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Bill 236, Supporting Local Restaurants Act, 2020

Sarkaria, Hon. Prabmeet Singh Associate Minister of Small Business and Red Tape Reduction

Royal Assent received. Statutes of Ontario 2020,

chapter 31

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EXPLANATORY

NOTE

This Explanatory Note was written as a

reader’s aid to Bill 236 and does not form part of the law.

Bill 236 has been enacted as

Chapter 31 of the Statutes of Ontario, 2020.

The

Supporting Local Restaurants Act, 2020 is enacted. The

Act prohibits food delivery services providers, who are identified in the

regulations, from charging restaurants more than the prescribed amount for food

and beverage delivery services or related services. The prohibition applies in

respect of restaurants that are not chain restaurants, that have indoor dining,

and that are prohibited from permitting indoor dining by an order or direction

under the Reopening Ontario (A Flexible Response to

COVID-19) Act, 2020 or the Health Protection and

Promotion Act .

Food

delivery services provider are prohibited from reducing compensation or any

other prescribed payment that it provides to an employee or contractor who

performs delivery services in order to comply with the Act.

The

Act provides for complaints to be made to the Ministry regarding contraventions

of the Act and for investigations to be conducted in respect of contraventions

of the Act. The Act sets out offences and the penalties for offences. Related

regulation making powers are enacted.

Bill 236 2020

Act in respect of food and beverage delivery fees

Her

Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province

of Ontario, enacts as follows:

PART

Interpretation and Application

Definitions

this Act,

“Associate

Minister” means the Associate Minister of Small Business and Red Tape

Reduction, or any other member of the Executive Council to whom responsibility

for the administration of this Act is assigned or transferred under the Executive Council Act ; (“ministre associé”)

“beverage”

includes an alcoholic beverage; (“boisson”)

“chain

restaurant” means a restaurant that is part of a set of related restaurants

consisting of 10 or more food service premises in Canada that operate under the

same or substantially the same name, regardless of ownership, and that offer

the same or substantially the same food items; (“restaurant faisant

partie

d’une chaîne”)

“Deputy

Minister” means the deputy minister of the Ministry; (“sous-ministre”)

“Director”

means the person appointed as the Director under subsection 4 (1);

(“directeur”)

“food

delivery services provider” means a person identified in the regulations; (“fournisseur

de services de livraison de nourriture”)

“investigator”

means an investigator appointed under subsection 6 (1); (“enquêteur”)

“Ministry”

means the ministry of the Associate Minister; (“ministère”)

“officer”

includes,

(

a) with

respect to a corporation, the chair and any vice-chair of the board of

directors, the president and any vice-president, the secretary and assistant

secretary, the treasurer and assistant treasurer and the general manager and

assistant general manager of the corporation,

(

b) with

respect to a partnership, a partner or general manager and assistant general

manager of the partnership, and

(

c) with

respect to a corporation or partnership, any other individual designated as an

officer by by-law or resolution or any other individual who performs functions

normally performed by an individual occupying such office; (“ dirigeant ”)

“prescribed”

means prescribed by the regulations; (“prescrit”)

“regulations”

means the regulations made under this Act; (“règlements”)

“restaurant”

means an establishment that is engaged in providing food or beverage services

to patrons who order and are served while seated and pay after consuming, or

who order or select food or beverage items prepared for immediate consumption

at a counter, food bar or cafeteria line, or order by telephone or online, and

pay before consuming, but does not include an establishment that is a grocery

store. (“restaurant”)

PART

Delivery charges

Maximum

amount for delivery services

(1) A

food delivery services provider shall not charge a restaurant described in subsection

(2) more than the prescribed amount for food and

beverage delivery services or related services it provides to the

restaurant.

Restaurants

to which the maximum applies

(2) Subsection

(1) applies in respect of a restaurant if,

(

a) it

is not a chain restaurant;

(

b) it

has an indoor dining area; and

(

c) it

is prohibited from permitting indoor dining by,

(

i) an

order under the Reopening Ontario (A Flexible Response to

COVID-19) Act, 2020 , or

(ii) a

direction issued by the Chief Medical Officer of Health or an order under

section 22 of the Health Protection and Promotion Act

made by a medical officer of health.

reduction in compensation

food delivery services provider shall reduce the compensation or any other

prescribed payment that it provides to an employee or contractor who performs

delivery services in order to comply with this Act.

PART

III

Director and Deputy Directors

Director

and Deputy Directors

(1) The Deputy Minister shall appoint a Director

for the purposes of this Act and may appoint Deputy Directors.

