Daryl Dolynny

Thank you, Minister Lafferty. Mr. Bouchard.

Thank you, Minister Beaulieu. Committee, we last left and concluded clause 4. Does committee agree we continue on with clause-by-clause?

Thank you, Minister Lafferty. Mr. Rennie, Ms. Mueller, welcome this evening. Committee, we’ll open up with general comments to the bill. General comments. Mr. Bouchard.

Thank you, committee. Sergeant-at-Arms, please escort the witnesses into the Chamber.

Minister Beaulieu, if you could, please introduce your witnesses to the Chamber.

Thank you, Minister Lafferty. Does committee agree?

I’d like to call Committee of the Whole back to order. With that, we’ll go to the Minister responsible to see if he has any witnesses he’d like to bring into the House.

Thank you, Minister Lafferty. Minister Lafferty, we will offer the committee that reviewed the bill to make some opening comments on the bill. Mr. Moses.

Thank you. The public has been led to believe that this lesser degree of scrutiny under a P3 policy rather than legislative process is what will guide and govern the decision-making of hundreds upon hundreds of millions of dollars of public money.

Can the Minister elaborate by what statutory obligation will general liability tort third-party liability for taxation or general risk liabilities be covered with the inadequacies of a non-statutory P3 policy? Thank you.

Does committee agree that Bill 30 is ready for a third reading as amended?

---Bill 30 as a whole approved for third reading

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. On May 12, 2011, the Finance Minister in Committee of the Whole stated, “We’ve been working diligently on a P3 policy for government. That policy has been to committee. We have had extensive feedback. We have what we think is a workable P3 policy.” According to public records on that same day, a Public-Private Partnership Policy No. 15.02 was born and on that same day the Minister also reassured the House, “I can assure the Member that the P3 policy, once in its place, will be followed by government and there’s a built-in full engagement of committees as well.” My...