LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF MANITOBA

 

Tuesday, May 25, 1999

 

The House met at 1:30 p.m.

 

PRAYERS

 

ROUTINE PROCEEDINGS

 

PRESENTING REPORTS BY

STANDING AND SPECIAL COMMITTEES

 

Committee of Supply

 

Mr. Marcel Laurendeau (Chairperson): Madam Speaker, the Committee of Supply has considered certain resolutions, directs me to report progress and asks leave to sit again. I move, seconded by the honourable member for Charleswood (Mrs. Driedger), that the report of the committee be received.

 

Motion agreed to.

 

Standing Committee on Law Amendments

First Report

 

Mr. Jack Penner (Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Law Amendments): Madam Speaker, I would like to present the First Report of the Committee on Law Amendments.

 

An Honourable Member: Dispense.

 

Madam Speaker: Dispense.

 

Your Standing Committee on Law Amendments presents the following as its First Report.

 

Your committee met on Wednesday, May 19, 1999, at 10 a.m. and at 2:30 p.m. in Room 255 of the Legislative Assembly to consider bills referred. At the 10 a.m. meeting, your committee elected Mr. Dyck as its Vice-Chairperson.

 

Your committee heard representation on bills as follows:

 

Bill 27–The Essential Services Amendment Act; Loi modifiant la Loi sur les services essentiels

 

Don Fotti – President, Emergency Response Service Employees Association of Winnipeg (Paramedics)

Wes Shoemaker and David Shepherdson – City of Winnipeg

Janice Johnson – Private Citizen

Ian MacIntyre - Manitoba Teachers' Society

Ray Orr – Private Citizen

Alex Forrest – United Firefighters of Winnipeg

Jon Gerrard – Leader of the Liberal Party in Manitoba

 

Your committee has considered:

 

Bill 27–The Essential Services Amendment Act; Loi modifiant la Loi sur les services essentiels

 

and has agreed to report the same with the following amendment:

 

MOTION:

 

THAT section 3 of the Bill be struck out and the following substituted:

 

Coming into force

3 This Act comes into force on a day fixed by proclamation.

 

Mr. Penner: I move, seconded by the honourable member for Steinbach (Mr. Driedger), that the committee report now be received.

 

Motion agreed to.