CO bill dies — again
Posted Jun 2, 2011 06:52:30 AM.
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The Ontario legislature is done for the season, and that means the Oxford MPP’s efforts to pass a bill on mandatory carbon monoxide detectors is also done.
Progressive Conservative MPP, Ernie Hardeman, has twice introduced a private member’s bill for mandatory CO detectors in homes, after OPP Constable Laurie Hawkins, her husband, and their two children, died of carbon monoxide poisoning in their Woodstock home in 2008.
And twice now, Hardeman’s Hawkins-Gignac Bill has died on the books because the end of a legislature session came before the bill came to third reading.
Each time the bill passed first and second reading unanimously and went to committee.
Hardeman was planning to ask for an immediate third reading of the bill in the legislature yesterday, but the McGuinty government prorogued the session, one day ahead of schedule.
The legislature is now done until after the Fall election.
Hardeman had also written a letter to Premier Dalton McGuinty on May 9 this year urging him to get the CO bill into third reading before the legislature’s summer break.
