Debates of June 4, 2024 (day 20)

June

2024

Session

20th Assembly, 1st Session

Day

Speaker

Shane Thompson

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Members Present

Hon. Caitlin Cleveland, Mr. Edjericon, Mr. Hawkins, Hon. Lucy Kuptana, Hon. Vince McKay, Ms. Morgan, Mr. Morse, Mr. Nerysoo, Ms. Reid, Mr. Rodgers, Hon. Lesa Semmler, Hon. R.J. Simpson, Mr. Testart, Mr. Thompson, Mrs. Weyallon Armstrong, Hon. Caroline Wawzonek, Mrs. Yakeleya

Assembly Members

Jane Weyallon Armstrong

Monfwi

Sheryl Yakeleya

Dehcho

Topics

Bill 2: Missing Persons Act

Committee Motion 10-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): Main Estimates 2024-2025, Education, Culture and Employment – Corporate Management – Reduce Operations Expenditures, Defeated

Committee Motion 9-20(1): Tabled Document 93-20(1): Main Estimates 2024-2025, Deferral of Department – Health and Social Services, Carried

Committee Report 2-20(1): Standing Committee on Social Development Report on Bill 2: Missing Persons Act

Member’s Statement 224-20(1): Income Assistance – How to be Regionally Appropriate

Member’s Statement 225-20(1): Income Assistance – Food Security

Member’s Statement 226-20(1): Income Assistance – Guaranteed Basic Income

Member’s Statement 227-20(1): Income Assistance – Reduction of Dependence

Member’s Statement 228-20(1): Income Assistance – Reduction of Dependence

Member’s Statement 229-20(1): Guaranteed Basic Income

Member’s Statement 230-20(1): Income Assistance – Reduction of Dependence

Member’s Statement 231-20(1): Income Assistance – Living on the Land Disqualification

Member’s Statement 232-20(1): Income Assistance – Productive Choices

Member’s Statement 233-20(1): Hay River Track and Field 2024

Member’s Statement 234-20(1): Willem Kanigan, 2024 Youth Parliamentarian

Minister’s Statement 41-20(1): Fifth Anniversary of the Release of the Final Report of National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

Minister’s Statement 42-20(1): Income Assistance Improvements

Minister’s Statement 43-20(1): Minister Absent from the House

Motion 31-20(1): Cross-Border Crime Reduction Forum

Motion to Receive Committee Report 2-20(1) and Move into Committee of the Whole, Carried

Ms. Ried’s Reply

Question 226-20(1): Implementation of Guaranteed Basic Income

Question 227-20(1): P3 Projects

Question 228-20(1): Regionalized Delivery of Income Assistance Program

Question 229-20(1): Implementation of Guaranteed Basic Income

Question 230-20(1): Outcomes of Productive Choices

Question 231-20(1): Income Assistance Statistics

Question 232-20(1): Income Assistance

Question 233-20(1): Food Security

Question 234-20(1): Residency Requirements for Income Assistance

Question 235-20(1): Pathways to Education for Income Assistance Clients

Question 236-20(1): Income Assistance Statistics

Question 237-29(1): Aurora College Transformation

Tabled Document 109-20(1): NWT Office of the Regulator of Oil and Gas Operations Annual Report 2023-2024

Statements

Motion 31-20(1): Cross-Border Crime Reduction Forum

Kieron Testart

Range Lake

Mr. Speaker, I give notice that on Thursday, June 6, 2024, I will move the following motion:

Now therefore I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Mackenzie Delta, that the Government of the Northwest Territories initiate a CrossBorder Crime Reduction Forum that would involve the Governments of the Northwest Territories, Canada, Yukon, Alberta, and British Columbia;

And furthermore, the focus of a crossborder forum will increase the response to violence and drug trafficking in rural and remote communities;

And furthermore, that the focus of the crossborder forum improve efforts to disrupt the illicit drug network and drugrelated crime and violence in Northwest Territories communities;

And furthermore, that the Government of the Northwest Territories provide a response to this motion within 120 days.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Speaker: MR. SPEAKER

Thank you, Member from Range Lake. Notices of motion. Motions. Notices of motion for the first reading of bills. First reading of bills. Second reading of bills.

Consideration in Committee of the Whole of bills and other matters, Minister's Statement 420(1), Minister's Statement 520(1), Minister's Statement 1720(1), Minister's Statement 2420(1), Tabled Document 9320(1).