Yeah, thanks, Mr. Chair. I never thought that a bill about elevators and lifts could get this exciting but, you know, when I actually did read the bill and, you know, there's going to be a registry set up in there and an annual report. It looked like during the drafting of the bill that somebody had just kind of taken somebody else's legislation kind of off the shelf and we had kind of redrafted it. And there wasn't anything in there about any of this kind of being public. And so I want to urge my Cabinet colleagues before you bring forward even something as mundane as an Elevators and Lifts Act, that you actually look at this stuff with -- you know, you say we have an open government here. I don't think it was applied to the drafting of this bill. So, you know, you've got an open government policy and you didn't -- I don't think it was applied to this bill. So I want to urge you folks to, even when you're drafting the most mundane stuff, to bring that lens to the legislation that you're bringing forward in the House. Where we have registries set up, make sure that it says that in here in the bill that it's actually going to be a public registry; annual reports that are going to get filed, make sure that they're going to get tabled or placed somewhere in a public fashion. So it's all about proactive disclosure, it's about open government but you need to apply that. Thanks. That's my lecture for today. Thanks, Mr. Chair.
Kevin O'Reilly on Committee Motion 301-19(2): Tabled Document 723-19(2): Capital Estimates 2023-2024 - Industry, Tourism, and Investment - Deferral of Department (page 46), Carried
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Committee Motion 301-19(2): Tabled Document 723-19(2): Capital Estimates 2023-2024 - Industry, Tourism, and Investment - Deferral of Department (page 46), Carried
Consideration Of Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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