Debates of February 17, 2017 (day 55)

February

2017

Session

18th Assembly, 2nd Session

Day

Speaker

Jackson Lafferty

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Members Present

Hon. Glen Abernethy, Hon. Tom Beaulieu, Mr. Blake, Hon. Caroline Cochrane, Ms. 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 17: An Act to Amend the Income Tax Act

Bill 18: An Act to Amend the Health and Social Services Professions Act

Member's Statement on Ecole Allain St-Cyr School Expansion

Member's Statement on Funding for Community Infrastructure Projects

Member's Statement on Improved RCMP Services in Tsiigehtchic

Member's Statement on Policing Practices in Response to Sexual Assault Allegations

Member's Statement on Air Travel Costs in Northern Canada

Member's Statement on High Air Travel Costs in Hay River

Member's Statement on Income Assistance Food Rate Calculations

Member's Statement on Poverty Reduction Investments

Member's Statement on Yellowknife Airport Infrastructure Funding

Minister's Statement 136-18(2): Mental Health and Addictions

Minister's Statement 137-18(2): Update on the National Inquiry on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

Question 592-18(2): Policing Practices in Response to Sexual Assault Allegations

Question 593-18(2): Yellowknife Airport Infrastructure Funding

Question 594-18(2): Poverty Reduction Investments

Question 595-18(2): Funding for Community Infrastructure Projects

Question 596-18(2): Income Assistance Food Rate Calculations

Question 598-18(2): Ecole Allain St-Cyr School Expansion

Question 599-18(2): Community Policing Protocols

Question 600-18(2): Agriculture and Fisheries Support Position

Question 601-18(2): Family Violence Prevention Measures

Question 603-18(2): Land Use Plans for the Deh Cho Region

Question 604-18(2): Agriculture and Fisheries Support Position

Tabled Document 285-18(2): Annual Report to the Legislative Assembly for 2016 Under the Transportation of Dangerous Goods Act

Tabled Document 286-18(2): Summary of Members’ Absences for the Period October 13, 2016 - January 30, 2017

Statements

Bill 17: An Act to Amend the Income Tax Act

Robert C. McLeod

Inuvik Twin Lakes

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Yellowknife South, that Bill 17, An Act to Amend the Income Tax Act, be read for the first time. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Speaker: MR. SPEAKER

Masi. The motion is on the floor. All those in favour? All those opposed? The motion is carried.

---Carried

Bill 17 has had its first reading. First reading of bills. Minister of Health and Social Services.