No.45/2016
House of Assembly
Province of Newfoundland & Labrador
_______________________________________
1st Session 48th
General Assembly
________________________________________
Wednesday, November 23rd,
2016
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
Second Reading Bills
2. Second Reading of a Bill − An Act To Amend The Independent
Appointments Commission Act. (Bill No. 45)
(Finance and President of
Treasury Board)
3. Second Reading of a Bill − An Act Respecting Procurement By
Public Bodies. (Bill No. 46) (Adjourned) (Service
NL)
4. Second Reading of a Bill − An Act Respecting The Relocation
Of Certain Communities In The Province. (Bill No. 47) (Municipal
Affairs)
5. Second Reading of a Bill − An Act To Amend The Hydro
Corporation Act, 2007. (Bill No. 48) (Natural
Resources)
6. Second Reading of a Bill − An Act To Amend The Income Tax
Act, 2000 No. 6. (Bill No. 49) (Finance and
President of Treasury Board)
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 to Consider a
Resolution Relating to the Advancing or Guaranteeing of Certain Loans made
under the Loan and Guarantee Act, 1957. (Bill No. 41)
2.
THE HONOURABLE THE MINISTER OF SERVICE NL − To ask leave to introduce a Bill entitled,
An Act To Amend The Vital Statistics Act, 2009 No. 2. (Bill No. 50)
3.
THE HONOURABLE THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE LEADER − To Move:
WHEREAS section 85 of the Access
to Information and Protection of Privacy Act, 2015 provides that the Office
of the Information and Privacy Commissioner be filled
by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council on a resolution of the House of Assembly;
AND
WHEREAS section
85 further provides that the Speaker establish a
selection committee for that purpose;
AND
WHEREAS that
selection committee was established and that committee submitted a roster of
qualified candidates to the Speaker of the House of Assembly;
AND
WHEREAS section
89 provides that the Lieutenant-Governor may, on the recommendation of the
House of Assembly Management Commission appoint an acting commissioner if the
office becomes vacant;
AND
WHEREAS the
office was vacated and Mr. Donovan Molloy was on the recommendation of the
selection committee appointed in an acting capacity on July 22, 2016;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Mr. Donovan Molloy be
appointed as the Information and Privacy Commissioner.
4.
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.
5.
MR. PAUL DAVIS (Topsail Paradise) − To Move:
BE IT RESOLVED that any and all
agreements respecting Churchill River hydro power shall be brought to the House
of Assembly for public debate and Members' vote prior to ratification.
________________________________
Published under the authority of the Speaker of the
House of Assembly by the Queen's Printer