David Krutko

Mr. Speaker, your committee has been considering Committee Report 8-16(3), Rules Report on the Use of Laptops; Committee Report 6-16(3), Report on the Review of the Official Languages; and would like to report progress, with three motions being adopted, and that Committee Reports 6-16(3) and 8-16(3) are concluded. Mr. Speaker, I move that the report of Committee of the Whole be concurred with.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I would like to table a letter which was addressed to the Minister of Transportation, Mr. Michael McLeod, from Ms. Margaret Nazon, with regard to the conflict between the fishing area and the ferry landing.

Committee Report 6-16(3) is concluded. What is the wish of the committee? Mr. Beaulieu.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The proposed legislation also establishes a Species at Risk Committee (SARC) to assess the biological status of species that may be at risk in the NWT. This assessment would be based on traditional, community and scientific knowledge of the species. The committee would include members appointed by co-management boards and members from areas without settled land claims, who would be appointed by the Minister. Members of SARC would have significant traditional, community or scientific knowledge about northern species and would act independently from their appointing...

The motion is in order. The motion is being distributed. To the motion.

Like the Minister mentioned, this issue has been around for a couple years now. It’s not like it just happened yesterday. This issue has come to this House about three or four times, as long as I’ve been here. They basically requested that when the last permits were issued for the department’s marine operations with regard to landing at those locations, they requested that a study be done a number of years ago regarding this particular issue.

So I’d like to ask the Minister, in regard to the Gwich’in Land Claim Agreement 12.4.13 where it talks about these type of disputes and the mechanisms...

Mr. Menicoche, are you making a motion? To the motion.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In regard to my Member’s statement, I raised the issue of conflicts between harvesters to subsistence and also government operations. In particular, the ferry operations on the Mackenzie in regard to the Nazon fishing camp, which is on the Inuvik side of the river and has been located there long before the highway was even built.

In the Gwich’in Land Claim Agreement there is a conflict resolution section, which is 12.4.13. I think it’s important that this government maybe consider reading that, because I think this government has to either resolve this dispute with the...

General comments in regard to the committee report. Mr. Lafferty.

Does the committee and that Committee Report 8-16(3) is concluded?