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

Your committee met on Wednesday, July 7, 1999, at 7 p.m., Thursday, July 8, 1999, at 10 a.m., Monday, July 12, 1999, at 2:30 p.m., Monday, July 12, 1999, at 7 p.m., Tuesday, July 13, 1999, at 10 a.m. and Tuesday, July 13, 1999, at 2:45 p.m. in Room 255 of the Legislative Building to consider bills referred.

At the July 7, 1999, meeting, your committee elected Mrs. Driedger as Chairperson and Mr.Faurschou as Vice-Chairperson. At the July 12, 1999, 7 p.m. meeting, your committee elected Mr. Laurendeau as Chairperson.

Your committee heard representations on bills as follows:

Bill 40–The Employment and Income Assistance Amendment Act; Loi modifiant la Loi sur l'aide à l'emploi et au revenu

Von Haywood - Canadian Association of Non-Employed

Michelle Forrest - Private Citizen

Theresa Anne Swedick - Winnipeg Community Centre of the Deaf Inc.

Rick Juba - Juba Neighborhood Resource Drop in Centre

Deborah Graham - Private Citizen

Susan Bruce - National Anti-Poverty Organization

Joseph Stephenson - Youth Against Poverty

Eric Encontre - Private Citizen

Natalie Encontre - Private Citizen

Tim Jackson - People Empowering Themselves Against the System

Rick Pettigrew - Private Citizen

Shauna MacKinnon - CHO!CES: A Coalition for Social Justice

Randy Kotyk - People Empowering Themselves Against the System

Sid Frankel - Social Planning Council of Winnipeg

David Martin - Manitoba League of Persons with Disabilities

Graham Starmer - Manitoba Chamber of Commerce

Pauline Riley - Manitoba Action Committee on the Status of Women

Blair Hamilton - Canadian Union of Public Employees, Manitoba

Rhonda McCorriston - Private Citizen

Alan Maki - Private Citizen

Neil Cohen - The Community Unemployed Help Centre

John Doyle - Manitoba Federation of Labour

Peter Kaufmann - Private Citizen

Valerie Price - Manitoba Association for Rights and Liberties

Thomas Novak - OBLATE Justice and Peace Committee

Catherine Stearns and Glen Michalchuk - Workers Organizing Resource Centre

Darrall Rankin - Communist Party of Canada, Manitoba

Rev. Harry Lehotsky - New Life Ministries

George Harris - AIDS Shelter Coalition

David Henry - Private Citizen

Written submissions:

Bev Le Blanc - Private Citizen

Your committee has considered:

Bill 40–The Employment and Income Assistance Amendment Act; Loi modifiant la Loi sur l'aide à l'emploi et au revenu

and has agreed to report the same, on division, with the following amendment:

THAT the preamble of the Bill be amended by adding the following after the second paragraph:

AND WHEREAS it is a related goal of welfare-to-work initiatives to improve the economic circumstances of Manitoba families;