Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would like to present a petition dealing with the matter of the Supplementary Health Benefits Program. Mr. Speaker, the petition contains 1, 944 signatures of Yellowknife residents and, Mr. Speaker, the petition requests that access to supplementary health benefits be expanded and that Extended Health Benefits Program for seniors remains unchanged. The petitioners also request that existing revenue from territorial income tax be used to fund the expansion. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you. The honourable Member for Nahendeh, Mr. Menicoche.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to present a petition dealing with the matter of supplementary health benefits. Mr. Speaker, the petition contains 89 signatures of Fort Simpson residents and, Mr. Speaker, the petitioners request that current benefits provided

under the Supplementary Health Benefits Program remain unchanged. Mahsi cho.

Thank you. Item 13, reports of committees on the review of bills. Item 14, tabling of documents. The honourable Minister of Justice, Mr. Lafferty.

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I wish to table the following document entitled Annual Report on the Activities of the Rental Office, January 1st to December 31st ,

2009. Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you. The honourable Minister of Human Resources, Mr. Bob McLeod.

Thank you. The honourable Minister of Health, Ms. Lee.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have two documents to table. The first is the document entitled Supplementary Health Benefits - What We Heard. The second document is the document entitled Slave River Journal Newspaper Article, Supplementary Health Benefits Across Canada, dated May 4, 2010. Thank you.

Thank you. Pursuant to Section 5 of the Legislative Assembly and Executive Council Act, I wish to table a summary of the Members’ Absences for the Period of March 23, 2010, to May 10, 2010.

Item 15, notices of motion. The honourable Member for Great Slave, Mr. Abernethy.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I give notice that on Monday, May 17, 2010, I will move the following motion: now therefore I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Weledeh, that Tabled Document 38-16(5), Supplementary Health Benefits - What We Heard, be referred to Committee of the Whole for consideration.

Mr. Speaker, at the appropriate time I will be seeking unanimous consent to deal with this motion today. Thank you.

Thank you. Item 16, notices of motion for first reading of bills. Item 17, motions. The honourable Member for Frame Lake, Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

WHEREAS Tabled Document 30-16(5) has been tabled in this House;

AND WHEREAS the 2010 Review of Members’ Compensation and Benefits requires detailed consideration;

NOW THEREFORE I MOVE, seconded by the honourable Member for Thebacha, that Tabled Document 30-16(5), 2010 Review of Members’ Compensation and Benefits, be referred to Committee of the Whole for consideration.

There is a motion on the floor. The motion is in order. To the motion.

Question has been called.

---Carried

The honourable Member for Great Slave, Mr. Abernethy.

: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I seek unanimous consent to deal with the motion I gave notice of earlier today. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

---Unanimous consent granted

Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

WHEREAS Tabled Document 38-16(5) has been tabled in this House;

AND WHEREAS Tabled Document 38-16(5), Supplementary Health Benefits - What We Heard, requires detailed consideration;

NOW THEREFORE I MOVE, seconded by the honourable Member for Weledeh, that Tabled Document 38-16(5), Supplementary Health Benefits - What We Heard, be referred to Committee of the Whole for consideration. Thank you.

There is a motion on the floor. The motion is in order. To the motion.

Question has been called.

---Carried

Item 18, first reading of bills. Item 19, second reading of bills. Item 20, consideration in Committee of the Whole of bills and other matters: Tabled Document 4-16(5), Executive Summary of the Report of the Joint Review Panel for the Mackenzie Gas Project; Tabled Document 30-16(5), 2010 Review of Members’ Compensation and Benefits; Tabled Document 38-16(5), Supplementary Health Benefits - What We Heard, with Mr. Bromley in the chair.

I would like to call Committee of the Whole to order. We have before us today Tabled Document 4-16(5), Tabled Document 30-16(5) and Tabled Document 38-16(5). What is the wish of the committee? Mrs. Groenewegen.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I move that we report progress.

---Carried

I will now rise and report progress.