No.59/2016
House of Assembly
Province of Newfoundland & Labrador
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1st Session 48th
General Assembly
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Wednesday, March 1st, 2017
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.
Address in Reply
Third Reading Bills
2. Third Reading of a Bill − An Act To Amend The Financial
Administration Act No. 2. (Bill 65)
(Finance
and President of Treasury Board)
3. Third Reading of a Bill − An Act To Amend The Public Safety
Act. (Bill 67)
(Service NL)
Second Reading Bills
4. Second Reading of a Bill − An Act To Amend The Financial
Administration Act No. 3. (Bill 66)
(Finance and President of Treasury Board)
5. Second Reading of a Bill − An Act To Amend The Health
Professions Act. (Bill No. 69) (Health and Community Services)
MOTIONS
1.
THE HONOURABLE THE MINISTER OF SERVICE NL − To
ask leave to introduce a Bill entitled, An Act To Amend The Highway Traffic
Act No. 5. (Bill No. 68)
2.
MR. JOHN FINN (Stephenville Port au Port) − To Move:
WHEREAS
Terry Fox began his Marathon of Hope on April 12, 1980 in St. John's,
Newfoundland and Labrador with a dream of creating awareness of cancer and
raising $1,000,000 to find a cure;
AND WHEREAS Terry Fox, at the age of 21
and having had a leg amputated due to bone cancer, endeavored to run across
Canada, covering 5,373 kilometers over 143 days, the equivalent to a
42-kilometre marathon each day until he was forced to stop due to a recurrence
of cancer;
AND WHEREAS after the first 25 days,
and with growing encouragement from residents along the way, Terry Fox stopped
in Channel-Port aux Basques where that town alone raised $10,000;
AND WHEREAS the generous response from
people in Port aux Basques fired his imagination and a new fundraising goal of
one dollar for every Canadian was set;
AND WHEREAS in the past 36 years, more
than $650 million has been raised in Terry Fox's name to support cancer
research;
AND WHEREAS Terry Fox and his family
continue to be an inspiration to school children and communities throughout
Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, and around the world;
AND WHEREAS Terry Fox's courageous
journey began in Newfoundland and Labrador and gave his dream a momentum that
endures;
BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that this Honourable House supports the second Sunday after Labour Day in each year throughout Newfoundland and
Labrador to be proclaimed as Terry Fox Day.
3.
MR. MARK BROWNE (Placentia West - Bellevue) − To Move:
WHEREAS impaired
driving continues to be the leading criminal cause of death in Canada;
AND WHEREAS according to a 2013
Statistics Canada study, since 2001 the largest
increases in impaired driving in Canada have been in British Columbia and
Newfoundland and Labrador;
AND WHEREAS according to MADD Canada,
motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death among 16 to 25 year olds,
and alcohol and/or drug impairment is a factor in 55% of those crashes;
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that this Honourable House urge the
Government of Newfoundland and Labrador to consider taking further measures to
curb impaired driving, such as:
implementing
mandatory interlock systems;
impounding
of vehicles at the warning stage;
zero tolerance for blood alcohol content
above 0% for drivers with less than three years of driving experience; and
zero
tolerance for impairment by illicit drugs for drivers with less than three
years of driving experience.
4.
MS. LISA DEMPSTER (Cartwright L'Anse au Clair) −
To Move:
WHEREAS only
34 female MHAs have been elected in Newfoundland and Labrador since 1930;
AND WHEREAS as of June 2016, only 22.8
per cent of all national parliamentarians were women;
AND WHEREAS the recent Daughters of the
Vote event saw significant interest among women across the province to become
involved in political and leadership roles;
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that this Honourable House urges the Government of Newfoundland and
Labrador to encourage increased participation of women in leadership and
political roles.
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