Daryl Dolynny

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Continuing on with questions and general comments I have Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, committee. Sergeant-at-Arms, if you can please escort the witnesses into the Chamber.

Minister Abernethy, can you please introduce your witnesses to the House.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I am pleased to be here representing the Standing Committee on Government Operations. We would like to commend and thank the Minister and his department and staff in collaboration as we prepared the report and, as well, the final, third reading we have coming up here, hopefully, later today.

The bill is a very complicated piece of legislation, and as we indicated in our report, we needed the expertise of a contractor. Again, we want to echo our thanks to Mr. Lew Voytilla who took a painstaking task to look at this line by line and help educate the committee on some of the...

Clauses 21 to 30.

---Clauses 21 through 30 inclusive approved

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and thank you, Mr. Moses.

Bill 44 in its original form proposed to give substantial new powers to the Minister. The committee introduced two motions to amend the bill to narrow the Minister’s powers. The first amendment will ensure that the Minister can only disregard this act or another enactment for reasons of public safety or to address a pressing gap in service delivery. The second amendment places a restriction on the provision under the regulation-making authority. The original provision would have authorized an exemption through regulations from “any provision of...

Now, I’d like to consider clauses. Moving forward, I ask you to turn to page 1 of the bill, and again, we’re going to go in groups of 10. Clauses 1 to 10. Committee?

---Clauses 1 through 10 inclusive approved

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Your Standing Committee on Government Operations is pleased to provide its Report on the Review of the 2013-2014 Public Accounts and commends it to the House.

Your Standing Committee on Government Operations is pleased to provide its Report on the Review of the 2013-2014 Public Accounts and commends it to the House.

The Standing Committee on Government Operations is pleased to present its third and final report on its review of the public accounts during the term of the 17th Legislative Assembly. The review of the 2013-2014 Public Accounts of the Northwest Territories...

Thank you, committee. Committee, if I can get you to turn to page 48 in the bill. We’ll start with Schedule A. Schedule A, does committee agree?

Thank you, committee. Does committee also agree that we can consider clauses in groups of 10?

Thank you, Ms. Bisaro. Committee, we have a motion on the floor. The motion is in order and is not debatable. The motion is carried.

---Carried

Committee, general comments. We’ll allow the Minister the opportunity to reply to general comments. Minister.