Daryl Dolynny

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Back in mid-March, during the review of the Public Works and Services 2013-2014 Main Estimates, I asked many questions about the new downtown Yellowknife office building. The reason for these questions is that this $30 million project was being built over a number of business plans and it is important to understand the different costing schedules that taxpayers would be on the hook for. In fact, MLA Robert Hawkins also asked a number of questions regarding the terms and conditions and holdbacks of the project as well.

Following that session, there was a series of e-mails...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I wish to table three documents today, the first of which is a copy of the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act, the section where I’ve highlighted regarding the access to information as a Member of this House. Second item, I have a series of e-mails from my office of Range Lake to the office of Minister Abernethy, which deal with the requests and the ATIPP questions regarding the access to information of the Yellowknife downtown construction of the building. The third item is a copy of a bill for Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act in...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise today in defence of this point of order. The allegation that this request, this ATIPP request did not come from the office of Range Lake is absolutely absurd. Mr. Grant Pryznyk is a constituency assistant of mine and I think everyone in this House knows he is a constituency assistant of mine. He is the one who submitted the ATIPP request.

So the fact remains that this came from the office of Range Lake and the Minister is clearly aware of this. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Mr. Speaker, I seek unanimous consent to conclude my statement.

---Unanimous consent granted

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to thank Premier Bob McLeod for bringing this motion here today. I would like to thank our seconder, Madam Groenewegen, for allowing this to be debated here today.

We’ve got a lot of dignitaries and guests here today. I want to earmark the fact that we have a lot of signatories here for the Devolution Agreement and I want to thank them for joining us here today, and we have a lot of other distinguished guests. I appreciate everyone taking time out of their schedule to be with us here.

We’ve heard the word “historic,” we’ve heard the word “epic,” and I think I am...

Mr. Moses.

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. The motion is in order. To the Motion.

We are going to go back to page 1. Does committee agree that Bill 11, Financial Administration and Public Agency Statutes (Borrowing Provisions) Amended Act, is now ready for third reading?

Question has been called.

---Carried

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. To the motion.