Thank you. Department of Finance, Management Board Secretariat, infrastructure investments, $1 million. Does committee agree?
Agreed.
Thank you. Please turn now to page 36 for the Office of the Chief Information Officer with information items on page 37.
Department of Finance, Office of the Chief Information Officer, infrastructure investments, $2,847,000. Does committee agree?
Agreed.
Thank you. Members, please return now to the departmental summary found on page 33.
Department of Finance, 20242025 Capital estimates, $3,847,000. Does committee agree? Thank you.
Agreed.
Does committee agree that consideration of the Department of Finance is now complete?
Agreed.
Thank you. Committee, we will now consider the Department of Health and Social Services which begins on page 39. We will defer the departmental totals and review the estimates by activity summary beginning on page 40, with administrative and support services, with information items on page 41. Did you need to switch out your witnesses?
Yes, please, Madam Chair.
Sergeantatarms, please escort the witness from the Chamber.
Minister, would you please introduce your witness.
Thank you, Madam Chair. Joining now at the table is Perry Heath who is the director of infrastructure and planning for the Department of Health and Social Services.
Welcome. Members, we are on Department of Health and Social Services, administrative support services, infrastructure investments, $1 million. Does committee agree?
Agreed.
Thank you. Please turn now to page 42 for health and social programs with information items on page 43 and 44.
Department of Health and Social Services, health and social programs, infrastructure investments, $40,021,000. Does committee agree?
Agreed.
Thank you. Next, turn to page 45 for long term and continuing care services with Member for Frame Lake, which are you wanting to speak to long term? Member for Frame Lake.
Thanks, Madam Chair. We need to do third reading on a bill. I think this is sorry, a good place to cut this off so that we can move. So that's why I'm going to move that the chair rise and report progress.
There's a motion on the floor to report progress. The motion is in order and nondebatable. All those in favour? All those opposed? The motion is carried. I will now rise and report progress.
Carried
Sergeantatarms, please escort the witnesses from the Chamber.
Mr. Speaker, your committee has been considering Tabled Document 97319(2) and would like to report progress, and, Mr. Speaker, I move that the report of the committee be concurred with. Thank you.
Thank you, Member for Inuvik Twin Lakes. Do we have a seconder? Member for Frame Lake. All those in favour? All those opposed? Any abstentions? The motion is carried.
Carried
Mr. Speaker, I move, seconded by the Honourable Member for Yellowknife South, that Bill 82, Legal Profession Act, be read for the third time. And, Mr. Speaker, I request a recorded vote. Thank you.
The Member for Hay River North. The Member for Inuvik Twin Lakes. The Member for Deh Cho. The Member for Hay River South. The Member for Thebacha. The Member for Kam Lake. The Member for Frame Lake. The Member for Nunakput. The Member for Yellowknife North. The Member for Tu NedheWiilideh. The Member for Monfwi. The Member for Great Slave. The Member for Nahendeh. The Member for Yellowknife South. The Member for Sahtu. The Member for Range Lake. The Member for Inuvik Boot Lake. The Member for Yellowknife Centre.
All those opposed, please rise. All those abstaining, please rise.
The results of the recorded vote: 18 in favour, zero opposed, zero abstentions. The motion is carried. Bill 82 has had third reading.
Carried
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Orders of the day for Friday, September 29th, 2023, 10 a.m.
Prayer
Ministers’ Statements
Members’ Statements
Returns to Oral Questions
Oral Question 1578-19(2), Fire Management Policy Effect on Indigenous Culture
Recognition of Visitors in the Gallery
Acknowledgements
Oral Questions
Written Questions
Returns to Written Questions
Replies to the Commissioner’s Address
Petitions
Reports of Committees on the Review of Bills
Reports of Standing and Special Committees
Tabling of Documents
Notices of Motion
Motions
Motion 84-19(2), Taxation of Vaping Products under Coordinated Vaping Taxation Products Agreement
Motion 85-19(2), Extended Adjournment of the House to October 3, 2023
Notices of Motion for First Reading of Bills
First Reading of Bills
Second Reading of Bills
Bill 64, An Act to Amend the Legislative Assembly and Executive Council Act, No. 3
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Bill 23, An Act to Amend the Public Utilities Act
Bill 65, Builder’s Lien Act
Bill 74, Forest Act
Bill 75, Council of Women and Gender Diversity Act
Bill 78, Waste Reduction and Resource Recovery Act
Bill 80, Dental Hygienists Profession Statutes Amendment Act
Bill 81, An Act to Amend the Education Act, No. 2
Bill 84, An Act to Amend the Northwest Territories Business Development and Investment Corporation Act
Bill 85, United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Implementation Act
Bill 93, Practice of Engineering, Geoscience and Applied Science Technology Act
Bill 94, Miscellaneous Statute Law Amendment Act, 2023
Committee Report 52-19(2), Standing Committee on Rules and Procedures Report on the Review of the Rules of the Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly
Committee Report 53-19(2), Standing Committee on Economic Development and Environment Report on Supporting Northern Businesses
Committee Report 55-19(2), Standing Committee on Government Operations Report on Bill 55: United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Implementation Act
Committee Report 61-19(2), Standing Committee of Social Development Report on Bill 81: An Act to Amend the Education Act, No. 2
Committee Report 62-19(2), Report on Bill 74: Forest Act
Minster’s Statement 264-19(2), Response to the NWT Chief Coroner’s Report on Suicide
Tabled Document 681-19(2), Government of the Northwest Territories Response to Committee Report 26-19(2): Report on the Child and Family Services Act – Lifting Children, Youth and Families: An All of Territory Approach to Keeping Families Together
Tabled Document 973-19(2), 2024-2025 Capital Estimates
Tabled Document 974-19(2), Supplementary Estimates Operations Expenditures, No. 3, 2023-2024
Report of Committee of the Whole
Third Reading of Bills
Bill 77, Nursing Profession Act
Orders of the Day
Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Mr. Clerk. This House stands adjourned until Friday, September 29th, 2023, at 10 a.m.
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The House adjourned at 5:49 p.m.
