Yeah, thanks, Madam Chair. This is one of the hills I guess I wanted to die on in this Assembly. Maybe it seems like I'm trying to die on every single administrative trivia. That's not the case, but this is one that Members on this side of the House have continually raised, is the need for better public engagement and communications from our Cabinet colleagues. And I think this is really extended to the issue of regulations in particular.
In this Assembly, we did amend -- and I did get concurrence from the Minister. The Child Daycare Act was amended to require the Minister in that case to provide draft regulations to child care providers. And that was because of their interest in trying to move forward with the significant changes to that area. So there's a case where a Cabinet Minister went above and beyond the Cabinet operational guidelines, and we incorporated that into the bill. The Minister concurred with it. The Minister's smiling because he knows he did it. So we've done it before. And, you know, I -- this, as I said before, this is another -- this is an example of a -- this is not normal legislation. People have asked for this ability to look at the regulations. The NGOs asked that. NWTAC has asked that. This is in response to legitimate requests that we got as a committee. So, I'm not making this stuff up. This is the way that it should happen.
In response to the concerns from -- that we heard from the department and -- department, that's why they added subsection (2) here to this so that the Minister doesn't have to go through a public engagement process if the Minister satisfied, in the Minister's own opinion, that an emergency situation exists. So don't have to do public engagement if there's an emergency. So covered that one with this as well.
So I'm hoping that -- although I haven't had a lot of support so far with a number of the motions I've moved, that Members on this side who are Regular Members, we've pushed for this before in other bills; I don't know why we wouldn't do it on this bill as well. Thanks, Madam Chair.