Thank you, Madam Chair. Work on the Fire Prevention Act actually began in the 17th Assembly, where a legislative proposal was developed in the 17th Assembly. During a period of time in the 18th Assembly, legislative priorities changed for a number of reasons, including the introduction of the 911 program, the Western Canada Lottery Act, amendments to the Emergency Management Act. All of those pulled away from the Fire Prevention Act priority. Over the last year, maybe two years, there has been considerable pressure on the area around regulatory enforcement related to code compliance, and this is taking the legislative work in a bit of a different direction in that we do want to look at how code compliance may be looked at by this government as a go-forward. The work that originated in the 17th Assembly was really around community fire protection services work and those kind of things. The department still continues to seek to want to make amendments to the act related to the community fire component. The regulatory component is the work that has been new over the last year, year and a half that has taken the department in a different direction, so that is why we are returning to that work in the 19th Assembly. Thank you, Madam Chair
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Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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