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Excerpt from Hansard: October 30, 2006 Bill No. 21 - Justice Administration Amendment (2006) Act. The honourable member for Halifax Chebucto Subject: Government By Cabinet? The minister said, [this bill] is just housekeeping …The problem is that the bills have tended to place increased reliance on the regulatory powers of the Governor in council rather than to come to this Legislature with a full range of specifics that say in understandable detail what the bill is about, what the full ambit of the legislation is, how we are to understand it, how the public is to understand it. Why are we nudging government more in the direction of decision by the Cabinet? Clearly, this is something that’s convenient for a government that’s in a minority position. What it means is that if it can persuade a majority of the members of this House to grant it wide regulatory-making powers then those powers can be exercised by the Cabinet, by the Party that even with a minority is the Party in power. Really when you look at the kind of legislation that has come forward from the government it hasn’t really, in some measure, mattered to the government that it is a minority… It’s not as if the government had a vision for the positive transformation of Nova Scotia society that it wanted to put forward in legislative form. Essentially for this government, being the government is about occupying chairs around the Cabinet Table, it’s about appointing people they know to agencies, boards, and commissions, and it’s about passing regulations - some of them contractual in form, some of them otherwise. For that, if that’s the agenda, being a minority is an inconvenience and not much more. Once a year it’s true, a budget has to be passed and adopted but, apart from that if the essence of the government that they are giving Nova Scotians is a government from the Cabinet Table then we should look somewhat askance and very suspiciously at bills that come to us and invite us to give a lot of regulatory-making power to the minority Cabinet. Full Text |
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