Powers

and duties

(2) The

Director may exercise the powers and shall perform the duties conferred on the

Director under this Act.

Duties of Deputy Director

(3) A

Deputy Director shall perform such duties as are assigned by the Director and

shall act as Director in the Director’s absence.

Same

(4) Only

one Deputy Director may act as Director in the Director’s absence at any one

time.

PART

Complaints and InvestigationS

Ministry

receives complaints and makes inquiries

(1) Subject

to subsections (2) and (3), the Ministry may,

(

a) receive

complaints concerning conduct that may be in contravention of this Act, whether

the conduct constitutes an offence or not; and

(

b) make

inquiries, gather information and attempt to resolve complaints, as

appropriate, concerning any matter that comes to its attention that may be in

contravention of this Act, whether the matter constitutes an offence or not.

(2) A

restaurant may file a complaint with the Ministry, along with documentary

evidence of the amount charged to it by a food delivery services provider if,

(

a) the

restaurant alleges that the food delivery services provider charged the restaurant

more than the prescribed amount for food and beverage delivery services or

related services it provided to the restaurant contrary to

section 2; and

(

b) the

restaurant gave written notice of its concerns to the food delivery services

provider and was unable to resolve the matter.

(3) An

employee or contractor of a food delivery services provider who performs

delivery services may file a complaint with the Ministry, along with

documentary evidence of their compensation or other prescribed payments if,

(

a) the

employee or contractor alleges that the food delivery services provider reduced

their compensation or other prescribed payments contrary to

section 3; and

(

b) the

employee or contractor gave written notice of its concerns to the food delivery

services provider and was unable to resolve the matter.

Appointment

of investigators

(1) The Director may appoint persons to be

investigators for the purpose of conducting investigations.

Identification

(2) An

investigator shall produce, on request, evidence of their appointment as an

investigator.

warrant

(1) On application made without notice by an

investigator, a justice of the peace may issue a warrant if the justice of the

peace is satisfied on information under oath that there is reasonable ground

for believing that,

(

a) a

person has contravened or is contravening this Act or the regulations or has

committed an offence under this Act or the regulations; and

(

b) there

is,

(

i) in

any building, dwelling, receptacle or place anything relating to the

contravention of this Act or the regulations, or

(ii) information

or evidence relating to the contravention of this Act or the regulations that

may be obtained through the use of an investigative technique or procedure or the

doing of anything described in the warrant.

Powers

under warrant

(2) Subject

to any conditions contained in the warrant, a warrant issued under subsection

(1) authorizes an investigator to,

(

a) enter

or access the building, dwelling, receptacle or place specified in the warrant,

and examine and seize anything described in the warrant;

(

b) use

any data storage, processing or retrieval device or system used in carrying on

business in order to produce information or evidence described in the warrant,

in any form;

(

c) require

a person to produce the information or evidence described in the warrant and to

provide whatever assistance is reasonably necessary, including using any data

storage, processing or retrieval device or system to produce, in any form, the

information or evidence described in the warrant; and

(

d) use

any investigative technique or procedure described in the warrant or do

anything described in the warrant.

Obligation

to produce and assist

(3) A

person who is required to do so by an investigator under clause (2) (

c) shall

produce information or evidence described in the warrant and shall provide

whatever assistance is reasonably necessary to produce the information or

evidence in any form.

Entry

of dwelling

(4) Despite

subsection (2), an investigator shall not exercise the power under a warrant to

enter a place, or part of a place, used as a dwelling unless,

(

a) the

justice of the peace is informed that the warrant is being sought to authorize

entry into a dwelling; and

(

b) the

justice of the peace authorizes the entry into the dwelling.

Conditions

on warrant

(5) A

warrant shall contain such conditions as the justice of the peace considers

advisable to ensure that any search authorized by the warrant is reasonable in

the circumstances.

Assistance

(6) A

warrant may authorize persons who have special, expert or professional

knowledge, and such other persons as may be necessary, to accompany and assist

the investigator in respect of the execution of the warrant.

Time

of execution

(7) An

entry or access under a warrant shall be made between 6 a.m. and 9 p.m., unless

the warrant specifies otherwise.

Expiry

of warrant

(8) A

warrant shall name a date of expiry, which shall be no later than 30 days after

the warrant is issued, but a justice of the peace may, on application without

notice by the investigator, extend the date of expiry for an additional period

of no more than 30 days.

