Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'm not going to go through everything I said under general comments, and my suggestion for consideration is I'd like to amend the motion by adding -- and I'll read out what I'm going to say is, we add Indigenous governments as well to determine; so in other words, after Northwest Territories Association of Communities, and Indigenous governments to determine blah, blah, blah. So I'm moving that amendment. Thank you.
Thank you. I'm going to go -- the Member from Yellowknife Centre raised an amendment. Do the Members have any questions to the amendment? Thank you. I'm going to go to the Member from Frame Lake.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It's actually just a process question. Do we need to pause to get the amendment in writing or can we just make them on the fly?
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, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I mean, I can't speak for other Members. For myself, I think the amendment is simple and straightforward enough that I don't personally require it in writing. I just that that was a rule. But if we're okay, I'm happy to move forward and speaking to the amendment, I'm supportive of it.
Thank you. Members, to the motion, do you -- we could speak to the amendment. Do Members want to speak to the amendment and then to the motion. I'm going to go to the Member from YK Centre.
Yeah, Mr. Speaker, first I want to stress an apology. It only occurred to me when I was making my general comments that, you know, this should be a consideration and hence I just saw this as -- when I said I don't know what the right vehicle is and I thought well, why don't I just suggest adding those two words to be inserted -- well, technically three words to be inserted after association of communities.
Mr. Chairman, this is only about opening a conversation and if they are not interested, that's okay too. So the amendment, whether it passes or fails, I hope it at least takes the conversation a little further that could the chief electoral officer be a partner. And so just for further clarity, I'll read -- I'll read and stress where the change would be.
So the chief electoral officer to engage with the Northwest Territories Association of Communities -- and here it is -- and with Indigenous governments to determine how better to support local authority election activities.
So, again, it's just the stressing about a conversation with them. And as I said, I sort of thought of it on the fly in my general comments that, you know, it might be an opportunity. Thank you.
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. Chair. My support to include the amendment. Mahsi.
Thank you. I'm going to go to the Member from Range Lake.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, as a Member of committee that considered this report and that is making the recommendation, I can tell you we did have a robust discussion of the CEO's report where this was -- this idea was brought forward. Just now speaking with a colleague on the committee as well and we couldn't remember why we didn't include this, so I think this is -- I have no -- so I think this is a good motion. It's not saying that the CEO will insert themselves in, you know, sovereign government electoral processes; many Indigenous governments have custom election codes and they're governed through other authorities. But I think, as the Member says, as the mover says, having the conversation's important and we certainly don't want to leave Indigenous governments out of the conversation. So I don't see harm with this, and I will gladly support it. Thank you.
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?
Question.
Question's been called. All those in favour to the motion with the amendment? All those opposed? All those abstaining? The motion is carried as amended.
---Carried
Okay, thank you, committee. Do you agree that you 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? Does committee agree?
Agreed.
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.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I move that the chair rise and report progress.
Thank you. There's a motion on the floor to report progress. The motion is in order and non-debatable. All those in favour? All those opposed? The motion is carried.
---Carried
I will now rise and report progress. Thank you.
