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40th PARLIAMENT, 2nd SESSION

Journals No. 123 Thursday, December 3, 2009 10:00 a.m.

Prayers

Daily Routine Of Business

Tabling of Documents

Pursuant to Standing Order 32(2), laid upon the Table, — Copy of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and Explanatory Memorandum, dated December 13, 2006. — Sessional Paper No. 8532-402-57.

Pursuant to Standing Order 32(2), laid upon the Table, — Document entitled "Advisory Panel Report on the Creation of a Canadian Democracy Promotion Agency". — Sessional Paper No. 8525-402-36.

Presenting Reports from Committees

Mr. Murphy (Charlottetown), from the Standing Committee on Public Accounts, presented the 20th Report of the Committee, "Chapter 5, Financial Management and Control – National Defence of the Spring 2009 Report of the Auditor General of Canada". — Sessional Paper No. 8510-402-174.

Pursuant to Standing Order 109, the Committee requested that the government table a comprehensive response.

A copy of the relevant Minutes of Proceedings (Meetings Nos. 30 and 40) was tabled.

Mr. Murphy (Charlottetown), from the Standing Committee on Public Accounts, presented the 21st Report of the Committee, "Chapter 3, Contracting for Professional Services – Public Works and Government Services Canada of the December 2008 Report of the Auditor General of Canada". — Sessional Paper No. 8510-402-175.

Pursuant to Standing Order 109, the Committee requested that the government table a comprehensive response.

A copy of the relevant Minutes of Proceedings (Meetings Nos. 11, 23, 34, 35, 37 and 40) was tabled.

Mr. Murphy (Charlottetown), from the Standing Committee on Public Accounts, presented the 22nd Report of the Committee, "The Power of Committees to Order the Production of Documents and Records". — Sessional Paper No. 8510-402-176.

Pursuant to Standing Order 109, the Committee requested that the government table a comprehensive response.

A copy of the relevant Minutes of Proceedings (Meetings Nos. 29 and 40) was tabled.

Mr. Fast (Abbotsford), from the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights, presented the 15th Report of the Committee (Supplementary Estimates (B), 2009-2010 — Votes 1b, 10b, 20b, 30b, 35b and 50b under JUSTICE). — Sessional Paper No. 8510-402-177.

A copy of the relevant Minutes of Proceedings (Meeting No. 51) was tabled.

Introduction of Private Members' Bills

Pursuant to Standing Orders 68(2) and 69(1), on motion of Mr. Marston (Hamilton East—Stoney Creek), seconded by Ms. Wasylycia-Leis (Winnipeg North), Bill C-487, An Act to amend the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act and another Act in consequence (health-related benefit plans), was introduced, read the first time, ordered to be printed and ordered for a second reading at the next sitting of the House.

Motions

Mr. Davies (Vancouver Kingsway), seconded by Mr. Julian (Burnaby—New Westminster), moved, — That the Third Report of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security, presented on Thursday, June 18, 2009, be concurred in. (Concurrence in Committee Reports No. 17)

Debate arose thereon.

Mr. Lukiwski (Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons), seconded by Mr. Watson (Essex), moved, — That the debate be now adjourned.

