Paul Delorey

Good afternoon, colleagues. Welcome back to the Chamber. Colleagues, notwithstanding the extended adjournment of the House to May 11, 2010, I was asked by the Premier, on behalf of the Executive Council, to convene a sitting of this House to commence today, Tuesday, March 23, 2010. The Premier advised me in a letter dated March 4, 2010, that the government was requesting this sitting of the Assembly to allow for the consideration of important financial matters which must be dealt with prior to the May 11th sitting.

Our rules do not specifically address the recalling of the House during an...

Good morning, colleagues. Welcome back to the Chamber. It’s nice to see all the green in the House today.

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Good afternoon, colleagues. Welcome back to the Chamber. It gives me great pleasure to welcome our colleague back; Mr. Abernethy is back with us today.

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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate the comments from the Member for the Sahtu. We have had a fair bit of interest shown in this Elders’ Parliament and we’re going to work to make it as successful a week as possible with the elders when they come here. Thanks for those comments.

Yes, I would, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We’ll just get that information on the other expenditures here. I’ll refer the question to Olin, and he’ll run down the list of other expenses.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. To my left is director of corporate services, Olin Lovely, and to my right is the Clerk of the Assembly, Mr. Mercer.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I am pleased to present the 2010-2011 operations budget for the Legislative Assembly. Mr. Chair, the Legislative Assembly is seeking appropriation authority in the amount of $17.24 million.

Mr. Chairman, I want to provide a brief update on some of the initiatives I announced in this House last year. Our Paper Reduction Strategy includes initiatives such as posting tabled documents on the Legislative Assembly website as opposed to distributing paper copies. Posting electronically has allowed us to meet our 75 percent reduction target for tabled documents. The Legislative...

Good afternoon, colleagues. Colleagues, before we begin, I wish to provide my ruling on the point of privilege raised in the House last Friday by Mr. Miltenberger. As Members know, the responsibility of the Speaker when a point of privilege has been raised is to determine whether, at first sight, a case of privilege has been established and that the matter has been raised at the first possible opportunity.

To start, I will quote Mr. Miltenberger’s point of privilege in its entirety from page 24 of the unedited Hansard for February 12, 2010, as it is relatively short: “Mr. Speaker, we have an...

Good afternoon, colleagues. Welcome back to the Chamber. Point of order, Mr. Miltenberger. What is your point of order?

Point of Order