Bill Braden

I guess that's enough on Internet. I take it that it's not going anywhere.

Mr. Chairman, something that is always a consideration with a bill of this nature is that there's usually a large package of regulations also bolted onto it. The legislation, of course, is the platform. The detail is implemented through regulation. I wanted to ask the Minister if he could give us some sense of when we will see the regulations that affect this new legislation completed and when this new legislation could potentially come into effect, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This has been an interesting, multi-faceted piece of legislation. It's been working its way through committee for some time now and I'm pleased to speak in favour of the bill, as a member of the standing committee. I guess in general comments, very general comments, a couple of things that the public, as consumers, may be interested in in relation to pharmacies and the business of dispensing drugs. One of the things that has been quite controversial for the last couple or three years, in Canada especially, is the industry established through Internet purchase and...

Mr. Speaker, is our government directly, or perhaps through the health authority, involved in any way with the negotiations or the framework for negotiations with the workers?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions this afternoon are for Mr. Roland, the Minister of Health and Social Services, and it concerns the stoppage of addictions treatment at Nats'ejee K'eh which ended Monday afternoon, I understand, Mr. Speaker. I'd like to confirm or find out, Mr. Speaker, who exactly is the employer of the 22 people involved in the Nats'ejee K'eh Treatment Centre, Mr. Speaker?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We’re close and perhaps getting closer to some answers. To paraphrase what’s been said here a bit earlier today, does the Premier have the concurrence, the agreement, the cooperation, along with the aboriginal leaders in the NWT, Mr. Speaker, to achieve this AIP within that time frame? Are we all at least agreed on that time frame to get this deal done?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’m going to direct some questions to the Premier as our point man, our lead on devolution and resource revenue negotiations. Mr. Speaker, a little bit earlier today the Premier said we have to find a way to work together with aboriginal leaders. I think that was the context and the whole theme. One of the big themes today is northern unity.

You know, Mr. Speaker, as a number of my colleagues have already said, we’ve been trying to do that. This has been our goal for 20 years, yet we still keep saying the same thing. We have to find a way to work together. So we’re...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, if you follow some rough math in the two and a half minutes that I have and each of us has to stand here and make a statement today, $1,250 will have flown out of the Northwest Territories in resource royalties and taxes. That’s $1,250 in two and a half minutes. That’s three- quarters of a million dollars a day, Mr. Speaker, because we have not yet been able to get ourselves together and present that unified voice, that unified bargaining strength with Ottawa among all the northern leaders to ensure that our part of Canada has the share of wealth of this...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have an amendment to move. I move that Bill 6 be amended by deleting clause 57 and substituting the following:

57. A prosecution under this act may be commenced at any time within two years after the day the offence is alleged to have been committed or within six months after the day on which evidence, sufficient to justify prosecution for the offence, comes to the knowledge of the association or another appropriate authority.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I am, of course, standing here today in favour of the motion. You know, Mr. Speaker, there are a few points I would like to make, but I would like to perhaps pick up from where my colleague, the Member for Kam Lake, left off. It is a plea for Ottawa to hear the message, but it is also a query, a concern about who is going to take that message. I would volunteer, Mr. Speaker. As we have been talking about this afternoon, will it, should it really come down to one person, one messenger? I would argue that it is really a collective, Mr. Speaker, a collective of...

Mr. Speaker, are negotiations in fact underway at this time? We're now two days into the disruption of service there, and what steps will we take, Mr. Speaker, to ensure that what I would say is an essential service is restored as soon as possible, Mr. Speaker?