Sergeant-at-Arms, please escort the witnesses in.

For the record, Ms. Lee, could you introduce your witnesses?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. To my right is Ms. Lisa Cardinal, director of policy, planning and evaluation of Health and Social Services. To my left is Mr. Mark Aitken, director of legislation division. Thank you.

Thank you, Ms. Minister. Welcome, witnesses. General comments in regard to Bill 4. Detail?

Can we turn to page 1 of the bill. Bill 4, An Act to Amend the Child and Family Services Act, clause 1.

---Clauses 1 through 16 inclusive approved

To the bill as a whole.

Does committee agree that Bill 4 is ready for third reading?

---Bill 4 as a whole approved for third reading

Ms. Lee.

Mr. Chairman, I have a motion I need to make on the bill that we’ve agreed to.

The Minister is requesting we go back to, I believe, clause 16. Does committee agree?

Clause 16. Ms. Lee.

Thank you. My apologies. I should have caught it at clause 16.

Okay, let’s do this again. Clause 16. Minister Lee.

The motion is in order. To the motion.

Question is being called.

---Carried

[Microphone turned off.] …as amended.

Does committee agree that Bill 4 is now ready for third reading as amended?

---Bill 4 as a whole approved for third reading

Committee, Bill 4 is now ready for third reading as amended.

With that, I’d like to thank the Minister and thank the witnesses. Sergeant-at-Arms, please escort the witness out.

As we agreed, the next bill we will be dealing with is Bill 5, An Act to Amend the Commissioner’s Land Act. With that, I’d like to ask the Minister responsible to introduce the bill. Mr. Robert C. McLeod.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, Bill 5 has been brought forward as a result of a recommendation from the Standing Committee on Economic Development and Infrastructure, in May of 2009, to strengthen security requirements for commercial or industrial leases of Commissioner’s land.

The goal is to require enough security to cover the costs of any remediation required to return the land to a condition that is satisfactory to the Minister or a person authorized in the regulations.

The bill contains clauses making performance security a condition of commercial and industrial leases, it sets out the factors to be considered when determining the amount of the security, and includes a new regulation-making authority respecting the position of security for commercial and industrial leases. The bill before committee today also includes some additional amendments that I was happy to concur with during clause-by-clause review by the Standing Committee on Economic Development and Infrastructure.

I am prepared to answer any questions you may have.