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Chairman: Do members agree that pursuant to Rule 62(2) that Bill 23 as amended can be immediately placed on the Orders of the Day for third reading?
(interpretation) Go back to Bill 24. (interpretation ends) Bill 24, Supplementary Appropriation (Capital) Act, No. 3, 2007-2008.
I would now like to ask Minister Tapardjuk if he has opening comments.
Bill 24 – Supplementary Appropriation (Capital) Act, No. 3, 2007-2008 – Consideration in Committee
In regards to the consideration of Bill 24, Supplementary Appropriation (Capital) Act, No. 3, 2007-08, the total amount we are requesting is $57,062,000. Here is the following breakdown of the funds:
Repairs to Inuujaq School in Arctic Bay due to water damage;
We required an adjustment to correct a clerical error in Supplementary Appropriation, No. 2, with respect to Qikiqtani General Hospital in Iqaluit;
Internal reallocation of funds from Vote 2 to Vote 1;
Funds and increase in construction costs for Cambridge Bay Wildlife Office Building; Internal reallocation of funds to Vote 2 from Vote 1;
Repairs to the maintenance garage in Arviat due to fire;
Water treatment and water tank repairs in Gjoa Haven and Resolute Bay; and,
Construction of 195 public housing units.
Please finish your opening comments.
Hon. Louis Tapardjuk (interpretation): Bill 24 is done and I would like to speak on Bill 25, whichever you want.
We’re on (interpretation ends) Bill 24, Supplementary Appropriation (Capital) Act, No. 3, 2007-2008. (interpretation) We will conclude that bill first. (interpretation ends) Page 4.
Special Warrants. $950,000.
I have just one quick question here. Can the minister indicate whether this contract that was issued for that was sole sourced or put out for tender or RFP?
Hon. Louis Tapardjuk (interpretation): The Minister of Education will answer that.
Chairman (interpretation): Thank you, Minister. (interpretation ends) Minister of Education, Minister Picco.
I believe, because of the issue with water leakage and the work time, it will be done expeditiously. I believe that contract may have been negotiated with a company but I would have to confirm that.
Will the minister commit to, when he finds out that information, provide it to the members?
Chairman: Total Corporate Services. $950,000.
Not Previously Authorized. $22,000.
Chairman: Total Directorate. $22,000.
Chairman: Total Department. $22,000.
Wildlife Operations.
Not Previously Authorized. $450,000.
Can the minister tell us what the total capital budget is for that project now?
Because of this supplementary bill, it will increase to $1,380,000.
Chairman: Thank you, Mr. Ma. Thank you, Mr. Peterson.
Chairman: Total Wildlife Operations. $450,000.
Chairman: Total Department. $450,000.
Not Previously Authorized. $2,015,000.
It indicates that the $2 million is a transfer from O&M to Capital. Can the minister where in the O&M that that money was coming from?
Hon. Louis Tapardjuk (interpretation): Mr. Ma will answer that question, Mr. Chairman.
I believe most of this was coming from Compensation and Benefits.
Are the amounts that are there not used because of vacancies?
Hon. Louis Tapardjuk (interpretation): Mr. Ma will also answer that question.
Chairman: Thank you, Mr. Ma. Community and Government Services.
Chairman: Total Capital Planning. $2,015,000.
Total Department. $2,015,000.
Not Previously Authorized. $53,625,000.
Chairman: Total Nunavut Housing Corporation. $53,625,000.
Go back to page 2 of the bill.
Page 2. Schedule 1.
Capital Appropriation. $57,062,000.
Chairman: Go to Bill 24 in your legislation binder.
Bill 24, Supplementary Appropriation (Capital) Act, No. 3, 2007-2008.
Chairman: Go to Schedule on page 2.
Total Capital. $57,062,000.
Chairman: Total Supplementary Appropriation. $57,062,000.
Chairman: Do members agree pursuant to Rule 62(2) that Bill 24 can be immediate be placed on the Order Paper of the day for third reading?
Chairman (interpretation): Thank you. (interpretation ends) Bill 25. Minister Tapardjuk, do you have any opening comments?
Bill 25 – Supplementary Appropriation (Operations & Maintenance) Act, No. 3, 2007-2008 – Consideration in Committee
Bill 25 on the 2007-08 budget is $15,360,000.
It will be used for the following:
Funding that is moving from Vote 1 to Capital;
Reallocation of funds to O&M for the Cultural School;
Disabled victims’ shelters;
Nurses and medical travel;
Reallocation of funds from Vote 1 O&M to Vote 2 Capital to fund and increase in construction costs for the Cambridge Bay Wildlife Office Building; and,
Reallocation from Vote 1 to Vote 2 Capital to fund the repairs to a maintenance garage and water treatment and water tank repairs.
