Debates of October 19, 2017 (day 3)

October

2017

Session

18th Assembly, 3rd Session

Day

Speaker

Jackson Lafferty

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Members Present

Hon. Glen Abernethy, Mr. Beaulieu, Mr. Blake, Hon. Caroline Cochrane, Ms. Julie Green, Hon. Jackson Lafferty, Hon. Bob McLeod, Hon. Robert McLeod, Mr. McNeely, Hon. Alfred Moses, Mr. Nadli, Mr. Nakimayak, Mr. O’Reilly, Hon. Wally Schumann, Hon. Louis Sebert, Mr. Simpson, Mr. Testart, Mr. Thompson, Mr. Vanthuyne

Assembly Members

Topics

Bill 1: Western Canada Lottery Act

Bill 2: Supplementary Appropriation Act (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 3, 2017-2018

Committee Motion 10-18(3): Committee Report 1-18(3): Standing Committee on Rules and Procedures Report on the Review of the Chief Electoral Officer's Report on the Administration of the 2015 Territorial General Election, Supplementary Recommendation

Committee Motion 11-18(3): Committee Report 1-18(3): Standing Committee on Rules and Procedures Report on the Review of the Chief Electoral Officer’s Report on the Administration of the 2015 Territorial General Election, Supplementary Recommendati

Committee Motion 12-18(3): Committee Report 1-18(3): Standing Committee on Rules and Procedures Report on the Review of the Chief Electoral Officer’s Report on the Administration of the 2015 Territorial General Election, Supplementary Recommendati

Committee Motion 13-18(3): Committee Report 1-18(3): Standing Committee on Rules and Procedures Report on the Review of the Chief Electoral Officer’s Report on the Administration of the 2015 Territorial General Election, Supplementary Recommendati

Committee Motion 14-18(3): Committee Report 1-18(3): Standing Committee on Rules and Procedures Report on the Review of the Chief Electoral Officer’s Report on the Administration of the 2015 Territorial General Election, Supplementary Recommendati

Committee Motion 15-18(3): Committee Report 1-18(3): Standing Committee on Rules and Procedures Report on the Review of the Chief Electoral Officer’s Report on the Administration of the 2015 Territorial General Election, Supplementary Recommendati

Committee Motion 16-18(3): Committee Report 1-18(3): Standing Committee on Rules and Procedures Report on the Review of the Chief Electoral Officer’s Report on the Administration of the 2015 Territorial General Election, Supplementary Recommendati

Committee Motion 17-18(3): Committee Report 1-18(3): Standing Committee on Rules and Procedures Report on the Review of the Chief Electoral Officer’s Report on the Administration of the 2015 Territorial General Election, Supplementary Recommendati

Committee Motion 18-18(3): Committee Report 1-18(3): Standing Committee on Rules and Procedures Report on the Review of the Chief Electoral Officer’s Report on the Administration of the 2015 Territorial General Election, Supplementary Recommendati

Committee Motion 2-18(3): Concurrence of Tabled Document 2-18(3): Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 3, 2017-2018, Carried

Committee Motion 3-18(3): Concurrence of Tabled Document 3-18(3): Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 1, 2018-2019, Carried

Committee Motion 4-18(3): Standing Committee on Rules and Procedures Report on the Review of the Chief Electoral Officer's Report on the Administration of the 2015 Territorial General Election, Supplementary Recommendations and the White Paper on th

Committee Motion 5-18(3): Committee Report 1-18(3): Standing Committee on Rules and Procedures Report on the Review of the Chief Electoral Officer's Report on the Administration of the 2015 Territorial General Election, Supplementary Recommendations

Committee Motion 6-18(3): Committee Report 1-18(3): Standing Committee on Rules and Procedures Report on the Review of the Chief Electoral Officer's Report on the Administration of the 2015 Territorial General Election, Supplementary Recommendations

Committee Motion 7-18(3): Committee Report 1-18(3): Standing Committee on Rules and Procedures Report on the Review of the Chief Electoral Officer's Report on the Administration of the 2015 Territorial General Election, Supplementary Recommendations

Committee Motion 8-18(3): Committee Report 1-18(3): Standing Committee on Rules and Procedures Report on the Review of the Chief Electoral Officer's Report on the Administration of the 2015 Territorial General Election, Supplementary Recommendations

Committee Motion 9-18(3): Committee Report 1-18(3): Standing Committee on Rules and Procedures Report on the Review of the Chief Electoral Officer's Report on the Administration of the 2015 Territorial General Election, Supplementary Recommendations

