All those opposed, please stand. All those abstaining, please stand.

Those in favour, nine; those against, zero; abstentions, nine. It’s a tie. The motion is carried.

---Carried

Item 18, first reading of bills. Mr. Ramsay.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Inuvik Twin Lakes, that Bill 2, An Act to Amend the Territorial Parks Act, be read for the first time.

Bill 2, An Act to Amend the Territorial Parks Act, has had first reading.

---Carried

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

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I seek consent to proceed with second reading of Bill 2, An Act to Amend the Territorial Parks Act.

---Consent granted

I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Inuvik Twin Lakes, that Bill 2, An Act to Amend the Territorial Parks Act, be read for the second time.

This bill amends the Territorial Parks Act to provide the superintendent with authority to issue orders respecting fines in territorial parks, provide that registered owners of motor vehicles are liable for contraventions involving their vehicles, and add a power to make regulations respecting the setting, use and extinguishment of fires in parks.

Bill 2, An Act to Amend the Territorial Parks Act, has had second reading and is referred to a standing committee.

---Carried

Item 20, consideration in Committee of the Whole of bills and other matters: Tabled Document 9-17(4), NWT Main Estimates, 2013-2014; Education, Culture and Employment, with Mrs. Groenewegen in the chair.

I’d like to call Committee of the Whole to order. What is the wish of the committee? Mr. Menicoche.

Thank you very much, Madam Chair. The committee wishes to review Tabled Document 9-17(4), NWT Main Estimates, with a continuation of Education, Culture and Employment.

Is

committee agreed?

We will resume that after a recess.

---SHORT RECESS

Committee, welcome back. I’d like to call Committee of the Whole to order. Mr. Lafferty, do you have witnesses that you’d like to bring into the Chamber?

Yes, Mr. Chair.

Does committee agree?

Sergeant-at-Arms, if you can escort our witnesses into the House. Thank you.

Minister Lafferty, if you’d like to introduce your witnesses to the House, please.

Mahsi, Mr. Chair. I have to my left, Gabriela Eggenhofer. She is my deputy minister, Department of Education, Culture and Employment; Paul Devitt is director of strategic business services; and Dana Heide, associate deputy minister within Education, Culture and Employment.

Thank you, Minister Lafferty. Ms. Eggenhofer, Mr. Devitt, and Mr. Heide, welcome to the House. Committee, turn your attention to 10-7. We’re going to actually defer this until consideration of activity summaries. If I can get you to turn to 10-8, Education, Culture and Employment, information item, infrastructure investment summary. Any questions?