No.
32/2019-20
House of Assembly
Province of Newfoundland & Labrador
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1st Session – 49th
General Assembly
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Thursday, March 12th,
2020
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
2.
– Committee of Supply
(a)
Resolution and Bill No. 26 Respecting the Granting of Interim Supply to Her
Majesty.
(Progress)
Third Reading Bills
3.
– Third Reading of a Bill – “An Act To Amend The Medical Care And Hospital
Insurance Act”. (Bill No. 20)
(Health and
Community Services)
Second Reading Bills
4.
– Second Reading of a Bill – “An
Act To Amend The Highway Traffic Act”. (Bill No. 21)
(Service NL)
5.
– Second Reading of a Bill – “An
Act To Amend the Social Workers Act”. (Bill No. 25)
(Health and Community Services)
6.
– Second Reading of a Bill – “An
Act To Amend The Personal Property Security Act”. (Bill No. 27)
(Service NL)
7.
– Second Reading of a Bill – “An
Act To Amend The Forestry Act”. (Bill No. 28)
(Fisheries and Land Resources)
MOTIONS
1. −
THE HONOURABLE THE MINISTER OF JUSTICE AND PUBLIC SAFETY – To ask leave to
introduce a Bill entitled, “An Act Respecting The Supreme
Court In The Province”. (Bill No.
7)
2.
− THE HONOURABLE THE MINISTER OF HEALTH AND COMMUNITY SERVICES – To ask
leave to introduce a Bill entitled, “An Act To Amend Various Acts Of The
Province Respecting The Publication Of A Summary Of A Decision Or Order Of An
Adjudication Tribunal”. (Bill No. 22)
3.
− THE HONOURABLE THE MINISTER OF SERVICE NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR – To ask
leave to introduce a Bill entitled, “An Act Respecting The Protection Of The
Health Of Persons Exposed To Radiation And Respecting The Safety Of Persons In
Connection With The Operation And Use Of The Electrical And Mechanical
Components Of Radiation Producing Equipment And Associated Apparatus”. (Bill
No. 23)
4. − THE HONOURABLE THE
GOVERNMENT HOUSE LEADER – To Move:
“WHEREAS Justice LeBlanc has delivered his report Muskrat Falls: A Misguided Project which presents the key
findings of the public inquiry;
AND WHEREAS in that report it finds that the former Progressive Conservative
Government “was determined to proceed with the development of the hydroelectric
potential of the Lower Churchill River and it initiated several activities to
advance this development”;
AND WHEREAS the report further indicates that the former Progressive
Conservative Government “failed in its duty to ensure that the best interests
of the Province's residents were safeguarded”;
AND WHEREAS the Progressive Conservative Government “failed in its
responsibility to objectively assess and oversee the decisions and actions of Nalcor”;
AND WHEREAS the original budget for the Muskrat Falls project was $7.4
billion and has risen to $12.7 billion yet findings are that “the assumptions
on which the Project's economics were based and promoted were not sufficiently
tested, and a comprehensive examination of the range of possible outcomes was
not undertaken”;
AND WHEREAS the report indicates that “this resulted in a combination of
unrealistic optimism, a willingness to misrepresent cost, schedule and risk,
and an inability to change course when things were going wrong”;
AND WHEREAS “the project had
clearly reached the point of no return when the Ball Government was elected
(late 2015). The real point of no
return was at Financial Close of the FLG in November 2013”;
AND WHEREAS the consequence of this $12.7 billion project has had a profound
financial impact on the people of the Province, without mitigation a doubling
of electricity rates, and represents greater than 30% of the Province's direct
and indirect debt;
THEREFORE BE RESOLVED that this House supports the referral of this report to the RCMP
and RNC for potential criminality and further refers it to the Department of
Justice and Public Safety for potential civil litigation.”
5.
− THE HONOURABLE THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE LEADER – To Move pursuant to
Standing Order 11(1) that the House not adjourn at 5:30 o'clock p.m. on Monday,
March 23rd, 2020.
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