Mr. Chairman, this concludes my opening statement to Bill 25.
Go to (interpretation ends) Bill 25, Supplementary Appropriation (Operations and Maintenance) Act, No. 3, 2007-2008.
Go to page 4.
Not Previously Authorized. -$100,000.
Chairman: Total Policy and Planning. -$100,000.
Chairman: Total Department. -$100,000.
Not Previously Authorized. $200,000.
Chairman: Total Directorate. $200,000.
Chairman: Total Department. $200,000.
Total Adult Education and Post Secondary Services.
Not Previously Authorized. -$200,000.
Chairman: Total Adult Education and Post Secondary Services. -$200,000.
Chairman: Total Department. -$200,000.
Healthy Children, Family and Communities.
Not Previously Authorized. $1,500,000.
Chairman: Total Healthy Children, Family and Communities. $1,500,000.
Treatment. $8,725,000.
I think I’m the only one to get the wrong bill number; the question I was trying to ask earlier is here.
Mr. Chairman, there’s $4.3 million in there for agency nurse contracts to offset projected year-end budget shortfalls.
I would like to ask the minister if he could indicate what the original budget amount for that line item was.
Hon. Louis Tapardjuk (interpretation): Let us find it.
I will have Roy answer that question, Mr. Chairman.
Based on the January 31, 2008 variance report delivered by the department, they projected a budget of $7,856,000 for March 31 and their actual projected expenditures were $15,021,583.
So they have pretty much doubled what they had originally budgeted.
Is that correct and where did the rest of the money come from because there’s only $4 million of it?
Hon. Louis Tapardjuk (interpretation): Mr. Green will also answer that question.
Based on the variance report, the department was projecting that approximately $5 million or $6 million will be accessed in Compensation and Benefits. Those monies will offset some of the additional costs to fund the agency nurses, unfortunately due to the department’s inability to recruit at the full staffing level.
The remaining $4.3 million was required to offset the projected expenditures for March 31, 2008.
That’s how it’s done on the first part but on this part, the $4,425,000 for medical travel, I just want to get a confirmation on what the total projected budget amount for medical travel would be with that supplementary appropriation.
If my calculations are correct, it is $46,524,000 with the supplementary amount included.
I know in the revised 2007-08 estimates, in the main estimates, it was $44 million and if we’re giving another $4.4 million, it is $48 million or $49 million.
I’m just wondering if they can explain the difference there.
I believe the Deputy Minister from Health and Social Services indicated the reasons during the Committee of the Whole on Bill 23.
Even though the budget for 2008-09 is lower than the budget we’re going to be reporting now for 2007-08, there are a number of reasons why.
First of all, he indicated that with the new medical travel contracts that are about to be issued, there would be some projected cost savings in that area. The second reason would be that the department has worked hard to control its expenditures and they believe they have made some progress in that respect.
Sorry, I didn’t clarify my question. I wasn’t asking about the difference for next year’s amount.
The revised amount in the main estimates for 2007-08 is $44,674,000 and then if you add this $4,425,000 on there, that makes it a little over $49 million.
Mr. Ma indicated earlier that the amount was $46 million, so there’s between $3 million and $4 million difference, and that’s what I was looking for a clarification on.
There are two components in the medical travel budget. The first component has to do with what we call the client medical travel component.
That number with the supplementary bill here of $4.4 million would bring that total to $46,524,000, which is the number indicated earlier to the member.
In addition, there’s a second component which takes into account travel by the medical professionals within the Department of Health and Social Services. That number I believe is $2,282,000 and that then brings us to the number that the member is referring to.
With all the flying in and out of agency nurses, is that in that $2 million or is that included in the Contract Services?
Hon. Louis Tapardjuk (interpretation): Mr. Ma will also respond to that question.
I believe that amount comes out of the Contract Services part of the budget for Health and Social Services.
Chairman: Thank you, Mr. Ma. Page 7.
Treatment. $8,725,000. Does the committee agree?
Chairman: Total Treatment. $8,725,000.
Chairman: Total Department. $10,225,000.
Not Previously Authorized. -$450,000.
Chairman: Total Wildlife Operations. -$450,000.
Chairman: Total Department. -$450,000.
Not Previously Authorized. $7,230,000.
Chairman: Total Directorate. $7,230,000.
Chairman: Total Community Support. $40,000. Does the committee agree?
Total Capital Planning and Technical Services.
Capital Planning and Technical Services. -$1,585,000.
Chairman: Thank you. Total Capital Planning and Technical Services. -$1,585,000.
