Agreed.
Thank you, committee. Page 13-37, Environment and Natural Resources, information item, work performed on behalf of others, continued. Agreed?
Agreed.
Thank you, committee. Page 13-38, Environment and Natural Resources, information item, work performed on behalf of others, continued. Agreed?
Agreed.
Thank you, committee. I will ask you to turn back to page 13-7, the summary, Environment and Natural Resources, department summary, operations and expenditures summary, $67.493 million. Agreed?
Agreed.
Thank you, committee. Does committee agree that this concludes the Department of Environment and Natural Resources?
Agreed.
Thank you. I would like to thank the Minister and his witnesses and ask the Sergeant-at-Arms to please escort the witnesses from the House. Next up we have the Department of Transportation. Does committee agree?
Agreed
Thank you. I will ask the Minister if he wishes to make opening comments.
Mr. Chairman and Committee of the Whole, I would like to present for your review the Department of Transportation’s main estimates for 2011-12.
The main estimates before you detail the funding requirements to carry out the plans outlined within the department’s 2011-12 business plan. This plan will ensure the protection and enhancement of the Territory’s transportation infrastructure and supports our primary mission of proving for the safe, secure, accessible and reliable movement of people and goods, while looking towards the future at the needs of individuals and businesses.
For 2011-12, we are proposing an operating budget of $110.7 million, including amortization. This is a 6 percent increase over the 2010-11 main estimates. In addition, as approved in the fall session, we plan to deliver an additional $62.7 million in capital investments in 2011-12.
The most significant change to the O and M budget is forced growth. Funding increases of approximately $5 million are included in the budget to cover Collective Agreement changes, increases to highway maintenance contracts, winter road contracts, information technology system maintenance and the repatriation of vehicle registration and driver licensing services in Fort Smith and Inuvik.
The department also plans to continue to address the strategic initiatives of the 16th Assembly. Under the Reducing the Cost of Living initiative, we have proposed a number of new projects focused on strengthening our connections with smaller communities. These new activities are in addition to many activities already underway, including ice crossing acceleration on the Dempster Highway and the expanded Community Access Program. The proposed new initiatives in 2011-12 include:
$170,000 to extend ferry operations on the Dempster Highway at both the Peel River and the Arctic Red River crossings. This will improve access to Fort McPherson, Tsiigehtchic and Inuvik in the early winter period, while the ice crossings are being constructed; and
$250,000 to accelerate ice crossing construction at Tulita, and on Great Bear Lake near Deline, which will enable the ice crossings to reach full strength sooner. Additional funding is also available for watering at select locations of the winter road to provide a more durable road surface.
The department has made significant progress on the planning for the Mackenzie Valley Highway from Wrigley to Tuktoyaktuk. The highway has been a priority in departmental plans for decades and is a priority of this Assembly. In the past year the department completed the project description report for the Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk portion of the highway. This project is currently within the regulatory process and the environmental impact statement will be submitted very shortly.
For the portion of the highway between Wrigley and the Dempster Highway, we are working with Aboriginal groups in the Mackenzie Valley to complete the project description report. We have signed memorandums of understanding with Aboriginal groups representing the entire Mackenzie Valley and work is underway to complete the project description reports for all segments. This work will provide the necessary environmental and engineering information required to submit applications to regulators for preliminary screening of the Mackenzie Valley Highway Project.
Mr. Chairman, the 2011-12 planning cycle marks the final construction push and opening of the Deh Cho Bridge.
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Mr. Chairman, the opening of the bridge is an event we are all looking forward to. The 2011-12 main estimates begin to include the bridge’s finances once it comes into operation. The main estimates before you today include $2.772 million for interest expense and $96,000 for community contributions related to the Deh Cho Bridge. However, they do not yet reflect the revenue or cost savings that will accrue once the bridge is in operation. The department will return in 2011-12, once the exact timing of the bridge opening is known, with a negative supplementary appropriation request to account for the savings from the ferry operation and ice crossing construction, and to report on the estimated toll revenue. The 2012-13 planning cycle, representing the first full year of bridge operation, will include the full annual expenses and revenues for the bridge.
Our team is working closely with the contractor, who is continually improving his operation and finding ways to regain time lost due to the steel fabrication delays. This contractor is making good progress with launching of the truss from the north end of the bridge. It is expected that construction materials, including the steel truss, towers and concrete deck panels, will all be on-site prior to the spring breakup. This critical milestone will facilitate the next stages of work once the river is clear of ice. We continue to plan and work towards a November 2011 completion date.
