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Walton Brown

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27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Yes. Yes, that may well be true. So, first the demand was for elimination of term limits. That was yesterday. Today the demand is for permanent residency. What, then, does tomorrow hold, Mr. Speaker? I am grateful, at least I should be . . . we should be grateful that these international bus iness executives did not make a demand …
27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, simply because someone is making a demand for something, it does not mean you just give in to it. You need to assess that insistence. You need to assess that demand based on competing interests. Governments are sup-posed to multitask. You do not just sit there with zero, singular focus and say, Well, this is what the international …
27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Do you hear that, Mr. Speaker, the chirping from the other side? Here we are discus sing an issue of profound significance that is going to alter the shape of this country. And we hear petulant posturing on the other side. Didn’t they build affordable homes? Didn’t they do this? This Government — House of Assembly this Government —does not …
27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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So, Mr. Speaker, I fully recognise that governments need to have an environment that is attractive to the growth and development of intern ational business. I do not want to be painted as som eone who stands against the growth of international business . Every government needs to have an imm igration policy that addresses a wide range of needs. …
27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Oh, let me just respond to that for one second—“It is my Act.” It is not my Act, Mr. Speaker. It is not my Act. I was not part of the PLP Government when it was passed. And I stood in this House a few months ago and told this House I was opposed to that Act then as I …
27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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I understand that. You need to listen to my words very carefully, what they tell us the international business community have said. Now, they want to interpret that to mean an ything? That is up to them, Mr. Speaker. But they have come to us, the Government, and told us what the collective voice of international business is. If they …
27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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The Constitution of this country.
27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Section 12. The Bermuda Const itution Order, Mr. Speaker, says as follows, section 12. And I have left out a few of the sections, just for brev ity’s sake.
27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Section 12. House of Assembly 2264 27 September 2013 Official Hansard Report
27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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“. . . no law shall make any prov ision . . .”
27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Section 12.
27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Right.
27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, I do not need to be educated on the Constitution Order by the Honourable Attorney General.
27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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I am going to give my present ation.
27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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“. . . no law shall make any prov ision which is discriminatory either of itself or in its effect.” The effect of this legislation, Mr. Speaker, is to give preferential treatment to a select dem ographic group based on race and gender. So, pass the legisl ation! And we will see what happens with the constit utional challenge. Our …
27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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I will conclude, Mr. Speaker, surely, Mr. Speaker. Because as much as the Honourable Attorney General is a learned Member of this legislature, Mr. Speaker, it will be a matter for the courts to interpret and not for the Attorney General to do so. So, we can have that discussion later. But, Mr. Speaker, I raise this issue because the …
27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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I could be forgiven at this hour, I would hope, Mr. Speaker.
27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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The point of order is that the Honourable Minister is misleading the House. The only valid number on the Bermuda population comes out of the Bermuda census. And if you compare the 2000 census to the 2010 census, there is no real di fference in the resi dential population at all.
27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Just for clarification. Because, you know, I take my research very seriously. But [what] this Minister is not saying, Mr. Speaker, is that there was a massive increase in 2006, 2007, 2008, which was abnormal. And then it went back down to levels that were previously the norm. So, you cannot take the abnormal figures as the new norm!
27 Sep 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. House of Assembly Mr. Speaker, I would like to commend the Government on this legislation. [Inaudible interjections and laughter]