Richard Edjericon

Mr. Speaker, your committee has been considering Committee Report 18-20(1) and Committee Report 17-20(1) and would like to report progress with two motions carried, that the Committee Report 17-20(1) and 18-20(1) and, Mr. Speaker, I move that the report of the Committee of the Whole be concurred with. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

I now call the Committee of the Whole to order. I'm going to go to the Member from Inuvik Boot Lake.

All right, thank you. Committee, we have concluded consideration of Committee Report 18-20(1), Standing Committee on Procedures and Privileges Interim Report on the Report of the Chief Electoral Officer on the Administration of the 2023 Territorial General Election.

We will now consider Committee Report 17-20(1), Standing Committee on Procedures and Privileges Report on the Rules of the Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly. I will go to the chair of the Standing Committee on Procedures and Privileges for any opening comments. I'll go to the Member from Great Slave.

Yeah, thank you, Mr. Speaker. And I did say the Minister of Infrastructure. But anyway, I just want to -- I'm looking forward to work with the Minister and also the Yellowknives Dene First Nation to come up with a plan. But it's really important that we need to address this issue because this issue's been ongoing for a very long time. And I just want to just leave that there, and it's just a comment. So I want to say mahsi.

Okay, thank you. Any other Members want to add to the discussion on the amendment? Question -- I'm going to have to -- we're going to -- motion to amend -- for the amendment change, all those in favour? All those opposed? The motion is carried. Thank you. The motion has been amended.

---Carried

To the motion as amended, is there any Members that want to add to that?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the 20th Assembly set four priorities, and the fourth one is safe residents and communities. Mr. Speaker, all communities in the Northwest Territories have fire cell towers that they have access to in the event they need for emergency purposes. Mr. Speaker, my constituents in N'dilo struggle to have cell services for an emergency. My question is to the Minister of Infrastructure. How can the GNWT infrastructure work with CRTC cell phone providers to provide much needed cell towers in the community of N'dilo for emergency purposes? Thank you, Mr...

Thank you. I'm going to ask Members to -- the amendment that was proposed by the Member from Yellowknife Centre, is there anybody -- Members want to speak to it? I'm going to go to the Member from the Sahtu.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, this year I brought the issue up about the cell service in the community of N'dilo. Public safety is a mandate of this government. And in N'dilo, we have completely poor service in the cell towers we have there. So I have questions for the Minister of Infrastructure as to how we can help resolve that issue.

But, Mr. Speaker, I would just like to take this time to also -- as the session comes to an end, I just want to quickly thank my beautiful darling wife for taking care of the home while we serve as the MLA for the Tu Nedhe-Wiilideh riding. Also, I...

Thank you. Thank you, to the Member from Frame Lake's question, if Members want that in writing, we could -- we're probably going to need about five minutes and then we'll come back. I'll go to the Member from Frame Lake.

Thank you. The motion's order. To the motion. To the motion I have is the Member from Yellowknife Centre.