Brendan Bell

Mr. Chairman, it's protected under our privacy legislation. The Department of Health won't be sharing that with us for this purpose. Thank you.

Mr. Chairman, thank you. With me today, Colin Gordon, director of court services, also Janis Cooper, legislative counsel. Thank you.

I do. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, I am pleased to present Bill 16, An Act to Amend the Jury Act.

This bill makes amendments to the Jury Act to provide the sheriff access to names and addresses of people over the age of 18 from health care plan registration information for the purpose of compiling a list of jurors. These amendments are necessary because provisions of the new Elections and Plebiscites Act no longer permit the sharing of elector lists to compile juror lists.

As Members know, the right to trial by jury is fundamental to our system of justice. The sheriff must have reliable...

Mr. Chairman, this is a concern that came up during committee and I think the discussion that we had there was good. I appreciate the thoughts of committee in this respect. I think that the first point to make is if there are significant community concerns with an operator, we would take that into account before issuing any sort of renewal. So it is complaint-based. If the community or the region has concerns, they should bring them to our attention so we can address those before we consider a renewal.

Another issue that was raised was about whether or not an operator was up to date with...

I will certainly provide the data we have on what the industry is worth and we can give some examples of that. In the end, how much money stays in the region is hard for us to quantify at times, but we do have some data and I will provide that to the Member. Thank you.

Mr. Chairman, thank you. I would.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. There currently are time frames for stakeholders to apply in the consultation section. We are looking for it here, in the current act, and those have been repeated in the new act as well. I would say that those are in the act and they are there and they will be followed, but we are going to work with would-be operators. If we have a good sense -- and we have regional people throughout the territory -- that the whole region is going to rise up against an operator, we are not going to waste their time putting them through the hoops and dealing strictly with these time...

Mr. Speaker, I seek unanimous consent to waive Rule 69(2) and have Bill 16, An Act to Amend the Jury Act, moved into Committee of the Whole. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In terms of Tourism 2010, it’s the first year of that plan. We are working to start to roll out some product development initiatives. We are working in the regions. I should say that when I say EDOs, what we have done in that region is the option was available to regions to have what we call a community transfer initiative where they took over responsibility for the provision of that service and take money from us on a yearly basis and pay somebody a salary. That’s what we have done in that region. I do believe the one position in Behchoko is still a department...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I now too am ever mindful of trying to avoid that segment on CBC. There is a review underway right now of our corrections program and the facility. We think that we need to obviously ensure that our programming is as good as it can be. So we have had some concerns come up. Obviously, the Members know we ran a deficit last year. We had some cost drivers that we are seeking to address. We need to know exactly what we are legislatively required to provide, what types of service and other things that are add-on. So we are viewing all of these things. I have...