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43rd PARLIAMENT, 2nd SESSION

Journals No. 26 Wednesday, November 4, 2020 2:00 p.m.

Prayer

National Anthem

Statements By Members

Pursuant to Standing Order 31, members made statements.

Oral Questions

Pursuant to Standing Order 30(5), the House proceeded to Oral Questions.

Deferred Recorded Divisions

Business of Supply

Pursuant to order made Wednesday, September 23, 2020, the House proceeded to the taking of the deferred recorded division on the motion of Mr. Kelly (Calgary Rocky Ridge), seconded by Mr. Généreux (Montmagny—L'Islet—Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup), — That, given that the pandemic has had devastating consequences on Canadian workers and businesses, especially in the restaurant, hospitality and tourism sectors, the House call on the government to: (a) immediately pause the audits of small businesses that received the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy until at least June 2021; and (b) provide additional flexibility in the Canada Emergency Rent Subsidy, the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy, and other support program.
The question was put on the motion and it was agreed to on the following division:
(Division No. 19 -- Vote n^o 19)
YEAS: 176, NAYS: 152
YEAS -- POUR Aboultaif Aitchison Albas Alleslev Allison Angus Arnold Ashton Atwin Bachrach Baldinelli Barlow Barrett Barsalou-Duval Beaulieu Benzen Bergen Bergeron Berthold Bérubé Bezan Blaikie Blanchet Blanchette-Joncas Blaney (North Island—Powell River) Block Boudrias Boulerice Bragdon Brassard Brunelle-Duceppe Calkins Cannings Carrie Chabot Champoux Charbonneau Chiu Chong Collins Cooper Cumming Dalton Dancho Davidson Davies DeBellefeuille Deltell d'Entremont Desbiens Desilets Diotte Doherty Dowdall Dreeshen Duncan (Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry) Duvall Epp Falk (Battlefords—Lloydminster) Falk (Provencher) Fast Findlay (South Surrey—White Rock) Finley (Haldimand—Norfolk) Fortin Gallant Garrison Gaudreau Gazan Généreux Genuis Gill Gladu Godin Gourde Gray Green Hallan Harder Harris Hoback Hughes Jansen Jeneroux Johns Julian Kelly Kent Kitchen Kmiec Kram Kurek Kusie Kwan Lake Larouche Lawrence Lehoux Lemire Lewis (Essex) Liepert Lloyd Lobb Lukiwski MacGregor MacKenzie Maguire Manly Martel Masse Mathyssen May (Saanich—Gulf Islands) Mazier McCauley (Edmonton West) McColeman McLean McLeod (Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo) McPherson Melillo Michaud Moore Morantz Morrison Motz Nater Normandin O'Toole Patzer Paul-Hus Pauzé Perron Plamondon Poilievre Rayes Redekopp Reid Rempel Garner Richards Rood Ruff Sahota (Calgary Skyview) Saroya Savard-Tremblay Scheer Schmale Seeback Shields Shin Shipley Simard Singh Sloan Soroka Stanton Steinley Ste-Marie Strahl Stubbs Sweet Thériault Therrien Tochor Trudel Uppal Van Popta Vecchio Vidal Viersen Vignola Vis Warkentin Webber Williamson Wilson-Raybould Wong Yurdiga Zimmer Total: -- 176
NAYS -- CONTRE Alghabra Amos Anand Anandasangaree Arseneault Arya Badawey Bagnell Bains Baker Battiste Beech Bendayan Bennett Bessette Bibeau Bittle Blair Blois Bratina Brière Carr Casey Chagger Champagne Chen Cormier Dabrusin Damoff Dhaliwal Dhillon Dong Drouin Dubourg Duclos Duguid Duncan (Etobicoke North) Dzerowicz Easter Ehsassi El-Khoury Ellis Erskine-Smith Fergus Fillmore Finnigan Fisher Fonseca Fortier Fragiskatos Fraser Freeland Fry Garneau Gerretsen Gould Guilbeault Hajdu Hardie Holland Housefather Hussen Hutchings Iacono Jaczek Joly Jones Jordan Jowhari Kelloway Khalid Khera Koutrakis Kusmierczyk Lalonde Lambropoulos Lametti Lamoureux Lattanzio Lauzon LeBlanc Lebouthillier Lefebvre Lightbound Long Longfield Louis (Kitchener—Conestoga) MacAulay (Cardigan) MacKinnon (Gatineau) Maloney Martinez Ferrada May (Cambridge) McCrimmon McDonald McGuinty McKay McKenna McKinnon (Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam) McLeod (Northwest Territories) Mendès Mendicino Miller Monsef Morrissey Murray Ng O'Connell Oliphant Petitpas Taylor Powlowski Qualtrough Ratansi Regan Robillard Rodriguez Rogers Romanado Sahota (Brampton North) Saini Sajjan Samson Sangha Sarai Scarpaleggia Schiefke Schulte Serré Sgro Shanahan Sheehan Sidhu (Brampton East) Sidhu (Brampton South) Simms Sorbara Spengemann Tabbara Tassi Trudeau Turnbull Van Bynen van Koeverden Vandal Vandenbeld Vaughan Virani Weiler Wilkinson Yip Young Zahid Zann Zuberi Total: -- 152
PAIRED -- PAIRÉS Nil--Aucun

