Jane Groenewegen

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Committee would like to deal with Bills 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, and Minister’s Statement 65-16(5), Devolution Agreement-in-Principle, Impact on Land Claims and Protection of Aboriginal Rights.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I move that consideration of Tabled Document 157-16(5), Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 3, 2010-2011, be now concluded and that Tabled Document 157-16(5) be reported and recommended as ready for further consideration in formal session through the form of an appropriation bill. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Mr. Chairman, I believe it’s the wish of the committee to continue with the supplementary appropriations. Carry on.

I’d like to carry on with the Department of Justice, please.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Is this something that the Minister would consider pursuing? Thank you.

As I said in my Member’s statement, I don’t condone people drinking and driving, but these devices must have some merit, because it seems like it is possible for those to be ordered in other jurisdictions. Was it ever the intention of the Department of Transportation to create a regulation in concert with the Motor Vehicles Act that would have seen such a device as an alternate to a person’s licence being completely suspended? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In recent years the Northwest Territories has seen improvement in the number of alcohol-related vehicle collisions on our roads and highways and yet in 2009 there were 35 collisions involving alcohol, resulting in 18 persons injured and one person dead.

Back in 2003 the Legislative Assembly passed amendments to the Motor Vehicles Act that introduced new measures to reduce impaired driving. The amendments provided the drivers convicted of impaired driving were prohibited from driving the length of time depending on the number of offenses. It also identified conditions...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I move that we report progress.

---Carried

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I move that consideration of Tabled Document 156-16(5), Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 5, 2010-2011, be now concluded and that Tabled Document 156-16(5) be reported and recommended as ready for further consideration in formal session through the form of an appropriation bill.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I move that consideration of Tabled Document 133-16(5), Main Estimates, 2011-12, be now concluded and that Tabled Document 133-16(5) be reported and recommended as ready for further consideration in formal session through the forum of an appropriation bill. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.