Thank you, Mr. Chair. I too would like to thank the department for bringing this very important bill forward. I’d also like to thank committee for their thorough review of Bill 47, as well as all stakeholders and community members, residents and interested groups who provided very strong feedback and recommendations that I believe committee tried to address to the best of their ability with concurrence from the department of course.

In the bill itself there were five motions that the Minister concurred with. There’s a lot of history with this bill dating right back to 1977, but I also want to acknowledge the work that was done by the previous Standing Committee on Social Programs in the 16th Legislative Assembly for doing the hard work that they did in bringing forth the 2010 committee report and the work that our committee continued that momentum to get where the bill is now.

I’d like to thank all involved and I look forward to moving forward with this bill. Thank you.