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Ten o’clock a.m.
Prayers and Reflections by Mr. Starchuk.
The Hon. M. Farnworth (Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General) presented to the Speaker a Message from Her Honour the Lieutenant Governor, which read as follows:
Janet Austin
Lieutenant Governor
The Lieutenant Governor transmits herewith Bill (No. 8) intituled Public Safety and Solicitor General Statutes Amendment Act, 2021 and recommends the same to the Legislative Assembly.
Government House,
April 21, 2021.
Bill introduced and read a first time.
Bill Ordered to be placed on the Orders of the Day for second reading at the next sitting after today.
Order called for “Members’ Statements.”
Order called for “Oral Questions by Members.”
The House proceeded to “Orders of the Day.”
Pursuant to Order, the House resumed the adjourned debate on the motion “That the Speaker do now leave the Chair” for the House to go into Committee of Supply.
Pursuant to Sessional Order, division on the motion “That the Speaker do now leave the Chair” for the House to go into Committee of Supply was deferred to later today.
By leave, the Hon. M. Farnworth moved —
That, notwithstanding sections 5 (2) and (3) of the Sessional Order adopted on April 12, 2021, that the division called on the motion “That the Speaker do now leave the Chair” for the House to go into Committee of Supply proceed forthwith, and that the deferred division process commence with the timing set out in section 6 (b) of the Sessional Order adopted on April 12, 2021, after the Speaker rings the bells.
Motion agreed to.
The motion “That the Speaker do now leave the Chair” for the House to go into Committee of Supply was agreed to on the following division:
| Yeas — 56 | |||
| Farnworth Alexis Anderson Babchuk Bailey Bains Beare Begg Brar Chandra Herbert Chant Chen Chow Conroy |
Coulter Cullen D’Eith Dix Donnelly Dykeman Eby Elmore Fleming Glumac Greene Heyman Horgan Kahlon |
Kang Leonard Lore Ma Malcolmson Mark Mercier Osborne Popham Ralston Rankin Rice Robinson Routledge |
Routley Russell Sandhu Sharma Simons Sims A. Singh R. Singh Starchuk Walker Whiteside Yao Furstenau Olsen |
| Nays — 26 | |||
| Milobar Ashton Banman Bernier Bond Davies de Jong |
Doerkson Halford Kirkpatrick Kyllo Lee Letnick Merrifield |
Morris Oakes Paton Ross Rustad Shypitka |
Stewart Stone Sturdy Tegart Wat Wilkinson |
And then the House adjourned at 12 noon.
One-thirty o’clock p.m.
The Hon. J. Horgan (Premier) made a ministerial statement regarding the death of Thomas R. Berger, Q.C., O.C., O.B.C., a former Member of the Legislative Assembly.
Mr. de Jong made a statement.
Mr. Olsen made a statement.
The House proceeded to “Orders of the Day.”
On the motion for second reading of Bill (No. 5) intituled InBC Investment Corp. Act, a debate arose.
The debate continued.
On the motion of Ms. Chant, the debate was adjourned to the next sitting of the House.
The Hon. L. Beare moved —
That, when the House next adjourns after the adoption of this motion, it do stand adjourned until 10 a.m. on Monday, May 10, 2021.
Motion agreed to.
And then the House adjourned at 5.27 p.m.
HON. RAJ CHOUHAN, Speaker
Monday, May 10
7 Mr. Donnelly to move —
Be it resolved that this House unanimously agree that climate change, habitat loss, and pollution are negatively impacting wild salmon survival and that this House reaffirm its commitment to investments in wild salmon conservation solutions.
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