The question was put on the motion and it was negatived on the following division:
(Division No. 143 -- Vote n^o 143)
YEAS: 125, NAYS: 133
YEAS -- POUR Abbott Ablonczy Aglukkaq Albrecht Allen (Tobique—Mactaquac) Ambrose Anderson Armstrong Ashfield Baird Benoit Bernier Bezan Blackburn Blaney Block Boucher Boughen Braid Breitkreuz Brown (Leeds—Grenville) Brown (Newmarket—Aurora) Brown (Barrie) Bruinooge Calandra Calkins Cannan (Kelowna—Lake Country) Carrie Casson Clarke Cummins Davidson Del Mastro Devolin Dreeshen Duncan (Vancouver Island North) Dykstra Fast Finley Flaherty Fletcher Galipeau Gallant Généreux Glover Goldring Goodyear Gourde Grewal Guergis Harris (Cariboo—Prince George) Hawn Hiebert Hill Hoback Hoeppner Holder Jean Kamp (Pitt Meadows—Maple Ridge—Mission) Keddy (South Shore—St. Margaret's) Kenney (Calgary Southeast) Kerr Komarnicki Lake Lauzon Lebel Lemieux Lobb Lukiwski Lunn Lunney MacKay (Central Nova) MacKenzie Mayes McColeman McLeod Menzies Merrifield Moore (Port Moody—Westwood—Port Coquitlam) Moore (Fundy Royal) Nicholson Norlock O'Connor O'Neill-Gordon Obhrai Oda Payne Petit Poilievre Prentice Preston Raitt Rajotte Rathgeber Reid Richards Richardson Rickford Scheer Schellenberger Shea Shipley Shory Smith Sorenson Stanton Storseth Strahl Sweet Tilson Toews Trost Tweed Uppal Van Kesteren Van Loan Vellacott Wallace Warawa Warkentin Watson Weston (Saint John) Woodworth Yelich Young Total: -- 125
NAYS -- CONTRE Allen (Welland) Andrews Angus Ashton Atamanenko Bachand Bagnell Bains Beaudin Bélanger Bennett Bevilacqua Bevington Bigras Blais Bouchard Bourgeois Brison Brunelle Byrne Cannis Cardin Charlton Chow Christopherson Coady Comartin Cotler Crombie Crowder Cullen Cuzner D'Amours Davies (Vancouver Kingsway) Davies (Vancouver East) DeBellefeuille Demers Deschamps Desnoyers Dewar Dhaliwal Dhalla Dion Donnelly Dosanjh Dryden Duceppe Dufour Duncan (Etobicoke North) Duncan (Edmonton—Strathcona) Easter Eyking Faille Folco Foote Freeman Gagnon Garneau Godin Goodale Gravelle Guarnieri Guimond (Montmorency—Charlevoix—Haute-Côte-Nord) Hall Findlay Harris (St. John's East) Holland Hughes Hyer Ignatieff Jennings Julian Kania Kennedy Laforest Laframboise Lalonde Lavallée Layton LeBlanc Lee Leslie Malhi Malo Maloway Marston Martin (Esquimalt—Juan de Fuca) Martin (Winnipeg Centre) Masse Mathyssen McCallum McGuinty McKay (Scarborough—Guildwood) Ménard Mendes Minna Mulcair Murphy (Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe) Murphy (Charlottetown) Nadeau Neville Ouellet Pacetti Paillé (Hochelaga) Paquette Patry Pearson Pomerleau Proulx Rae Rafferty Ratansi Regan Rodriguez Rota Russell Savoie Scarpaleggia Sgro Siksay Silva Simms Simson St-Cyr Szabo Tonks Trudeau Valeriote Vincent Volpe Wasylycia-Leis Wilfert Wrzesnewskyj Zarac Total: -- 133

The House resumed consideration of the motion of Mr. Davies (Vancouver Kingsway), seconded by Mr. Julian (Burnaby—New Westminster), — That the Third Report of the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security, presented on Thursday, June 18, 2009, be concurred in. (Concurrence in Committee Reports No. 17)

The debate continued.

At 1:05 p.m., pursuant to Standing Order 66(2), the Speaker interrupted the proceedings.

The question was put on the motion and it was agreed to on division.

Presenting Petitions

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

— by , one concerning bankruptcy (No. 402-1376);

— by , two concerning the Canada Post Corporation (Nos. 402-1377 and 402-1378);

— by , one concerning the Employment Insurance Program (No. 402-1379);

— by , one concerning unborn children (No. 402-1380);

— by , one concerning transportation (No. 402-1381);

— by , one concerning the Canada Post Corporation (No. 402-1382);

— by , one concerning the Food and Drugs Act (No. 402-1383);

— by , one concerning the fishing industry (No. 402-1384);

— by , one concerning AIDS (No. 402-1385);

— by , one concerning asbestos (No. 402-1386);

— by , one concerning AIDS (No. 402-1387);

— by , one concerning AIDS (No. 402-1388);

— by , one concerning AIDS (No. 402-1389);

— by , one concerning AIDS (No. 402-1390).

Questions on the Order Paper

Mr. Lukiwski (Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons) presented the answers to questions Q-487, Q-500, Q-501, Q-521 and Q-567 on the Order Paper.

Pursuant to Standing Order 39(7), Mr. Lukiwski (Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons) presented the returns to the following questions made into Orders for Returns:

Q-75 — — With respect to investing in research and innovation, specifically regarding York University in Toronto, Ontario: (a) what is the government's plan to ensure that Canadian research and development remain an example to the rest of the world; (b) what is the government prepared to do to ensure that the best and brightest remain in Canada; (c) what research grants will the government be making available this year, both at York University and across Canada; (d) what new programs will the government undertake to assist students; (e) what will the government's response be to the issue of rising tuition; (f) what specific steps will the government take to invest in research and development, to improve the lives of Canadians, and to partner to help Canadian industries grow in these difficult economic times; and (g) what future investments is the government planning in colleges and universities? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-402-75.

