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The Hon E. David Burt, JP, MP

The Hon E. David Burt, JP, MP

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8 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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Mr. Chairman—
8 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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—I am on, for the Minister’s benefit, it is page 20. And on page 20 under “Employee Liability” [sic] on Table II it i s item number 16. And item number 16 says, “ . . . to report suspicious transactions and other actions to comply with AML/ATF” — and then —“AFT obligations.” We are all familiar with AML and …
8 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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Why? Hon. E. T. (Bob) Richards: I would like to move the Bill entitled the Customs Tariff Amendment (No. 2) Act 2016 to have it now read a second time.
8 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you very much, Madam Deputy Speaker. Madam Deputy Speaker, I thank the Minister for his brief. I note the understanding about what this is for; I guess the question from our side is just mainly, what are the plans for the St. George’s Marina? How advanced are they? What is it? I mean, this is not something that we …
8 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. Madam Deputy Speaker, you have heard Members, not only of the PLP, but also Members who have no party affiliation in this House, speak about this Bill. I would like to make mention, I think specif ically, to the speech from the Shadow Attorney Gen-eral. I t hink he gave a very powerful summation of …
8 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Madam Chairman. Madam Chairman, the hour is going and as Members have indicated the Gallery is full. We can see the Government is not even on the same side insofar as what side they think this is. They are u nclear as to what it holds. There are different definitions coming from different persons, and we are having …
8 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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Point of order.
8 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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Point of order. [Laughter]
8 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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Yes, just on the Clerk.
8 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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I am pulling up my Standing O rders right now, but, Madam Clerk, we are not dealing with the re- committal. We are just back in the Commi ttee of the House on the original thing. The Bill has not been recommitted. [Crosstalk] The Clerk: Okay. Hon. Wayne L. Furbert: So, Madam Chairman, I have not diverted at all on …
8 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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Good evening Madam Deputy Speaker. Madam Deputy Speaker, I would like to co mmend the Member who just took his seat, because he has a sincere passion for thi s topic. And he has r emained consistent in this time, whether it was in Parliament or before. And I specifically want to speak about one thing which he said, and …
8 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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Now, Madam Deputy Speaker, eight months ago in the Government’s Throne Sp eech (probably nine months now) . . . nine months ago in the Government’s Throne Speech, the Premier said that they would publish the Office of Project Manage-ment and Procurement Code of Practice. And we have heard that, and they said it would be published by the end …
8 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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I was unaware that this was question/answer session. But I will go on, Madam Deputy Speaker. It seems as though the Government has moved from misleading Parliament to now misleading civil servants , because in the Public Accounts Committee, at a recent session we were made privy to a document that was written to the Financial Secretary from the Accountant …
8 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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And I want to read some of this, because it is quite incredible, thinking that a memo from the highest accounting office in this land will go to his boss, basically saying, You asked me to a pprove something without giving me the complete i nformation, and then are relying on the approval of which I gave, which I could …
8 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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Point of clarification, Madam Deputy Speaker.
8 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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I was just wondering what doc ument you are reading from.
8 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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Point of order.
8 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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The Honourable Minister is mi sleading the House. The Accountant General did not say he was not informed about the process. The A ccountant General said that he was not informed that a contractor had been selected prior to his knowledge.
8 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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Point of order.
8 Jul 2016 House of Assembly
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The Honourable Minister is mi sleading the House, because the Honourable Minister will know full well that his consultants of CIBC had contact with Aecon prior to his coming to Toronto. So if he did not, for the Government, his very own consultants whom he retained and selected had contact.