Northwest Territories bills

This bill creates a new community safety framework for the Northwest Territories that allows a Director of Community Operations to investigate complaints, issue warning letters, and apply for 'community safety orders' requiring tenants involved in illegal activities (drug use/sales, gang activity, sexual exploitation, etc.) to vacate rental premises or have their tenancy terminated.

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 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 amends the Northwest Territories Local Authorities Elections Act to extend remote voting provisions beyond municipalities to all local authorities, and makes a consequential amendment to the Education Act regarding the composition of District Education Authorities.

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 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 an additional $61,058,000 in operations expenditures for the 2026-2027 fiscal year, with funds distributed across departments including Education, Culture and Employment, Health and Social Services, and Infrastructure.

This bill gives legal force to the Tåegõhåî Gõt'įnê Final Self-Government Agreement, a treaty-level agreement that grants the Tåegõhåî Gõt'įnê (a Sahtu Dene and Métis community in the Northwest Territories) the right to govern themselves, make their own laws, and manage their own affairs, including a separate tax treatment agreement.

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.

This bill amends the Northwest Territories Real Estate Agents' Licensing Act to expand its scope by adding licensing requirements for home inspectors and property managers, establishing a code of conduct framework, and updating language throughout the Act.

This bill authorizes $27.5 million in additional operating spending for the Northwest Territories government's Health and Social Services department for the 2024-2025 fiscal year, and increases the government's long-term borrowing limit by approximately $5.95 million for capital lease obligations.

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 creates a civil forfeiture regime for the Northwest Territories, allowing the government to seize and keep property (including cash, crypto assets, vehicles, and real estate) that is believed to be the proceeds of unlawful activity or used as an instrument of unlawful activity, without requiring a criminal conviction.

This bill authorizes the Government of the Northwest Territories to spend an additional $82.88 million in supplementary appropriations for the 2026-2027 fiscal year, covering both operating expenses ($6.17 million) and capital infrastructure investments ($76.71 million) across various government departments.

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 the Government of the Northwest Territories to spend an additional $178.5 million in supplementary appropriations for the 2025-2026 fiscal year, covering both operational expenditures ($58.6 million) and capital investment expenditures ($119.9 million) across various government departments.

This is the Northwest Territories government's main operating budget bill for the 2026-2027 fiscal year, authorizing up to $2.397 billion in government expenditures across departments such as Health, Education, Infrastructure, and Justice, effective April 1, 2026.

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 an additional $86,866,000 in operational expenditures across several departments for the 2025-2026 fiscal year, with the largest allocations going to Environment and Climate Change ($46.8M) and Education, Culture and Employment ($15.8M).

This bill authorizes $14.25 million in supplementary spending for the Northwest Territories government for the 2025-2026 fiscal year, covering additional infrastructure operations and capital investment expenditures across several government departments.