Bob Bromley

Clauses 11 to 20.

---Clauses 11 through 20 inclusive approved

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions are for the Minister of Environment and Natural Resources. I mentioned earlier today that we’ve had a string of bad news, mostly from the media, on the series of new crises at the Giant Mine site. The public has been the last to know, or perhaps the second last as I haven’t been seeing any information updating Members on the status and problems of this project. As both a fellow proponent and regulator, can the Minister say if the federal Northern Affairs department has been keeping his office updated on these developments?

Thank you, Mr. Abernethy. Next I’d like to call on Mr. Beaulieu, chairman of the Standing Committee on Social Programs, for any remarks on the bill.

Thank you, committee. We’ll go to a clause-by-clause review of the bill. If committee agrees, we’ll go in groups of 10. There are quite a number of clauses in the bill. Committee agree?

In four years I don’t recall ever being given a departmental briefing on this project. We are not standing up for the public interest. It’s time to start.

I’d like to thank the Minister and witnesses. I’d like to ask the Sergeant-at-Arms to please escort the witnesses from the Chamber.

Is committee agreed that we go to Bill 21, private member’s public bill, An Act to Amend the Employment Standards Act?

Thank you, Minister. Welcome, witnesses. Next we will go to general comments on the bill. General comments?

Mr. Speaker, your committee has been considering Bill 20, Vital Statistics Act, and Bill 21, An Act to Amend the Employment Standards Act, and would like to report progress, and that Bills 20 and 21 are ready for third reading. Mr. Speaker, I move that the report of Committee of the Whole be concurred with. Mahsi.

The bill as a whole.

Thank you, Minister. I’d like to ask if committee agrees.