Question has been called. All those in favour? Opposed? Abstentions? Motion passed.

---Carried

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Member from Range Lake.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Nunakput, that Committee Report 24-20(1), Standing Committee on Public Accounts' Report on the Review of the Auditor General's 2024 Audit of the Stanton Territorial Hospital Renewal Project, be received and adopted by the Assembly. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Member from Range Lake. To the motion.

Question has been called. All those in favour? Opposed? Abstentions? Motion carried.

---Carried

Member from Range Lake.

Thank you, Member from Range Lake. To the motion.

Question has been called. All those in favour? Opposed? Abstentions? Motion carried. Reports of Standing and Special Committees. Tabling of documents. Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs.

Mr. Speaker, I wish to table the following document: Government of the Northwest Territories Response to Motion 47-20(1), State of Emergency for Humanitarian Reasons for Norman Wells. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs. Tabling of documents. Minister of Environment and Natural Resources.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I wish to table the following three documents: Environmental Rights Act Annual Report 2024-2025; Plain Language Summary for Bill 27, An Act to Amend the Protection Against Family Violence Act; and, Statement of Consistency for Bill 27, An Act to Amend the Protection Against Family Violence Act. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Minister of Environment and Natural Resources. Tabling of documents. Minister of Finance.

Mr. Speaker, I wish to table the following document: Inter-Activity Transfers Exceeding $250,000 (April 1st, 2024 to March 31st, 2025). Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Minister of Finance. Tabling of documents. Member from Range Lake.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I wish to table Backgrounder Document for the First Responders Workers' Compensation Amendment Act. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Member from Range Lake. Tabling of documents. Notices of motion. Motions. Member from Yellowknife North.

Mr. Speaker, I move that

WHEREAS the Legislative Assembly, in Motion 41-20(1), accepted the conclusion of the Integrity Commissioner that the Member for Tu Nedhe-Wiilideh violated the Members' Code of Conduct, reprimanded the Member, and ordered the Member to pay a $2,500 fine;

AND WHEREAS on April 24, 2025, the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly received from the Integrity Commissioner a Supplemental Report about costs relating to the complaint by Jennifer Patterson that the Member for Tu Nedhe-Wiilideh breached the Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly Members' Code of Conduct;

AND WHEREAS on May 21, 2025, the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly tabled the Supplemental Report from the Integrity Commissioner identified as Tabled Document 330-20(1);

AND WHEREAS the Integrity Commissioner has recommended that the Legislative Assembly partially reimburse Ms. Patterson for the legal costs she incurred related to the making and investigation of her complaint that the Member for Tu Nedhe-Wiilideh breached the Members' Code of Conduct;

AND WHEREAS the Legislative Assembly must accept or reject the Integrity Commissioner's recommendation within 15 sitting days of the Report being tabled in the Assembly;

NOW THEREFORE I MOVE, seconded by the honourable Member for Thebacha, that the supplemental recommendation of the Integrity Commissioner in Tabled Document 330-20(1) be accepted and that the Legislative Assembly partially reimburse Ms. Patterson for the legal costs she incurred.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Member from Yellowknife North. The motion is in order. To the motion.

Question has been called. All those in favour? Opposed? Abstentions? Motion carried.

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Motions. Notices of motion for the first reading of bills. First reading of bills. Minister of Justice -- no, Minister of Education, Culture and Employment.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I wish to present to the House Bill 28, An Act to Amend the Student Financial Assistance Act, No. 2, to be read for the first time. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Minister of Education, Culture and Employment. Pursuant to Rule 8.2(3), Bill 28 is deemed to have first reading and is ready for second reading.

First reading of bills. Member from Range Lake.

Mr. Speaker, I wish to present Bill 29, First Responders Workers' Compensation Amendment Act, to be read for the first time. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.