank you very much.
Committee Motion 28-15(3) Recommendation That Funding For Remand Unit For South Mackenzie Correctional Centre Be Reinstated, Carried
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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Committee Motion 28-15(3) Recommendation That Funding For Remand Unit For South Mackenzie Correctional Centre Be Reinstated, Carried
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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Some Hon. Members
Question.
Committee Motion 28-15(3) Recommendation That Funding For Remand Unit For South Mackenzie Correctional Centre Be Reinstated, Carried
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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The Chair Calvin Pokiak
Question is being called. All those in favour? All those in opposed? The motion is carried.
---Carried
---Applause
Committee Motion 28-15(3) Recommendation That Funding For Remand Unit For South Mackenzie Correctional Centre Be Reinstated, Carried
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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The Chair Calvin Pokiak
Page 7-35, activity summary, community justice and corrections, operations expenditure summary, $31.101 million.
Committee Motion 28-15(3) Recommendation That Funding For Remand Unit For South Mackenzie Correctional Centre Be Reinstated, Carried
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
Committee Motion 28-15(3) Recommendation That Funding For Remand Unit For South Mackenzie Correctional Centre Be Reinstated, Carried
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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The Chair Calvin Pokiak
Page 7-37, activity summary, community justice and corrections, grants and contributions, contributions, total grants and contributions, $1.704 million.
Committee Motion 28-15(3) Recommendation That Funding For Remand Unit For South Mackenzie Correctional Centre Be Reinstated, Carried
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.