TO THE HONOURABLE THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF MANITOBA Your Standing Committee on SOCIAL & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT presents the following as its Sixth Report. Meetings Your Committee met on the following occasions: • July 21, 2008 • July 22, 2008 • July 23, 2008 • July 24, 2008 All meetings were held in Room 255 of the Legislative Building. Matters under Consideration • Bill (No. 45) – The Teachers' Pensions Amendment Act/Loi modifiant la

Loi sur la pension de retraite des enseignants Committee Membership Committee Membership for the July 21, 2008 meeting: • Mr. ALTEMEYER • Hon. Mr. BJORNSON • Ms. BLADY • Mr. BOROTSIK • Mr. CALDWELL • Mr. DYCK • Mr. HAWRANIK • Mr. JHA • Mr. MARTINDALE • Mr. SCHULER • Hon. Mr. STRUTHERS Your Committee elected Mr. ALTEMEYER as the Chairperson at the July 21, 2008 meeting. Your Committee elected Ms. BLADY as the Vice-Chairperson at the July 21, 2008 meeting. Substitutions received during committee proceedings at the July 21, 2008 meeting: • Mrs. STEFANSON for Mr. BOROTSIK • Hon. Ms. IRVIN-ROSS for Mr.

JHA Committee Membership for the July 22, 2008 meeting: • Mr. ALTEMEYER (Chairperson) • Hon. Mr. BJORNSON • Mr. BOROTSIK • Ms. BRICK • Mr. BRIESE • Hon. Mr. CHOMIAK • Mr. DERKACH • Ms. HOWARD • Ms. MARCELINO • Mr. SCHULER • Hon. Mr. STRUTHERS Your Committee elected Ms. BRICK as the Vice-Chairperson at the July 22, 2008 meeting. Substitutions received during committee proceedings at the July 22, 2008 meeting: • Mr. FAURSCHOU for Mr. DERKACH • Mr. DEWAR for Hon. Mr. CHOMIAK

Committee Membership for the July 23, 2008 meeting: • Mr. ALTEMEYER (Chairperson) • Hon. Mr. BJORNSON • Mr. CULLEN • Mr. FAURSCHOU • Ms. MARCELINO • Hon. Ms. McGIFFORD • Mrs. MITCHELSON • Hon. Mr. RONDEAU • Mr. SARAN • Mr. SCHULER • Ms. SELBY Your Committee elected Ms. BLADY as the Vice-Chairperson at the July 23, 2008 meeting. Committee Membership for the July 24, 2008 meeting: • Mr. ALTEMEYER (Chairperson) • Hon. Mr. BJORNSON • Ms. BLADY • Ms. BRICK • Mr. CULLEN • Mr. DEWAR • Mr. GOERTZEN • Mr. HAWRANIK • Hon. Ms. IRVIN-ROSS • Mr. MALOWAY • Mrs. MITCHELSON Your Committee elected Ms.

BRICK as the Vice-Chairperson at the July 24, 2008 meeting. Substitutions received during committee proceedings at the July 24, 2008 meeting: • Mr. FAURSCHOU for Mr. CULLEN • Hon. Ms. MELNICK for Ms. IRVIN-ROSS • Mr. SCHULER for Mr. GOERTZEN • Mr. SARAN for Hon. Ms. MELNICK • Ms. MARCELINO for Mr. MALOWAY • Mr. BRIESE for Mrs. MITCHELSON • Hon. Mr. CHOMIAK for Ms. BLADY Public Presentations Your Committee heard the following 111 presentations on Bill (No. 45) – The Teachers' Pensions Amendment Act/Loi modifiant la

Loi sur la pension de retraite des enseignants: July 21, 2008 1. Brian Paterson Private Citizen 2. Marvin Krawec Private Citizen 3. Pat Bowslaugh Retired Teachers' Association of Manitoba 4. Leslie Porteous Private Citizen 5. Ken Malcolm Private Citizen 6. Pat Hamm Private Citizen 7. Blaine Johnson Private Citizen 8. Adam Grabowski Private Citizen 9. Lana Rinn Boyne

