Public Notice

The rules of procedure and the fees and costs related to applications for Private Bills are set out in the Standing Orders of the Legislative Assembly. Copies of the Standing Orders, and the guide “Procedures for Applying for Private Legislation”, may be obtained from the Legislative Assembly’s Internet site at http://www.ontla.on.ca or from:

Committees Branch
Room 1405, Whitney Block, Queen’s Park
Toronto, Ontario M7A 1A2
Telephone: 416/325-3500 (Collect calls will be accepted)

Applicants should note that consideration of applications for Private Bills that are received after the first day of September in any calendar year may be postponed until the first regular Session in the next following calendar year.

Claude L. DesRosiers,
Clerk of the Legislative Assembly.
(8699) T.F.N.

Applications to Provincial Parliament

Town Of Sioux Lookout
A New Hospital

Notice Is Hereby Given that on behalf of the Nishnawbe-Aski Nation, The Town of Sioux Lookout, and the Sioux Lookout District Health Centre, application will be made to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario at the present session thereof or at either of the two sessions immediately following the present session, for an Act to incorporate a new hospital corporation with the following objects:

  1. to serve the community health care needs of persons in the towns of Sioux Lookout, Pickle Lake and Savant Lake, in the areas without municipal organization surrounding them and in the First Nations communities of the Sioux Lookout Zone;
  2. to unify the delivery of health care services to the above communities by creating a single hospital to continue the activities of the Sioux Lookout District Health Centre, the Wm. A. “Bill” George Extended Care Facility and the Sioux Lookout Zone Hospital;
  3. to establish and/or operate hospital facilities and provide such acute care, chronic care and residential long term care services and programs as the new hospital considers necessary; and
  4. to hold and administer as trustee all gifts, trusts, bequests, devises and grants made to or intended for the Sioux Lookout Zone Hospital or the Sioux Lookout District Health Centre.

The application will be considered by the Standing Committee on Regulations and Private Bills. Any person who has an interest in the application and who wishes to receive information or make submission, for or against the application, to the Standing Committee on Regulations and Private Bills should notify, in writing, the Clerk of the Legislative Assembly, Legislative Building, Queen’s Park, Toronto, Ontario M7A 1A2.

Dated at Hamilton, this 16th day of February, 2001.

Gary Graham,
Solicitor for the Applicants
Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP
Barristers and Solicitors
120 King Street West, Suite 560
Hamilton, Ontario L8P 4V2
(3519) 9-12