Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Minister indicated when he was going to take forth this consultive process in respect to the Mining Safety Act, that he would consider looking at an independent chairman who is knowledgeable of mining. Who does he anticipate to appoint as the chairperson?

Mr. Speaker, I would like to know if the Minister is able to give us an estimated cost that this process might be and how much funding would he anticipate that his department would have to fund from within.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have a question for the Minister of Safety and Public Services. A few days ago the Minister indicated a new tripartite consultative process in respect to the Mining Safety Act. What is going to be the cost of this new process?

Mr. Chairman, since I have the information I will withdraw my motion.

Motion To Defer Bill 3, Withdrawn

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Since our break I have taken the time to look at the regulation and I guess I want to make a point here on my questioning to the Minister in wanting a copy of this list of the regulations. I have received that list, but at the same time he indicated he had over 300 and that would place him in a very difficult position to translate from English to French. For the life of me I cannot understand why he would want to translate from English to French redundant regulations, and that is basically what this bill is asking for. He could have clarified that.

Mr. Chairman, could I ask for a copy of my motion to be translated, please?

Mr. Chairman, because of the fact that we do not know what actual regulations have been repealed or replaced and because of the fact that we are asked to vote on a bill that is requesting these regulations be translated into English and French, because of the fact that I have a difficult problem with that, I am asking to pass law that we know that we are going to have a difficult time adhering to, and I do not know what areas that it is not going to be applied to, and I have a problem with that.

Motion To Defer Bill 3

So, with that I want to indicate that to the Members and I would like to move, until I get that information from the Minister, that this bill be deferred to the sitting tomorrow.

Mr. Chairman, I would like to know, you know, I have a problem with all the time in respect to legislation just being passed for the convenience of it being passed. I asked the Minister as to what regulations will be required to be translated into English and French by the end of March. He indicated to me that there are over 300 and that he will have a difficult time making sure that these regulations are translated, but yet as a Legislative Assembly we are asked to put forth this bill and we are asked to vote on it and we know that we cannot meet the requirements of the bill, and I have a problem with that.

So therefore, I want to know, from the Minister what actual regulations have been repealed or replaced?

I am concerned that I did not get a reply to my question. I asked what regulations will be exempt with respect to this act. If there are over 300 that are supposed to be translated into English and French that are not done, this act basically indicates that they have to be translated by the end of March, as the Minister stated, I want to know what regulations are going to be exempt from it.