Wendy Bisaro

Does committee agree that Bill 8, An Act to Amend the Securities Act, is now ready for third reading?

---Bill 8 as a whole approved for third reading

Committee, we will come back to order. We have agreed to consider Bill 2. The Minister responsible for Bill 2, Minister Abernethy, Minister of Justice, would you please introduce the bill?

Thank you, committee. We will move to detail. We will defer the title of the bill until we have done the clause by clause. Bill 8, clause 1.

---Clauses 1 to 22 inclusive approved

I’m a little confused by that response. So we are doing planning now, but we’re not going to be able to implement until 2014-2015. I think that’s what I heard the Minister say, and it confuses me.

I would like to ask the Minister, as well, about the money. He mentioned $75,000 and I understand that’s coming from the sustainability funding, which is federal funding which is not core funding, but it’s money that we get whenever the federal government decides we should get it.

I would like to ask the Minister whether or not any expansion to the Midwifery Program is going to be dependent on non...

Thank you, committee. Sergeant-at-Arms, if you would please escort the witnesses into the Chamber.

Minister Abernethy, could you please introduce your witnesses to the House?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions are addressed to the Minister of Health and Social Services. I want to follow up on my Member’s statement and ask some questions on the Midwifery Program report and potential actions coming from that report. In the Minister’s responses to Mr. Bouchard last week there were some references to planning, though they were fairly vague references to planning and some references to expansion of the program. There were recommendations in the report to expand the program.

I’d like to know from the Minister if there is something happening now at the department. I...

Thank you, Mr. Moses. Minister Abernethy, do you have witnesses you wish to bring into the House?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to follow up today on the statement made by my colleague from Hay River North last week about a much needed Midwifery Program. At the urging of residents and Members of the 16th Assembly, in late 2011 the Department of Health and Social Services studied the very small existing midwifery program and produced a report that was made public in spring of this year. That report was referenced by the Minister last week in his replies to Mr. Bouchard’s questions. It was gratifying to hear him say that the expansion of our Midwifery Program is included in the...

Thank you, committee. Bill 2 is now ready for third reading. Thank you, Minister. Thank you to your witness. I think we could probably have the witness stay for the next bill.

Committee, we will go onto Bill 8. Bill 8 is An Act to Amend the Securities Act. We will defer the title of the act until we have gone through clause by clause. Minister, do you have opening comments?

Committee, we will return to page 1, Bill 2, Miscellaneous Statute Law Amendment Act, 2012. Bill as a whole, committee.