Q-466 — — With regard to the Flathead River region: (a) why does the government consider British Columbia resource extraction pollution threats to the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park are an acceptable development risk; (b) why, since 2005, does the Canadian government refuse the United States administration requests for a reference to the International Joint Commission (IJC) on Flathead River concerns; (c) for which transboundary rivers have IJC reference requests been accepted or refused; and (d) by department, what transboundary impacts have been identified in the environmental assessments of proposed resource development in the Flathead River region, including but not limited to, (i) as cumulative effects, (ii) toward water quality and quantity as the IJC described and recommended in its 1988 Report on the Flathead, (iii) on fisheries and habitats, (iv) on migratory and endangered species? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-402-466.

Q-488 — — With regards to government advertising in Yukon, Nunavut and Northwest Territories on “Canada’s Economic Action Plan”: (a) how much has the government spent on radio, in each territory indicating the station, date and time the commercial aired, amount spent, and ownership of the station; (b) how much has the government spent on television in each territory, indicating the station, date and time the commercial aired, amount spent, and ownership of the station; (c) how much has the government spent on newspapers in each territory, indicating the date and page of the newspaper ad, name of the newspaper, ownership, amount of advertising space purchased, and if a higher rate was paid for preferential placement of the ads; (d) how much has the government spent on magazines in each territory, indicating the date and page of the magazine ad, name of the magazine, ownership, amount of advertising purchased, and if a higher rate was paid for preferential placement; (e) how much has the government spent on media websites in each territory, indicating what website advertising was purchased by the government, amount, length and terms of the website advertising, and owner of the website; (f) how much has the government spent on billboards, in each territory, indicating the amount of money spent on billboard advertising, locations of the billboards, duration of the billboard ad, and ownership of the billboard company; (g) what are the names of the companies responsible for purchasing the Government of Canada advertising in the territories, the ownership of the companies, commission to be paid for the work done, and length and terms of the contract; and (h) was this contract sole sourced or open bid, and what were the dates of the contract posting on the government website? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-402-488.

Q-489 — — Since January 2006 to present, what are the dates, times, locations of Cabinet and committees of Cabinet meetings? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-402-489.

Q-506 — — With regard to the Fair Wages and Hours of Labour Act (FWHLA): (a) how many complaints were received from January 1, 2004 to October 20, 2009; (b) what is the number of complaints in (a) that required investigation; (c) what is the annual budget to carry out investigations of complaints received under the Act; (d) how many inspectors are employed to carry out these investigations; (e) are third party complaints allowed under the Act and, if so, how many complaints in (a) were made by third party individuals; (f) how many complaints in (a) were made by employees of the company they are making the complaint against; (g) how many complaints in (e) were investigated; (h) how many investigations of (b) resulted in a monetary payment from employer to employee; (i) what was the timeline of each of the investigations of (h); (j) how many investigations are currently ongoing; (k) after the 60-day holdback mentioned in the Act is over, is there any way to recuperate unpaid wages for the employees or to have the company found in violation pay penalties; and (l) who, or what department is responsible for ensuring these payments are made? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-402-506.

Q-533 — — With regard to government magazine advertising: (a) how much has the government spent on promoting Canada’s Economic Action Plan through advertising in British Columbia; and (b) when was each advertisement published, and in which magazine? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-402-533.

Q-534 — — With regard to government radio advertising: (a) how much has the government spent on promoting Canada’s Economic Action Plan through advertising in British Columbia; and (b) when was each advertisement aired, and on which radio station? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-402-534.

Q-535 — — With regard to the Northern Residents Tax Deduction Program (NRTDP): (a) what is its estimated current cost (foregone revenue) to the government; (b) what is the number of individuals that benefit from the NRTDP, as well as its cost, by province and territory; (c) what is the medium and mean benefit claimed by individuals and households; (d) what is the distribution of benefits by income class (high, middle, and low); (e) what is the distribution of benefits by male and female individuals and heads of household; and (f) what is the distribution of benefits between aboriginal and non-aboriginal individuals and households? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-402-535.

Q-536 — — With regard to government television advertising: (a) how much has the government spent on promoting Canada’s Economic Action Plan through advertising in New Brunswick; and (b) when was each advertisement aired, and on which television station? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-402-536.

Q-539 — — With regard to government magazine advertising: (a) how much has the government spent on promoting Canada’s Economic Action Plan through advertising in Alberta; and (b) when was each advertisement published, and in which magazine? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-402-539.