Mr. Chairman, very briefly, these are the highlights of the Department of Transportation’s proposed main estimates for the 2011-2012 fiscal year. There are many other positive and exciting projects and initiatives that the department expects to accomplish. I am confident that the proposed budget will provide for the continued safe and reliable operation of the NWT transportation system. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mahsi.
Thank you, Minister. I would like to ask you if you would like to have witnesses join you in the House.
Yes, Mr. Chairman.
Thank you, Minister. I would like to ask the Sergeant-at-Arms to escort the witnesses into the House, if committee agrees. Does committee agree?
Agreed.
Thank you. I would like to ask the Minister to please introduce your witnesses.
Mr. Chairman, with me today on my right I have Mr. Russell Neudorf, deputy minister of Transportation. On my left I have Mr. Daniel Auger, the assistant deputy minister of Transportation.
Thank you, Minister. Welcome to the witnesses. Does committee agree that we start with general comments?
Agreed.
Thank you. We will start with Mr. Ramsay.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have just a few comments on the Minister’s opening comments. I continue to be shocked at some of the words that are coming out of the Department of Transportation pertaining to the Deh Cho Bridge. In the Minister’s opening comments, he says, “However they do not yet reflect the revenue or cost savings that will accrue once the bridge is in operation.” Maybe if I can at some point... I know the Minister won’t respond until after all the Members have commented, but I would like the Minister to explain to me how putting over $5 million on an annual basis in a contribution to this bridge is going to in any way save us any money. We are taking the $2.2 million a year currently used to fund the ice crossing and the ferry operations there in Fort Providence and dumping it into the bridge. I fail to understand how we are going to be seeing any cost savings there. Also, on the revenue side, I haven’t been shown any evidence that the bridge will, in fact, earn any revenue. In the last piece of information that I received from the department, it would look like that operation of the Deh Cho Bridge is going to be running a deficit of somewhere in the neighbourhood of $1.5 million and that is in the first year and going forward. I can’t see how that bridge would turn a profit, but according to the Minister’s opening comments, it looks like that might in fact be the case.
I have to say this. I appreciate the department’s time, attention and energy and effort that it is putting into trying to get the project done. I know it has been a challenge at times. It will remain to be a challenge until that bridge is open, but with all the effort that is being put into the bridge project, I hate to think that other things in the department are being left aside and needing some attention. That is always the inkling that I am left with when I look at that bridge project and all the effort that is going into it from the department’s perspective.
Again, we really need to stay on top of it. It is far from over. I know the Minister is going to be meeting with committee tomorrow night. We look forward to the presentation that the department is going to be making to the committee. As well, the Auditor General’s report should be coming in a couple weeks’ time. I certainly look forward to reading that and seeing what that has to say.
Again, I guess I will disagree with the Minister on his assertion that the bridge is going to be open in November. I really hope it is open in November 2011, but judging by the delays that we have seen recently and the steel, I just don’t understand how it is possible that we can be concluded by November and that bridge open to traffic by that date. I can’t see how that can happen. I know that Ruskin is supposed to come forward with a new timeline. Perhaps that might be part of the discussion tomorrow night or at some later date. I just had to take issue with that statement that was in the Minister’s opening remarks because I just don’t think it is accurate. Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. With the committee’s tolerance, we will stick with the general comments and then ask for the Minister to give a wrap-up response. Next on my list is Mr. Abernethy.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you to the Minister for his comments. Just following up on Mr. Ramsay’s comments, please get the bridge built on time and within budget. That would be fantastic.
There are some other things that I think are quite positive in here. I’m happy to see progress on the Mackenzie Valley Highway in any capacity. I think that’s great news. Moving forward, obviously, it would be great if as much as possible we can involve Northerners in any construction and planning that takes place. I know that there are different groups from different communities that are very eager to be involved and I would encourage the government to, as much as possible, get them involved.
