Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would like to thank the Members for their comments and support. With respect to Mr. Krutko’s comments, when we did take the bill out, I did go to the military and to the reserve units, and some of those individuals that we had talked to had a significant amount of experience with Rangers throughout the Northwest Territories. We also did go to the NWT

Chamber of Commerce to get their perspective from a territorial perspective.

The Member is right, though; it would have been beneficial to go to some of the local governments to get their input, and in the future I would encourage anyone doing a private member’s bill to do such. But I do feel that we do have the territorial perspective on this bill and people from around the Territories were involved. It was also opened through the committee process to go out for review, and everybody had an opportunity to submit their input and feedback, and people did.

So that’s all I have on that. Thank you to committee for considering this bill.

Thank you, Mr. Abernethy. If there are no further general comments, does committee agree to go clause by clause?

Thank you, committee. We’ll go clause by clause, Bill 21, An Act to Amend the Employment Standards Act. We’ll start on page 1, clause 1.

---Clauses 1 through 8 inclusive approved

Bill as a whole.

---Agreed

Does committee agree that Bill 21 is ready for third reading?

---Bill 21 as a whole approved for third reading

Thank you, committee. Bill 21, a private member’s public bill, An Act to Amend the Employment Standards Act, is now ready for third reading. I’d like to thank Mr. Abernethy for bringing this forward, and your witness. Please escort the witnesses from the House, Sergeant-at-Arms.

And the wish of the committee, Mrs. Groenewegen?

Mr. Chairman, I move that we report progress.

---Carried

I will now rise and report progress.

May I have the report of Committee of the Whole, please, Mr. Bromley.

Mr. Speaker, your committee has been considering Bill 20, Vital Statistics Act, and Bill 21, An Act to Amend the Employment Standards Act, and would like to report progress, and that Bills 20 and 21 are ready for third reading. Mr. Speaker,

I move that the report of Committee of the Whole be concurred with. Mahsi.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. The motion is on the floor. Do we have a seconder? The Member for Mackenzie Delta, Mr. Krutko.

---Carried

Item 22, third reading of bills.

Colleagues, before we conclude with orders of the day, it is my duty to advise the House that I have received the following message from the Commissioner of the Northwest Territories. It reads:

Dear Mr. Speaker,

I wish to advise that I recommend to the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories, the passage of:

• Supplementary Appropriation Act (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 2, 2011-2012;

• Supplementary Appropriation Act (Operations Expenditures) No. 2, 2011-2012

during the Sixth Session of the 16

Legislative

Assembly.

Yours truly, George Tuccaro, Commissioner.

Thank you, colleagues. Madam Clerk, orders of the day.

Thank you, Madam Clerk. Accordingly, this House stands adjourned until Thursday, August 18, 2011, at 1:30 p.m.

---ADJOURNMENT

The House adjourned at 4:21 p.m.