N.W.T. Legislative Assembly reconvenes with progress on legislation and land claims as priorities – CBC

Territorial MLAs will review Lottery Act, discuss cannabis legalization in spring sitting

February 07, 2018

With two years down and two to go, MLAs will head into the latest session of the N.W.T. Legislative Assembly with passing legislation — and making progress on land claims — top of mind.

The assembly will reconvene its third session Wednesday morning. It’s expected to sit until March 15.

Scheduled is the presentation of the 2018/2019 budget, a public hearing on the Western Canada Lottery Act, and reviews of annual reports by the territory’s languages commissioner and human rights commission.

However, Yellowknife North MLA Cory Vanthuyne is looking forward to getting down to business passing legislation — and the lack of it passed by the assembly thus far.

“It’s those legislative pieces we feel are a little bit behind,” he said. “There’s any number of them. There’s the Parks Act … in this assembly you will see us working on the Lottery Act. Of course, there is cannabis.”