ONTARIO CASINO CORPORATION ACT, 1993 / LOI DE 1993 SUR LA SOCIÉTÉ DES CASINOS DE L'ONTARIO

CONTENTS

Tuesday 7 September 1993

Ontario Casino Corporation Act, 1993, Bill 8

STANDING COMMITTEE ON FINANCE AND ECONOMIC AFFAIRS

*Chair / Président: Johnson, Paul R. (Prince Edward-Lennox-South Hastings/

Prince Edward-Lennox-Hastings-Sud ND)

Vice-Chair / Vice-Président: Wiseman, Jim (Durham West/-Ouest ND)

Caplan, Elinor (Oriole L)

*Carr, Gary (Oakville South/-Sud PC)

Cousens, W. Donald (Markham PC)

Jamison, Norm (Norfolk ND)

*Kwinter, Monte (Wilson Heights L)

*Lessard, Wayne (Windsor-Walkerville ND)

*Mathyssen, Irene (Middlesex ND)

North, Peter (Elgin ND)

*Phillips, Gerry (Scarborough-Agincourt L)

*Sutherland, Kimble (Oxford ND)

*In attendance / présents

Substitutions present / Membres remplaçants présents:

Duignan, Noel (Halton North/-Nord ND) for Mr Wiseman

Eves, Ernie L. (Parry Sound PC) for Mr Cousens

Martin, Tony (Sault Ste Marie ND) for Mr Jamison

McClelland, Carman (Brampton North/-Nord L) for Mrs Caplan

Clerk / Greffière: Grannum, Tonia

Staff / Personnel: Wood, Michael, legislative counsel

The committee met at 1438 in the Huron Room, Macdonald Block, Toronto.

ONTARIO CASINO CORPORATION ACT, 1993 / LOI DE 1993 SUR LA SOCIÉTÉ DES CASINOS DE L'ONTARIO

Consideration of Bill 8, An Act to provide for the control of casinos through the establishment of the Ontario Casino Corporation and to provide for certain other matters related to casinos / Loi prévoyant la réglementation des casinos par la création de la Société des casinos de l'Ontario et traitant de certaines autres questions relatives aux casinos.

The Chair (Mr Paul R. Johnson): The standing committee on finance and economic affairs will come to order. We are dealing with Bill 8, An Act to provide for the control of casinos through the establishment of the Ontario Casino Corporation and to provide for certain other matters related to casinos, and today we are also dealing with this bill clause by clause.

I understand that as recently as a few moments ago the Progressive Conservative caucus submitted its amendments to the clerk. I believe the clerk would like to recess for a time.

Mr Ernie L. Eves (Parry Sound): First, Mr Chair, I'd like to apologize (a) for being late, and (b) we have withdrawn several of our proposed amendments. We have two that are being rewritten, the first of which is in section 5, I believe. I understand that you would like some time, and that's certainly acceptable to us, seeing as we're the ones who delayed the proceeding to this point in time.

I just wanted to thank the committee for its indulgence and notify you that we have withdrawn several amendments we were planning to make, we may with-draw others as we go, and we have two that are current- ly being rewritten that should be here shortly.

The Chair: Thank you very much, Mr Eves. Is there any other committee member who wishes to make any comments about this at this time?

Mr Noel Duignan (Halton North): Is it worth continuing this meeting today, as some of the amendments still haven't been tabled and no side has had a chance to review them? We could convene tomorrow at 10.

The Chair: You want to adjourn till tomorrow?

Mr Duignan: It's 20 to 3 now. Any idea when you would get your amendments?

Mr Eves: Yes. We should have them within the half-hour; by 3 o'clock, I would think. But I certainly have no objection to adjourning until tomorrow. It would give us an opportunity to look at each other's amendments. Perhaps there can be some accommodation made.

Mr Monte Kwinter (Wilson Heights): Mr Chairman, if I may, I have no problem with adjourning. The reason I'm supporting that is that not only do we not have the amendments, but they're still being written; they may be here by 3 or they may not be. To just sit around and wait for them to turn up -- and I say this with all due respect. I understand their problem, but maybe the thing to do would be to reconvene tomorrow, as long as we know we're going to get them today and will have a chance to go through them, then we could appear at the proper time.

The Chair: Also, the clerk has requested of the Chair that she have some time to go over the amendments and to insert them in their appropriate places. If there are no major objections to that, then this committee is adjourned until 10 tomorrow morning.

The committee adjourned at 1442.