TO THE HONOURABLE THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF MANITOBA Your Standing Committee on Legislative Affairs presents the following as its Second Report. Meetings Your Committee met on March 4, 2024 at 1:00 p.m. in Room of the Legislative Building. Matters under Consideration • The Advocate for Children and Youth Act Committee Membership • MLA DELA CRUZ (Chairperson) • Hon. Min. FONTAINE • Mrs. HIEBERT • MLA KENNEDY (Vice-Chairperson) • Ms. LATHLIN • Mrs. STONE Substitutions received during committee proceedings: • Mr. BLASHKO for Ms. LATHLIN • Ms. LATHLIN for Mr.

BLASHKO Non-Committee Members Speaking on Record: • MLA L AMOUREUX • Mrs. COOK Motions Your Committee agreed to the following motion: • THAT, as per

Section of The Advocate for Children and Youth Act, the Standing Committee on Legislative Affairs conduct a comprehensive review of the Act as follows: (

a) the Committee will firstly call the Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth as a witness to provide her recommendations and answer questions. (

b) the Committee will secondly hear public presentations on the Act. Any member of the public may register, and registrations will be accepted for 10 days after the Committee Report of this meeting is presented to the House. Public presentations will be up to 10 minutes long, followed by up to five minutes for questions and answers with MLAs. (

c) written submissions to the Committee from members of the public will be accepted until the Committee has completed hearing public presentations. (

d) after the Standing Committee has completed steps (

a) through (c), a Committee Report will be presented to the House that contains all recommendations from the Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth, a list of all public presenters, and all written submissions received. Submitted by, _______________________________ MLA Jelynn DELA CRUZ, Chairperson March 4, 2024