Chapter Retired Teachers of Manitoba 10. Georgina Dyck-Hacault Private Citizen 11. Kyle McKinstry Private Citizen 12. Shirley Augustine Private Citizen 13. John Sushelnitsky Private Citizen 14. Pam Stinson Private Citizen 15. Joan Johnston Private Citizen 16. Audrey Myers Private Citizen 17. John Carley Private Citizen 18. Alex Krawec Private Citizen 19. Lynne Taillefer Private Citizen 20. Wayne Hollier President of Neepawa Area Retired Teacher's Association

21. Patrick Lacroix Private Citizen 22. Gary Hooper Private Citizen 23. John Warkentin Private Citizen 24. Guy Hansen Private Citizen July 22, 2008 25. Patricia Gendreau Private Citizen 26. Marcel Gauthier Private Citizen 27. Roger Legal Private Citizen 28. Guy Gagnon Private Citizen 29. Denis Clement Private Citizen 30. Jean M. Taillefer Private Citizen 31. Norma Lacroix-Gagné President of the French

Chapter of RTAM, the Éducatrices et Éducateurs manitobains à la retraite 32. Antoine Gagné Private Citizen 33. Denis Bisson Private Citizen 34. Lucien Loh Private Citizen 35. Alfred Phaneuf Private Citizen 36. Raymond Bisson Private Citizen 37. Huguette Rempel Private Citizen 38. Al Nickel Private Citizen 39. David McAuley Private Citizen 40. Pat Isaak Manitoba Teachers' Society 41. Mariette Ferre Private Citizen 42. Tom Ulrich Private Citizen 43. Richard R. Benoit Private Citizen 44. Anne Monk Private Citizen 45. Karen Boughton Private Citizen 46. Keith D. Boughton Private Citizen 47.

Wayne Hughes Private Citizen 48. Dan Turner President - River East Transcona Teacher's Association July 23, 2008 49. Jean Todd Private Citizen 50. Deanna Dolff Private Citizen 51. Laurena Leskiw Private Citizen 52. John Nelson Private Citizen 53. Paul Olson Private Citizen 54. Terence Clifford Private Citizen 55. Bernice Stebbing Private Citizen 56. Brian Ardern Private Citizen 57. Dr. Jacqueline Stalker Private Citizen 58. Roland Stankevicius Private Citizen 59. Marjory Grevstad Private Citizen 60. Lyle Beattie Private Citizen 61. Bill Johnston Private Citizen 62. Brian Head Private Citizen 63.

Beverly Reeves Private Citizen 64. Barbara Teskey Private Citizen 65. Donna Miller Private Citizen 66. Inez Striemer Private Citizen 67. Iris Nowakowski Private Citizen 68. Jean Ogren Private Citizen 69. Kay Arnot Private Citizen 70. Peggy Prendergast Private Citizen 71. Lorraine Forrest Private Citizen 72. Tom Forrest Private Citizen 73. Maizie Walton Private Citizen 74. Jake Peters Private Citizen July 24, 2008 75. Barbara McDole Private Citizen 76. Sharon Fischer Private Citizen 77. Deedee Rizzo Private Citizen 78. Maggie Keller Private Citizen 79. Georgina Jarema Private Citizen 80.

Norman Grywinski Private Citizen 81. Linda Asper Private Citizen

82. Aubrey Asper Private Citizen 83. Karen Wiebe Private Citizen 84. Warren Ogren Private Citizen 85. Patricia Grafenauer Private Citizen 86. Jo-Anne Irving Private Citizen 87. Ian MacIntyre Private Citizen 88. Gregory Giesbrecht Private Citizen 89. Phyllis Hunter Private Citizen 90. Edith Doyle Private Citizen 91. Philip Zubrycki Private Citizen 92. David Bertnick Private Citizen 93. Sandra Johnston Private Citizen 94. Monique Ting Private Citizen 95. Bob Thompson Private Citizen 96. Albert Labun Private Citizen 97. Valdine Johnson Private Citizen 98. Edward Mann Private Citizen 99.

