LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF MANITOBA

 

Wednesday, June 23, 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 adopted certain resolutions, directs me to report the same and asks leave to sit again.

 

I move, seconded by the honourable member for Pembina (Mr. Dyck), that the report of the committee be received.

 

Motion agreed to.

 

Standing Committee on Public

Utilities and Natural Resources

Second Report

 

Mr. Peter Dyck (Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Public Utilities and Natural Resources): I beg to present the second report of the Standing Committee on Public Utilities and Natural Resources.

 

An Honourable Member: Dispense.

 

Madam Speaker: Dispense.

 

Your Standing Committee on Public Utilities and Natural Resources presents the following as its Second Report.

 

Your committee met on Tuesday, June 22, 1999, at 10 a.m. in Room 255 of the Legislative Building to consider the Annual Report of the Workers Compensation Board for the year ended December 31, 1998, the Five-Year Operating Plans for 1998 and 1999, and the Report of the Appeal Commission for the year ended December 31, 1998. Your committee also met on Tuesday, May 25, 1999, and Tuesday, June 8, 1999, to consider these reports.

 

Mr. Wally Fox-Decent, chairperson of the board, Ms. Pat Jacobsen, president and chief executive officer, Mr. Don Paul, vice-president of rehabilitation and compensation services, and Mr. Alfred Black, vice-president of financial services and administration, provided such information as was requested with respect to the Annual Reports and business of the Workers Compensation Board.

 

Your committee has considered the Annual Report of the Workers Compensation Board for the year ended December 31, 1998, and the Report of the Appeal Commission for the year ended December 31, 1998, and has adopted the same as presented.

 

Mr. Dyck: I move, seconded by the honourable member for Arthur-Virden (Mr. Downey), that the report of the committee be received.

 

Motion agreed to.