STANDING COMMITTEE
ON
JUSTICE POLICY
COMITÉ
PERMANENT
DE LA JUSTICE
Wednesday 24 November 2004 Mercredi 24 novembre 2004
The committee met at 1001 in room 228.
SUBCOMMITTEE REPORT
The Vice-Chair (Mr Bob Delaney): Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I call to order the standing committee on justice policy. The agenda that we have before us today is Bill 70, An Act to amend various Acts administered by or affecting the Ministry of Consumer and Business Services.
We have a report from the subcommittee. Is there a mover of the report from the subcommittee?
Mr Ted McMeekin (Ancaster-Dundas-Flamborough-Aldershot): Yes, Mr Chairman. Since you were on the subcommittee and are currently in the chair, I've been asked to move it. I'm pleased to do that:
Your subcommittee on committee business met on Friday, November 19, 2004, and recommends the following with respect to Bill 70, An Act to amend various Acts administered by or affecting the Ministry of Consumer and Business Services:
(1) That the committee meet on Wednesday, November 24, 2004 -- this day -- in Toronto to consider Bill 70.
(2) That the clerk of the committee be authorized to post an advertisement on the Ontario parliamentary channel and on the Internet.
(3) That the clerk of the committee, in consultation with the Chair, be authorized prior to the adoption of the report of the subcommittee to commence making any preliminary arrangements to facilitate the committee's proceedings.
The Vice-Chair: Are there any comments on the report of the subcommittee? Seeing none, Mr McMeekin has moved adoption of the report of the subcommittee. All in favour? Opposed? Carried.
Mr Peter Kormos (Niagara Centre): Chair, if I may ask the clerk to advise us of the nature and extent of the advertising as instructed by the subcommittee and the response, if any, to the advertising of this committee hearing.
The Clerk of the Committee (Mr Katch Koch): An ad was posted on the parliamentary channel and on the Legislative Assembly Web site Friday afternoon of last week, following the subcommittee meeting. The ad ran until last night. We did not receive any requests from people interested in --
Mr Kormos: Had there been any requests or inquiries during the course of this bill through the Legislature during second reading?
The Clerk of the Committee: I don't know.
Mr Kormos: Not that you're aware of?
The Clerk of the Committee: Not that I'm aware of.
Mr Kormos: I presume those would have been collected had they come in.
The Clerk of the Committee: Yes.
MINISTRY OF CONSUMER AND
BUSINESS SERVICES STATUTE LAW
AMENDMENT ACT, 2004
LOI DE 2004 MODIFIANT DES LOIS
EN CE QUI CONCERNE LE MINISTÈRE
DES SERVICES AUX CONSOMMATEURS
ET AUX ENTREPRISES
Consideration of Bill 70, An Act to amend various Acts administered by or affecting the Ministry of Consumer and Business Services / Projet de loi 70, Loi modifiant diverses lois appliquées par ou touchant le ministère des Services aux consommateurs et aux entreprises.
The Vice-Chair: We're here to consider Bill 70. Are there any comments, questions or amendments to any sections of the bill, and if so, to what section?
Hearing none, is it the will of the members that more than one section be considered at the same time?
Mr Kormos: Yes.
Mr Kevin Daniel Flynn (Oakville): Yes.
The Vice-Chair: Shall sections 1 through 25 carry?
Mr Kormos: Carried.
Mr McMeekin: Those sections were my very favourite, Mr Chairman, so we want to carry those.
The Vice-Chair: Carried.
Shall the title of the bill carry? Carried.
Shall Bill 70 carry? Carried.
Shall I report the bill to the House?
Mr McMeekin: Absolutely. Carried.
The Vice-Chair: Agreed?
Mr McMeekin: That too, yes.
The Vice-Chair: Is there any other business for the committee to consider this morning?
Do I hear a motion to adjourn?
Mr Jim Brownell (Stormont-Dundas-Charlottenburgh): So moved, Mr Chairman.
The Vice-Chair: A motion to adjourn from Mr Brownell.
The committee adjourned at 1006.
CONTENTS
Wednesday 24 November 2004
Subcommittee report JP-371
Ministry of Consumer and Business
Services Statute Law Amendment Act, 2004,
Bill 70, Mr Watson / Loi de 2004 modifiant des lois en ce
qui concerne le ministère
des Services aux consommateurs et aux entreprises, projet de loi 70,
M. Watson JP-371
STANDING COMMITTEE ON JUSTICE POLICY
Chair / Président
Mr David Orazietti (Sault Ste Marie L)
Vice-Chair / Vice-Président
Mr Bob Delaney (Mississauga West / Mississauga-Ouest L)
Mr Michael A. Brown (Algoma-Manitoulin L)
Mr Jim Brownell (Stormont-Dundas-Charlottenburgh L)
Mr Bob Delaney (Mississauga West / Mississauga-Ouest L)
Mr Kevin Daniel Flynn (Oakville L)
Mr Frank Klees (Oak Ridges PC)
Mr Peter Kormos (Niagara Centre / Niagara-Centre ND)
Mr David Orazietti (Sault Ste Marie L)
Mr Mario G. Racco (Thornhill L)
Mrs Elizabeth Witmer (Kitchener-Waterloo PC)
Substitutions / Membres remplaçants
Mr Gerry Martiniuk (Cambridge PC)
Mr Ted McMeekin (Ancaster-Dundas-Flamborough-Aldershot L)
Mr Shafiq Qaadri (Etobicoke North / Etobicoke-Nord L)
Clerk / Greffier
Mr Katch Koch
Staff / Personnel
Mr Michael Wood, legislative
counsel
Ms Margaret Drent, research officer, Research and Information Services