Lorne Ferley Private Citizen 100. Jackie Wardell Private Citizen 101. Ivan Pokus Private Citizen 102. John Petrinka Private Citizen 103. Bob Preston Private Citizen 104. Ken Miller Private Citizen 105. Clarice Gilchrist Private Citizen 106. Dale Lund Private Citizen 107. Dick Marshall Private Citizen 108. Ruth Livingston Private Citizen 109. Mary Barzey Private Citizen 110. Lea Mansell Private Citizen 111. Ursula Schindel-Ditchburn Private Citizen Written Submissions Your Committee rece ived the following 158 written submissions on Bill (No. 45) – The Teachers' Pensions Amendment Act/Loi modifiant la

Loi sur la pension de retraite des enseignants: 1. Albert E. Parsons Private Citizen 2. Alice Sklar Private Citizen 3. Arnold Reimer Private Citizen 4. Asa L. Reid Private Citizen 5. Barry Reilly Private Citizen 6. Bernice & David Lewis Private Citizen 7. Bertha Norberg Private Citizen 8. Betty McLachlan Private Citizen 9. Bohdan Danelak Private Citizen 10. C.E.Darvill Private Citizen 11. Clair Davies Private Citizen 12. David P. Giesbrecht Private Citizen 13. Dennis Wrightson Private Citizen 14. Doreen Poersch Private Citizen 15. Doreen Sage Private Citizen 16. Doris Griffiths Private Citizen 17.

Dorothy Kilburn Private Citizen 18. Ed and Andrea Hammond Private Citizen 19. Edward Sklar Private Citizen 20. Elizabeth Hilken Private Citizen 21. Ellen Walker Private Citizen 22. Frank Prouten Private Citizen 23. George Novak Private Citizen 24. Gloria Penner Private Citizen 25. Henry Tkachuk Private Citizen 26. Ingrid Humphries Private Citizen 27. Irene Sulik Private Citizen 28. J.M. Klassen Private Citizen 29. Jack and Elizabeth McLachlan Private Citizen 30. Jake Warkentin Private Citizen 31. Janet Sirrell Private Citizen

32. Jean Anderson Private Citizen 33. Jerry Baltesson Private Citizen 34. Jim Reid Private Citizen 35. Joan Grey Private Citizen 36. John Ehringer Private Citizen 37. John Quayle Private Citizen 38. Joie Van Dongen Private Citizen 39. Josef Segal Private Citizen 40. Julia Mackay Private Citizen 41. K.M. Ferg Private Citizen 42. Larice Sych Private Citizen 43. Laurette Chabbert Private Citizen 44. Lawrence & Louise Mydynski Private Citizen 45. Leona Tomchuk Private Citizen 46. Leota Nelson Private Citizen 47. Leslie Wrightson Private Citizen 48. Lorraine Shirley Romanetz Private Citizen 49.

Madeline Coopsammy Private Citizen 50. Margaret D. Kaspick Private Citizen 51. Margrose Madak Private Citizen 52. Marlene Frayer Private Citizen 53. Maureen Recksiedler Private Citizen 54. Michael Czuboka Private Citizen 55. Neil Goertzen Private Citizen 56. Norma & Rob Somers Private Citizen 57. Phil Shaman Private Citizen 58. Renate Schultz Private Citizen 59. Rhonda Grist Private Citizen 60. Richard Kulbacki Private Citizen 61. Robert Lussier Private Citizen 62. Robert Lussier Private Citizen 63. Robert M. Swayze Private Citizen 64. Robert Ramsay Private Citizen 65. Roger E. Gateson Private Citizen 66.

