JOURNALS of the LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY of the Province of Saskatchewan From the 22nd day of February. 1979 to the 3rd day of May. 1979 In the Twenty-eighth Year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lady, Queen Elizabeth II BEING THE FIRST SESSION OF THE NINETEENTH LEGISLATURE OF THE PROVINCE OF SASKATCHEWAN Session, 1979 REGINA: R. S. REID. QUEEN'S PRINTER 1979 VOLUME LXXXV CONTENTS Session, 1979 JOURNALS of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan including QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Pages 1 to 197 JOURNALS of the Leg1slat1ve Assembly of Saskatchewan Pages 1 to 194 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Appendix Pages 195 to 197 MEETING OF THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY CAMERON IRWIN MclNTOSH. Lieutenant Governor, (L.S.) CANADA PROVINCE OF SASKATCHEWAN ELIZABETHTHE SECOND. by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom. Canada and Her other Realms and Territories QUEEN. Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith. TO OUR FAITHFUL the MEMBERS elected to serve in the Legislative Assembly of Our Province of Saskatchewan. and to every one of you. GREETING: A PROCLAMATION DR. R. GOSSE. WHEREAS. it is expedient for causes Deputy and considerations to convene the Attorney General Legislative Assembly of Our Prov- ince of Saskatchewan. WE DO WILL that you and each of you and all others in this behalf interested on THURSDAY. the TWENTY-SECOND day of FEBRUARY. 1979, at Our City of Regina. personally be and appear for the despatch of Business. there to take into consideration the state and welfare of Our said Province of Saskatchewan and thereby do as may seem necessary. HEREIN FAIL NOT. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF we have caused Our Letters to be made Patent and the Great Seal of Our said Province of Saskatchewan to be hereunto affixed. WITNESS: Our right trusty and well beloved THE HONOURABLE CAMERON IRWIN MclNTOSH. Lieutenant Governor of Our Province of Saskatchewan. AT OUR CAPITAL CITY OF REGINA. in Our said Province. this SIXTEENTH day of JANUARY. in the year of Our Lord ONE THOUSAND AND NINE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-NINE. and in the TWENTY-EIGHTH year of Our Reign. By Command, L. J.BEAUDRY. Deputy Provincial Secretary. JOURNALS OF THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY Province of Saskatchewan FIRST SESSION NINETEENTH LEGISLATURE Regina, Thursday, February 22, 1979 2:59 o'clock p.m. This being the first day of the meeting of the First Session of the Nineteenth Legislature of the Province of Saskatchewan for the despatch of business. pursuant to a Proclamation of His Honour the Honourable Cameron Irwin Mcintosh. Lieutenant Governor of the Province. dated the sixteenth day of January, 1979. Gordon Leslie Barnhart. Clerk of the Legislative Assembly. Commissioner designated by His Honour the Lieutenant Governor for administering the Oath to the Members of the Legislative Assembly, attending according to his duty. Carole Y. Bryant. Chief Electoral Officer. delivered to the said Gordon Leslie Barnhart a Roll containing a list of names· of such Members as had been returned to serve in this Legislature. as follows. viz: REGINA Saskatchewan. November 10, 1978 To: G.L Barnhart. Clerk of the legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan. This is to certify that by reason of the dissolution of the Eighteenth Legislative Assembly of the Province of Saskatchewan and in virtue of the writ of election dated the nineteenth day of September last. and addressed to the hereinafter mentioned persons as returning officers for the provincial constituencies set opposite their respective names for the election of Members to represent the said provincial constituencies in the Legislative Assembly; those persons named hereinbelow have been duly elected to represent the provincial constituency set opposite their respective names as appear by the returns of the said writs deposited on record in my office. viz: 6 THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 22. 1979 CONSTITUENCY MEMBER ELECTED RETURNING OFFICER Arm River Gerald Muirhead Lorne M. McCreary Assiniboia-Gravelbourg Allen W. Engel Nicholas N. Adamack Athabasca Frederick J. Thompson Claude Bouchard Bengough-Milestone Robert Pickering Marion G. Gurskey Biggar Elwood L. Cowley Unna Scharf Canara Adolph S. Matsalla Gladys L. Myhr Cumberland Norman H. MacAuley Walter K. Riese Cut Knife-Lloydminster Robert G. Long Robert E. McPherson Estevan Robert A. Larter Mabel G. Young Humboldt Edwin L. Tchorzewski Olaf E. Madland Indian Head-Wolseley Graham Taylor Frances M. Baller Kelsey-Tisdale John R. Messer Eileen Clunie Kelvington-Wadena Neil E. Byers Leithe F. Perron Kindersley Robert Andrew Irene D. Coventry Kinistino Don W. Cody Edward J. Brunanski Last Mountain-Touchwood Gordon S. MacMurchy Leonard Jones Maple Creei< Joan Duncan Otto Samuelson Meadow Lake George McLeod Herman Boehler Melfort Norman Vickar Harold I. Scott Melville John R. Kowalchuk Michael J. Waldbauer Moose Jaw North John L. Skoberg Robert A. Davis Moose Jaw South Gordon T. Snyder James S. McLean