Bob Bromley

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my questions are for the Minister of Environment and Natural Resources. I’d like to follow up on my Member’s statement and ask what work has been done to get the process on the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Strategy, the new one we’re expecting for next April, started. Thank you.

Bill 7, An Act to Amend the Elections and Plebiscites Act is now ready for third reading.

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay, and thank you to the witnesses. Mr. Sergeant-at-Arms, please escort the witnesses from the House.

Okay, thank you, committee. I believe the wish of committee is to move next to Tabled Document 4-16(5), Executive Summary of the Joint Review Panel Report. We had started but not concluded general comments. So does committee agree that we will continue with general comments? Agreed? First on the list, Mr. Abernethy.

I appreciate, then, that the review would likely be moving towards completion by the fall so that things might move forward in the plans. I understand from industry reps that the current requirements for ITI support programs, such as the need to file three-year business forecasts, don’t recognize the reality of this industry that moves from project to project. This obviously points out the need for industry-specific programs as our sister territories have recognized. Will the Minister ensure that the unique operating conditions of this industry are, therefore, addressed in the terms of...

To the bill as a whole?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions are for the Minister of ITI -- Industry, Tourism and Investment -- on the film industry. I’m pleased to see that the Minister has met with representatives of the multi-media and film industry to discuss development opportunities and report the status of the promised review of the industry development and support requirements. I’m also pleased that the Minister committed to develop the terms of reference in consultation with the public. These are great moves, great progress. Can the Minister indicate yet when those draft terms of reference will be available...

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. Welcome, witnesses. Now I would like to say that we are open for general comments on the bill by Members. General comments on Bill 7. Hearing none, does committee agree that we move to clause-by-clause review of the bill?

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. Does committee agree?

I call Committee of the Whole to order. We have before us consideration of Bill 7, An Act to Amend the Elections and Plebiscites Act and I would like to start by calling on Mr. Ramsay, as a Member of the Board of Management, for his introduction of the bill with opening remarks. Mr. Ramsay.

Does committee agree?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and thanks again for that commitment. I think it would be good and I’m speaking, really, here, of the development of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Strategy to have a specific timeline laid out for this process. I know public consultation is difficult, especially on an issue like this. It’s important to everyone. So I think that would be helpful and highlighting where and how MLAs could have early input into the process and so on. So I think that would be useful. Thank you.