Motions

By unanimous consent, it was ordered, — That, notwithstanding any standing order, special order or usual practice of the House, Bill C-9, An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (Canada Emergency Rent Subsidy and Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy), shall be disposed of as follows:

(a) the second reading stage of the bill shall be taken up as the first order of the day on Wednesday, November 4, 2020, provided that at the expiry of time provided for Government Orders or when no member rises to speak, whichever comes first, the Speaker shall interrupt the proceedings and put, forthwith and successively, every question necessary to dispose of the second reading stage of the bill, without further debate or amendment, provided that any recorded division shall stand deferred according to the provisions of the order made on Wednesday, September 23, 2020;

(b) if the bill has been read a second time, it shall stand referred to a Committee of the Whole and paragraphs (c) and (d) of this order shall apply;

(c) on Thursday, November 5, 2020, at the conclusion of the time provided for Private Members’ Business, the House shall resolve into a committee of the whole on the bill and on the economy generally for a period not to exceed four hours, provided that

(i) the Speaker may preside,

(ii) the Chair may preside from the Speaker’s chair,

(iii) the committee be subject to the provisions relating to hybrid sittings of the House;

(iv) the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance be invited to appear and the minister shall be questioned for four hours, provided that

(A) the Chair shall call members from all recognized parties and one member who does not belong to a recognized party in a fashion consistent with the proportions observed during Oral Questions,

(B) no member shall be recognized for more than five minutes at a time which may be used for posing questions,

(D) the rotation for questions be the one used by the former Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic,

(E) questions shall be answered by ministers,

(v) at the conclusion of time provided for committee of the whole, the committee shall rise, the bill shall be deemed reported to the House without amendment, and the House shall adjourn until the next sitting day; and

(d) the report stage of the bill shall be taken up as the first order of the day on Friday, November 6, 2020, provided that

(i) the deadline for notices of report stage motions for amendments shall be 10 p.m. on Thursday, November 5, 2020, provided that copies of the notices shall also be provided to the House leaders of the recognized parties and, if required, the Order Paper and Notice Paper be republished for the sitting of Friday, November 6, 2020,

(ii) the time provided for Government Orders shall be extended, if necessary, to allow for one representative of each recognized party to speak,

(iii) at the expiry of the time provided for Government Orders, when no member rises to speak at the report stage, or if the Speaker does not select any amendments for consideration at the said stage, whichever comes first, the Speaker shall interrupt the proceedings and put, forthwith and successively, every question necessary to dispose of the said stage of the bill, without further debate or amendment; provided that

(A) any recorded division on any amendment considered at the said stage shall not be deferred,

(B) the motion for concurrence at report stage be deemed adopted on division,

(iv) the bill may be debated at third reading stage during the same sitting, provided that, at the expiry of the time provided for Government Orders or when no member rises to speak at the said stage, whichever comes first, the bill shall be deemed read a third time and passed on division.

Daily Routine Of Business

Tabling of Documents

Pursuant to Standing Order 32(2), Mr. Oliphant (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs) laid upon the table, — Copy of the Agreement between the Government of Canada and the Government of the Republic of Panama on Air Transport, and Explanatory Memorandum, done at Ottawa on February 6, 2020. — Sessional Paper No. 8532-432-9.

Pursuant to Standing Order 32(2), Mr. Oliphant (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs) laid upon the table, — Copy of the Exchange of Letters between the Government of Canada and the Government of the Republic of Chile constituting an Agreement to amend the Free Trade Agreement between the Government of Canada and the Government of the Republic of Chile, done at Santiago, Chile, on 5 December 1996, as amended, and Explanatory Memorandum, done at Ottawa on August 26, 2019, and Santiago on May 8, 2020. — Sessional Paper No. 8532-432-10.

Pursuant to Standing Order 32(2), Mr. Oliphant (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs) laid upon the table, — Copy of the Exchanges of Notes constituting an Agreement to Renew the Framework Agreement between the Government of Canada and the Government of the United States of America for Cooperation in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space for Peaceful Purposes, done at Washington, D.C., on 9 September 2009, and Explanatory Memorandum, dated May 11 and June 4, 2020. — Sessional Paper No. 8532-432-11.

Pursuant to Standing Order 32(2), Mr. Oliphant (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs) laid upon the table, — Copy of the Exchange of Notes between the Government of Canada and the Government of the United States of America constituting an agreement amending Chapter 4 of Annex IV of the Treaty between the Government of Canada and the Government of the United States of America concerning Pacific Salmon, done at Ottawa on January 28, 1985, as amended, and Explanatory Memorandum, dated June 24 and October 1, 2019. — Sessional Paper No. 8532-432-12.

