Frieda Martselos

On my left is Tim Mercer, clerk of the Legislative Assembly. On my right is Christina Duffy, legislative division, Department of Justice.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, I am pleased to speak to Bill 73, An Act to Amend the Legislative Assembly and Executive Council Act, No. 4. This bill would adjust the indemnities and allowances listed in parts 1, 2 and 3 of Schedule C, annually using the average change in the consumer price index over the past five years.

Currently, indemnities and allowances for Members of the Legislative Assembly are adjusted each year on April 1st based on the CPI for the previous calendar year. If the status quo is maintained, MLA indemnities and allowances will increase by 6.8 percent on April 1 of...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, P3s have a purpose, and I've always said that in this House. They're you know, you're not using capital dollars to advance something in small communities or regional centres, and hopefully not always in the capital. I am I don't like what happened. That was inherited by another they inherited this with another government. And, you know, governments have to inherit bad files sometimes. I've inherited a lot of bad files when I was at Salt River. And I will be voting for the supplementary for that reason because I'm very much about making sure that we move...

Mr. Speaker, I seek unanimous consent to waive Rule 8.2(7) and have Bill 76, An Act to Amend the Electoral Boundaries Act, referred directly to Committee of the Whole for consideration later today. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Mr. Speaker, I move, second by the Member for Nahendeh, that Bill 76, An Act to Amend the Electoral Boundaries Act, be read for the second time.

Mr. Speaker, Bill 76 amends the Electoral Boundaries Commission Act to

Establish a Commission within two years of the 2023 general election;

Expand the size of the Commission;

Broaden the eligibility to serve as chairperson of the Commission;

Add geographic and place names to the relevant considerations of the Commission; and,

Modernize language, including by using genderneutral language.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Mr. Speaker, does the board of governors have the ability to veto or overturn a decision by the college president and senior management? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, with the appointment of the new board of governors for Aurora College, can the education Minister explain how this will change executive decisionmaking at Aurora College and with the transformation into a polytechnic university? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Madam Chair, you know, we sit here and as and we're using public monies and, you know, in private industry, this would never happen, okay. And it's you know, being in small business for 50 years and considering all the aspects that would happen if you had to go to litigation is really alarming, that we could just go and do this with a brush of whatever. And, you know, I have to really think seriously before I vote on this and I just don't like the whole taste of it because it's not okay for transparency and accountability issues when it comes to public monies, because we're doing this on...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I too am questioning some of the transactions. I know this is inherited; it's not with this Cabinet because it goes back to 2013. There's no Indigenous partners in this. There's another company that's called Ledcor. And it's an international company with NorthwesTel, in a P3, and we're giving them a settlement of $27,750,000. And it's questionable as to how these kind of agreements are done. I'm all for P3s if it's done properly and the Is are dotted and the Ts are crossed. And, you know, onus goes back to the legal teams that put these kind of things together. And I...

Madam Chair, I move that this committee recommends that the Government of the Northwest Territories provide a response to this report within 120 days. Thank you, Madam Chair.