Robert Bouchard

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. Minister Lafferty.

Thank you. Sergeant-at-Arms, please escort in the witnesses.

Thank you, Minister Ramsay. Next, I’ll go to the chair of Social programs, Mr. Moses.

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Minister Lafferty.

Thank you, Mr. Yakeleya. Do you have witnesses to bring into the Chamber?

Does committee agree that Bill 25, An Act to Amend the Education Act, is ready for third reading?

---Bill 25 as a whole approved for third reading

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I do have some concerns about some of these changes. Obviously, the superintendent, one of the reasons I’ve had more concerns is he’s in the South Slave. I guess the one main area of concern is how this reporting would go. I know the Minister talked about how the reporting wouldn’t change, but I guess the difficulty comes in the fact that now you have a superintendent that’s a government employee but also reporting to a board at the same time, the DEC. I guess how that individual will be conflicted, obviously, from his boss versus the people that direct him on the...

Does committee agree that Bill 27, Miscellaneous Statute Law Amendment Act, 2014, is ready for third reading?

---Bill 27 as a whole approved for third reading

We’ll go to clause-by-clause review of the bill with a further number in the title. Clause 1.

---Clauses 1 through 4 inclusive approved

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’m before you today baby-faced and clean-shaven.

Today is the first day in November where we have session and I am partaking in Movember, a cause for men’s health, issues for prostate cancer and below the belt issues. We need to encourage men to go get themselves checked, get their prostates checked to make sure they keep their health up.

I use my face and the little bit of stubble I’ll have over the next month as a message and a billboard to men’s health and that men go out and get themselves checked. Thank you.