Nunavut Canada LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF NUNAVUT 3rd Session 3rd Assembly HANSARD Official Report DAY 93 Tuesday, September 17, 2013 Pages 5037 – 5109 Iqaluit Speaker: The Honourable Hunter Tootoo, M.L.A. Legislative Assembly of Nunavut Speaker Hon. Hunter Tootoo (Iqaluit Centre) Hon. Eva Aariak Joe Enook Allan Rumbolt (Iqaluit East) (Tununiq) (Hudson Bay) Premier; Minister of Education; Deputy Chair, Committee of the Whole Minister of Executive and Fred Schell Intergovernmental Affairs; Minister Hon. Lorne Kusugak (South Baffin) responsible for Aboriginal Affairs; (Rankin Inlet South – Whale Cove) Minister responsible for Immigration Government House Leader; Minister of Hon. Daniel Shewchuk (Arviat) Community and Government Services; Minister of Justice; Minister Hon. James Arreak Minister responsible for the Workers’ (Uqqummiut) Safety and Compensation Commission responsible for Nunavut Arctic Minister of Culture and Heritage; College Minister of Environment; Minister of John Ningark Louis Tapardjuk Languages; Minister responsible for the (Akulliq) (Amittuq) Utility Rates Review Council Johnny Ningeongan Deputy Chair, Committee of the (Nanulik) Whole Moses Aupaluktuq (Baker Lake) Deputy Speaker and Chair of the Committee of the Whole Hon. Peter Taptuna (Kugluktuk) Tagak Curley Deputy Premier; Minister of (Rankin Inlet North) Hezakiah Oshutapik (Pangnirtung) Economic Development and Hon. Monica Ell Transportation; Minister of (Iqaluit West) Hon. Keith Peterson Energy; Minister responsible for the Minister of Family Services; Minister (Cambridge Bay) Nunavut Housing Corporation responsible for Homelessness; Minister Minister of Finance, Chair of the responsible for the Qulliq Energy Financial Management Board; Minister Jeannie Ugyuk Corporation; Minister responsible for of Health (Nattilik) the Status of Women Ron Elliott (Quttiktuq) Officers Clerk John Quirke Deputy Clerk Clerk Assistant Law Clerk Sergeant-at-Arms Hansard Production Nancy Tupik Stephen Innuksuk Michael Chandler Simanek Kilabuk Innirvik Support Services Box 1200 Iqaluit, Nunavut, X0A 0H0 Tel (867) 975-5000 Fax (867) 975-5190 Toll-Free (877) 334-7266 Website: www.assembly.nu.ca Table of Contents Opening Prayer ...........................................................................................................................5037 Ministers’ Statements .................................................................................................................5037 Members’ Statements .................................................................................................................5040 Returns to Oral Questions ..........................................................................................................5059 Recognition of Visitors in the Gallery ........................................................................................5060 Oral Questions ............................................................................................................................5060 Written Questions .......................................................................................................................5070 Tabling of Documents ................................................................................................................5071 Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters ......................................5073 Point of Order .............................................................................................................................5085 Report of the Committee of the Whole ......................................................................................5105 Third Reading of Bills ................................................................................................................5105 Assent to Bills ............................................................................................................................5106 A. Daily References Tuesday, September 17, 2013 ....................................................................................................5037 B. Ministers’ Statements 342 – 3(3): Nunavut Roundtable for Poverty Reduction (Ell) ...................................................5037 343 – 3(3): Tourism Sector Investments in the Kitikmeot Region (Taptuna) ............................5038 344 – 3(3): Involving the French Language Community during the Implementation of the New Official Languages Act (Arreak) .........................................................................................5039 345 – 3(3): Commend Frontline Workers (Ell) ..........................................................................5039 C. Members’ Statements 579 – 3(3): Reflections on Representing Hudson Bay (Rumbolt) ..............................................5040 580 – 3(3): Reflections on Representing Nanulik (Ningeongan) ...............................................5041 581 – 3(3): Reflections on Representing Amittuq (Tapardjuk) ..................................................5042 582 – 3(3): Reflections on Representing Akulliq (Ningark) ......................................................5043 583 – 3(3): Reflections on Representing Pangnirtung (Oshutapik) ............................................5044 584 – 3(3): Reflections on Representing Quttiktuq (Elliott) ......................................................5045 585 – 3(3): Congratulations to Crew of First Air Flight 822 (Enook)........................................5047 586 – 3(3): The Ineffective Nutrition North Canada Program (Schell) ......................................5048 587 – 3(3): Reflections on Representing Nattilik (Ugyuk) ........................................................5049 588 – 3(3): Reflections on Representing Rankin Inlet South-Whale Cove (Kusugak) ..............5050 589 – 3(3): Reflections on Representing Iqaluit East (Aariak) ..................................................5051 590 – 3(3): Reflections on Representing Kugluktuk (Taptuna) .................................................5053 591 – 3(3): Reflections on Representing Uqqummiut (Arreak) .................................................5055 592 – 3(3): Reflections on Representing Cambridge Bay (Peterson) .........................................5056 593 – 3(3): Reflections on Representing Inuit for 40 Years (Curley) ........................................5057 D. Returns to Oral Questions Return to Oral Question 702 – 3(3): Pangnirtung Airport Relocation (Taptuna) .......................5059 E. Oral Questions 766 – 3(3): Bulk Fuel Storage Facilities in Sanikiluaq (Rumbolt) .............................................5060 767 – 3(3): Study of Narwhal Stock in Jones Sound Area (Elliott) ...........................................5061 768 – 3(3): 2013 Activities of the Nuliajuk Research Vessel (Oshutapik) ................................5062 769 – 3(3): Activities of Custom Adoption Commissioners (Curley) ........................................5064 770 – 3(3): ASIST Training (Elliott) ..........................................................................................5065 771 – 3(3): Dental Services in the Kivalliq (Curley) ..................................................................5066 772 – 3(3): Status of Resolute Bay Utilidor Project (Elliott) .....................................................5068 773 – 3(3): $100 Million Geo-mapping Project (Elliott) ...........................................................5069 F. Written Questions 029 – 3(3): Salary Disclosure for Deputy Ministers (Enook).....................................................5070 G. Tabling of Documents 427 – 3(3): Department of Health Policy “Contacting Clients Through Local Radio” (Peterson) .............................................................................................................................................5071 428 – 3(3): Factum of the Attorney General of Nunavut in the Supreme Court of Canada Concerning Reform of the Senate (Shewchuk) ....................................................................5071 429 – 3(3): Public Health Investigation, Management and Reporting of Communicable Diseases and Outbreaks in Nunavut (Peterson) ..................................................................................5071 430 – 3(3): 2011-2012 Nunavut Liquor Commission Annual Report (Peterson) ......................5071 431 – 3(3): Director of Child and Family Services Annual Report 2011-2012 (Ell) .................5072 432 – 3(3): 2013-2014 Letters of Expectation to Territorial Public Agencies and their Responses (Peterson) .............................................................................................................................5072 433 – 3(3): Government of Nunavut’s Progress Report on Recommendations of the Standing Committee on Oversight of Government Operations and Public Accounts on the 2011 Report of the Auditor General of Canada on Children, Youth, and Family Programs and Services (Peterson) .............................................................................................................................5072 434 – 3(3): Statistics for “Towards a Representative Public Service” as of December 31, 2012 (Peterson) .............................................................................................................................5072 H. Committee Motions 013 – 3(3): Deletion of Clause 2 of Bill 64, An Act to Amend the Liquor Act (Curley) ...........5081 014 – 3(3): Deletion of Clause 3 of Bill 64, An Act to Amend