Use

of force

(9) An

investigator may call upon police officers for assistance in executing a

warrant and the investigator may use whatever force is reasonably necessary to

execute the warrant.

Obstruction

(10) No

person shall obstruct an investigator executing a warrant or withhold from him

or her or conceal, alter or destroy anything relevant to the investigation.

Seizure

(11) An

investigator who is lawfully present in a place under a warrant may seize

anything that is in plain view if the investigator believes on reasonable

grounds that the thing will afford evidence of a contravention of this Act or

the regulations.

Procedure

(12) An

investigator who has seized a thing under subsection (11) shall comply with the

requirements of

section 158.2 of the Provincial Offences

Act .

May

make copies

(13) An

investigator who seizes anything under this

section may make a copy of it and

shall return the original within a reasonable time.

Admissibility

(14) A

copy of a document or record certified by an investigator as being a true copy

of the original is admissible in evidence to the same extent as the original

and has the same evidentiary value.

warrant required in exigent circumstances

(1) Although a warrant issued under subsection 7

(1) would otherwise be required, an investigator may exercise any of the powers

described in subsection 7 (2) without a warrant if the conditions for obtaining

the warrant exist but because of exigent circumstances it would be

impracticable to obtain the warrant.

Dwellings

(2) Subsection

(1) does not apply to any part of a building that is being used as a dwelling.

Use

of force

(3) An

investigator may, in executing any authority given by this section, call upon

police officers for assistance and use whatever force is reasonably necessary.

Application

of other provisions

(4) Subsections

7 (6), (10), (11), (12), (13) and (14) apply, with necessary modifications, to

the exercise of powers under this section.

PART V

Offences, Penalties and Evidence

Offence

(1) A person is guilty of an offence if the

person contravenes or fails to comply with any provision of this Act or the

regulations.

Officers

or directors

(2) An

officer or director of a corporation is guilty of an offence if the officer or

director fails to take reasonable care to prevent the corporation from

committing an offence mentioned in subsection (1).

Limitation

(3) No

proceeding under this

section shall be commenced more than two years after the

events on which the proceeding is based occurred.

Penalties

Individuals

(1) Every

individual convicted of an offence under this Act or the regulations is liable

to a fine of not more than $50,000, to imprisonment for a term of not more than

one year less a day, or both.

Corporations

(2) Every

corporation convicted of an offence under this Act or the regulations is liable

to a fine of not more than $10,000,000.

Testimony

11 Except in a proceeding under this Act, no person shall be

required to give testimony in a civil proceeding with regard to information

obtained in the course of exercising a power or carrying out a duty related to

the administration of this Act or the regulations.

PART

REgulations

Regulations

(1) The

Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations,

(

a) defining

any word or expression used in this Act that is not already defined;

(

b) further

defining or clarifying the definition of “restaurant” in

section 1;

(

c) identifying

persons, including naming corporations, who are “food delivery services

providers”;

(

d) prescribing,

for the purposes of

section 2, the maximum amount that a food delivery services

provider may charge for food and beverage delivery services or related

services, or the manner of calculating the amount;

(

e) prescribing

payments for the purposes of

section 3 and prescribing what constitutes a

reduction in compensation or a prescribed payment, and otherwise governing the

compensation of employees and contractors who perform delivery services;

(

f) exempting

persons or classes of persons from this Act or any provisions of this Act.

Same

(2) In

the event of a conflict between a regulation made under clause (1) (

b) and this

Act, the regulation prevails.

PART VII

REpeal, Commencement and

Short Title

Repeal

This Act is repealed.

Commencement

This Act comes into force on a day to be named by proclamation of the

Lieutenant Governor.

Short

title

The

short title of this Act is the Supporting Local

Restaurants Act, 2020 .

Bill 236 Original (PDF)

EXPLANATORY

NOTE

The

Supporting Local Restaurants Act, 2020 is enacted. The

Act prohibits food delivery services providers, who are identified in the

regulations, from charging restaurants more than the prescribed amount for food

and beverage delivery services or related services. The prohibition applies in

respect of restaurants that are not chain restaurants, that have indoor dining,

and that are prohibited from permitting indoor dining by an order or direction

under the Reopening Ontario (A Flexible Response to

COVID-19) Act, 2020 or the Health Protection and

Promotion Act .

Food

delivery services provider are prohibited from reducing compensation or any

other prescribed payment that it provides to an employee or contractor who

performs delivery services in order to comply with the Act.