Roland Otto Private Citizen 67. Roméo Lemieux Private Citizen 68. Ron & Isabel Hayes Private Citizen 69. Ron Rayner Private Citizen 70. Rosalie Bornn Private Citizen 71. Roy Richmond Private Citizen 72. Suzanne Ouellet Private Citizen 73. Theresa Chartrand Private Citizen 74. Valerie Davies Private Citizen 75. William Gallinger Private Citizen 76. Astrid Michal Kuprowski Private Citizen 77. Beverley Finlayson Private Citizen 78. Bill Cann Private Citizen 79. Donna & Vance Birnie Private Citizen 80. Dorothy Strachan Private Citizen 81. Frances Fraser Private Citizen 82. Frances Kogan Private Citizen 83.

Frank Basiuk Private Citizen 84. Gary Lally Private Citizen 85. Georges Druwe Private Citizen 86. Helen McCarthy Private Citizen 87. Ian Heather Private Citizen 88. Irene Legg Private Citizen 89. James Reginald Schmall Private Citizen 90. John Carroll Private Citizen 91. Kristina Ellis Private Citizen 92. Marilyn Huska Private Citizen 93. Mary Chalmers Private Citizen 94. Matt Kawchuk Private Citizen 95. Maurice Noel Private Citizen 96. Muriel Gamey Private Citizen 97. Pat Trottier Private Citizen 98. Robert Finlayson Private Citizen 99. Sharon Orr Private Citizen

100. Steve Pawlychyn Private Citizen 101. Syl Didur Private Citizen 102. Tony Baliant Private Citizen 103. Victoria Olchowecki Private Citizen 104. W. A. Fraser Private Citizen 105. Aimé Campagne Private Citizen 106. Annette Hercus Private Citizen 107. Connie Newman Private Citizen 108. Doug Adams Private Citizen 109. Elizabeth Bryan Private Citizen 110. Ellen Hamlin Private Citizen 111. Helene Merrell Private Citizen 112. Irene Belanger Private Citizen 113. Jacqueline Kilburn Private Citizen 114. Joan Lawrence Private Citizen 115. Kathy Knight Private Citizen 116. L. Dueck Private Citizen 117.

Margaret Ambrose Private Citizen 118. Merle MacFadyen Private Citizen 119. Muriel Gamey Private Citizen 120. Paulette Hughes Private Citizen 121. Ray Cooper Private Citizen 122. Shirley Case Private Citizen 123. Victor Nehe Private Citizen 124. Yvonne Collins Private Citizen 125. Barbara Cummine Private Citizen 126. Carolyn Lintott Private Citizen 127. Corrina Kroeker Private Citizen 128. Daniel Kiazyk Rolling River Teachers' Association 129. Denis Fontaine Private Citizen 130. Don & Tanis MacDonald Private Citizen 131. Dorothy Troop Private Citizen 132. Edith Furdievich Private Citizen 133. Edward R.

Belliveau Private Citizen 134. Elizabeth Ilott Private Citizen 135. Eugene Yarish Private Citizen 136. Evelyn Tycholiz Private Citizen 137. Gerry Sankar Private Citizen 138. Gordon Henderson Private Citizen 139. Jag Malik Private Citizen 140. Jamie Krutkezich Private Citizen 141. Janice Yon Private Citizen 142. Jean Tully Private Citizen 143. Judy Olmstead-Coss Private Citizen 144. Kelly Turner Private Citizen 145. Kenneth B. Tully Private Citizen 146. Linda Puttaert Private Citizen 147. Margaret Hamilton Private Citizen 148. Margaret Milton Private Citizen 149. Maria Nickel Private Citizen 150.

Matt Turner Private Citizen 151. Orah Moss Private Citizen 152. Peter Isaak Private Citizen 153. Phil Maclellan Private Citizen 154. Rhea Chudy Private Citizen 155. Roslyn Roberts Private Citizen 156. Tom Carlyle Private Citizen 157. Tracy Fyfe Private Citizen 158. Wayne Watson Private Citizen

Bills Considered and Reported • Bill (No. 45) – The Teachers' Pensions Amendment Act/Loi modifiant la

Loi sur la pension de retraite des enseignants Your Committee agreed to report this Bill without amendment. Submitted by, _______________________________ Mr. Rob ALTEMEYER, Chairperson July 24, 2008