One thing that I would like to see more of, obviously, is many of our roads aren’t sealed, they don’t have a topcoat on them throughout the Northwest Territories and I think we need to be putting some more planning and effort and time into figuring out how we can get our highways coated with some sort of substance, a chip coat or Easy Street or something along those lines over the coming years. In particular, I think something like finishing the Deh Cho loop in a higher quality than it is, the road from Simpson to Liard is a little on the rough side. It would open up the North to significant tourism opportunities, which would be good for all regions in the Northwest Territories, in particular the Deh Cho by way of campers and other motor traffic coming up that way. Right now I believe the Liard Highway does scare some people off, which is really unfortunate because it is an incredibly beautiful highway, it’s an incredibly beautiful part of our Territory and it would be great if we had better roads in that area.
Just a couple comments. I see some good things happening here. I’d definitely like to see the bridge built on time, can’t wait to drive over it in November. That will be fantastic. I’m happy about the Mackenzie Highway and wish there was a little bit more planning and progress as far as developing the Deh Cho trail. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Abernethy. Next on my list I have Mr. Jacobson.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. It’s good to hear in the Minister’s opening remarks in regard to the all-weather road project into Tuktoyaktuk. It’s good to hear they’re making progress. Also, the Mackenzie Valley Highway is a whole working towards that to finish Wrigley to Tuk. It’s really needed. It will drop the cost of living in the communities for all people in the Beaufort-Delta even more.
Moving on from there, the dust suppression in communities in my riding for people with asthma, we don’t have chipseal so we have to go off of gravel roads. So we tend to worry about our youth and babies in regard to dust. So I think if we could make it possible if we could help out the communities with dust suppression, it would be good.
Also, with a portable unit for the GNWT drivers licensing and I.D. I know we do have one and it doesn’t make its trips into the communities as much as it should, because I’m still getting the people calling in regard to that.
I just look forward to going page-by-page with the Minister and thank you for giving me the opportunity for opening remarks. Thank you, sir.
Thank you, Mr. Jacobson. Next on my list I have Mr. Krutko.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. I too would like to thank the Minister for his opening comments in regard to the road from Wrigley to Tuk. I think that the groups have done a lot of work and I’d like to thank the Minister. He made reference to the progress on the road from Inuvik to Tuk. I believe there has been a lot of progress from Inuvik south also, and I had an opportunity to be privy in Inuvik to a presentation on the road from Inuvik southward and I think that they also have done a lot of work and I was pretty impressed with the report that they put together. Again, it does encompass a lot. Again, I think we have to look at it in light of the possibility of developing that infrastructure. I know people don’t like to combine this project with the pipeline, but I think, if anything, if we can get this road used as the service road during the construction of the pipeline, get a bunch of that work done, put the bridges in place, it will not only speed up this process, but it will help the construction of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline and in some cases bring down the cost of building the pipeline on a service road that’s useable, accessible, and more importantly, not having to stage equipment on the river systems and bring it overland in the winter months, if it’s possible that we can move on that.
Again, I think that timing is everything and we realize that we do have some lag time in regard to the decision to construct a pipeline. More importantly, that this is a perfect opportunity to come forward with two major projects in the Northwest Territories and the Mackenzie Valley by the construction of the Mackenzie Valley Highway and the pipeline coming together and sharing resources on both aspects. I believe there is going to be a cost associated with the construction and providing the pipe to site and staging and everything else. If there’s ways that we can show that we can save the proponents of the Mackenzie Valley pipeline money in the long run and get their support to start moving on some of this, it would very much help us speed up that process.
The other issue in regard to the Deh Cho Bridge. I too look forward to the fall official opening with bells on and hopefully we’ll have something to celebrate in light of the long-term process it’s taken to get us to this point.
The issue I wanted to raise, and I know I’ve raised it in the House before in regard to the $170,000 in extending the ferry operation, I did raise the issue of the timing of the ferry. Right now it runs from the Peel River side or the Fort McPherson side, it leaves at nine thirty and it runs till one o’clock in the morning. I was hoping we could move that time schedule around where they operate earlier and maybe end sooner, but to get moving the people and goods to Inuvik for catching their flights south or attending meetings and functions in Inuvik so people can make their required appointments and their commitments and try to operate our ferries in the Northwest Territories under the same timelines. I know that may not be practical in all cases, but let’s try to serve the public in the Northwest Territories so that they can coordinate their travel times with the operational times of our ferries so it meets their requirements, regardless of the travelling public.