The

Act provides for complaints to be made to the Ministry regarding contraventions

of the Act and for investigations to be conducted in respect of contraventions

of the Act. The Act sets out offences and the penalties for offences. Related

regulation making powers are enacted.

Bill 236 2020

Act in respect of food and beverage delivery fees

Her

Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the

Province of Ontario, enacts as follows:

PART

Interpretation and Application

Definitions

this Act,

“Associate

Minister” means the Associate Minister of Small Business and Red Tape

Reduction, or any other member of the Executive Council to whom responsibility

for the administration of this Act is assigned or transferred under the Executive Council Act ; (“ministre associé”)

“beverage”

includes an alcoholic beverage; (“boisson”)

“chain

restaurant” means a restaurant that is part of a set of related restaurants

consisting of 10 or more food service premises in Canada that operate under the

same or substantially the same name, regardless of ownership, and that offer

the same or substantially the same food items; (“restaurant faisant

partie

d’une chaîne”)

“Deputy

Minister” means the deputy minister of the Ministry; (“sous-ministre”)

“Director”

means the person appointed as the Director under subsection 4 (1);

(“directeur”)

“food

delivery services provider” means a person identified in the regulations; (“fournisseur

de services de livraison de nourriture”)

“investigator”

means an investigator appointed under subsection 6 (1); (“enquêteur”)

“Ministry”

means the ministry of the Associate Minister; (“ministère”)

“officer”

includes,

(

a) with

respect to a corporation, the chair and any vice-chair of the board of

directors, the president and any vice-president, the secretary and assistant

secretary, the treasurer and assistant treasurer and the general manager and

assistant general manager of the corporation,

(

b) with

respect to a partnership, a partner or general manager and assistant general

manager of the partnership, and

(

c) with

respect to a corporation or partnership, any other individual designated as an

officer by by-law or resolution or any other individual who performs functions

normally performed by an individual occupying such office; (“ dirigeant ”)

“prescribed”

means prescribed by the regulations; (“prescrit”)

“regulations”

means the regulations made under this Act; (“règlements”)

“restaurant”

means an establishment that is engaged in providing food or beverage services

to patrons who order and are served while seated and pay after consuming, or

who order or select food or beverage items prepared for immediate consumption

at a counter, food bar or cafeteria line, or order by telephone or online, and

pay before consuming, but does not include an establishment that is a grocery

store. (“restaurant”)

PART

Delivery charges

Maximum

amount for delivery services

(1) A

food delivery services provider shall not charge a restaurant described in subsection

(2) more than the prescribed amount for food and

beverage delivery services or related services it provides to the

restaurant.

Restaurants

to which the maximum applies

(2) Subsection

(1) applies in respect of a restaurant if,

(

a) it

is not a chain restaurant;

(

b) it

has an indoor dining area; and

(

c) it

is prohibited from permitting indoor dining by,

(

i) an

order under the Reopening Ontario (A Flexible Response to

COVID-19) Act, 2020 , or

(ii) a

direction issued by the Chief Medical Officer of Health or an order under

section 22 of the Health Protection and Promotion Act

made by a medical officer of health.

reduction in compensation

food delivery services provider shall reduce the compensation or any other

prescribed payment that it provides to an employee or contractor who performs

delivery services in order to comply with this Act.

PART

III

Director and Deputy Directors

Director

and Deputy Directors

(1) The Deputy Minister shall appoint a Director

for the purposes of this Act and may appoint Deputy Directors.

Powers

and duties

(2) The

Director may exercise the powers and shall perform the duties conferred on the

Director under this Act.

Duties of Deputy Director

(3) A

Deputy Director shall perform such duties as are assigned by the Director and

shall act as Director in the Director’s absence.

Same

(4) Only

one Deputy Director may act as Director in the Director’s absence at any one

time.

PART

Complaints and InvestigationS

Ministry

receives complaints and makes inquiries

(1) Subject

to subsections (2) and (3), the Ministry may,

(

a) receive

complaints concerning conduct that may be in contravention of this Act, whether

the conduct constitutes an offence or not; and

(

b) make

inquiries, gather information and attempt to resolve complaints, as

appropriate, concerning any matter that comes to its attention that may be in

contravention of this Act, whether the matter constitutes an offence or not.

(2) A

restaurant may file a complaint with the Ministry, along with documentary

evidence of the amount charged to it by a food delivery services provider if,

(

a) the

restaurant alleges that the food delivery services provider charged the restaurant

more than the prescribed amount for food and beverage delivery services or

related services it provided to the restaurant contrary to

section 2; and

(

b) the

restaurant gave written notice of its concerns to the food delivery services

provider and was unable to resolve the matter.

