Ba-dee-ah-ba-dee-ah-ba-dee-ah, that's all folks that's all for new legislation, that is.

The Yukon Party will not introduce any more new legislation during the current sitting of the assembly.

Today was the last day, according to the house rules, for the government to bring in new bills.

The three bills outside of budget legislation, are one of if the lowest total in history.

Those three bills are:

• Act to Amend the Assessment and Taxation Act;

• Act to Amend the Municipal Finance and Community Grants Act; and

• Act to Amend the Income Tax Act.

NDP house leader Gary McRobb said in an interview today the three acts are 'minor' housekeeping bills.

The other bills on the table have to do with budgets.

The interim supply bill, which was given assent Wednesday by Commissioner Jack Cable, enables the government to spend money in the new fiscal year, which began today, without having the main budget passed.

The 2004-05 main budget and a supplementary for 2003-04 are the only others on the legislative agenda.

The Act to Amend the Income Tax Act changes the end date of the territory's mineral exploration tax credit program from today to Apr. 1, 2007, as Premier Dennis Fentie promised last Thursday in his budget speech.

The municipal bill puts into law the increases in grants the government announced last month that four Yukon communities would receive.

The Assessment and Taxation Act change will permit rural Yukoners who pay property tax to the territorial government to access money to build a drinkable water system for their home.

'(It's) legislation light,' McRobb quipped about the sparse number of bills legislators will face this session.

'What's the government been doing?' he wondered.

Liberal Leader Pat Duncan questioned why the government isn't making changes to the Liquor Act, which her government worked on through public consultation. The Liberal government did not finish that bill before it was tossed out of power in late 2002.

'The consultation work was done, the report was done,' she said in an interview this morning.

'What happened to it?'

The two politicians also noted there is no new Education Act. The mandatory review of that act began in 1999 but has been sitting in limbo since before the 2002 election.

They also pointed out that the promises of Justice Minister Elaine Taylor to change the Motor Vehicles Act pertaining to impoundments were not met, either.

Duncan is not surprised because the government has not done any public consultation on new bills.

'They haven't done the hard work of government,' she said. 'They're too focused on legacy projects to do it.'

She was referring to projects like the new Dawson City bridge across the Yukon River that will cost the government between $25 million and $30 million.

'What's the government been doing?' McRobb wondered aloud.

'People who've been expecting legislation to come forward will be disappointed.'

Both politicians admit time is needed to debate in detail the biggest budget in the territory's history at $705.8 million.