Jane Groenewegen

Okay. I’d like to call Committee of the Whole to order. We are on the Department of Industry, Tourism and Investment. I’d like to ask the Minister if he’d like to bring witnesses into the Chamber. Minister Ramsay.

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Is committee agreed?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I for one would strongly support handing out these. We take a lot of measures, as a government, to address public safety, everything from making sure we wear our seatbelts and our kids wear seatbelts. We do a lot of things by regulation and by law to ensure public safety. I would like to see us address this and would certainly support an allocation of funding to purchase carbon monoxide detectors and give them out to anybody who would be interested.

That is very good news, both the mandatory installation in public buildings, the public awareness campaign, and the handing out of carbon monoxide detectors. The potential problem is all too prevalent in our residences.

I’d like to ask the Minister if there’s anything that our government could do further to step up the efforts to ensure that people have access to these detectors in their homes. I understand that they are not that expensive, and in our communities they are probably not readily available in some of the small communities in stores. Is this government prepared to go further with...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I’d also like to take the opportunity to recognize a former colleague in the House today, as he mentioned last night at a gathering, he and I and Minister Miltenberger were all from the class of 1995 and there were four of us elected in 1995. So many memories of his presence and presentations in this House. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Hawkins. There are no further general comments. I will ask the Minister if he would like to respond to some of the issues raised during the general comments.

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. General comments. Mr. Bromley.

Thank you, Minister Ramsay. General comments. Mr. Dolynny.

Thank you, Mr. Ramsay. Does committee agree?

Agreed. Thank you. We will resume with general comments on ITI after a brief break.

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