Glen Abernethy

Thank you, Mr, Krutko. That’s more of a comment, but would the Minister like to respond?

Sergeant-at-Arms, please escort the witnesses into the Chamber.

Michael Miltenberger, please introduce your witness, for the record.

Thank you, Mr. Beaulieu. I’ll now ask the Minister responsible for the bill if she would like to bring any witnesses into the House.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Just for the record, I’m not interested in renegotiating the AIP. I know that we’ve had professionals who have taken our message to the federal government and they’ve negotiated this deal and they’ve got to the point where the AIP is done. It’s done. There’s no more negotiation on it. It’s in front of us. We either accept it or we don’t accept it. So I’m not interested in renegotiating it.

I’m just interested in standing behind it. It’s public. It’s already gone. The press has it. It’s on their website. I’m okay with standing behind this document saying, this is what we...

Thank you, committee. I will now ask the Sergeant-at-Arms to escort the witnesses into the Chamber.

Mr. McLeod, can I please get you to introduce your witnesses for the record?

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. For confirmation, Mr. Bohnet. Mr. Miltenberger.

Is committee agreed that we have concluded consideration of Environment and Natural Resources?

Okay, I’d like to thank Ms. Melhorn. If I can get the Sergeant-at-Arms to please escort the witness out. That was the department summary.

Alright, next on our agenda is Bill 8, the Social Work Profession Act. I’ll now ask the Minister responsible for the bill, the honourable Minister Miltenberger, to introduce the bill. No, sorry, my bad. I will now ask the Minister responsible for the bill, the Honourable Sandy Lee, Minister of Health and Social Services, to introduce the bill.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, your committee has been considering Tabled Document 66-16(5), NWT Capital Estimates 2011-2012, as well as Bill 8, Social Work Profession Act, and Bill 9, An Act to Amend the Tourism Act, and would like to report progress and that Bills 8 and 9 are ready for third reading. Mr. Speaker, I move that the report of Committee of the Whole be concurred with. Mahsi.

Mr. Speaker, thanks to the Premier for that. I look forward to seeing the plain language document or whatever we are going to call it when it comes out.

Like I said, I have read the AIP. It is not the easiest read out there. There is a lot of information in there. There are a lot of things that need to be thought about, considered and talked about.

My question to the Premier is: What kind of timeline are we looking at? You mentioned that there are some things that need to be done before this can come out, but people are talking about it today. If you go out into the streets, people will ask you...