In favour.
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Clerk Of The House Mr. Glen Rutland
The Member for Yellowknife South.
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The Member for Sahtu.
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The Member for Range Lake.
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Mr. Speaker, I've received a text from the Member for Nunakput indicating in favour.
And the Member for Inuvik Twin Lakes.
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Clerk Of The House Mr. Glen Rutland
Thank you.
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The Speaker Frederick Blake Jr.
The results of the recorded vote: 18 in favour, zero opposed, zero abstentions. The motion is carried. Bill 97 has had second reading.
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The Honourable Member for Inuvik Boot Lake.
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Diane Archie Inuvik Boot Lake
Mr. Speaker, I seek unanimous consent to waive Rule 8.2(7) and have Bill 97 referred directly to third reading. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
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The Speaker Frederick Blake Jr.
The Member is seeking unanimous consent to waive Rule 8.2(7) and have Bill 97 referred directly to third reading. Any objections?
Hearing none, Bill 97 will be referred for a third reading later today. Second reading of bills. Member for Monfwi.
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Jane Weyallon Armstrong Monfwi
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Rule 8.2(2), I seek consent to proceed with second reading of Bill 98, An Act to Amend the Emergency Management Act, at this time. Thank you.
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The Speaker Frederick Blake Jr.
Thank you, Member for Monfwi. The Member is seeking unanimous consent to proceed with second reading of Bill 98 at this time. Are there any objections? Hearing none, Member, you have consent. Please proceed.
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Jane Weyallon Armstrong Monfwi
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you, colleagues and Mr. Speaker. I move, seconded by the Member for Great Slave, that Bill 98, An Act to Amend the Emergency Management Act be read for the second time. Thank you.
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Jane Weyallon Armstrong Monfwi
Okay. No, no, I think I still have to proceed; sorry about that.
Mr. Speaker, the word "Indigenous" and "Aboriginal" cannot be found in the existing Emergency Management Act, and there is nothing in the act requiring coordination with Indigenous government or organizations in carrying out of emergency management duties. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
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The Speaker Frederick Blake Jr.
Thank you, Member for Monfwi. The motion is in order. To the principle of the bill. Member for Yellowknife North.
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Rylund Johnson Yellowknife North
Mr. Speaker, will you just let the seconder speak first perhaps. Thank you.
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Katrina Nokleby Great Slave
Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and thank you to my colleague. I had written in the chat that I did want to speak to this bill.
Mr. Speaker, I have spent the time since I left Yellowknife late Thursday evening dealing with numerous uncountable emails and messages and phone calls from people who have been evacuating and leaving the North. Many of these people are Indigenous. They have been reaching out to me. And in my time spent since this has started, I have become aware that there were no conversations with Indigenous governments ahead of all of this evacuation. No opportunity for Indigenous governments to bring their people home, no supports to bring them home. The people in Behchoko do not have food right now, which is part of the reason I chose to leave the community. Everybody is relying on a Northern store that has no supplies, that's getting a truck every now and then, and people are not being allowed into Yellowknife to do their shopping, including the elders home.
When I see all of this happening and I listen and see within the community the ability to have taken care of their own people, I wonder why they were not consulted by this Cabinet who talks a lot about their Indigenous relationships but when push came to shove, there was no conversation as all of the public service left Yellowknife and put a bunch of people on planes. And when I stood in that line -- around that lineup at Sir John, I did not see the higher level senior management public servants standing there. In fact, I know most of them left before the order even was made public or told to us as MLAs.
As this all has progressed, I have become aware of 50 to 70 homeless people that were dropped off at evacuation centres in the south, mostly Indigenous. One has OD'd and perhaps will probably die here in the next while. There has been a death of a person from Fort Smith that's been evacuated. And there has been a person badly burnt in the evacuation of Hay River that was then hit by a car due to the mass panic of people leaving the territory. So when I look at all of this and I look at the capabilities of our communities and I hear our Premier say that other communities and other MLAs --
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Katrina Nokleby Great Slave
Thank you. I believe that Indigenous governments should have been consulted and given the opportunity to deal with their own people before they were shipped south to be treated terribly down there. Thank you.
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The Speaker Frederick Blake Jr.
Thank you, Member for Great Slave. To the principle of the bill. Member for Yellowknife North.