No.63/2016
House of Assembly
Province of Newfoundland & Labrador
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1st Session 48th
General Assembly
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Wednesday, March 8th,
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 No. 65) (Finance and President of Treasury Board)
Bills
Referred to Committee of the Whole
3. Committee of the Whole on a Bill −
An
Act To Amend The Financial Administration Act No. 3. (Bill 66)
(Finance and President of Treasury Board)
Second
Reading Bills
4. Second Reading of a Bill − An Act To Amend The Health
Professions Act. (Bill No. 69)
(Debate
Adj'd.) (Health
and Community Services)
5. Second Reading of a Bill − An Act Respecting Patient Safety
and Quality Assurance in the Province. (Bill No. 70)
(Debate
Adj'd.) (Health
and Community Services)
MOTIONS
1.
− THE HONOURABLE THE MINISTER OF FINANCE AND PRESIDENT OF TREASURY BOARD
To Move that the House Resolve itself into a Committee of the Whole on Supply
to Consider Certain Resolutions for the Granting of Interim Supply to Her
Majesty. (Bill No. 71)
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. GERRY ROGERS (St. John's Centre) −
To Move:
WHEREAS the
Federal Government has introduced pay equity legislation in the public sector;
AND WHEREAS pay equity has been proven
to not be universally achieved by collective bargaining alone;
AND WHEREAS lack of pay equity
disproportionately affects women and women in Newfoundland and Labrador earn on
average 66% of the wages of their male counterparts;
AND WHEREAS Government needs to give
leadership on this issue of fairness to women;
BE IT RESOLVED that the House of
Assembly urge Government to start the process to enact pay equity legislation
in the Province.
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