Chairman: Total Department. $5,685,000.
Chairman: Back to page 2 of the bill.
Operations and Maintenance Appropriation. $15,360,000.
Chairman: Go to Bill 25 in your legislation binder.
Bill 25, Supplementary Appropriation (Operations and Maintenance) Act, No. 3, 2007-2008.
Chairman: Go to Schedule 3, please.
Vote 1 Operations and Maintenance.
Total Operations and Maintenance. $15,360,000.
Chairman: Total Supplementary Appropriation. $15,360,000.
Chairman: Thank you. Clause 5?
Chairman: Do you want to take over?
Some Hon. Member: No.
Chairman: Do members agree that pursuant to Rule 62(2) that Bill 25 can immediately be placed on the Orders of the Day for third reading?
Thank you, Minister. Thank you, Mr. Green. Thank you, Mr. Ma.
I would like to ask the Law Clerk to join us at the table.
Bill 22 – Engineers & Geoscientists Act – Consideration in Committee
I would now like to ask Minister Okalik of the Department of Justice to make his opening remarks.
I am very pleased to have reached this historical point.
I would first of all like to recognize an individual who is an engineer and who helped us in the NWT and Nunavut, Natalie Plato. I would like to welcome her first.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I wanted to introduce her first.
I am very pleased to introduce this bill. (interpretation ends) The bill will replace the Engineers Geologists and Geophysicist Act with a new Act that updates terminology and references to the name of the governing association. The definitions of professional engineering and professional geoscience will be changed for greater clarity and consistency with national guidelines.
We share with the NWT one association that governs these professions, the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.
In both the current Nunavut Act and Bill 22, the legal body created by NWT legislation is the specified body responsible for the self-regulation of professional engineers and geoscientists who work in Nunavut.
It is the Northwest Territories Act, however, that sets out the powers of the legal body and that sets out how the association regulates the professions.
The NWT Act also gives the association the power to act in Nunavut, but this power is subject to Nunavut laws.
In late 2006, the NWT passed a new Act to change the names of the Act and the governing association, and to update the law of self-governance for these professions.
Once it is brought into force, the new NWT Act will:
set the powers of the association to manage its affairs, including the powers to hold property or money, make by-laws, and elect its governing council;
set up the mechanics for the registration of members, licensees, members in training, and permit holders, and provide for the payment of fees to NAPEGG for registration;
set out rules respecting various aspects of professional practice, including the use of titles Professional Engineer and Professional Geoscientist, and the use of stamps;
set out the procedures for the discipline of members, including the resolution of some disputes by mediation; and
authorize NAPEGG to continue to regulate professional engineers and geoscientists in Nunavut.
Both Nunavut and Northwest Territories have had the benefit of working with NAPEGG on this new legislation, and in fact, it is NAPEGG that initiated the process for legislative change in the two territories after tracking legislative development elsewhere in Canada.
I would like to thank the committee for the consideration of this bill and I am open to receiving comments and questions. (interpretation) Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Before we proceed, we need to take a break, so we will take a five-minute break.
>>Committee recessed at 12:12 and resumed at 12:22
Minister Okalik, do you have witness you would like to bring to the witness table?
Hon. Paul Okalik (interpretation): Yes, I do.
With me on my right as you know is my Deputy Minister with the Department of Justice, Markus Webber, and on my left as you also know is our Legislative Drafter, Thomas Druyan.
Does the Chairman of the Standing Committee Ajauqtiit have any opening comments?
I am very happy that I will probably be home tonight.
I would like to thank our very capable researcher, Leetia, and our interpreters who can make things much clearer.
(interpretation ends) Mr. Chairman, I am pleased to have the opportunity to speak to Bill 22, the Engineers and Geoscientists Act.
This new Act will replace the Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists Act and will develop a regulatory body that will allow engineers and geologists to practice in Nunavut and to discipline any misconduct that may take place.
Mr. Chairman, similar to the Workers’ Compensation Board, Nunavut and the Northwest Territories share the association that governs professional engineers and geoscientists in the two territories.
This body is called NAPEGG, the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank NAPEGG for its written submission to the standing committee on this bill. NAPEGG was in support of the bill.
Mr. Chairman, the standing committee supported the bill at the clause-by-clause stage of its review. A minor amendment was made to add a missing provision.
Mr. Chairman, this concludes my opening remarks. The committee recommends the passage of the bill to all members.
Before we proceed, I would like to remind members of the following: according to Rule 77(1), you have ten minutes to speak and according to Rule 77(2), subject to the discretion of the Chair, a member may speak more than once to a matter under discussions but not until every member wishing to speak has spoken.