So, again, Mr. Chair, those are some of the issues I wanted to throw out there and I’d like to thank the Minister for that and I look forward to his comments. Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Krutko. Committee, that’s all I have on my list for general comments. Mr. Hawkins.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As a Yellowknife MLA, in my experience I don’t tend to have a ton of transportation issues in particular. But first I’ll say that what dealings I have had with the department have been very good and I find them generally quite easy to deal with. So that being certainly the primary experience I’ve gone through over the years, I too would like to highlight the Deh Cho Bridge as a significant issue that still continues to be a matter of concern in the riding and I look forward to any further update we have, both on the quality of the project and, of course, how the financing stress plays out on our books over the long haul.
The only criticism I hear, when I say criticism I would refer to the strongest voice about the bridge and the bridge project, more has to do with the fact of getting the project done as opposed to what we’ve been saddled with. I think there has been a coming of a realization that by the time this government came into force that train had already left the station and it’s a matter of now how do we giddy up and do this. Whether the bridge opens up on time or not in November, by and large I’ll say the constituents who’ve come to me have said that they’re more happy to hear that if the bridge takes an extra month or so just do it as opposed to any other worry. Their feelings are being carried across quite simply that if the bridge has a month delay, what do they care? It’s a 100-year bridge. One month isn’t going to matter on the life of the extent of the overall project. They would rather hear that quality assurance was taken over a one-month delay. Again, we’re looking at the front end of the project and not realizing the length and quality of the infrastructure.
I don’t tend to talk about the bridge that much. I think my colleague Mr. Ramsay speaks more than enough for most of the Assembly on his perspective. Although it’s different than mine. I just think it’s a legacy project that we’ll look at in a few years and see it in that regard. It’s a critical piece of infrastructure and if we don’t build these types of things, probably no one will. I say that with some hesitation, of course, although I was a bridge supporter going into the election of 2007 I certainly didn’t buy into it in sort of the manner it was done late in the hour in the method it was signed off in. I’m also a realist and I accept the reality that we’ve been sort of weighed in with.
That said, I also look forward, as mentioned by my colleague, to the details that come forward by our Auditor General and I’m sure we’ll all deal with them in the good stead that they’ll be presented in. Our Auditor General, this being one of her last stops, I don’t know if it’s officially the last stop, but what I’ll say is I learned a lot from her in a number of years meeting her and her staff and have found that they’re able to sort of boil every project down to its nuts and bolts. Whether we agree or disagree, committee tends to agree with her and departments tend to disagree with her, but whether we agree or disagree she has a way of putting things down to what they really mean and takes the drama out of the situation. As that comes forward I certainly look forward to the discussion.
Some of the issues that I’ve come up, and like I say, I don’t usually talk about the bridge so this is one of the few times I will. I’m not the least bit concerned with the money that was held back that we have in trust in cash. I mean, I think that’s a pretty good deal. I don’t care who paid us, whether it was a guarantee or a cheque from the Government of New Brunswick. By and large we have a substantial sum to pick up any discrepancy on the project. To me that’s what I’ve told the citizens in my riding and they seem quite happy that a holdback is there for exactly what happens is sometimes projects have problems. I’ve seen it many times in my experience, although I’ve never run, obviously, a project this large, but there aren’t too many people who have. That said, I have run some projects and I understand that the reality is that there are always discrepancies on particular initiatives. I think the department has done the right thing. Has it been an easy project to juggle? I would run the risk of saying yes and no. I think probably if the department had it from day one it probably would have been a lot better off, but history is one of those things that’s always clear when we look back. It’s anyone’s guess looking forward.
As far as the budget goes, I’ll follow along with my other colleagues page by page as they report particular issues and perhaps I’ll be inspired to question something further than what I’ve seen thus far. As I sort of started off with the start of my statements, particularly I don’t tend to get a lot of feedback regarding transportation issues in the riding. If I do they tend to be dealt with expeditiously in a good way through the department. I’d be remiss to say people aren’t necessarily echoing about Highway No. 3 in the sense of greatest of accolades with the way the road is, but again I’m a realist and I think most Yellowknifers tend to be realists in that they recognize the environment that we live in and there is a certain amount of acceptance. I’ve often told them if you reduce your speed limit by about five K to 10 K some of those bumps do smooth out. When you get a little heavy on that pedal, they seem to show up in places where you don’t expect them.
That said, I’m happy to hear other thoughts and comments from other colleagues.
Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. Next on my list I have Mr. Yakeleya.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The Department of Transportation has done a lot of work in the Territories. I want to speak on the initiatives that were done in my region and I want to say that the airport infrastructure that happened in my region were very beneficial to my constituents, to the airline companies. We were happy that the department and the Fort Good Hope community came to a satisfactory solution that helped them extend the runway a little longer. People in Fort Good Hope were very pleased that this has taken place, because of their joint ventures with NorthWright in terms of the airline safety and airline passenger travel.
As you know, the Sahtu has about two months of winter road season where it’s very helpful for big families to take their children out on holidays, even though it’s to Hay River or Yellowknife or just to get out and do shopping and go back home. Even though it means taking some time off school. It’s very costly for them. Instead of flying out there, they look forward to the opening of the winter roads, which I want to make a few comments on.
Firstly, the quality of our winter roads is getting better and better. It’s hard for me to say this because it gets a little smoother now. I think we’re moving past the goat road stages of winter roads and the department has taken some pride and certainly it’s the contractors that are out there day in and day out that have put some pride into their work. They’ve actually done a really good job on our roads. Certainly there’s work that they still need to continue to straighten out the winter roads or cut down the hills or corners. That’s to be expected. We’re getting there. There are dollars going into these initiatives.
You’re working with the contractors. That’s what I wanted to say to the department. You’re working with the beneficiaries. You’re working with the local contractors in that area, in that community. It makes a whole lot of difference when you do a couple months of work there. After the two months of the winter road season you have eight months when it’s very quiet. The machines are sitting in the yard. Still the contractors have to pay for the equipment, they have to make their monthly payments. Sometimes it gets a little encouraging to see that this department is doing its darnedest to keep the road in our communities with the cost, because costs are quite expensive doing business in the Sahtu. Sometimes it’s just as easy to get outside contractors coming in with the lower price. There’s a price to pay for that. There’s me talking about these issues in the House here. I think that’s a give and take on both sides.
I’m really hoping the Minister can wrap up all the project description reports that he signed with the Aboriginal groups down the Mackenzie Valley and that we can have a good report. I’m pleased to see that Wrigley to Tuk highway is still a priority for the department and that the highway from Tuk to Inuvik is actually in another stage just ahead of us in the Sahtu. Hoping that there is something going on between the federal government in March to look at the Mackenzie Valley Highway and that they put some dollars towards this project.
I do want to say that hopefully very shortly that bridge gets done, finished, and the focus is off that bridge and put that focus on another bridge in the North.
I look forward to having some discussions on the details of it. I do want to say that the community of Deline has raised several concerns through e-mail with me on the ice crossing at Great Bear Lake and that the Minister’s opening statement had a couple hundred thousand dollars in the acceleration of the ice crossing in Tulita and on Great Bear Lake. I believe last week the weight restrictions were up in Deline and people are now looking forward to getting some of their resupplies into the community, however, that still causes some concerns for the community having their winter ice road crossing open a little sooner and they are looking at alternative routing and hopefully the Minister would be open to some discussions on that. Probably the new Assembly will have to look at that type of discussion, because that will require more dollars. I want to raise that, I want to raise that right in my opening comments.
I want to ask the Minister, in terms of updating in the National Highway Transportation Route, we have done that already with the federal government. Like I said, our winter roads are becoming a lot better, but it is still a little rough around some corners, but then that will only get better as we continue to work on some of the areas that need concentration, such as some of the hills that need to be cut down. That requires dollars and that requires emphasis and focus on governments to put on the Mackenzie Valley Road.
There were some safety issues and I think the Minister responded by having a few more signs on the road that I saw this year. They are pretty damn good in there, might I say, because they are in proper instalments now, not on trees with snare wire hanging from the trees and the signs. The Minister has put some attention to our winter roads by properly installing some good posts and the signs are there. I am glad to say that, Mr. Chairman, the Sahtu, in closing, really depend on these winter roads. There are families, there are old people that travel on them from community to community. Safety is number one, because our winter roads are pretty good, I don’t know, somehow we started an ice paving program, it makes it even better. The vehicles are going a little bit faster now, so we have to ensure that the safety of our people are more informed and that educational programs are needed in our region. Sometimes we have these truckers that come from the South that really don’t understand truck driving and sometimes they need to be told that this is a winter road and that it is used a lot by people between the communities, and they need to know that they are in the Sahtu where the roads are not quite up to their standards as in the South. So I want to say thank you to the Minister.
Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Next on my list I have Mr. Ramsay.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Just a couple of other things, if I could. On the bridge, I know some other Members were talking about delays. You know, it’s one thing if the project does get delayed for a month or two or six; it’s another thing if it costs us $20 or $30 million dollars more than what we have got budgeted for the project and that’s the thing we really need to keep our eye on, is the overall cost of the project.
To date, as I mentioned earlier, the management seems to be there. The diligence and the day-to-day management of the project seems to be there. Again, having not seen the contract that’s between the Deh Cho Bridge Corporation and Ruskin; it’s hard for me to understand where our risks lie in any eligible cost overruns of delays in the project. I’m sure the Minister and the department are much more aware of what those risks are and where liabilities lie in that regard.
The other thing, too, I’ll just mention, in a contract of this size, when you tally it all up, $190 million by the time it’s done, maybe even more, it would be interesting to see how much of that money actually stayed in the Northwest Territories and how much of a training and employment opportunity there has been for the community of Fort Providence and the South Slave region. How many people have been trained and employed on the project from the community? You know, who can take those skills and job experience away with them once the crews are gone and that bridge is open. At the end of the day, we are going to have to step back and have a good look at this project and see who here were successful and who weren’t successful, so that when other big projects come along we can ensure that we get the maximum opportunities for people who are in close proximity to the project.
Again, I do appreciate and I don’t want anybody to think I don’t appreciate the work that the department is doing. We just have to keep our eye on the budget. Given the current financial state of the Territory, if this project was to slip in any meaningful way, I’m talking 10 or 15 percent, it would cause a lot of concern here, that’s for sure. So, again, I just wanted to mention that for the record. Thank you.
Thank you, Mr, Ramsay. Mr. Krutko.
Mr. Chair, I’d like to move a motion to report progress.
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Can I have the report of Committee of the Whole, please, Mr. Bromley.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, your committee has been considering Tabled Document 133-16(5), Northwest Territories Main Estimates, 2011-2012, and would like to report progress. Mr. Speaker, I move that the report of Committee of the Whole be concurred with. Mahsi.
Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Motion is on the floor. Do we have a seconder? The honourable Member for Kam Lake, Mr. Ramsay.
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Orders of the day for Wednesday, February 23, 2011, at 1:30 p.m.:
Prayer
Ministers’ Statements
Members’ Statements
Returns to Oral Questions
Recognition of Visitors in the Gallery
Acknowledgements
Oral Questions
Written Questions
Returns to Written Questions
Replies to Opening Address
Petitions
Reports of Standing and Special Committees
Reports of Committees on the Review of Bills
Tabling of Documents
Notices of Motion
Notices of Motion for First Reading of Bills
Motions
First Reading of Bills
Second Reading of Bills
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Tabled Document 4-16(5), Executive Summary of the Report of the Joint Review Panel for the Mackenzie Gas Project
Tabled Document 30-16(5), 2010 Review of Members’ Compensation and Benefits
Tabled Document 38-16(5), Supplementary Health Benefits - What We Heard
Tabled Document 62-16(5), Northern Voices, Northern Waters: NWT Water Stewardship Strategy
Tabled Document 75-16(5), Response to the Joint Review Panel for the Mackenzie Gas Project on the Federal and Territorial Governments’ Interim Response to “Foundation for a Sustainable Northern Future”
Tabled Document 103-16(5), GNWT Contracts over $5,000 Report, Year Ending March 31, 2010
Tabled Document 133-16(5), Northwest Territories Main Estimates, 2011-2012
Tabled Document 135-16(5), GNWT Response to CR 3-16(5): Report on the Review of the Child and Family Services Act
Bill 4, An Act to Amend the Social Assistance Act
Bill 14, An Act to Amend the Conflict of Interest Act
Bill 15, An Act to Amend the Fire Prevention Act
Bill 17, An Act to Amend the Income Tax Act
Bill 18, An Act to Repeal the Settlements Act
Bill 19, Municipal Statutes Amendment Act
Bill 20, An Act to Amend the Evidence Act
Minister’s Statement 65-16(5), Devolution Agreement-in-Principle, Impact on Land Claims and Protection of Aboriginal Rights
Minister’s Statement 88-16(5), Sessional Statement
Report of Committee of the Whole
Third Reading of Bills
Orders of the Day
Thank you, Madam Clerk. Accordingly, this House stands adjourned until Wednesday, February 23, 2011, at 1:30 p.m.
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The House adjourned at 7:46 p.m.