Moosomin Larry W. Birkbeck Leonard A. Trithardt Morse Reginald J. Gross Norman Beach Nipawin Richard L. Collver Albert P. Owens Pelly Norman Lusney Alexander Klimchuk Prince Albert Mike Feschuk Joyce Olsen Ou'Appelle J." Garv Lane Walter Reich Quill Lakes ty1urray J. Koskie Sophie Soubolsky Redberry Dennis G. Banda Walter G. Ewanchuk Regina Centre Edward B. Shillington Dora Collins Regina Elphinstone Allan E. Blakeney Adelaide E. Bright Regina Lakeview Douglas McArthur Jean T. Anderson Regina North East Walter E. Smishek Jessie Ford Regina North• West Edward C. Whelan Iris Neish Regina Rosemont William J. Allen Mona Anguish Regina South Paul Rousseau Beatrice McBeath Regina Victoria Henry H.P. Baker Louise E. Scott Regina Wascana Clinton White Emil Lautermilch Rosetown-Elrose Herb Swan Violet M. Sl9combe Rosthern Ralph Katzman Arthur H. Doyscher Saltcoats Edgar Kaeding Baldur M. Olson Saskatoon Buena Vista Herman H. Rolfes A. Bruce Wiggins Saskatoon Centre Paul P. Mostoway Alice V. Logan Saskatoon Eastview Bernard Poniatowski Victoria Melanchuk Saskatoon Mayfair Beverly M. Dyck Ivy C. Hubble Saskatoon Nutana Wesley A. Robbins Sam 0. Clayton Saskatoon Riversdale Roy J. Romanow Margaret C. Britton Saskatoon Sutherland Peter Prebble Eleanor L. Rigby Saskatoon Westmount John E. Brockelbank Shirley D. McDade Shaunavoh Dwain Lingenfelter Alice Wilkins Shellbrook G.R. (Ted) Bowerman William Tkach Souris-Cannington Eric A. Berntson Anita L. Thornton Swift Current Dennis M. Ham Earl Dewar The Battlefords Eiling Kramer Luther B. Olson Tl1under Creek W. Colin Thatcher Paul Nelson Turtleford Lloyd E. Johnson Ethel Haggstrom THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 22. 1979 7 Wilkie James Garner Walter R. Nelson Yorkton Randall N. Nelson Patricia Stingel Carole Y. Bryant. Chief Electoral Officer. REGINA. Saskatchewan. December 4. 1978 To: G. L. Barnhart, Clerk of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan. This is to certify that by reason of the dissolution of the Eighteenth legislative Assembly of the Province of Saskatchewan and in virtue of the writ of election dated the nineteenth day of September iast. and addressed to the hereinafter mentioned persons as returning officers for the provincial constituencies set opposite their respective names for the election of Members to represent the said provincial constituencies in the Legislative Assembly; those persons named hereinbelow have been duly elected to represent the provincial constituency set opposite their respective names as appear by the returns of the said writs deposited on record in my office. viz: CONSTITUENCY MEMBER ELECTED RETURNING OFFICER Prince Albert-Duck Lake Jerry Hammersmith Carla Dagdick Weyburn J. Auburn Pepper Carl Goranson Carole Y. Bryant. Chief Electoral Officer The said commissioner having previously administered the Oath to the Members who appeared. and the Members having subscribed the Roll containing the Oath, they took their seats in the Assembly at 2:59 o'clock p.m. 2.59 o'clock p.m. The Clerk of the Legislative As.sembly informed the Assembly that he had received a communication from the Private Secretary to His Honour the lieutenant Governor stating that His Honour would open the Session at 3:00 o'clock p.m.. today, Thursday, the Twenty-second day of February. 1979. 8 THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 22. 1979 3:01 o'clock p.m. His Honour the Lieutenant Governor entered the Chamber and took his seat on the Throne. The Hon. Mr. Cowley. Provincial Secretary. then said: "I am commanded by His Honour the Lieutenant Governor to inform you that he does not see fit to declare the causes of the summoning of the present Legislature until later today. when the Legislative Assembly shall have elected a Speaker according to law." His Honour the Lieutenant Governor then retired from the Chamber. The Hon. Mr. Blakeney. addressing himself to the Clerk. moved. seconded by the Hon. Mr. Romanow. that John Edward Brockel bank. Esquire. Member for the Constituency of Saskatoon Westmount. do take the Chair of this Assembly as Speaker. The question being put by the Clerk. it was Resolved. nemine contradicente. that John Edward Brockelbank. Esquire. do take the Chair of this Assembly as Speaker. The Clerk having declared John Edward Brockelbank. Esquire. duly elected. he was conducted to the Chair. where. standing on the dais . he returned his humble acknowledgements to the Assembly for the great honour they had been pleased to confer upon him by choosing him to be their Speaker. Thereupon he took the Chair. and the Mace was laid on the Table. 3: 11 o'clock p.m. His Honour the Lieutenant Governor re-entered the Chamber and took his seat upon the Throne. Mr. Speaker then addressed His Honour to the following effect:- MAY IT PLEASE YOUR HONOUR: The Legislative Assembly have elected me as their Speaker. although I am but little able to fulfil the important duties thus assigned to me. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 22. 1979 9 If. in the performance of those duties. I should at any time fall into error I pray that the fault may be imputed to me and not to the Assembly. whose servant I am. and who. through me.