RED TAPE AND REGULATORY REVIEW ACT, 2008

Mr. Hillier has introduced a bill (Hansard) that establishes a committee to oversee and modify legislation that impedes, over-regulates or denies your person its property freedoms. The bill also provides for a minimum 60 days to review any proposed legislation, in other words time to actually read the junk that passes into law these days. The bill can be found here…

RED TAPE AND REGULATORY
REVIEW ACT, 2008 /
LOI DE 2008 SUR LA RÉVISION
DES FORMALITÉS ADMINISTRATIVES
ET DES DISPOSITIONS RÉGLEMENTAIRES

Mr. Hillier moved first reading of the following bill:

Bill 57, An Act to establish political oversight over legislation and regulations to reduce red tape and unjustified regulatory burdens / Projet de loi 57, Loi établissant un régime de surveillance politique des lois et règlements afin de réduire les formalités administratives et les fardeaux réglementaires injustifiés.

The Speaker (Hon. Steve Peters): Is it the pleasure of the House that the motion carry? Carried.

First reading agreed to.

The Speaker (Hon. Steve Peters): The member for a short statement?

Mr. Randy Hillier: It is my pleasure to introduce my very first bill, focused on red tape and regulatory review. For far too long, the nameless have created a red sea of regulations from their ivory towers without scrutiny by this assembly. This bill empowers all members, from the back row to the front, to remove regulations that provide no value, regulations that infringe upon freedoms and reduce competition.

It is imperative that we in this House do our homework before enacting regulations. It is time to get back to basics-

The Speaker (Hon. Steve Peters): Thank you.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The Bill establishes a standing committee of the Legislative Assembly to be known as the Standing Committee on Red Tape and Regulatory Review.

Every public bill must be referred to the Committee for a review or include a provision stating that it applies despite the requirement for a review. The review deals with whether the bill imposes a regulatory burden on persons or bodies, other than the public sector, whether the bill infringes on the freedom of those persons or bodies to own and use property, whether the regulatory burden constitutes an unjustified burden and red tape and whether the person or body that administers the bill is best suited to do so. The Committee may amend the bill before reporting it back to the Assembly.

No person or body, including the Lieutenant Governor in Council, is allowed to make a regulation under an Act without giving the Committee at least 60 days notice to review the regulation and to propose amendments to it, except if the person or body gives notice to the Committee that the urgency of the situation requires the making of an emergency regulation. An emergency regulation can remain in force for no longer than 90 days.

The Committee can also review Acts after they have been enacted and regulations after they have been made and make a report on them to the Assembly