Photos: Convening Of Parliament Throne Speech

November 9, 2018

[Updated with more photos] The Convening of Parliament took place this morning [Nov 9], with Governor John Rankin delivering the 2018 Throne Speech, which outlines the Government’s Legislative Agenda for the year ahead.

Social insurance contribution reform, eliminating most paper forms and single-use plastics by 2022, transforming existing post offices into customer service centres, a blockchain-based national identity system and establishing a licensing regime to regulate domestic production of medical-grade cannabis products were some of the initiatives unveiled in this morning’s Throne Speech, along with initiatives dealing with immigration, housing, banking and more.

The full speech is posted here along with some excerpts, you can view our live blog of the Throne Speech here, and all our coverage of the 2018 Throne Speech here.