No.
4/2009
House
of Assembly
Province
of Newfoundland & Labrador
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2nd
Session – 46th General Assembly
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Wednesday, April 1,
2009
ROUTINE PROCEEDINGS
(a) Statements
by Members
(b) Statements
by Ministers
(c) Oral
Questions
(d) Presenting
Reports by Standing and Select Committees
(e) Tabling of
Documents
(f) Notices of
Motion
(g) Answers to
questions for which notice has been given
(h) Petitions
ORDERS OF THE DAY
1. C
Committee of Supply
Second
2. C Second
Reading of a Bill C AAn Act Respecting
Apologies”. (Bill No. 1)
(Justice
and Attorney General)
MOTIONS
1. C THE
HONOURABLE THE MINISTER OF FINANCE AND PRESIDENT OF TREASURY BOARD C To Move AThat This House Approves in General the Budgetary
Policy of the Government.@ (Budget Speech)
2. C THE HONOURABLE THE MINISTER OF FINANCE AND PRESIDENT
OF TREASURY BOARD C To Move that the House Resolve itself into a
Committee of the Whole on Supply to Consider Certain Resolutions Relating to
the Granting of Supply to Her Majesty.
(Bill No. 2)
3. C THE HONOURABLE THE MINISTER OF FINANCE AND PRESIDENT
OF TREASURY BOARD C To ask leave to introduce a Bill entitled, AAn Act
To Amend The Labour-Sponsored Venture Capital Tax Credit Act”. (Bill No. 3)
4. C THE HONOURABLE THE MINISTER OF FINANCE AND PRESIDENT
OF TREASURY BOARD C To ask leave to introduce a Bill entitled, AAn Act
To Consolidate The Law Respecting Revenue Administration”. (Bill No. 4)
5. C THE HONOURABLE THE MINISTER OF FINANCE AND PRESIDENT
OF TREASURY BOARD C To ask leave to introduce a Bill entitled, AAn Act
To Repeal The Labrador Transportation Initiative Fund Act”. (Bill No. 5)
6. C THE HONOURABLE THE MINISTER OF FINANCE AND PRESIDENT
OF TREASURY BOARD C To ask leave to introduce a Bill entitled, AAn Act
To Amend The Pensions Funding Act”. (Bill No. 6)
7. C THE HONOURABLE THE MINISTER OF HUMAN RESOURCES,
LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT C To ask leave to introduce a Bill entitled, AAn Act
To Amend The Workplace Health, Safety And Compensation Act”. (Bill No. 7)
8. C MS. YVONNE JONES (Cartwright-L'Anse
au Clair) C To
Move:
“WHEREAS nurses of the Province have finished a
strike vote with nearly a 90% strike mandate in favor of strike action;
AND
WHEREAS nurses are continuing to go through the collective bargaining
process with negotiations scheduled to resume on Thursday, April 2, 2009;
AND
WHEREAS the Government's preconditions included such things as a four-year
contract with concessions including extended earnings loss, market adjustment
letter and classification;
AND
WHEREAS Government stated at a news conference held on February 12, 2009
that preconditions no longer apply to the nursing negotiations;
AND
WHEREAS the Minister of Finance reinstated the preconditions as part of his
unscripted Budget Speech on March 26, 2009;
THEREFORE
BE IT RESOLVED that this House of Assembly calls upon this Government to
remove all preconditions before resuming negotiations with the nurses' union in
an effort to reach an agreement”.
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Speaker of the
House of Assembly by Earl G. Tucker,
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