Bob Bromley

Thank you, committee. I’d like to call on the Minister responsible to see if he would like to introduce comments on the bill. Mr. Miltenberger.

Clauses 71 to 80.

---Clauses 71 through 80 inclusive approved

Thank you, Mr. Krutko. I guess we’ll stick with the protocol of rolling up general comments and then getting Mr. Abernethy to respond. Next on my list is Mr. Jacobson.

Thank you, committee. We’ll take a short break.

---SHORT RECESS

Clauses 51 to 60.

---Clauses 51 through 60 inclusive approved

Thank you, Mr. Abernethy. Welcome to the witness. I’d like to throw the floor open for general comments on Bill 21. Ms. Bisaro.

I’d like to call Committee of the Whole to order. Committee, we have before us Bill 20, Vital Statistics Act, and Bill 21, An Act to Amend the Employment Standards Act. What is the wish of committee? Mrs. Groenewegen.

We are on page 25. Clauses 31 to 40.

---Clauses 31 through 40 inclusive approved

Is committee agreed that we can bring witnesses in?

Given that this government is also in a position of conflict as both regulator and proponent, as the Minister has mentioned, and the fact that we’ve got $27 million buried into this project, we need to take the high road.

Will the Minister commit to taking that high road and bringing independent oversight, as we would require for any other project that we are not both regulator and proponent on? An obvious conflict of interest.