Northwest Territories bills

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 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 amends the Northwest Territories Workers' Compensation Act to extend presumptive coverage for firefighters to include heart disease and heart injury, and to create a new presumption of work-related PTSD for a broad range of front-line and emergency-response workers including nurses, paramedics, correctional officers, and police officers.

This bill updates the Northwest Territories Vital Statistics Act to allow up to four parents on a birth registration (including non-traditional family structures), modernizes definitions for health care professionals, simplifies the process for amending sex designations on birth registrations, and creates a new 'certificate of change in gender' for residents whose births are registered outside the NWT.

This bill creates an anti-SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation) law for the Northwest Territories, allowing individuals or businesses sued for speaking out on matters of public interest to apply to have that lawsuit dismissed early, with costs and potential damages if the lawsuit was brought in bad faith.

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 establishes the Marine Transportation Corporation as a publicly owned Crown corporation in the Northwest Territories, transitioning marine transportation services from a government department revolving fund into a standalone corporate entity responsible for delivering marine transport services starting January 1, 2028.

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 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 makes minor technical corrections to several Northwest Territories statutes, fixing typographical errors, outdated cross-references, and minor wording inconsistencies across 10 different pieces of legislation. It also repeals the COVID-19 pandemic temporary time-period variation act, which is no longer needed.

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 amends the Northwest Territories' Protection Against Family Violence Act to add stalking (including electronic stalking) as a recognized form of family violence, expand who can apply for protection orders, create a civil tort of stalking, and allow the RCMP to disclose the identity of a suspected stalker to a victim.

This bill authorizes the Government of the Northwest Territories to spend up to $427,445,000 on infrastructure-related capital and operational expenditures for the 2026-2027 fiscal year, covering departments such as Infrastructure, Health, Education, and Municipal Affairs.

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 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 authorizes the Government of the Northwest Territories to spend an additional $119.92 million in operations expenditures and borrow up to $10.98 million (via capital leases) beyond previously approved amounts for the 2025-2026 fiscal year ending March 31, 2026.

This bill comprehensively rewrites and modernizes the Northwest Territories Public Service Act, restructuring how the territorial government manages its workforce, including rules for hiring, discipline, whistleblowing, equal pay, labour relations, and arbitration.

This bill amends the Student Financial Assistance Act in the Northwest Territories to increase the maximum funding amounts available for student financial assistance, raising the cap to $45 million for 2024-2025 and $55 million for 2025-2026 and subsequent fiscal years.

This bill authorizes the Government of the Northwest Territories to spend up to $2.375 billion on operations for the 2025-2026 fiscal year, covering departments from Health and Social Services to Infrastructure, and sets borrowing limits for the same period.