Wendy Bisaro

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Your committee has been considering Bill 12, An Act to Amend the Human Rights Act, No. 2; Bill 13, An Act to Repeal the Credit Union Act; and Bill 15, An Act to Amend the Human Rights Act, No. 3, and would like to report progress and that Bills 12, 13 and 15 are ready for third reading. Mr. Speaker, I move that the report of Committee of the Whole be concurred with. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Bromley. Minister Abernethy.

Thank you, Mr. Abernethy. I will go to the chair of the Standing Committee on Social Programs, Mr. Moses, for any comments on the bill.

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Before we go to that motion, I will thank the witnesses for their service this afternoon and ask the Sergeant-at-Arms to escort the witnesses from the Chamber.

Committee, we have a motion on the floor. The motion is in order and the motion is non-debatable.

---Carried

Thank you, Mr. Dolynny. Minister Abernethy.

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Is committee agreed?

Thank you, committee. Does committee agree that Bill 15, An Act to Amend the Human Rights Act, No. 3, is ready for third reading?

---Bill 15 as a whole approved for third reading

Sergeant-at-Arms, if you would please escort the witness into the Chamber.

Mr. Abernethy, would you introduce your witnesses, please?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise in support of this motion. As I referenced in my statement, it’s time to put the Mental Health and Addictions Action Plan to work. It is not time for further studying.

There are lots of actions that are planned for in the document, but the department needs the resources to get the job done. That’s what is asked for in this motion: resources.

This Assembly should have a priority focus on prevention and addictions. We said so in our Caucus priorities. The Assembly should put money into those priorities if we really believe what we said over a year ago. There’s no...

Are there any other opening comments? We will move onto detail. We will defer the title page of the bill. Clause 1.

---Clauses 1 through 3 inclusive approved