Presenting Petitions

Pursuant to Standing Order 36, petitions certified by the Clerk of Petitions were presented as follows:

— by , one concerning consumer protection (No. 432-00204);

— by , one concerning natural resources and energy (No. 432-00205);

— by , one concerning foreign affairs (No. 432-00206);

— by , one concerning foreign affairs (No. 432-00207);

— by , one concerning the democratic process (No. 432-00208), two concerning justice (Nos. 432-00209 and 432-00210) and one concerning foreign affairs (No. 432-00211);

— by , one concerning economics and finance (No. 432-00212);

— by , one concerning health (No. 432-00213);

— by , one concerning foreign affairs (No. 432-00214).

Government Orders

Pursuant to order made earlier today, the order was read for the second reading and reference to a committee of the whole of Bill C-9, An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (Canada Emergency Rent Subsidy and Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy).

Ms. Freeland (Minister of Finance), seconded by Mrs. Fortier (Associate Minister of Finance and Minister of Middle Class Prosperity), moved, — That the bill be now read a second time and referred to a committee of the whole.

Debate arose thereon.

At 6:04 p.m., pursuant to order made earlier today, the Speaker interrupted the proceedings.

The question was put on the motion and, pursuant to order made Wednesday, September 23, 2020, the recorded division was deferred until Thursday, November 5, 2020, at the expiry of the time provided for Oral Questions.

Private Members' Business

At 6:05 p.m., pursuant to Standing Order 30(7), the House proceeded to the consideration of Private Members' Business.

The order was read for the second reading and reference to the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development of Bill C-215, An Act respecting Canada’s fulfillment of its greenhouse gas emissions reduction obligations.

Ms. Michaud (Avignon—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia), seconded by Ms. Pauzé (Repentigny), moved, — That the bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development.

Debate arose thereon.

Pursuant to Standing Order 93(1), the order was dropped to the bottom of the order of precedence on the Order Paper.

Returns and Reports Deposited with the Clerk of the House

Pursuant to Standing Order 32(1), papers deposited with the Clerk of the House were laid upon the table as follows:

— by the Speaker — Report of the Parliamentary Budget Officer entitled "Fiscal Analysis of Federal Pay Equity", pursuant to the Parliament of Canada Act, R.S. 1985, c. P-1, sbs. 79.2(2). — Sessional Paper No. 8560-432-1119-16. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates)

— by the Speaker — Report of the Parliamentary Budget Officer entitled "Supplementary Estimates (B) 2020-21", pursuant to the Parliament of Canada Act, R.S. 1985, c. P-1, sbs. 79.2(2). — Sessional Paper No. 8560-432-1119-17. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates)

— by Ms. Bibeau (Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food) — Service Fees Report of the Department of Agriculture and Agri-Food for 2019 to 2020, pursuant to the Service Fees Act, S.C. 2017, c. 20, s. 20. — Sessional Paper No. 8560-432-1189-01. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food)

— by Ms. Freeland (Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance) — Service Fees Report of the Office of the Auditor General of Canada for 2019 to 2020, pursuant to the Service Fees Act, S.C. 2017, c. 20, s. 20. — Sessional Paper No. 8560-432-1161-01. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Finance)

— by Ms. Freeland (Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance) — Service Fees Report of the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions for 2019 to 2020, pursuant to the Service Fees Act, S.C. 2017, c. 20, s. 20. — Sessional Paper No. 8560-432-1162-01. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Finance)

— by Ms. Freeland (Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance) — Service Fees Report of the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada for 2019 to 2020, pursuant to the Service Fees Act, S.C. 2017, c. 20, s. 20. — Sessional Paper No. 8560-432-1163-01. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Finance)

— by Mr. Miller (Minister of Indigenous Services) — Service Fees Report of Indigenous Services Canada from 2019 to 2020, pursuant to the Service Fees Act, S.C. 2017, c. 20, s. 20. — Sessional Paper No. 8560-432-1230-01. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs)

— by Mr. O'Regan (Minister of Natural Resources) — Service Fees Report of the Canada Energy Regulator from 2019 to 2020, pursuant to the Service Fees Act, S.C. 2017, c. 20, s. 20. — Sessional Paper No. 8560-432-1175-01. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Natural Resources)

— by Mr. O'Regan (Minister of Natural Resources) — Service Fees Report of the Department of Natural Resources for 2019 to 2020, pursuant to the Service Fees Act, S.C. 2017, c. 20, s. 20. — Sessional Paper No. 8560-432-1177-01. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Natural Resources)

Adjournment Proceedings

At 7:04 p.m., pursuant to Standing Order 38(1), the question “That this House do now adjourn” was deemed to have been proposed.

After debate, the question was deemed to have been adopted.

Accordingly, at 7:35 p.m., the Speaker adjourned the House until tomorrow at 10:00 a.m., pursuant to Standing Order 24(1).