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Thank you. Okay, committee, we’ll return to page 1, Bill 8, An Act to Amend the Securities Act. Bill as a whole.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Again, I’m a little confused. From what the Minister just told me, it sounds as though there is a plan, although I don’t think that I necessarily agree with it. If, as the Minister says, we’re going to go to Hay River and then we’re going to go to the Beaufort-Delta – and you mentioned another number of $1.8 million that I don’t know for what – if we know that already, why can we not get that before committee now? Why can we not take what we know and plan for implementation in 2013-2014?
Thank you, Minister Abernethy. Committee, are there any general comments in regard to Bill 8? Is committee agreed we go to detail?
I appreciate the Minister’s response that there’s some money being allocated. It has been allocated, as he’s said though, in 2013-2014. In my mind, that’s a problem. I don’t understand why, with the report that came out some four or five months ago now, we couldn’t start some planning in this budget year, 2012-2013, to do some implementation in 2013-2014. I’d ask the Minister to tell me why we can’t do planning this year for implementation in the next budget year.
Is committee agreed to bring witnesses into the House?
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It’s my pleasure to recognize a constituent from Frame Lake, Jeff Corradetti. Welcome to the House to Jeff and to everybody else up there. Thank you.
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?