There being none, we will now proceed with a clause-by-clause review of the bill.
Bill 22, Engineers and Geoscientists Act.
Re-Print.
Chairman: Page 2. Clause 2?
Chairman: Page 5. Clause 7. Do you agree?
Chairman: Does the committee agree to Bill 22 as a whole?
Chairman: Do members agree pursuant to Rule 62(2) that Bill 22 can immediately be placed on the Orders of the Day for third reading?
Chairman: Thank you. Thank you, Members.
Thank you, Minister. Thank you, Mr. Webber.
Thank you, Mr. Druyan.
We have no more bills to go over.
What is the wish of the committee? I repeat: what is the wish of the committee?
Report progress, please.
Chairman: I still don’t hear a motion.
Hon. Paul Okalik: I move to report progress. (interpretation) Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Chairman: That’s better. Thank you.
Thank you for allowing me to make complaints again to you.
Mr. Speaker, your committee has been considering Bills 22, 23, 24, and 25 and would like to report that Bills 22, 24, and 25 are immediately ready for third reading, that Bill 23 is immediately ready for third reading as amended, and that three committee motions were adopted. Also, Mr. Speaker, I move that the Report of the Committee of the Whole be agreed to.
Thank you, Member for Rankin Inlet South and Whale Cove, Minister Brown.
Bill 22 – Engineers and Geoscientists Act– Third Reading
Hon. Paul Okalik (interpretation): Thank you, Mr. Speaker. (interpretation ends) I move, seconded by the Honourable Member for Quttiktuq, that Bill 22, the Engineers and Geoscientists Act, be read for the third time. (interpretation) Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
The motion is carried and Bill 22 has had its third reading.
Bill 23 – Appropriation (Operations & Maintenance) Act, 2008-2009 – Third Reading
I move, seconded by the Honourable Member for Iqaluit East, that Bill 23, Appropriation (Operations and Maintenance) Act, 2008-2009, be read for the third time.
The motion is carried and Bill 23 has had its third reading.
Bill 24 – Supplementary Appropriation (Capital) Act, No. 3, 2007-2008 – Third Reading
I move, seconded by the Honourable Member for Quttiktuq, that Bill 24, Supplementary Appropriation (Capital) Act, No. 3, 2007-2008, be read for the third time.
The motion is carried and Bill 24 has had its third reading.
Minister of Finance, Culture, Language, Elders and Youth, and Human Resources, Minister Tapardjuk
Bill 25 – Supplementary Appropriation (Operations & Maintenance) Act, No. 3, 2007-2008– Third Reading
I move, seconded by the Honourable Member for Nattilik, that Bill 25, Supplementary Appropriation (Operations and Maintenance) Act, No. 3, 2007-2008, be read for the third time.
Bill 22 – Engineers and Geoscientists Act – Assent
Bill 23 – Appropriation (Operations & Maintenance) Act, 2008-2009 – Assent
Bill 24 – Supplementary Appropriation (Capital) Act, No. 3, 2007-2008 – Assent
Bill 25 – Supplementary Appropriation (Operations & Maintenance) Act, No. 3, 2007-2008 – Assent
Commissioner Ann Meekitjuk Hanson (interpretation): Members of the Legislative Assembly, please be seated.
Bill 22 – Engineers and Geoscientists Act
Bill 23 – Appropriation (Operations and Maintenance) Act, 2008-2009
Bill 24 – Supplementary Appropriation (Capital) Act, No. 3, 2007-2008
Bill 25 – Supplementary Appropriation (Operations and Maintenance) Act, No. 3, 2007-2008
My work is done for now.
Thank you and I wish you a safe trip back home.
It’s obvious that you are all tired.
Speaker (interpretation): Thank you members.
Going back to the Orders of the Day. I would like to take this opportunity... my apologies.
I would like unanimous consent of this Assembly to go back to Item 2.
The member is seeking unanimous consent to go back to Item 2.
Please proceed. Premier Okalik.
Minister’s Statement 173 – 2(4): Date of Nunavut General Election (Okalik)
Yesterday, I had indicated that I wanted to make a statement at the end of our sitting.
(interpretation ends) Mr. Speaker, I rise today to give notice and advise you and all Nunavummiut of the decision of government to set a date for the next Nunavut General Election.
On February 16, 2004, we were all elected to serve Nunavummiut as Members of this Legislative Assembly to represent our constituents as legislators.
At full caucus, we all agreed that the next election should not be held during the months of winter. We all know that weather in Nunavut during the winter months can be unpredictable and fairly cold in some parts of our territory.
The commissioner will give instructions by a proclamation that the next general election will be held on Monday, October 27, 2008.
