Robert C. McLeod

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Along with my colleague from Inuvik Boot Lake, I want to stand today to recognize the 29th anniversary of the Inuvialuit land claim. The signing of the land claim was a historic moment back in 1984, and I think we owe our gratitude to the people that negotiated, the Committee of Original Peoples Entitlement, or COPE as it was called back in the day. They did a lot of good work in leading up to this.

Since the signing of the agreement, the Inuvialuit have worked hard to play a very important role in the economy, and I think there’s no better example than when you go...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I want to thank Mr. McLeod for bringing this motion forward. I want to thank Mrs. Groenewegen for seconding it. I want to thank the devolution crew for all your good work on this. As always, we task you with doing something, we make political decisions and then you’re left to put it into a document and you did a fantastic job.

During the course of our political careers, we run into many highlights and I’ve heard a couple pointed out. One was the division in 1999, and I’ve been fortunate and I’ve had a few highlights so far. One of my major highlights, I think, was being...

I will commit to the Member that we will have our officials meet with the leadership in Nahanni Butte to identify some of the work that still needs to happen. As well, the other departments. I know DOT is doing some work on their portion of it. I will make that commitment to the Member that we will get our officials in there to work with the leadership. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Mr. Speaker, I would like to recognize some residents of Inuvik. Norm Snowshoe has been recognized as vice-president of the Gwich’in Tribal Council; Mr. Jozef Carnogursky from Inuvik. Welcome to the Assembly. Mavis Jacobson still from Inuvik and is here in Yellowknife temporarily, and Mr. Willard Hagen, a constituent of Inuvik Twin Lakes and just in Yellowknife temporarily, I hope. I would also like to recognize Mrs. McLeod. Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Monfwi, that Bill 20, An Act to Amend the Tlicho Community Government Act, be read for the third time.

I do, Mr. Chairman.

Mr. Speaker, we will continue to work with those two communities and point out the importance of having an emergency plan in place. The other communities, the 14 that we need to work on, again, they do have emergency committees in those communities. Once we go through the exercise, then their plans will be validated. We will do what we can to stress to them the importance of validating their emergency plans. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Mr. Speaker, to date, as of April 2013, we have 17 communities that have updated their plans. We have 14 communities that need updating and sometimes that could be just validating their emergency plans from an exercise. Their plans could be updated and considered validated once they go through an exercise. We still have two communities without emergency plans. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have to my right Kelly McLaughlin, director of legislation division, and Mr. David Kravitz, manager of community governance.

Thank Mr. Chairman. Thank you for the opportunity to introduce Bill 20, An Act to Amend the Tlicho Community Government Act. The purpose of this legislation is to correct a drafting error identified following the passage of the Tlicho Statutes Amendment Act in March.

I would be pleased to answer any questions Members may have.