Northwest Territories bills

This Northwest Territories bill gives the RCMP legal tools to locate missing persons outside of a criminal investigation, including the ability to obtain court orders or make emergency demands requiring businesses and individuals to hand over records such as phone data, financial records, GPS tracking, health information, and video footage.

This bill repeals the carbon tax component of the Northwest Territories' Petroleum Products and Carbon Tax Act, eliminating the territorial carbon tax on fuels including diesel, gasoline, natural gas, propane, butane, and naphtha, while retaining the existing fuel tax on petroleum products.

This bill authorizes the Government of the Northwest Territories to spend up to $782.3 million on operations and borrow up to $1.3 billion for the 2024-2025 fiscal year on an interim basis, until the full annual budget (Appropriation Act) is passed by the Legislative Assembly.

This bill authorizes the Government of the Northwest Territories to spend an additional $207,129,000 in operations expenditures across various government departments for the 2023-2024 fiscal year ending March 31, 2024.

This bill authorizes $142.1 million in supplementary spending for the Government of the Northwest Territories for the 2024-2025 fiscal year, covering both operations (notably Infrastructure, Municipal and Community Affairs, and Education) and capital investment across various departments.

This bill authorizes the Government of the Northwest Territories to spend up to $2.229 billion on operations for the 2024-2025 fiscal year, covering departments such as Health, Education, Infrastructure, and Justice, while also setting borrowing limits for the territorial government.

This bill amends the Northwest Territories Motor Vehicles Act to authorize the Registrar to use facial recognition software and other identity verification technology when issuing or renewing driver's licences and ID cards, while strictly limiting who can access that data. It also updates rules around disclosure of driving records and vehicle registration history, and creates a framework for public bodies to access Registrar data for research and statistical purposes.

This bill amends four Northwest Territories statutes to explicitly include Sundays in the definition of non-business days, alongside Saturdays and holidays, for the purpose of calculating deadlines and timeframes under those laws.

This bill authorizes supplementary infrastructure spending appropriations for the Northwest Territories government for the 2024-2025 fiscal year, resulting in a net increase of $236,000 in capital investment expenditures across several departments.

This bill authorizes the Government of the Northwest Territories to spend an additional $187,913,000 in operational funding across ten government departments for the 2024-2025 fiscal year ending March 31, 2025.

This bill establishes the 'Our Land for the Future Trust,' a not-for-profit body corporate in the Northwest Territories designed to hold, invest, and distribute conservation funding to Indigenous partners for Indigenous-led land and conservation activities under the NWT Our Land for the Future Agreement.

This bill authorizes the Government of the Northwest Territories to spend up to $327,853,000 on infrastructure-related expenditures for the 2025-2026 fiscal year, covering both operational costs and capital investment across government departments.

This bill makes minor administrative amendments to three Northwest Territories acts — the Fire Prevention Act, the NWT 9-1-1 Act, and the Western Canada Lottery Act — adjusting reporting deadlines and adding flexibility for tabling reports when the Legislative Assembly is not in session.

This bill updates the Partnership and Business Names Act of the Northwest Territories by replacing gendered pronouns ('he or she', 'his or her') with gender-neutral language throughout the English version of the Act, and clarifies that a Registrar's decision is not automatically stayed during judicial review.

This bill authorizes $3,064,000 in supplementary infrastructure (capital investment) spending adjustments for the Northwest Territories government for the 2024-2025 fiscal year, reallocating funds across departments including increases for Infrastructure, Health and Social Services, and Environment, offset by a reduction in Finance.

This bill authorizes $74.725 million in additional government operating expenditures for the Northwest Territories for the 2024-2025 fiscal year, and increases the government's short-term borrowing limit by $50 million (to a total of $750 million for loans of 365 days or less).

This bill modernizes the Workers' Compensation Act for the Northwest Territories by replacing the old 'pension' system for injured workers with a new two-benefit structure: a non-economic loss benefit (lump sum for permanent impairment) and an economic loss benefit (monthly payments for ongoing earning capacity loss after maximum medical recovery).

This bill establishes a comprehensive framework for how laws and regulations are made, published, and administered in the Northwest Territories, replacing the old Statutory Instruments Act and Statute Revision Act with updated rules for drafting, registering, consolidating, and citing legislation.

This bill modernizes the Northwest Territories' Children's Law Act by replacing outdated terms like 'custody' and 'access' with 'decision-making responsibility' and 'parenting time,' updating parentage definitions to be gender-neutral, and introducing new rules around relocation, child support recalculation, and court file confidentiality.

This bill updates the Northwest Territories' Family Law Act to modernize terminology — replacing 'custody' and 'access' with 'decision-making responsibility' and 'parenting time' — and adds new provisions governing family arbitrations, child support recalculation, and domestic contracts.