The proclamation will instruct the Chief Electoral Officer to issue a writ of election to the returning officer of each community where an election is to be held and to issue the writ of election on September 22, 2008.
Good luck to all of you. (interpretation) Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
>>Applause  Speaker (interpretation): Thank you, Premier.
Before we adjourn, I would like to remind all of you that we will need to support the people of our communities that are disabled and are unable to help themselves.
I would like to thank all the people who assisted us in this session. I would especially like to thank the Women’s Auxiliary Group from Iqaluit for making bannock. We thank them.
Also, we all know our interpreters are tireless and we would like to thank them all and our staff. You can see that they’re tireless. We thank them.
Last but not least, we all know there are young people that we are trying to teach and they have been here learning as our pages.
The people that have assisted us are: Samantha Giroux-Weber. Thank you.
Margo Crawford. Thank you.
Thomas Ford. Thank you.
And finally, our very good friend, Bradley Nutarak.
We will get back to our constituencies and go back home. We are pleased that the sitting went well.
I would like to ask the Clerk of the House to say the Orders of the Day.
Orders of the Day for May 22:
Members, this House stands adjourned until May 22, 2008, at 1:30 p.m.
>>House adjourned at 12:45
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Pages 4047 – 4080
Opening Prayer 4047
Money Message 4048
Ministers’ Statements 4048
Members’ Statements 4050
Oral Questions 4056
Returns to Written Questions* 4074
Tabling of Documents 4074
Notices of Motions 4076
Notices of Motions for First Reading of Bills 4076
First Reading of Bills 4077
Second Reading of Bills 4078
Orders of the Day 4079
Thursday, May 22, 2008 4047
174 – 2(4): United States Fish and Wildlife Service Decision on Polar Bears (Akesuk) 4048
175 – 2(4): Update on Financial Assistance for Nunavut Students (Picco) 4049
418 – 2(4): Update Riding on Personal Health Improvement (Tapardjuk) 4050
419 – 2(4): Congratulations to Seané d’Argencourt-Printup (Tootoo) 4051
420 – 2(4): Congratulations to Georgina Ningark, Kuugaruk Graduate (Mapsalak) 4052
421 – 2(4): Congratulations to Shannon McCarthy in Baker Lake (Simailak) 4052
422 – 2(4): American Listing of Polar Bears as Threatened Species (Arvaluk) 4053
423 – 2(4): Congratulations to Gjoa Haven and Taloyoak High School Graduates (Aglukkaq) 4054
424 – 2(4): Truth and Reconciliation for Residential School Victims (Curley) 4055
524 – 2(4): Status of GN Response to U.S. Ruling on Polar Bears (Arvaluk) 4056
525 – 2(4): Status of the GN’s Fuel Price Hedging Strategy and Affordable Energy Fund (Tootoo) 4058
526 – 2(4): Invasive Wildlife Research Methods (Mapsalak) 4060
527 – 2(4): Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Curley) 4062
528 – 2(4): Upcoming Meeting of Former Residential School Students in Chesterfield Inlet (Mapsalak) 4064
529 – 2(4): Travel Arrangements for Medical Patients (Simailak) 4065
530 – 2(4): Fuel Hedging Strategy (Tootoo) 4068
531 – 2(4): Rankin Inlet Power Failure Report (Curley) 4069
532 – 2(4): Workers’ Safety and Compensation Commission Initiatives (Tootoo) 4072
Return to Written Question 009 – 2(4): Academic Success of Arviammiut (Clerk) 4074
Return to Written Question 010 – 2(4): Status of Decentralization (Clerk) 4074
Return to Written Question 011 – 2(4): Fuel Stabilization Riders and Other Matters (Clerk) 4074
Return to Written Question 012 – 2(4): Annual Fuel Purchases (Clerk) 4074
224 – 2(4): Medical Travel Contracts - Correspondence with Minister of Health and Social Services (Tootoo) 4074
225 – 2(4): Qulliq Energy Corporation Annual Report March 31, 2007 (Picco) 4074
226 – 2(4): Statutory Requirements for Tabling of Reports and Other Documents in the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut - May 2008 (Speaker) 4075
227 – 2(4): Report of the Auditor General of Canada to the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut on the Nunavut Housing Corporation May 2008 (Speaker) 4075
228 – 2(4): Response to Petition 3 – 2(4) – Repulse Bay Health Centre (Clerk) 4075
229 – 2(4): Taloyoak Hamlet Office Building - Photos (Aglukkaq) 4075
033 – 2(4): Withdrawal of Bill 13, Nunavut Energy Efficiency Act – Notice (Tootoo) 4076