Thank you, Ms.

Bisaro. The

honourable Member for Kam Lake, Mr. Ramsay.

Mr. Speaker, my written questions are for the Minister of Health and Social Services.

1) How many unfunded programs currently exist

at Stanton Territorial Hospital? How much do these cost per year?

2) How many unfunded positions currently exist at

Stanton Territorial Hospital? How much do these positions cost per year?

Thank you, Mr.

Ramsay. The

honourable Member for Nunakput, Mr. Jacobson.

Thank you, Mr.

Speaker. My

question is for the Hon. Michael McLeod, Minister of the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs.

1) Can the Minister provide any information

regarding any and all MACA Sport, Recreation and Youth staff travel outside of the NWT for the fiscal years 2005–2006, 2006–2007 and 2007–2008?

2) Also, please provide the following additional

information:

a) purpose of the trips;

b) role of MACA on these travels;

c) names of staff who travelled and their

positions;

d) cost of each of the trips; and

e) reports submitted to MACA as a result of

the travels.

Thank you, Mr.

Jacobson. The

honourable Member for Nunakput, Mr. Jacobson.

Mr. Speaker, thank you. Again to the Hon. Michael McLeod, Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs.

1) What is the amount of MACA funding allocated

in each of the following fiscal years 2006–2007, 2007–2008 and 2008–2009 to the following sport and recreation partners:

a) Sport

North;

b) NWT Parks and Recreation Association;

c) Aboriginal Sport Circle of the Western

Arctic;

d) Mackenzie Recreation Association; and

e) Beaufort-Delta Sport and Recreation

Association?

Thank you, Mr. Jacobson. Item 9, returns to written questions. Item 10, replies to opening address. Item 11, petitions. Item 12, reports of standing and special committees. Item 13, reports of committees on the review of bills. Item 14, tabling of documents. The honourable Minister responsible for Environment and Natural Resources, Mr. Miltenberger.

Mr. Speaker, I wish to table the following document entitled Proposed Species at Risk Act, Consultation Document, June 2008.

Document 63-16(2), Proposed Species at Risk

Act, Consultation Document, June 2008, tabled.

Mr. Speaker, I wish to table the following document entitled Government of the Northwest Territories Contracts Over $5,000 Report: Year to Date for the Fiscal Year Ending March 31, 2008.

Document 64-16(2), GNWT Contracts Over

$5,000 Report: Year to Date for the Fiscal Year Ending March 31, 2008, tabled.

I’d like to table a letter. It is to the honourable Minister responsible for Education, Jackson Lafferty, dated May 14, 2008. It’s a letter sent by the chair of the Yellowknife Catholic Schools, Mary Vane, regarding their opposition to the deletion of the Alberta Achievement Testing Program.

Document 65-16(2), Letter to Minister of

Education Opposing the Deletion of the Alberta Achievement Tests, tabled.

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. Item 15, notices of motion. The honourable Member for Yellowknife Centre, Mr. Hawkins.

I give notice that on Thursday, June 19, 2008, I will move the following motion.

I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Hay River South, that this Legislative Assembly strongly recommend that the government cease considering the elimination of the Business Incentive Policy, and further, that this Legislative Assembly strongly recommend that the government consider and undertake public discussion on options to revise the policy to better direct it to the benefit of businesses who file their taxes in the North.

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. The honourable Member for Kam Lake, Mr. Ramsay.

I give notice that on Thursday, June 19, 2008, I will move the following motion.

I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Great Slave, that this Assembly signify their support for amendments to the federal Divorce Act to protect the rights of both parents to be involved in parenting the children, and further, that the content

and result of these proceedings be forwarded to the federal Minister of Justice and the Member of Parliament for Western Arctic for their consideration.

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. The honourable Member for Frame Lake, Ms. Bisaro.

Mr. Speaker, I give notice that on Thursday, June 19, 2008, I will move the following motion.

I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Thebacha, that notwithstanding Rule 4, when this House adjourns on June 19, 2008, it shall be adjourned until Wednesday, October 1, 2008, and further, that any time prior to October 1, 2008, if the Speaker is satisfied, after consultation with the Executive Council and Members of the Legislative Assembly, that the public interest requires that the House should meet at an earlier time during the adjournment, the Speaker may give notice and thereupon the House shall meet at the time stated in such notice and shall transact its business as if it has been duly adjourned to that time.

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Item 16, notices of motion for first reading of bills. Item 17, motions. Item 18, first reading of bills. Item 19, second reading of bills. The honourable Minister responsible for Justice, Mr. Lafferty.

Mahsi, Mr.

Speaker.

I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Range Lake, that Bill 13, An Act to Amend the Legal Profession Act, be read for the second time.

Mr.

Speaker, this bill includes a number of

amendments to update the discipline process in the Legal Profession Act, including amendments that would:

•

require that at least one layperson serve on the Law Society’s Discipline Committee and on any committee of inquiry set up to hear a discipline matter;

•

provide that certain complaints may be referred to mediation;

•

empower the chairperson of the discipline

committee to designate a member of the

committee to conduct an investigation into the conduct of a lawyer or student-at-law;

•

clarify the powers of a sole inquirer and

committee of inquiry;

•

allow a sole inquirer or committee of inquiry to impose conditions on the practice of a lawyer or student-at-law, in addition to other remedies;

•

allow for the suspension or termination of the right of a lawyer or student-at-law to practise law if his or her membership is suspended or terminated in another jurisdiction; and

•

provide for the automatic suspension of the right of a lawyer or student-at-law to practise law if he or she is serving a term of imprisonment or is on parole.

The bill also includes an amendment granting the Executive of the Law Society the authority to set out the circumstances under which a student-at-law may appear before various levels of court; an amendment to provide more protection of privileged information used in a disciplinary procedure; and various amendments to simplify terminology and improve organization.

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.

Bill 13 has had second reading.

Motion carried; Bill 13, An Act to Amend the

Legal Profession Act, read a second time and referred to a standing committee.

The honourable Minister of Finance, Mr. Roland.

Bill 14 has had second reading.

Motion carried; Bill 14, An Act to Amend the

Income Tax Act, read a second time and referred to a standing committee.

The honourable Minister responsible for the Workers’ Compensation Board, Mr. Miltenberger.

Mr. Speaker, I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Monfwi, that Bill 15, An Act to Amend the Workers’ Compensation Act, be read for the second time.

Mr.

Speaker, this bill amends the Workers’

Compensation Act to permit the Minister to appoint the chairperson of the governance council to a term not exceeding three years, and to reappoint that person so long as the reappointment does not result in a period of consecutive service exceeding six years. The length of service that the appointee previously had as a director of the governance council does not limit the term of his or her appointment as chairperson.