Yeah, thanks, Madam Chair. Yeah, I'd mentioned, and other committee members have mentioned, that we kind of ran out of time at the end. We had met a couple of times with the departmental staff representatives of the technical working group and in the second meeting, we had a good discussion around some amendments that committee had proposed, and those were kind of taken away and some further work was done by the departmental staff, by the technical working group members, and then those were provided to committee. And committee had been at least under the impression that there was still time for us to respond to that and try to have maybe one more go at it in terms of reaching consensus on a few items. And we did provide that notice to the Minister, and, unfortunately, the Minister said I don't have any more time to look at this to get it through Cabinet, or whatever the Minister has to do, and we just ran out of time. So hopefully these things don't always happen at the end of the life of an Assembly. They don't get scrunched in. I guess -- and we also undertook, at the beginning of this, to really look at lessons learned because this is the first time we went through this process. It was a good process. And the thing that I -- one of the things I learned from this as well, that collaborative review worked very well, and if we had a bit more time I think we could have probably reached consensus on a few more items. But we just ran out of time because of the end of the life of this Assembly and the need to get this bill back in for this sitting. So that's the intention of this, is to try to encourage a collaborative review of bills like this and, if there's enough time, to extend that if necessary. Thanks, Madam Chair.
Kevin O'Reilly on Committee Motion 481-19(2): Committee Report 62-19(2): Standing Committee on Economic Development and Environment Report on the Review of Bill 74: Forest Act - Extend Review Process, Carried
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Committee Motion 481-19(2): Committee Report 62-19(2): Standing Committee on Economic Development and Environment Report on the Review of Bill 74: Forest Act - Extend Review Process, Carried
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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