Ronald Bonnetrouge

Mr. Speaker, I move, seconded by the Member for Frame Lake, that Committee report 6219(2), Standing Committee on Economic Development and Environment Report on the Review of Bill 74: Forest Act, be received by the Assembly and referred to Committee of the Whole. Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. Your Standing Committee on Economic Development and Environment is pleased to provide its report on Bill 74, Forest Act, and commends it to the House. Report on Bill 74, the Forest Act.

The Standing Committee on Economic Development and Environment was tasked with reviewing Bill 74: Forest Act in the final year of the 19th Legislative Assembly. Committee reviewed Government of the Northwest Territories policies, programs, and legislation related to forest management as Bill 74 is intended to change how the GNWT manages and protects forests, communities, and values threatened...

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. Your committee would like to report on its consideration of Bill 84, An Act to Amend the Northwest Territories Business Development and Investment Corporation Act.

Bill 84 received second reading in the Legislative Assembly on March 30th, 2023, and was referred to the Standing Committee on Economic Development and Environment for review. Committee proceeded by distributing stakeholder letters and holding a public hearing in Yellowknife on May 10th, 2023, where committee heard from members of the public and from the Minister of Industry, Tourism and Investment, alongside the...

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. Your committee would like to report on its consideration of Bill 74, Forest Act.

Bill 74 is unique because it is the first bill to be developed collaboratively with the Indigenous governments and comanagement bodies. That means the bill is also the first legislation to be reviewed under the process convention for the introduction, consideration, and enactment of bills drafted pursuant to the intergovernmental council legislative development protocol.

Bill 74 received second reading in the Legislative Assembly on March 9, 2023, and was referred to the Standing Committee on...

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. And mahsi to the Minister for that. Mr. Speaker, I understand other wildfires at other communities were happening at the same time, and the fire attack crews may have been spread out.

Can the Minister apprise this House why no fire attack crews were at Enterprise although the fire was at their doorstep for days? Mahsi.

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my questions are related to the recent wildfires which caused widespread evacuations and total destruction to properties. The wildfire at Enterprise was burning prior to the devastating day of August 13th.

Can the Minister of ECC apprise this House as to why the wildfire near the hamlet of Enterprise was allowed to burn out of control for several days prior to the devastation and evacuation of the residents? Mahsi.

Mr. Speaker, your Standing Committee on Economic Development and Environment is pleased to provide its Report on Review of Bill 84: An Act to Amend the Northwest Territories Business Development and Investment Corporation Act.

And, Mr. Speaker, I move, seconded by the Member for Frame Lake, that Committee report 6419(2), Standing Committee on Economic Development and Environment Report on the Review of Bill 84: An Act to Amend the Northwest Territories Business Development and Investment Corporation Act, be deemed read and printed in Hansard in its entirety. Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.

Mr. Speaker, your Standing Committee on Economic Development and Environment is pleased to provide its Report on Review of Bill 78: Waste Reduction and Resource Recovery Act.

And, Mr. Speaker, I move, seconded by the Member for Frame Lake, that Committee report 6319(2), Standing Committee on Economic Development and Environment Report on the Review of Bill 78: Waste Reduction and Resource Recovery Act, be deemed read and printed in Hansard in its entirety.

Mr. Speaker, I move, seconded by the Member for Frame Lake, that the remainder of the Committee report 6219(2) be deemed read and printed in Hansard in its entirety. Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.

Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. Your committee would like to report on its consideration of Bill 93, Practice of Engineering, Geoscience and Applied Science Technology Act.

Bill 93 received second reading in the Legislative Assembly on June 2nd, 2023, and was referred to the Standing Committee on Economic Development and Environment for review. The standing committee held a public hearing on July 18th, 2023, where it heard from the Minister of Infrastructure and the Northwest Territories Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists. The Standing Committee completed its clausebyclause review on...