Mahsi for that. The motion is in order. To the motion.

Question has been called. All those in favour? It's a resounding. All those opposed? Abstentions? Motion is carried.

---Carried

Thank you, committee. And thank you, Minister. Thank you, Minister, for your appearance and for your witnesses. Sergeant-at-arms, please escort the witnesses from the Chamber.

We've got one bill to look after. All right, committee, we have agreed to consider Committee Report 33-19(2), Standing Committee on Economic Development and Environmental Report on Bill 52: Elevators and Lifts Act. I will go to the chair of the Standing Committee on Economic Development and Environment for any opening comments.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The committee's report was read into the record on Tuesday, October 18th, 2022. At this time, I do not have any additional comments to add to this at this time. Individual Members may have comments on the report. And I would like to thank the committee for their work on this report. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Mahsi for that. I will now open the floor to general comments on Committee Report 33-19(2), Standing Committee on Economic Development and Environmental Report on Bill 52: Elevators and Lifts Act. Mr. O'Reilly.

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.