Michael Miltenberger

Mr. Speaker, I wish to table the following three documents, entitled “Inter-activity Transfers Exceeding $250,000 for the Period April 1, 2014, to March 31, 2015,” “Program Review Office Annual Report, June 2014” and “Executive Summary: Program Review Office Annual Report 2014.” Thank you.

MR. SPEAKER:

Mr. Speaker, I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Monfwi, that Bill 37, Financial Administration Act, be read for the third time. Thank you.

Mr. Speaker. I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Yellowknife South, that Bill 67, Supplementary Appropriation Act (Operations Expenditures), No. 1, 2015-2016, be read for the first time.

Mr. Speaker, I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Yellowknife South, that Bill 67, Supplementary Appropriation Act (Operations Expenditures), No. 1, 2015-2016, be read for the third time. Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Yellowknife South, that Bill 67, Supplementary Appropriation Act (Operations Expenditures), No. 1, 2015-2016, be read for the second time.

This bill makes supplementary appropriations for operations expenditures for the Government of the Northwest Territories for the 2015-2016 fiscal year.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I wish to table the following three documents, entitled “Growing the Northwest Territories: Supporting Population Growth of the Northwest Territories,” “Background Research: Growing the Northwest Territories - Supporting Population Growth of the Northwest Territories” and “Environment and Natural Resources Framework for Action 2012-2016, December 2014 Status Update.” Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. There is a portion of the highway that had to have appropriate monitoring equipment put in, monitored over specific periods of time, the data collated and they had to do their assessment, with the end result or the goal being to hopefully come up with some potential solutions for that part of the highway.

As it’s noted in here, this money is offset by federal contribution. Thank you.

There is work being done on waste disposal, wastewater. The long-term goal is to manage it very effectively, treat it, if possible, and reclaim it, if possible, in the Northwest Territories. Those regulations and practices are also being reviewed. Right now every project in the past would have their own separate wastewater disposal requirements. There is an economic economy that I know has already been discussed and talked about in the Sahtu about if we’re going to do this in a coordinated way, having a state-of-the-art facility like that in Norman Wells as development occurs, again, to make...

The funding is carried over to deal with the same issue in the same area. It just hasn’t been fully completed. Thank you.

They are encouraged to disclose them all. What the discussion is, as we have heard around the table, is that they need to have the best practices possible. The issue of moving away from voluntary disclosure to mandatory full disclosure so that it is clear that we have the best practices, that is one of the things that we’re discussing and we’ve been talking about that industry knows is coming. In more and more jurisdictions in the United States, it is becoming a given, as well, that it’s not optional anymore. That issue is a very important one and it has been flagged by the government as we...