Committee Report 3-18(3): Report on Motion 32-18(2), referral of Petition 6-18(2), elimination of time change in the Northwest Territories to the Standing Committee on Social Development

Member's Statement on Clean-up of Sacred Vent Hole of Tthenaago

Member's Statement on Climate Change Audit

Member's Statement on Consensus Government

Member's Statement on Disparity Between Employees of Local Housing Organizations and the Northwest Territories Housing Corporation

Member's Statement on Eulogy for Joseph Maurice Norn

Member's Statement on Giant Mine Remediation

Member's Statement on Government Strategies and Action Plans

Member's Statement on Highway Pedestrian Crossings

Member's Statement on Northern Manufacturing of Modular Homes

Minister's Statement 10-18(3): Climate Change Framework Next Steps

Minister's Statement 11-18(3): Implementation of the NWT Agriculture Strategy

Minister's Statement 12-18(3): Minister Absent from the House

Minister's Statement 8-18(3): Northwest Territories 911 Program

Minister's Statement 9-18(3): Supporting Families and Seniors across the North

Motion 2-18(3): Appointment of Conflict of Interest Commissioner, Carried

Motion 3-18(3): Appointment of the Equal Pay Commissioner, Carried

Motion 4-18(3): Extended Adjournment of the House to February 7, 2018, Carried

Motion 7-18(3): Setting of Sitting Hours by the Speaker

Motion 7-18(3): Setting of Sitting Hours by the Speaker, Carried

Motion to Receive Committee Report 3-18(3) and Move Into Committee of the Whole, Carried

Question 25-18(3): Moose Harvesting Concerns

Question 26-18(3): Modular Public Housing Units

Question 27-18(3): Hay River Pedestrian Crossing Upgrade

Question 28-18(3): Climate Change Audit and Strategic Framework

Question 29-18(3): Differences in Employment Terms Between Northwest Territories Housing Corporation and Local Housing Organizations

Question 30-18(3): Opportunities from Giant Mine Remediation Project

Question 31-18(3): Manufacturing Strategy in the Northwest Territories

Question 32-18(3): Governance of the Northwest Territories Power Corporation

Question 33-18(3): History of Social Housing in the Northwest Territories

Question 34-18(3): Modular Public Housing Units

Question 35-18(3): Energy Requirements for Giant Mine Remediation Project

Question 36-18(3): Modular Public Housing Units

Recorded Vote

Tabled Document 30-18(3): Grants and Contributions Results Reports 2016-2017

Written Question 1-18(3): Maintenance of Highway No. 3

Statements

Speaker: MR. SPEAKER

Masi. The Member has requested a recorded vote. The motion is in order. All those in favour, please stand.

Speaker: Mr. SCHAUERTE

The Member for Inuvik Twin Lakes, the Member for Hay River South, the Member for Thebacha, the Member for Hay River North the Member for Yellowknife North, the Member for Kam Lake, the Member for Tu Nedhe-Wiilideh, the Member for Nahendeh, the Member for Frame Lake, the Member for Nunakput, the Member for Inuvik Boot Lake, the Member for Range Lake, and the Member for Yellowknife South.

Speaker: MR. SPEAKER

All those opposed, please stand. All those abstaining, please stand. The results of the motion: 13 in favour, zero opposed, zero abstentions.

---Carried

Orders of the Day

Speaker: Mr. Mercer

Mr. Speaker, the orders of the day for Friday, October 20, 2017, at 10:00 a.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 Commissioner's 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

Motion 5-18(3), Apology and Compensation to the Yellowknives Dene First Nation Relating to Damages from the Giant Mine

Motion 6-18(3), Action on the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge

First Reading of Bills

Second Reading of Bills

Bill 1, Western Canada Lottery Act

Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters

Minister's Statement 1-18(3), North Slave Correctional Complex Inmate Concerns

Committee Report 2-18(3), Standing Committee on Government Operations Report on the Review of the 2015-2016 Public Accounts of the Government of the Northwest Territories

Committee Report 3-18(3), Standing Committee on Social Development Report on Motion 32-18(2), Referral of Petition 6-18(2): Elimination of Time Change in the Northwest Territories to the Standing Committee on Social Development

Report of Committee of the Whole

Third Reading of Bills

Orders of the Day

Speaker: MR. SPEAKER

Masi, Mr. Clerk. This House stands adjourned until Friday, October 20, 2017, at 10:00 p.m.

---ADJOURNMENT

The House adjourned at 5:53 p.m.