Bob Bromley

Thank you, Minister. Welcome, witnesses. Next we will go to general comments on the bill. General comments?

Mr. Speaker, your committee has been considering Bill 20, Vital Statistics Act, and Bill 21, An Act to Amend the Employment Standards Act, and would like to report progress, and that Bills 20 and 21 are ready for third reading. Mr. Speaker, I move that the report of Committee of the Whole be concurred with. Mahsi.

The bill as a whole.

Thank you, Minister. I’d like to ask if committee agrees.

Does committee agree that Bill 21 is ready for third reading?

---Bill 21 as a whole approved for third reading

Clauses 101 to 110.

---Clauses 101 through 110 inclusive approved

Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Next I would like to invite Chairman Beaulieu, Standing Committee on Social Programs, to make comments on the bill.

Thank you, committee. We’ll go clause by clause, Bill 21, An Act to Amend the Employment Standards Act. We’ll start on page 1, clause 1.

---Clauses 1 through 8 inclusive approved

Clauses 81 to 90.

---Clauses 81 through 90 inclusive approved

I’d like to call Committee of the Whole together. Committee, we have before us Bills 20 and 21, I believe. Committee agree that we start with Bill 20? Agreed?