Jane Groenewegen

If committee is agreed, we will not stop in between for a response from the Premier. They are general comments. I am not hearing any questions. I’ll just proceed on to the next people on the list if the committee is agreed.

Bill 46 is now ready for third reading. Thank you, colleagues. Thank you, Mr. Premier and your witnesses. I’ll ask the Sergeant-at-Arms if he would please escort the witnesses from the Chamber. What is the committee’s wish to continue with the business before us? Ms. Bisaro.

Thank you. I’ll ask the Sergeant-at-Arms to please escort the witnesses to the table.

Premier McLeod, for the record, could you please introduce your witnesses.

To the preamble of the bill.

---Preamble approved

Thank you, Premier McLeod. At this time I would like to ask Premier McLeod if he would like to bring witnesses in.

Thank you, Mr. Nadli. Any further general comments? Are we ready for the clause-by-clause consideration?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In follow-up to my colleague’s from Hay River North statement on the necessity of this government to invest money in upkeep on our roads and our winter roads, I would just like to say that Hay River is a place where at this time of year we see a lot of visitors from the North that do come in on the winter road. It’s a very narrow window, and it is dictated a lot of times by the weather on a year-to-year basis. But it’s very nice when we see people pull into town from Fort Good Hope and Tulita and Colville Lake and the people taking advantage of that winter road.

The Hay...

Thank you, Mr. Talen. Just before I go to the next speaker for general comments, I’d like to welcome all of the visitors in the gallery today. We have a very large delegation here of elders, leaders, negotiators and citizens of Deline here with us. I understand that our government processes and the way that we do things may not be something that you’re completely familiar with, so let me just explain that we’re going to continue with general comments about the bill, 46. At the end of general comments, we will go through the clauses of the bill to be approved, and then this committee will...

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Minister McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Bouchard. Next on the list for general comments I have Mr. Menicoche.