Good afternoon, everyone, friends. Again it’s a pleasure to welcome Members back to this House this
afternoon. Now, I know from my own experience that an MLA’s work is never done, but I hope that you have all had time to connect with family, with friends and with constituents over the past summer. Being able to hear directly from the people that we are elected to represent can both help to better engage our residents in the business of the Legislative Assembly and inform the deliberations that will resume here today.
I want to take this time to say hello to the Junior Rangers that are your Pages today, I being an Honorary Junior Ranger myself. I wanted to slip that in here before I got into the business of the House.
During this session, the Government of the Northwest Territories will be introducing the following bills for consideration by this House:
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Appropriation Act (Infrastructure Expenditures) 2010-2011
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Supplementary Appropriation Act (Operations Expenditures), No. 2, 2009-2010
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Supplementary
Appropriation
Act
(Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 3, 2009-2010
The government considers these bills essential to the good conduct of government business and, as such, I recommend their passage.
As the Commissioner of the Northwest Territories, I now declare open the Fourth Session of the 16th Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories.
Thank you, merci, mahsi cho, and quanami.