Bill 18
Film and Video Classification Act
October 28, 2008, afternoon session

Ms Blakeman: What we have happening is that the tickets are being advertised at one rate and sold, many of them online, of course, which people find very useful, and we would want to keep that in place. What's happening is that we have large numbers of single tickets bought up electronically, so they're not available for the general public. When they go on the site, it says, "We're sold out," but then they get a helpful notice that sends them on to another affiliated group who has, in fact, single tickets for sale, but there is a markup on them. We started to track this through. It started to turn up with rock bands originally, and for those of you that are Metallica fans, this will mean something. If you're not, let me see if I can come up with another example that we had. [some applause] Oh, we've got Metallica fans. Okay. Good.

International Drivers' Licenses
November 17, 2008, afternoon session

Ms Blakeman: Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Again to the same minister: given that the minister has now had time to check on what new countries have signed agreements with the province since I first raised this issue, can the minister share with the House what those countries are, the new countries that have signed on?

Mr. Ouellette: Mr. Speaker, we have nine different countries that have signed on right now. I think we have France, that just signed off in the last four to six weeks or four to six months maybe, something like that. It's one of those two. I know there's a big spread there. There are nine different ones that have signed off. France has been the last one, I think, which has been less than six months ago.