Robert C. McLeod

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.

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 second time.

This bill amends the Tlicho Community Government Act to modify the eligibility criteria for nomination as a candidate for councillor of a community government, so as to properly achieve consistency with amendments made by the Tlicho Statutes Amendment Act, SNWT 2013,c.9. The bill comes into force retroactive to the March 14, 2013, day of assent of that previous amending statute. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Yellowknife South, that Bill 14, An Act to Repeal the Pawnbrokers and Second-Hand Dealers Act, be read for the second time.

This bill repeals the Pawnbrokers and Second-Hand Dealers Act. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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 first time.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I seek unanimous consent to waive Rule 69(2) and have Bill 20 moved into Committee of the Whole. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

---Unanimous consent granted

Mr. Speaker, I seek consent to proceed with second reading of Bill 20, An Act to Amend the Tlicho Community Government Act. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

---Consent granted

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Kam Lake, that Bill 13, An Act to Repeal the Curfew Act, be read for the second time.

This bill repeals the Curfew Act.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have a return to oral question asked by Mr. Hawkins on March 12, 2013, regarding highway emergency response protocols.

The Highway Emergency Alerting Protocol, or HEAP, was developed by the Department of Municipal and Community Affairs to assist the RCMP and selected community fire departments in responding to vehicular accidents on territorial highways and winter roads.

HEAP describes a uniform plan for emergency response to highway accidents in the various zones designated across the Northwest Territories. It is intended to establish a process and procedures to be...

Mr. Speaker, again, it would be an initiative of the community to come forward to us with what their plans are. We can’t put a plan together and go to the communities and say this is what you’re going to do. We leave a lot of the final decision-making up to the community, and when they do that, then we will do what we can to assist them in any way we can.

There are a number of youth programs that we do offer. Maybe their initiative will fit into one of these programs. We don’t know that until they come to us and say this is our plan, how can you assist us, and we’ll go from there. Thank you, Mr...