No.26/2010
House
of Assembly
Province
of Newfoundland & Labrador
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3rd
Session 46th General Assembly
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Wednesday, May 26,
2010
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
2. C
Concurrence Motions C
(a) Resource
Committee
Bills Referred to Committee of the Whole
1. C Committee of the Whole
on a
Bill C AAn Act To
Amend The
2. C Committee
of the Whole on a Bill C AAn Act
To Amend The Commissioners For Oaths Act. (Bill No. 7) (Justice
and Attorney General)
3. C Committee
of the Whole on a Bill C AAn Act
To Amend The Notaries Public Act. (Bill No. 8) (Justice
and Attorney General)
Second
4. C Second
Reading of a Bill C AAn Act
Respecting The Care And Protection Of Children And Youth. (Bill No. 1) (Child,
Youth and Family Services)
5. C Second
Reading of a Bill C AAn Act To
Amend The Income Tax Act, 2000. (Bill No. 3) (Finance
and President of Treasury Board)
6. C Second
Reading of a Bill C AAn Act To
Amend The Income Tax Act, 2000 No. 2. (Bill No. 9) (Finance
and President of Treasury Board)
7. C Second
Reading of a Bill C AAn Act
To Amend The Small Claims Act. (Bill No. 11)
(Adjourned) (Justice
and Attorney General)
8. C Second
Reading of a Bill C AAn Act
To Amend The Fatal Accidents Act. (Bill No. 15)
(Justice
and Attorney General)
9. C Second
Reading of a Bill C AAn Act
To Amend The Insurance Companies Act. (Bill No. 16) (Government
Services)
10. C Second
Reading of a Bill C AAn Act
Respecting The Regulation Of Certain Health Professions. (Bill No. 17) (Health
and Community Services)
11. C Second
Reading of a Bill C AAn Act
To Amend The Accident And Sickness Insurance Act, The Automobile Insurance Act,
The Insurance Adjusters, Agents And Brokers Act, The Insurance Contracts Act
And The Life Insurance Act. (Bill No. 18) (Government
Services)
12. C Second
Reading of a Bill C AAn Act
To Amend The Insurance Companies Act No. 2. (Bill No. 19) (Government
Services)
13. C Second
Reading of a Bill C An
Act Respecting The Practice Of Social Work. (Bill No. 20) (Health
and Community Services)
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 a Certain
Resolution Relating to the Granting
of Supply to Her Majesty. (Bill No. 6)
3. 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 to
Consider a Certain Resolution Respecting the Imposition of Taxes on Tobacco.
(Bill No. 10)
4. C THE HONOURABLE THE MINISTER OF GOVERNMENT SERVICES C To ask leave to introduce a Bill entitled, An Act To
Amend The Insurance Adjusters, Agents And Brokers Act. (Bill No. 21)
5. C THE HONOURABLE THE MINISTER OF FINANCE AND PRESIDENT
OF TREASURY BOARD C To ask leave to introduce a Bill entitled, An Act To
Amend The Portability Of Pensions Act. (Bill No. 22)
6. C THE HONOURABLE THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE LEADER C To Move:
WHEREAS section
42.1 of the Access to Information and
Protection of Privacy Act provides that the Information and Privacy
Commissioner is to be appointed by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council on a
resolution of the House of Assembly;
AND WHEREAS section 42.2 of the Act states that a
commissioner may be reappointed;
AND WHEREAS the appointment of the current
commissioner, Mr. Ed Ring, expires on April 10, 2010;
AND WHEREAS it is proposed that Mr. Ring be
reappointed as the commissioner for a term of 2 years;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Mr. Ed Ring, be reappointed as the
Information and Privacy Commissioner for a term of 2 years.
7. C MS. LORRAINE MICHAEL (Signal Hill-Quidi
Vidi) C To
Move:
WHEREAS
despite Government's Video Lottery Terminal (VLT) action plan there are
still more than 2,000 machines located in bars and restaurants around the
Province;
AND
WHEREAS Atlantic Lottery Corporation has itself admitted that VLT access is
too wide;
AND
WHEREAS according to the Gambling Prevalence Study there are close to 3,000
problem gamblers and close to 7,000 moderate risk gamblers and most of these
nearly 10,000 gamblers are VLT players;
AND
WHEREAS the 2007 Newfoundland and Labrador Student Drug Survey found that
12 percent of Grade 12 students played VLTs, a rate
twice as high as in the other Atlantic provinces, and that 7% of all junior and
senior high school students played VLTs, also the
highest rate in Atlantic Canada;
AND
WHEREAS most of us know of someone who has lost their paycheques,
life savings, jobs, or even their families, due to VLT addiction;
AND
WHEREAS VLT addiction is a burden on Government and society in terms of
health care costs, lost productivity, and the need to support broken
individuals and families;
AND
WHEREAS Government is receiving $75 million in VLT revenue every year,
which comes from a very small number of addicted VLT players who are losing
their savings to VLT machines;
THEREFORE
BE IT RESOLVED that the House of Assembly urge the Government of
Newfoundland and
BE
IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the House of Assembly urge the Government of
Newfoundland and
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