(3) An

employee or contractor of a food delivery services provider who performs

delivery services may file a complaint with the Ministry, along with

documentary evidence of their compensation or other prescribed payments if,

(

a) the

employee or contractor alleges that the food delivery services provider reduced

their compensation or other prescribed payments contrary to

section 3; and

(

b) the

employee or contractor gave written notice of its concerns to the food delivery

services provider and was unable to resolve the matter.

Appointment

of investigators

(1) The Director may appoint persons to be

investigators for the purpose of conducting investigations.

Identification

(2) An

investigator shall produce, on request, evidence of their appointment as an

investigator.

warrant

(1) On application made without notice by an

investigator, a justice of the peace may issue a warrant if the justice of the

peace is satisfied on information under oath that there is reasonable ground

for believing that,

(

a) a

person has contravened or is contravening this Act or the regulations or has

committed an offence under this Act or the regulations; and

(

b) there

is,

(

i) in

any building, dwelling, receptacle or place anything relating to the

contravention of this Act or the regulations, or

(ii) information

or evidence relating to the contravention of this Act or the regulations that

may be obtained through the use of an investigative technique or procedure or

the doing of anything described in the warrant.

Powers

under warrant

(2) Subject

to any conditions contained in the warrant, a warrant issued under subsection

(1) authorizes an investigator to,

(

a) enter

or access the building, dwelling, receptacle or place specified in the warrant,

and examine and seize anything described in the warrant;

(

b) use

any data storage, processing or retrieval device or system used in carrying on

business in order to produce information or evidence described in the warrant,

in any form;

(

c) require

a person to produce the information or evidence described in the warrant and to

provide whatever assistance is reasonably necessary, including using any data

storage, processing or retrieval device or system to produce, in any form, the

information or evidence described in the warrant; and

(

d) use

any investigative technique or procedure described in the warrant or do anything

described in the warrant.

Obligation

to produce and assist

(3) A

person who is required to do so by an investigator under clause (2) (

c) shall

produce information or evidence described in the warrant and shall provide

whatever assistance is reasonably necessary to produce the information or

evidence in any form.

Entry

of dwelling

(4) Despite

subsection (2), an investigator shall not exercise the power under a warrant to

enter a place, or part of a place, used as a dwelling unless,

(

a) the

justice of the peace is informed that the warrant is being sought to authorize

entry into a dwelling; and

(

b) the

justice of the peace authorizes the entry into the dwelling.

Conditions

on warrant

(5) A

warrant shall contain such conditions as the justice of the peace considers

advisable to ensure that any search authorized by the warrant is reasonable in

the circumstances.

Assistance

(6) A

warrant may authorize persons who have special, expert or professional

knowledge, and such other persons as may be necessary, to accompany and assist

the investigator in respect of the execution of the warrant.

Time

of execution

(7) An

entry or access under a warrant shall be made between 6 a.m. and 9 p.m., unless

the warrant specifies otherwise.

Expiry

of warrant

(8) A

warrant shall name a date of expiry, which shall be no later than 30 days after

the warrant is issued, but a justice of the peace may, on application without

notice by the investigator, extend the date of expiry for an additional period

of no more than 30 days.

Use

of force

(9) An

investigator may call upon police officers for assistance in executing a

warrant and the investigator may use whatever force is reasonably necessary to

execute the warrant.

Obstruction

(10) No

person shall obstruct an investigator executing a warrant or withhold from him

or her or conceal, alter or destroy anything relevant to the investigation.

Seizure

(11) An

investigator who is lawfully present in a place under a warrant may seize

anything that is in plain view if the investigator believes on reasonable

grounds that the thing will afford evidence of a contravention of this Act or

the regulations.

Procedure

(12) An

investigator who has seized a thing under subsection (11) shall comply with the

requirements of

section 158.2 of the Provincial Offences

Act .

May

make copies

(13) An

investigator who seizes anything under this

section may make a copy of it and

shall return the original within a reasonable time.

Admissibility

(14) A

copy of a document or record certified by an investigator as being a true copy

of the original is admissible in evidence to the same extent as the original

and has the same evidentiary value.

warrant required in exigent circumstances

(1) Although a warrant issued under subsection 7

(1) would otherwise be required, an investigator may exercise any of the powers

described in subsection 7 (2) without a warrant if the conditions for obtaining

the warrant exist but because of exigent circumstances it would be

impracticable to obtain the warrant.

