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Ten o’clock a.m.
The Honourable Judith Guichon, Lieutenant Governor of the Province, having entered the House, took her seat on the Throne.
The Hon. D. Eby (Attorney General) said:
Members of the Legislative Assembly:
I am commanded by Her Honour the Lieutenant Governor to announce that she does not see fit to declare the cause of her summoning you at this time and will not do so until you have chosen a Speaker to preside over your Honourable Body. Her Honour the Lieutenant Governor hopes to be enabled to declare, during the afternoon, her reason for calling you together.
Her Honour was then pleased to retire.
Craig James, Clerk of the House, advised the House that only one candidate had declared his intention to stand for the election of Speaker and, accordingly, Darryl Plecas, Member for Abbotsford South electoral district, was declared as the duly elected Speaker. He was then taken out of his place by the Hon. M. Farnworth and Mr. de Jong and conducted to the Chair and made a statement expressing his grateful thanks to the House for the great honour they had been pleased to confer upon him by electing him to be their Speaker.
The Speaker declared a short recess.
The Hon. J. Horgan (Premier) made a statement.
Mr. Coleman made a statement.
The Honourable Judith Guichon, Lieutenant Governor of the Province, having entered the House, took her seat on the Throne. The Speaker standing on Her Honour’s right, then spoke to the following effect:
May it please Your Honour:
The House of Assembly has elected me as their Speaker, though I am but little able to fulfill the important duties thus assigned to me. If, in the performance of those duties, I should at any time fall into error, I pray that the fault be imputed to me and not to the Assembly, whose servant I am, and who, through me, the better to enable them to discharge their duty to the Queen and country, humbly claim all their undoubted rights and privileges, especially that they may have the freedom of speech in their debates, access to Your Honour’s person at all seasonable times, and that their proceedings may receive from Your Honour the most favourable interpretation.
The Hon. D. Eby (Attorney General) then said:
Honourable Speaker:
I am commanded by Her Honour the Lieutenant Governor to declare to you that she freely confides in the duty and attachment of the House of Assembly to Her Majesty’s person and Government, and not doubting that their respective proceedings will be conducted with wisdom, temper and prudence, she grants, and upon all occasions will recognize and allow, their constitutional privileges. I am commanded also to assure you that the Assembly shall have ready access to Her Honour the Lieutenant Governor upon all seasonable occasions, and that their proceedings, as well as your words and actions, will constantly receive from her the most favourable construction.
Her Honour the Lieutenant Governor was then pleased to deliver the following gracious Speech:
Honourable Speaker and Members of the Legislative Assembly:
In closing this first session of the Forty-first Parliament of British Columbia, on behalf of all British Columbians, I wish to express my appreciation for the care and attention you have given to your deliberations and the service you have provided to our great and beautiful province. I now relieve you of your duties. Splendor sine occasu.
Her Honour the Lieutenant Governor was then pleased to retire.
The Hon. D. Eby (Attorney General) then said:
Honourable Speaker and Members of the Legislative Assembly:
It is Her Honour the Lieutenant Governor’s will and pleasure that the Legislative Assembly be prorogued until 2:00 p.m. today, and this Legislative Assembly is hereby prorogued accordingly.
A declaration by the Member of the Electoral District of Kelowna West (Ms. Clark) of her intention to resign her seat as a Member of the Legislative Assembly, effective August 4, 2017, was delivered to the Clerk.
The following reports were received by the Office of the Clerk during adjournment:
British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal Annual Report, 2016-2017;
Crown Agency Annual Service Plan Reports, Volumes 1 and 2, 2016/17: BC Games Society; BC Housing Management Commission; BC Hydro and Power Authority; BC Immigrant Investment Fund Ltd.; BC Innovation Council; BC Liquor Distribution Branch; BC Lottery Corporation; BC Pavilion Corporation; BC Securities Commission; BC Transit; British Columbia Council for International Education; Columbia Basin Trust; Columbia Power Corporation; Community Living BC; Destination BC; First Peoples’ Cultural Council; Forestry Innovation Investment Ltd.; Industry Training Authority; Insurance Corporation of British Columbia; Knowledge Network Corporation; Legal Services Society; Oil and Gas Commission; Partnerships BC; Royal BC Museum Corporation; Transportation Investment Corporation;
Government Strategic Plan Annual Report (Revised: August 2017), 2016/17;
Ministerial Accountability Report, 2016/17;
Ministry Annual Service Plan Reports 2016/17: Office of the Premier; Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation; Advanced Education; Agriculture; Children and Family Development; Community, Sport and Cultural Development; Education; Energy and Mines; Environment including Environmental Assessment Office; Finance; Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations; Health; International Trade and Minister Responsible for Asia Pacific Strategy and Multiculturalism; Jobs, Tourism and Skills Training and Minister Responsible for Labour; Justice, Public Safety and Solicitor General; Natural Gas Development and Minister Responsible for Housing; Small Business and Red Tape Reduction and Minister Responsible for the Liquor Distribution Branch; Social Development; Technology, Innovation and Citizens’ Services; Transportation and Infrastructure;
Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure Major Capital Project Plan: Highway 91 to 17 and Deltaport Way Corridor Improvements Project, Budget Transparency and Accountability Act Disclosure;
Public Accounts, 2016/17 (including Consolidated Revenue Fund Detailed Schedules of Payments and Consolidated Revenue Fund Supplementary Schedules); and,
WorkSafe BC Annual Report, 2016 and Service Plan, 2017-2019.
And then the House prorogued at 10:32 a.m.
HON. DARRYL PLECAS, Speaker
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