NDP chooses three bills to delay
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The NDP delayed three bills Thursday that could change the rules of the social services appeals board, eliminate the requirement to post government notices in newspapers and award cabinet ministers money years from now.
Legislature rules allow the opposition to designate five bills to delay which would otherwise pass.
Earlier, NDP Leader Wab Kinew chose to delay Premier Brian Pallister’s carbon tax bill which would impose a carbon tax of $25 per tonne of emissions Sept. 1, and a bill that would have reduced renters’ rights to lay complaints about their landlords.
Bill 8 changes the rules for the Queen’s printer and makes the Manitoba Gazette available free online, but also has a provision which would end the long-standing requirement that government notices under 25 acts such as planning, the environment, changing boundaries and many other issues be published in newspapers.
Bill 24, the Social Services Appeal Board Amendment Act, would remove the right of Manitobans to take some human-rights cases before the social services appeal board.
Bill 27 amends earlier legislation which would have docked government ministers 20 per cent of their stipend as a minister if they failed to meet financial targets, but would rebate it as far into the future as 2024 if, and when, they balance the budget
The legislature was to sit late Thursday evening to pass a second reading of nine bills which will go to public hearings beginning the week of May 7.
nick.martin@freepress.mb.ca
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Updated on Friday, April 20, 2018 6:34 AM CDT: Final