Robert Villeneuve

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’ll try again.

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WHEREAS Rule 85 of the Rules of the Legislative Assembly prescribe and describe the mandates of the Standing Committees of the Legislative Assembly;

AND WHEREAS it is desirable to make changes to the mandates of the Standing Committees to better reflect their work and to equitably apportion responsibilities among committees;

NOW THEREFORE I MOVE, seconded by the honourable Member for Kam Lake, that the rules of the Legislative Assembly be amended by rescinding Rule 85(2) and substituting the following:

(2)

The Standing Committee on...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

WHEREAS Rule 85 of the Rules of the Legislative Assembly prescribe and describe the mandates of the standing committees of the Legislative Assembly;

AND WHEREAS it is desirable to make changes to the mandates of the standing committees to better reflect their work and to equitably apportion responsibilities among committees;

NOW THEREFORE I MOVE, seconded by the Honourable Member for Kam Lake, that the rules of the Legislative Assembly…

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d like to recognize a prominent member of the Akaitcho Territory Government who was up there earlier, I am not sure if he is there now, but Mr. Peter Liske.

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Thank you. Again, Mr. Speaker, just to finish off, I just want to wish everybody in the gallery, especially my constituents, the Legislative Assembly Members and staff and the NWT residents a very Merry Christmas and a happy, prosperous New Year. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to congratulate you, too, on your appointment as the Speaker of the House. I would also like to thank and congratulate the Premier-elect, Mr. Joe Handley and his new Cabinet. I'm sure they will do a good job in the next four years and I'm looking forward to working with them all.

I would like to acknowledge the fine performance of the Detah Drummers and the St. Pat's Choir.

I would like to start off by thanking all my constituents, my campaign team for the good job that they did, and especially my family for instilling the confidence and trust and having...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would just like to take this moment to recognize a very prominent leader in the Tu Nedhe region, our Chief Archie Catholique from Lutselk’e.

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Also another very prominent leader from the Tu Nedhe, our Dene National Chief Noeline Villebrun.

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I just want to say thanks to all the other leaders who couldn’t make it here today and the rest of the constituents who were unable to make it here today.

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I seek unanimous consent to finish off my three words.

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