Committee Motion 487-19(2): Bill 74: Forest Act - Amend Subclause 15.1(1), Defeated  Yeah, thanks, Madam Chair. I guess I'm just having a bit of difficulty understanding some of the things that I just heard. But, you know, I guess I'm pushing this because the Northwest Territories Association of Communities in their written submission said the following: There sh

Committee Motion 487-19(2): Bill 74: Forest Act - Amend Subclause 15.1(1), Defeated  Yeah, thanks, Madam Chair. So this is a -- 2.1 here is a new part of the bill that was added as a result of the collaborative review we undertook. And I think one of the issues that we found -- and this was raised in the last version of the bill in the last Assembly. It was raise

Committee Motion 487-19(2): Bill 74: Forest Act - Amend Subclause 15.1(1), Defeated  Yeah, thanks, Madam Chair. I just want to respond to a couple items I heard there. I believe this is within the purview of the legislature. Part of our job -- part of why I got elected was to make sure that this government is more transparent and more accountable moving forward,

Committee Motion 487-19(2): Bill 74: Forest Act - Amend Subclause 15.1(1), Defeated  Yeah, thanks, Madam Chair. First off, I just need to get it clearly on the record I'm not raising any of this to delay or derail this bill in any way. I want this bill to pass, and I want it to pass in this sitting. I support the Legislative Development Protocol. I support the pr

Committee Motion 487-19(2): Bill 74: Forest Act - Amend Subclause 15.1(1), Defeated  Thank you, Madam Chair. I move that subclause 15.1(1) of Bill 74 be amended by. (a) adding the following immediately preceding subparagraph (a)(i): (0.i) any research activities of the Forest Superintendent under paragraph 15(3)(b), (b) deleting "; and" at the end of the Engli

Committee Motion 486-19(2): Bill 74: Forest Act - Amend Clause 14.1, Defeated  Okay, thanks. So we don't get an annual report now from the forest superintendent. I got a commitment that it'll probably occur in future reports; that's great. I just would like to have it in the bill itself. So, Madam Chair, I'd like to move a motion to amend 15.1 if I could.

Committee Motion 486-19(2): Bill 74: Forest Act - Amend Clause 14.1, Defeated  Okay, well that's interesting because it's not required in the legislation. But if they want to continue to do that, that's great. Is that what actually happens now; is there an annual report from the forest superintendent? Is it public? Does it contain data on, say, the number o

Committee Motion 486-19(2): Bill 74: Forest Act - Amend Clause 14.1, Defeated  Yeah, I hear that and that's -- sometimes those things are found in business plans that are public, but they're kind of buried in the detail of it. And I would have thought that we'd want to make that kind of information a little more public. And why, you know, wouldn't it be con

Committee Motion 486-19(2): Bill 74: Forest Act - Amend Clause 14.1, Defeated  Yeah, thanks for that. I guess I want to point out that the wording, you know, about research activities is actually not contained in here. We're going to get to that in a minute with a potential motion. But the other list of items here in 15.1, they're all kind of preceded with

Committee Motion 486-19(2): Bill 74: Forest Act - Amend Clause 14.1, Defeated  Yeah, thanks, Madam Chair. So this is an addition to the bill that standing committee worked with the departmental staff and the technical working group on, and there's now a new requirement for an annual report from the forest superintendent. Part of the reason for this was dur

Committee Motion 486-19(2): Bill 74: Forest Act - Amend Clause 14.1, Defeated  No, thank you -- or thank you, Madam Chair. Yeah, we're kind of constrained to some extent by our procedures here, and we don't have the ability to have the kind of back and forth that we had in the technical -- sorry, with the committee meeting and in the clause-by-clause review

Committee Motion 486-19(2): Bill 74: Forest Act - Amend Clause 14.1, Defeated  Thanks, Madam Chair. Yeah, this is a motion that was moved in committee. The Minister at the time said that he was not able to concur with it because we had basically run out of time. If people have views about this, I would appreciate hearing them, but it was supported by commit

Committee Motion 486-19(2): Bill 74: Forest Act - Amend Clause 14.1, Defeated  Sorry, Madam Chair, about all of that, I'm confused as much as anybody else. I move that clause 14.1 of Bill 74 be amended by (a) renumbering that clause as subclause 14.1(1); (b) deleting -- sorry, deleting paragraph (d) and (e) of that renumbered subclause and substituting t

Committee Motion 485-19(2): Committee Report 62-19(2): Standing Committee on Economic Development and Environment Report on the Review of Bill 74: Forest Act - Resources to Develop REgulations, Carried  Sorry, I got caught short there for a second. I'm trying to gulp down some water. I want to thank the Minister for that because there was a much longer list than what would have been -- what appears now in the bill. But with that, Madam Chair, I do want to move a motion to amend

Committee Motion 485-19(2): Committee Report 62-19(2): Standing Committee on Economic Development and Environment Report on the Review of Bill 74: Forest Act - Resources to Develop REgulations, Carried  Yeah, thanks, Madam Chair. So through the work of the committee, with the departmental staff and the technical working group, we did make some progress on the issue of what information should be made public because the bill was totally silent on this which was, really, I guess ki