Debates of March 7th, 2023
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This is from the 19th Assembly, 2nd Session. The original version can be accessed on the Legislative Assembly's website or by contacting the Legislative Assembly Library. The word of the day was know.
Topics
- Oral Questions
- Members Present
- Prayer
- Minister's Statement 329-19(2): Celebrating Engineers and Geoscientists in the Northwest Territories
- Minister's Statement 330-19(2): Homelessness Programs Offered by Housing NWT
- Minister's Statement 331-19(2): Celebrating National Social Work Month
- Minister's Statement 332-19(2): Minister Absent from the House
- Member's Statement 1436-19(2): Child and Youth Care Counsellors
- Member's Statement 1437-19(2): Future of Local Housing Organizations
- Member's Statement 1438-19(2): Fort Simpson Diesel Plant Upgrade
- Member's Statement 1439-19(2): Renovation Delays Effects on School
- Member's Statement 1440-19(2): Crack Cocaine Addictions in Tlicho Communities
- Member's Statement 1441-19(2): Surety Bond Review
- Member's Statement 1442-19(2): Homelessness
- Member's Statement 1443-19(2): Open for Business - Hay River South Office
- Member's Statement 1444-19(2): Streamline Services and Share Resources: health Authority
- Member's Statement 1445-19(2): Eulogy for Jessie May Snider
- Recognition Of Visitors In The Gallery
- Committee Report 47-19(2): Standing Committee on Social Development Report on Homelessness Prevention: Supporting Pathways to Housing NWT Residents
- Question 1439-19(2): Four Portables Brought into the Community
- Question 1440-19(2): Evaluation of Programs at Child and Youth Care Counsellors
- Question 1441-19(2): Fort Simpson Diesel Plant
- Question 1442-19(2): Surety Bond Review
- Question 1443-19(2): Health and Social Services Deficit
- Question 1444-19(2): Homelessness
- Question 1445-19(2): Local Housing Organization Funding
- Question 1446-19(2): Child and Youth Care Counsellors Staff Integration
- Question 1447-19(2): Back-Up Generators during an Outage
- Question 1448-19(2): Child and Youth Care Counsellor Equivalencies
- Return to Written Question 58-19(2): Frank Channel Bridge Replacement
- Tabled Document 876-19(2): Government of the Northwest Territories Bridge Inspection Form - Frank Channel Bridge, July 2021 Tabled Document 877-19(2): Stantec Consulting Ltd. 2021 Frank Channel Bridge Inspection Report dated February 12, 2022
- Tabled Document 878-19(2): Plain Language Summary for Bill 72: Opioid Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act
- Tabled Document 879-19(2): What We Heard: A Forest Act for the NWT, February 2023
- Tabled Document 880-19(2): Letter dated December 26, 2022 from Alternatives North regarding Comments on Forest Act Summary of Policy Intentions
- Motion 75-19(2): Maximum Allowable Rent Increase for Private Rental Units
- Motion 76-19(2): Extended Adjournment of the House to march 27, 2023
- Bill 76: An Act to Amend the Electoral Boundaries Commission Act
- Bill 72: Opioid Damages and Health Care Costs Recovery Act, Carried
- Bill 73: An Act to Amend the Legislative Assembly and Executive Council Act, No. 4, Carried
- Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
- Committee Motion 371-19(2): Tabled Document 813-19(2): 2023-2024 Main Estimates - Legislative Assembly - Deferral of Department (Page 5), Carried
- Committee Motion 372-19(2): Tabled Document 813-19(2): 2023-2024 Main Estimates - Environment and Climate Change - Deferral of Department (Page 73), Carried
- Report Of Committee Of The Whole
- Orders Of The Day
Committee Motion 372-19(2): Tabled Document 813-19(2): 2023-2024 Main Estimates - Environment and Climate Change - Deferral of Department (Page 73), Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
March 8th
The Chair Lesa Semmler
Question has been called. All those in favour? All those opposed? The motion is carried. Consideration of the Department of Environment and Climate Change, 2023-2024 Main Estimates, operating expenditures, total department, is deferred. Thank you, Minister. Minister.
Committee Motion 372-19(2): Tabled Document 813-19(2): 2023-2024 Main Estimates - Environment and Climate Change - Deferral of Department (Page 73), Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
March 8th
Shane Thompson Nahendeh
Thank you. First of all, I'd like to thank committee for the work they did and questions they asked today. But I'd also very much like to thank the department. I know it's been very challenging as we do the amalgamation, but I have to agree with the Member from Thebacha. Amazing staff are working to better serve the residents of the Northwest Territories, so I'd like to thank the staff that work together to provide this nice little binder and all the work that they have done to this date. So thank you very much.
Committee Motion 372-19(2): Tabled Document 813-19(2): 2023-2024 Main Estimates - Environment and Climate Change - Deferral of Department (Page 73), Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
March 8th
The Chair Lesa Semmler
Thank you, Minister. And thank you to the witnesses, all the witnesses for appearing before us. And those are not little binders. I didn't even know they came that big.
