Mahsi, Madam Chair. I spoke a little earlier about I think the bill. It's good that there's now annual reporting -- well, there was annual reporting. Now it's a little more detailed. But the missing piece here, I think is an actual deadline by which the annual report would have to be filed. And, you know, I have no doubt that the department and the staff are going to do that, but having a deadline sometimes makes sure it actually gets done. And I've been in this -- in my eight years, there's been at least a couple of instances where there was a requirement for annual reporting and the annual reports weren't actually done. The Environmental Rights Act being one and the Superintendent for Insurance, there was a bunch of years that annual reports were never done. So having a deadline just, I think, helps people focus, get the work done by a certain date, and I have picked a date for this motion that I am going to move, and it fits within the broad scope of the three reports that have already been voluntarily done by the department. So, Madam Chair, I'd like to proceed with a motion to amend if I could.
Kevin O'Reilly on Committee Motion 491-19(2): Bill 74: Forest Act - Amend New Clause 128.1, Defeated
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Committee Motion 491-19(2): Bill 74: Forest Act - Amend New Clause 128.1, Defeated
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