Dwellings

(2) Subsection

(1) does not apply to any part of a building that is being used as a dwelling.

Use

of force

(3) An

investigator may, in executing any authority given by this section, call upon

police officers for assistance and use whatever force is reasonably necessary.

Application

of other provisions

(4) Subsections

7 (6), (10), (11), (12), (13) and (14) apply, with necessary modifications, to

the exercise of powers under this section.

PART V

Offences, Penalties and Evidence

Offence

(1) A person is guilty of an offence if the

person contravenes or fails to comply with any provision of this Act or the

regulations.

Officers

or directors

(2) An

officer or director of a corporation is guilty of an offence if the officer or

director fails to take reasonable care to prevent the corporation from

committing an offence mentioned in subsection (1).

Limitation

(3) No

proceeding under this

section shall be commenced more than two years after the

events on which the proceeding is based occurred.

Penalties

Individuals

(1) Every

individual convicted of an offence under this Act or the regulations is liable

to a fine of not more than $50,000, to imprisonment for a term of not more than

one year less a day, or both.

Corporations

(2) Every

corporation convicted of an offence under this Act or the regulations is liable

to a fine of not more than $10,000,000.

Testimony

11 Except in a proceeding under this Act, no person shall be

required to give testimony in a civil proceeding with regard to information

obtained in the course of exercising a power or carrying out a duty related to

the administration of this Act or the regulations.

PART

REgulations

Regulations

(1) The

Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations,

(

a) defining

any word or expression used in this Act that is not already defined;

(

b) further

defining or clarifying the definition of “restaurant” in

section 1;

(

c) identifying

persons, including naming corporations, who are “food delivery services

providers”;

(

d) prescribing,

for the purposes of

section 2, the maximum amount that a food delivery services

provider may charge for food and beverage delivery services or related

services, or the manner of calculating the amount;

(

e) prescribing

payments for the purposes of

section 3 and prescribing what constitutes a

reduction in compensation or a prescribed payment, and otherwise governing the

compensation of employees and contractors who perform delivery services;

(

f) exempting

persons or classes of persons from this Act or any provisions of this Act.

Same

(2) In

the event of a conflict between a regulation made under clause (1) (

b) and this

Act, the regulation prevails.

PART VII

REpeal, Commencement and

Short Title

Repeal

This Act is repealed.

Commencement

This Act comes into force on a day to be named by proclamation of the

Lieutenant Governor.

Short

title

The

short title of this Act is the Supporting Local

Restaurants Act, 2020 .

Date Bill stage Event Outcome Committee

December 2, 2020

Royal Assent

Royal Assent received

December 1, 2020

Third Reading

Vote

Carried on division

December 1, 2020

Third Reading

Debated

December 1, 2020

Second Reading

Motion to arrange proceedings

December 1, 2020

Second Reading

Ordered for Third Reading pursuant to the Order of the House

December 1, 2020

Second Reading

Discharge the Order of referral to Committee

December 1, 2020

Second Reading

Time allocated

November 30, 2020

Second Reading

Ordered referred to Standing Committee

Standing Committee on General Government

November 30, 2020

Second Reading

Vote

Carried

November 30, 2020

Second Reading

Debated

November 26, 2020

First Reading

Vote

Carried

Debates and Progress

First Reading

November 26, 2020

Committee

Second Reading

November 30, 2020

Principal Debaters :

Hon. Prabmeet Singh Sarkaria, Mrs. Nina Tangri, Mr. Rudy Cuzzetto, Mr. Lorne Coe, Ms. Teresa J. Armstrong

Questions and Comments :

Mr. Percy Hatfield, Mr. Stephen Crawford, Mr. Wayne Gates, Mr. Mike Harris

Declared carried. Referred to the Standing Committee on General Government.

Time Allocation

December 1, 2020

Ms. Andrea Khanjin, Mr. Gilles Bisson, Mme Lucille Collard

Carried on division. Order of referral the Standing Committee on General Government discharged. Ordered for third reading pursuant to the order of the House.

Motion to Arranged Preceedings

December 1, 2020

Declared carried.

Committee

Standing Committee on General Government

Third Reading

December 1, 2020

Principal Debaters :

Hon. Paul Calandra, Ms. Goldie Ghamari, Ms. Catherine Fife, Mr. Mike Schreiner, Ms. Peggy Sattler

Carried on division.

Royal Assent

Wednesday, December 2, 2020

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