All those opposed, please stand. All those abstaining, please stand. All those in favour, 16. Opposed, zero. Abstentions, zero. The motion has been carried. Bill 10 has third reading.
---Carried
Third reading of bills.
Colleagues, our new Commissioner, the Honourable Gerald Kisoun, is unavailable to join us today as he is in Ottawa on official business. I am pleased to announce that Abigail Crook of Hay River has been appointed as our Deputy Commissioner.
Ms. Crook is a mother to three sons, a grandmother of eight, and a great grandmother of four. She is a lifelong advocate on social issues, including justice, culture, and languages, with a long history of community involvement. Ms. Cook has decades of experience with the friendship centre movement and has been a key leader with the Soaring Eagle Friendship Centre for many years and is the current president of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut Council of Friendship Centres.
Colleagues, we are fortunate to have Ms. Cook as our new Deputy Commissioner. I'm also pleased to let you know that her official duties will be providing assent to the bills today.
Mr. Clerk, can you please determine whether the Deputy Commissioner of the Northwest Territories, the Honourable Abigail Crook, is prepared to enter the Chamber and assent to the bills.