Robert Bouchard

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Your committee has been considering Tabled Document 107-17(4), NWT Capital Estimates 2014-2015; Bill 24, An Act to Amend the Liquor Act; and Committee Report 7-17(4), Report on Review of Bill 24, An Act to Amend the Liquor Act, and would like to report progress with two motions being adopted and that Committee Report 7-17(4), Report on the Review of Bill 24, An Act to Amend the Liquor Act, is concluded and that Bill 24 is ready for third reading and that consideration of Tabled Document 107-17(4) is concluded and that the House concur in those estimates and that an...

Does committee agree that Bill 24, An Act to Amend the Liquor Act, is ready for third reading?

---Bill 24 as a whole approved for third reading

---Applause

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya, and thank you to your witnesses. Sergeant-at-Arms, please escort the witnesses from the Chamber.

Committee, do you agree that this concludes consideration of Committee Report 7-17(4), Report on the Review of Bill 24, An Act to Amend the Liquor Act?

Bill 24, An Act to Amend the Liquor Act, Clause 1.

---Clause 1 through 4 inclusive approved

Does committee agree that there are no further general comments?

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Does committee agree there are no further general comments? Mr. Yakeleya.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question was if the Department of Health is willing to hand over the facility if an opportunity presented itself for some other department.

Obviously, being the optimist, I’m looking at this as an opportunity for the Department of Health. I am wondering if the Minister is looking at any opportunities to decentralize positions and replace some of the 14 positions that have been lost in the region.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I would like to thank all those people who put all the hard work in the years before us. I would like to thank all the Members that are in the EDI committee and all the Regular Members that sat in and were involved. It was a great pleasure to travel around the North, getting feedback from the public.

This being probably one of the biggest acts that I’ve been involved with in my short period as an MLA, it is very difficult. You are being pulled from one direction to another. You tweak one of the sections and then another group would be involved, either an organization or...

Thank you. The Minister seems to be leading right into all of my questions here. He’s answering the first one mentioned the tri-drive program and that they’re experimenting with that for two years. I’m just wondering if there has been a lot of uptake and if he has any initial indications of how the program is working and any feedback that we’re getting from the tri-drive experimental project.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have questions for the Minister of Transportation today. In the springtime I was asking him questions about the transportation and trucking industry and some of the differences that we have in jurisdictions. He’d indicated to me that they were in the process of doing a review. I’m just wondering: Where is that review of those regulations in comparison to other jurisdictions currently?