Wendy Bisaro

Thank you, Minister Abernethy. I’ll now go to the chair of the Standing Committee on Social Programs, who reviewed Bill 8, to the chair, Mr. Moses, for his opening comments. Thank you.

Thank you, committee. Does committee agree that Bill 2, Miscellaneous Statute Law Amendment Act, 2012, is now ready for third reading?

---Bill 2 as a whole approved for third reading

Okay, committee. We are dealing with Bill 2. We will defer the title of the bill until after we have done clause by clause. We are on page 1, clause 1.

---Clauses 1 through 19 inclusive approved

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

Minister Abernethy, would you introduce your witness for the record, please?

I will now rise and report progress. Thank you, committee.

Thank you, Mr. Moses. Minister Abernethy, do you have witnesses you wish to bring into the House?

Does committee agree that Bill 8, An Act to Amend the Securities Act, is now ready for third reading?

---Bill 8 as a whole approved for third reading

Committee, we will come back to order. We have agreed to consider Bill 2. The Minister responsible for Bill 2, Minister Abernethy, Minister of Justice, would you please introduce the bill?

Thank you, committee. We will move to detail. We will defer the title of the bill until we have done the clause by clause. Bill 8, clause 1.

---Clauses 1 to 22 inclusive approved

I’m a little confused by that response. So we are doing planning now, but we’re not going to be able to implement until 2014-2015. I think that’s what I heard the Minister say, and it confuses me.

I would like to ask the Minister, as well, about the money. He mentioned $75,000 and I understand that’s coming from the sustainability funding, which is federal funding which is not core funding, but it’s money that we get whenever the federal government decides we should get it.

I would like to ask the Minister whether or not any expansion to the Midwifery Program is going to be dependent on non...