Steven Fletcher

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Dying with dignity

Manitoba Hydro and a national electricity grid

Cancer, mental health and national health strategies

Democratic reform

Disability, accessibility and independent living

Mining, conservation and the northern coast

7. Hepatitis C compensation and blood-safety justice

  1. House of Commons, Standing Committee on Health, Meeting No. 27, 21 March 2005: motion moved by Steven Fletcher, adopted 7 to 4; reported to the House as the committee’s Seventh Report on 22 March 2005.
  2. House of Commons Debates (Hansard): 14 April 2005 (concurrence moved in Fletcher’s name, all-party deferral) and 20 April 2005 (Fletcher’s statement and Division No. 66 adopting the motion 269 to 0).
  3. Written Question Q-187, placed by Jay Hill, answered by Minister of Health Ujjal Dosanjh, House of Commons Debates, 14 November 2005.
  4. Commission of Inquiry on the Blood System in Canada (Krever Commission), final report, 1997.
  5. 1986-1990 Hepatitis C Settlement Agreement (political agreement 1998, court-approved 1999).
  6. “Hepatitis C compensation may be extended,” Canadian Medical Association Journal 172(1):25, 4 January 2005.
  7. “Prime Minister Harper announces agreement to compensate pre-1986/post-1990 hepatitis C victims,” Government of Canada, 25 July 2006.
  8. “Courts approve the pre-1986/post-1990 hepatitis C settlement agreement,” Government of Canada, 8 June 2007 (final agreement completed 15 December 2006).

8. Rail freight, shippers and the Fair Rail Freight Service Act

  1. House of Commons Debates (Hansard), 1 February 2013 (Fletcher’s sponsor’s speech and the exchange with Ralph Goodale).
  2. Library of Parliament, Legislative Summary of Bill C-52 (Publication 41-1-C52-E).
  3. Fair Rail Freight Service Act, S.C. 2013, c. 31, Justice Laws Website.
  4. Rail Freight Service Review, final report, 2010, Transport Canada.
  5. House of Commons Standing Committee on Transport, evidence, meeting 61 (Mining Association of Canada; Canadian National).
  6. LEGISinfo, Bill C-52 (41-1): sponsor Denis Lebel; Fletcher’s second-reading address recorded as the sponsor’s speech; third reading 255 to 0 on 30 May 2013; royal assent 26 June 2013.
  7. Fair Rail for Grain Farmers Act (Bill C-30, 2014); Transportation Modernization Act (2018).

9. Catastrophic injury compensation and the right to an independent life

  1. Manitoba Public Insurance, Personal Injury Protection Plan and catastrophic-injury coverage (scheme background).
  2. “Interview with the Honourable Steven Fletcher,” Manitoba Law Journal, vol. 46(2).
  3. Fletcher v. Automobile Injury Compensation Appeal Commission, 2004 MJ No. 159.
  4. Fletcher v. Manitoba Public Insurance Corp., 2004 MBCA 192 (Manitoba Court of Appeal).
  5. Supreme Court of Canada, applications for leave to appeal denied (mid-2000s).
  6. Manitoba, Bill 36 (2010), amendments to The Manitoba Public Insurance Corporation Act on catastrophic injury.
  7. Manitoba, Bill 225 (2017), private member’s bill introduced by Fletcher on catastrophic-injury care.

10. Organ donation and presumed consent: The Gift of Life Act

  1. Manitoba Legislative Assembly, Hansard, 31 October 2017 (second-reading debate; recorded division deferred to 2 November 2017).
  2. Manitoba, Bill 213, The Gift of Life Act (Human Tissue Gift Act amended), 41st Legislature, 2nd session, 2017; reintroduced as Bill 209 (3rd session, 2017) and Bill 212 (4th session, 2018).
  3. Nova Scotia presumed-consent organ-donation legislation, in effect January 2021.
  4. Manitoba Law Reform Commission, Presumed Consent Organ and Tissue Donation, final report, February 2022.

11. Conflict-of-interest rules for members of the Legislature

  1. Statements of the Manitoba Conflict of Interest Commissioner on the adequacy of the existing law.
  2. Manitoba, Bill 208, a private member’s bill to strengthen the conflict-of-interest rules for members of the Legislature (2018); defeated at second reading 13 to 32 on 17 May 2018.
  3. Manitoba Legislative Assembly, Votes and Proceedings and Hansard, 17 May 2018 (recorded division).
  4. Federal Accountability Act (Bill C-2), S.C. 2006, c. 9; the Harper government’s first bill, royal assent 12 December 2006; enacted the federal Conflict of Interest Act.
  5. House of Commons Debates, 39th Parliament, division on Bill C-2 (recording members’ votes, including Fletcher and Pallister).
  6. Contemporary reporting on the governing party voting down the conflict-of-interest bill (CBC News, 2018).

12. Shrinking the Legislature: the Electoral Divisions Amendment Act

  1. Manitoba, Bill 203, The Electoral Divisions Amendment Act, 41st Legislature, 2nd session (2017): reduces the Legislative Assembly from 57 electoral divisions to 49, effective at the first dissolution after 31 December 2018.
  2. Manitoba Legislative Assembly, bill status and Hansard.

13. Indigenous seats in the Legislature: the Indigenous Representation Act

  1. Manitoba, Bill 231, The Indigenous Representation and Related Amendments Act, 41st Legislature, 4th session (2019): four Indigenous divisions, Assembly raised from 57 to 61 seats, candidate heritage established by documentation or declaration confirmed by the Chief Electoral Officer and open to public inspection, party endorsement barred in Indigenous divisions, MLA compensation reduced 7.5 percent.
  2. New Zealand Electoral Commission, on the Maori electoral roll (reserved-seat comparison).

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