Sergeant-at-arms, please escort the witnesses from the Chamber.
What is the wish of committee? Member for Frame Lake.
Committee Motion 372-19(2): Tabled Document 813-19(2): 2023-2024 Main Estimates - Environment and Climate Change - Deferral of Department (Page 73), Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
March 8th
Kevin O'Reilly Frame Lake
Merci, Madam la Presidente. I move that the chair rise and report progress. Mahsi, Madam Chair.
Committee Motion 372-19(2): Tabled Document 813-19(2): 2023-2024 Main Estimates - Environment and Climate Change - Deferral of Department (Page 73), Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
March 8th
The Chair Lesa Semmler
Thank you. There's a motion on the floor to report progress. The motion is in order and non-debatable. All those in favour? All those opposed? The motion is carried.
---Carried
I will now rise and report progress.
---SHORT RECESS
Report Of Committee Of The Whole
Report Of Committee Of The Whole
March 8th, 2023
The Speaker Frederick Blake Jr.
May I please have the report of Committee of the Whole. Member for Inuvik Twin Lakes.
Report Of Committee Of The Whole
Report Of Committee Of The Whole
March 8th
Lesa Semmler Inuvik Twin Lakes
Mr. Speaker, your committee has been considering Tabled Document 813-19(2), 2023-2024 Main Estimates, and I would like to report progress with two motions passed. And, Mr. Speaker, I move that the report of the Committee of the Whole be concurred with. Thank you.
Report Of Committee Of The Whole
Report Of Committee Of The Whole
March 8th
The Speaker Frederick Blake Jr.
Thank you, Member for Inuvik Twin Lakes. Do we have a seconder? Member for Nahendeh. All those in favour? All those opposed? Any abstentions? The motion is carried.
---Carried
Third reading of bills. Mr. Clerk, orders of the day.
Orders Of The Day
Orders Of The Day
March 8th
Clerk Of The House Mr. Tim Mercer
Orders of the day for Wednesday, March 8th, 2023, 1:30 p.m.
- Prayer
- Ministers' Statements
- Members' Statements
- Returns to Oral Questions
- Oral Question 1343-19(2), Impacts of COVID-19 on Education
- Oral Question 1404-19(2), Child Care Funding Supports for Teen Parents
- Oral Question 1411-19(2), Renewable Energy
- Recognition of Visitors in the Gallery
- Acknowledgements
- Oral Questions
- Written Questions
- Returns to Written Questions
- Replies to Commissioner Address
- Petitions
- Reports of Committees on the Review of Bills
- Reports of Standing and Special Committees
- Tabling of Documents
- Notice of Motions
- Motions
- Motion 74-19(2), Reconcillatory Review of Housing NWT'
- Notices of Motion for First Reading of Bills
- First Reading of Bills
- Bill 74, Forest Act
- Bill 75, Council of Women and Gender Diversity Act
- Second Reading of Bills
- Bill 64, An Act to Amend the Legislative Assembly and Executive Council Act, No. 3
- Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
- Bill 23, An Act to Amend the Public Utilities Act
- Bill 29, Resource Royalty Information Disclosure Statute Amendment Act
- Bill 60, An Act to Amend the Petroleum products and Carbon Tax Act
- Bill 61, An Act to Amend the Ombud Act
- Bill 63, An Act to Amend the Official Languages Act
- Bill 66, An Act to Amend the Property Assessment and Taxation Act
- Bill 67, An Act to Amend the Fire Prevention Act
- Bill 68, An Act to Amend the Child Day Care Act
- Bill 73, An Act to Amend the Legislative Assembly and Executive Council Act, No. 4
- Committee Report 40-19(2), Standing Committee on Government Operations Report on Bill 61: An Act to Amend the Ombud Act
- Committee Report 43-19(2), Standing Committee on Government Operations Report on Bill 63: An Act to Amend the Official Languages Act
- Committee Report 44-19(2), Special Committee on Reconciliation and Indigenous Affairs Final Report: A Northwest Territories Approach to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Negotiating Agreements
- Committee Report 45-19(2), Standing Committee on Government Operations Report on Bill 60: An Act to Amend the Petroleum Products and Carbon Tax Act
- Minster's Statement 264-19(2), Response to the NWT Chief Coroner's Report on Suicide
- Tabled Document 681-19(2), Government of the Northwest Territories Response to Committee Report 26-19(2): Report on the Child and Family Services Act - Lifting Children, Youth and Families: An All of Territory Approach to Keeping Families Together
- Tabled Document 694-19(2), Northwest Territories Coroner Service 2021-2022 Early Release of Data
- Tabled Document 813-19(2), Main Estimates
- Report of Committee of the Whole
- Third Reading of Bills
- Orders of the Day
Orders Of The Day
Orders Of The Day
March 8th
The Speaker Frederick Blake Jr.
Thank you, Mr. Clerk. This House stands adjourned until Wednesday, March 8th, 2023 at 1:30 p.m.
---ADJOURNMENT
The House adjourned at 7:24 p.m.
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