LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF MANITOBA

 

Wednesday, July 14, 1999

 

The House met at 1:30 p.m.

 

PRAYERS

 

ROUTINE PROCEEDINGS

 

PRESENTING REPORTS BY

STANDING AND SPECIAL COMMITTEES

 

Committee of Supply

 

Mr. Marcel Laurendeau (St. Norbert): Madam Speaker, the Committee of Supply has been considering a motion regarding concurrence in Supply, directs me to report progress, and asks leave to sit again. I move, seconded by the honourable member for LaVerendrye (Mr. Sveinson), that the report of the committee be received.

 

Motion agreed to.

 


 

PRESENTING REPORTS BY

STANDING AND SPECIAL COMMITTEES

 

Standing Committee on Law Amendments

Fifth Report

 

Mr. Marcel Laurendeau (Chairperson of the Committee on Law Amendments): Madam Speaker, by leave, I beg to present the Fifth Report of the Committee on Law Amendments.

Some Honourable Members: Dispense.

 

Madam Speaker: Dispense.

 

Your Standing Committee on Law Amendments presents the following as its Fifth Report.

 

Your committee met on Wednesday, July 7, 1999, at 7 p.m., Thursday, July 8, 1999, at 10 a.m., Monday, July 12, 1999, at 2:30 p.m., Monday, July 12, 1999, at 7 p.m., Tuesday, July 13, 1999, at 10 a.m. and Tuesday, July 13, 1999, at 2:45 p.m. in Room 255 of the Legislative Building to consider bills referred.

 

At the July 7, 1999, meeting, your committee elected Mrs. Driedger as Chairperson and Mr.Faurschou as Vice-Chairperson. At the July 12, 1999, 7 p.m. meeting, your committee elected Mr. Laurendeau as Chairperson.

 

Your committee heard representations on bills as follows:

 

Bill 40–The Employment and Income Assistance Amendment Act; Loi modifiant la Loi sur l'aide à l'emploi et au revenu

 

Von Haywood - Canadian Association of Non-Employed

Michelle Forrest - Private Citizen

Theresa Anne Swedick - Winnipeg Community Centre of the Deaf Inc.

Rick Juba - Juba Neighborhood Resource Drop in Centre

Deborah Graham - Private Citizen

Susan Bruce - National Anti-Poverty Organization

Joseph Stephenson - Youth Against Poverty

Eric Encontre - Private Citizen

Natalie Encontre - Private Citizen

Tim Jackson - People Empowering Themselves Against the System

Rick Pettigrew - Private Citizen

Shauna MacKinnon - CHO!CES: A Coalition for Social Justice

Randy Kotyk - People Empowering Themselves Against the System

Sid Frankel - Social Planning Council of Winnipeg

David Martin - Manitoba League of Persons with Disabilities

Graham Starmer - Manitoba Chamber of Commerce

Pauline Riley - Manitoba Action Committee on the Status of Women

Blair Hamilton - Canadian Union of Public Employees, Manitoba

Rhonda McCorriston - Private Citizen

Alan Maki - Private Citizen

Neil Cohen - The Community Unemployed Help Centre

John Doyle - Manitoba Federation of Labour

Peter Kaufmann - Private Citizen

Valerie Price - Manitoba Association for Rights and Liberties

Thomas Novak - OBLATE Justice and Peace Committee

Catherine Stearns and Glen Michalchuk - Workers Organizing Resource Centre

Darrall Rankin - Communist Party of Canada, Manitoba

Rev. Harry Lehotsky - New Life Ministries

George Harris - AIDS Shelter Coalition

David Henry - Private Citizen

 

Written submissions:

 

Bev Le Blanc - Private Citizen

 

Your committee has considered:

 

Bill 40–The Employment and Income Assistance Amendment Act; Loi modifiant la Loi sur l'aide à l'emploi et au revenu

 

and has agreed to report the same, on division, with the following amendment:

 

MOTION:

 

THAT the preamble of the Bill be amended by adding the following after the second paragraph:

 

AND WHEREAS it is a related goal of welfare-to-work initiatives to improve the economic circumstances of Manitoba families;

 

Mr. Laurendeau: Madam Speaker, by leave, I move, seconded by the honourable member for Portage la Prairie (Mr. Faurschou), that the report of the committee be received.

 

Motion agreed to.