Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Does committee agree?
Debates of Feb. 22nd, 2010
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair Bob Bromley
Sergeant-at-Arms, please escort witnesses into the House.
Mr. Speaker, would you like to introduce your witnesses, please.
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Paul Delorey Hay River North
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. To my left is director of corporate services, Olin Lovely, and to my right is the Clerk of the Assembly, Mr. Mercer.
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The Chair Bob Bromley
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Committee, we’re open for general remarks on the Legislative Assembly. Mr. Yakeleya.
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Norman Yakeleya Sahtu
Thank you, Mr. Chair. I wanted to let the Assembly know that I certainly wanted to say how pleased I was with the introduction of the first Elders’ Parliament that you’re going to have this year. I think it’s a unique approach. It gives the elders who are going to participate in the parliament a sense of what us young leaders go through, a sense of the work. I think this is a good initiative that should be successful. You always have something to learn and it will be very good. I was talking to some of my elders in Deline over the past weekend and they’re quite excited about this. So I think that’s a good move on behalf of the Speaker and the staff to move on this initiative, and I look forward to seeing how the Elders’ Parliament is going to come out in terms of some of the issues that the elders would be speaking on, in terms of their participation in the parliament, in this Assembly here.
I want to just make note of that, Mr. Chair, in terms of my comments to the Assembly, Mr. Speaker, and his staff there. Thank you.
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The Chair Bob Bromley
Thank you very much, Mr. Yakeleya. General comments. Does committee agree this concludes general comments?
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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Paul Delorey Hay River North
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate the comments from the Member for the Sahtu. We have had a fair bit of interest shown in this Elders’ Parliament and we’re going to work to make it as successful a week as possible with the elders when they come here. Thanks for those comments.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair Bob Bromley
We will defer the department summary, operations expenditure summary, on page 1-7, and start with page 1-8, information item, Legislative Assembly, infrastructure investment summary. Questions?
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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Some Hon. Members
Agreed.
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The Chair Bob Bromley
Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. I believe that was more detail on other? Is that correct? Mr. Speaker.
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Paul Delorey Hay River North
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We’ll just get that information on the other expenditures here. I’ll refer the question to Olin, and he’ll run down the list of other expenses.
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Lovely
Thank you, Mr. Chair. The other expenditure is $571,000 for the interest expense on the Legislative Assembly building payment. Thank you.
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The Chair Bob Bromley
Thank you, Mr. Lovely. Once again, committee, we’re on page 1-13, activity summary, Legislative Assembly, Office of the Clerk, operations expenditure summary, $8.277 million.