Thank you, Mr. Beaulieu. Final, short supplementary, Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The people I spoke to about the surgeries in the Stanton Hospital were very concerned because there were a number of incidents that indicated that these patients left the hospital a little too early and their recovery wasn’t quite healing up, or somewhere along the line it brought them back to Stanton. It cost a lot of money and it caused a lot of heartache.

I want to ask the Minister, within Stanton I’m speaking about, when people have these surgeries that they are fully informed when the doctor is going to release them. However, they have the right, also, to say we want to stay because something along the system is not quite right for them to go back to their communities, fearing that they are going to come back here because of the nature of the surgery. Can the Minister help me out in terms of how do we get to that point where patients would be staying here a little longer than they expected to?

Specific to the Stanton Territorial Hospital, we can touch base with the CEO and advise the CEO of the issue and the CEO will have that discussion with the doctor that, at any point, if the individual is indicating that they themselves don’t feel well enough to be released from the hospital, that we then have some system where the CEO and the physician would have that discussion at that one time when this occurs. I can ensure that that happens.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions are for the Minister of Justice, and each is requesting information for the calendar years 2010, 2011 and 2012.

1. How many charges have been laid to

individuals by the RCMP and then withdrawn or stayed?

2. How many charges have been laid under:

a) causing a disturbance;

b) breach of probation; and

c) breach of undertaking?

3. How many times has the Alternative Measures

Program been proposed, how many times has it been accepted and how often have the program’s objectives been fully achieved?

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. 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. Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to table a letter from the Union of British Columbia Chiefs to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, entitled Canada-China Agreement Abrogates Rights of Indigenous People, wherein the request that they direct the Government of Canada to reject the Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement with China. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Item 15, notices of motion. Item 16, notices of motion for first reading of bills. Mr. Bouchard.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I give notice that on Friday, November 2, 2012, I will move that Bill 15, An Act to Amend the Human Rights Act, No. 3, be read for the first time. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Bouchard. Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I give notice that on Friday, November 2, 2012, I will move that Bill 16, Supplementary Appropriation Act (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 2, 2012-2013, be read for the first time. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Item 17, motions. Item 18, first reading of bills. Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Kam Lake, that Bill 14, Appropriation Act (Infrastructure Expenditures), 2013-2014, be read for the first time. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Bill 14, Appropriation Act (Infrastructure Expenditures), 2013-2014, has had first reading.

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Item 19, second reading of bills. Mr. Miltenberger.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Kam Lake, that Bill 14, Appropriation Act (Infrastructure Expenditures), 2013-2014, be read for the second time.

Mr. Speaker, the bill authorizes the Government of the Northwest Territories to make infrastructure expenditures for the 2013-2014 fiscal year. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Bill 14, Appropriation Act (Infrastructure Expenditures), 2013-2014, has had second reading.

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Item 20, consideration in Committee of the Whole of bills and other matters: Tabled Document 84-17(3), Supplementary Estimates (Operations

Expenditures), No. 2, 2012-2013, with Mrs. Groenewegen in the chair.

I call the Committee of the Whole to order. We have one item before the committee today. What is the wish of the committee? Mr. Menicoche.

Thank you, Madam Chair. The committee wishes to consider Tabled Document 84-17(3), Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 2, 2012-2013.

Does committee agree?

We will proceed after a short break.

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I will call Committee of the Whole back to order. The item before us today is Tabled Document 84-17(3), Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 2, 2012-2013. I would like to ask Minister Miltenberger if he has opening comments.

Yes, Madam Chair. I am here to present Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 2, 2012-2013.

This document outlines an increase of $20.928 million in operations expenditures for the 2012-2013 fiscal year. The major items included in the supplementary estimates are:

• $13.8 million to report two special warrants

approved on July 31, 2012, and August 17, 2012, for the Department of Environment and Natural Resources for the increased costs being incurred due to the severe forest fire season in 2012;

• $4.4 million to report a special warrant approved

on August 17, 2012, for the Department of Environment and Natural Resources to fund the costs of identifying the disposing of diseased bison in the Mackenzie Bison Sanctuary;

• $4.1 million for the additional cost resulting from

the new Collective Agreement between the Union of Northern Workers and the Government of the Northwest Territories;

• $3.9 million for the Department of Public Works

to fund the costs associated with the demolition of Sir Alexander Mackenzie and Samuel Hearne schools in Inuvik.

I am prepared to review the details of the supplementary estimates document, Madam Chair. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Would you like to bring witnesses into the Chamber?