Northwest Territories bills

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.

This bill amends the Northwest Territories Public Service Act to allow nurses employed in the NWT public service to form their own separate bargaining unit and seek collective bargaining rights through a court-authorized process, distinct from the Union of Northern Workers.

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 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 amends the Workers' Compensation Act in the Northwest Territories to expand presumptive coverage for first responders, making it easier for firefighters to claim compensation for cancers and heart conditions, and adding PTSD coverage for a broad range of front-line workers including nurses, paramedics, correctional officers, and search and rescue members.

This bill authorizes the Government of the Northwest Territories to spend an additional $47.15 million in operational expenditures across various departments for the 2025-2026 fiscal year, and increases the government's short-term borrowing limit by $130 million.

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 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 consolidates and modernizes technical safety regulation in the Northwest Territories by renaming the Elevators and Lifts Act to the Technical Safety Act and folding in oversight of boilers and pressure vessels, electrical equipment, and gas equipment and systems — repealing the three separate older statutes that previously governed those areas. It updates the regulatory framework for inspections, certifications, design approvals, and operating permits across all these regulated products under one unified law.

This bill establishes a formal trespass law for the Northwest Territories, defining when entering or remaining on someone's property without permission is a criminal offence, and setting out how property owners can prohibit entry through notices and signs.

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 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 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 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.

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 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 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 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 authorizes the Government of the Northwest Territories to spend an additional $3,083,000 in capital infrastructure funds for the 2025-2026 fiscal year, primarily for Health and Social Services ($4,820,000 new) and Environment and Climate Change ($74,000 new), offset by a reduction in Finance ($1,811,000).

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.