Rylund Johnson

Yeah, thank you, Madam Chair. I actually don't know. Is there somewhere I can look publicly and see the pay scale for all doctors? Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Department of Lands is currently running an ad campaign on the benefits of leasing. And, Mr. Speaker, I want to talk about the main benefit of leasing, which is one we all tend to ignore in this territory, and the main benefit is that at the end of a lease, a lessor can take the land back, Mr. Speaker. And, in fact, in the Northwest Territories, not only do we take the land back, we require the lessee to tear down any structures and remediate the land, Mr. Speaker. And yet everyone I talk to who has a lease does not seem to think this is at all a possibility.

So, Mr...

Yeah, I guess 2025 for online map staking. You know, at one point, perhaps naively, I thought we were going to have that done, well, very quickly in this Assembly. I get, perhaps that this is a bit of a custom piece of software. Is there is it not possible to perhaps get online map staking a little faster? At one point, I believe there was suggestions about using other registries that, you know, exist everywhere else in Canada. Yeah, is there any way we can speed this up? Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Bill 63, An Act to Amend the Official Languages Act, received second reading in the Legislative Assembly on November 2nd, 2022, and was referred to the Standing Committee on Government Operations for review.

Committee engaged with stakeholders and the public in its review of this bill. The committee held a public review of the bill on January 18th, 2023, and received five submissions with stakeholders. On February 15th, 2023, the standing committee held a public hearing with the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment and completed its clausebyclause review of the...

I don't actually know, Madam Chair, if anyone's in that little room. They can come join me, or perhaps a law clerk or someone.

Madam Chair, I move that this committee recommends that the Government of the Northwest Territories provide a response to this report within 120 days. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

I move that this committee recommends that the Government of the Northwest Territories commit to a second phase of legislative changes to protect, promote, and revitalize official and Indigenous languages in the 20th Assembly;

And further, this new legislation should be based on past recommendations, suggestions arising during the review of Bill 63, and the advice in committee's upcoming report on its statutory review of the Official Languages Act;

And furthermore, the new legislation should also seek to implement Articles 13 and 14 of the United Nations Declaration on the...

Yeah, thank you, Madam Chair. Can I just confirm then that the entirety of this $6.79 million is agency nurse contracts that it I guess, it doesn't include overtime or other you know, the labour markets bonus we gave I forget what it's called. You know, there's a lot of increased nursing costs but is this the totality of this just that we're bringing up more and more agency nurses? Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, I move, seconded by the Honourable Member for Thebacha, that Committee Report 4919(2), Standing Committee on Government Operations' Report on the 20212022 Review of the Official Languages Act, be received by the Assembly and moved into Committee of the Whole for further consideration. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you. Looking next at radiology services, I see that is costing us another $1.5 million. Can I just get another bit of an explanation on why we need another $1.5 million for radiology services. Thank you.