Q-540 — — With regard to government television advertising: (a) how much has the government spent on promoting Canada’s Economic Action Plan through advertising in Quebec; and (b) when was each advertisement aired, and on which station? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-402-540.

Q-541 — — With regard to government newspaper advertising: (a) how much has the government spent on promoting Canada’s Economic Action Plan through advertising in Nova Scotia; and (b) when was each advertisement published, and in which newspaper? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-402-541.

Q-542 — — With regard to government radio advertising: (a) how much has the government spent on promoting Canada’s Economic Action Plan through advertising in Alberta; and (b) when was each advertisement aired, and on which radio station? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-402-542.

Q-548 — — With regard to the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, how much money did the department spend of its annual budget in 2007, 2008 and 2009 on: (a) all staff salaries for workers in Canada, including departmental headquarters and Ministerial staff; (b) all Canadian staff salaries posted outside of Canada; and (c) all salaries for locally-engaged staff at all Canadian embassies and consulates? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-402-548.

Q-549 — — With regard to the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, how much money did the department spend of its annual budget in 2007, 2008 and 2009 on: (a) language training for Canadian diplomats posted outside of Canada; (b) all telecommunications devices for all Canadian embassies and consulates; and (c) moving, storage, housing and educational costs for all Canadian diplomats and their families posted outside of Canada? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-402-549.

Q-570 — — With regard to government newspaper advertising: (a) how much has the government spent on promoting Canada’s Economic Action Plan through advertising in Saskatchewan; and (b) when was each advertisement published, and in which newspaper? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-402-570.

Q-575 — — With respect to the Community Futures Program (CFP): (a) which CFP projects have received funding since 2006 within (i) Manitoba, (ii) Saskatchewan, (iii) Alberta; and (b) which of these projects have repaid any loans they received within (i) Manitoba, (ii) Saskatchewan, (iii) Alberta? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-402-575.

Q-584 — — With regard to the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, how many people did the Department employ in 2007, 2008 and 2009 in the following categories: (a) Canadian citizens employed by the Department in general; (b) Canadian diplomats stationed outside of Canada; (c) locally-engaged non-Canadian staff outside of Canada; and (d) all staff at the Departmental headquarters in Ottawa? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-402-584.

Government Orders

Ways and Means

The Order was read for consideration of a Ways and Means motion to amend the Excise Tax Act (Sessional Paper No. 8570-402-16), notice of which was laid upon the Table on Friday, November 27, 2009. (Ways and Means No. 11)

Mr. Hill (Leader of the Government in the House of Commons), seconded by Mr. O'Connor (Minister of State), moved, — That the motion be concurred in.

The question was put on the motion and it was agreed to on the following division:
(Division No. 144 -- Vote n^o 144)
YEAS: 192, NAYS: 32
YEAS -- POUR Abbott Ablonczy Aglukkaq Albrecht Allen (Tobique—Mactaquac) Ambrose Anders Armstrong Ashfield Bachand Bagnell Baird Beaudin Bennett Benoit Bernier Bigras Blais Blaney Block Bonsant Bouchard Boucher Boughen Bourgeois Braid Breitkreuz Brison Brown (Leeds—Grenville) Brown (Newmarket—Aurora) Brown (Barrie) Brunelle Calandra Calkins Cannan (Kelowna—Lake Country) Cannis Carrie Casson Clarke Coady Cotler Crombie Cummins Cuzner D'Amours Davidson DeBellefeuille Del Mastro Demers Deschamps Desnoyers Devolin Dhaliwal Dhalla Dosanjh Dreeshen Dryden Duceppe Dufour Duncan (Etobicoke North) Dykstra Easter Faille Fast Finley Flaherty Fletcher Folco Foote Freeman Gagnon Galipeau Gallant Garneau Gaudet Généreux Glover Goldring Goodale Goodyear Gourde Grewal Guarnieri Guay Guimond (Montmorency—Charlevoix—Haute-Côte-Nord) Hall Findlay Harris (Cariboo—Prince George) Hawn Hiebert Hill Hoback Hoeppner Holder Ignatieff Jean Kamp (Pitt Meadows—Maple Ridge—Mission) Kania Kennedy Kenney (Calgary Southeast) Kerr Komarnicki Laforest Laframboise Lake Lalonde Lauzon Lavallée Lebel LeBlanc Lee Lemay Lemieux Lévesque Lobb Lukiwski Lunn MacKenzie Malo Mayes McCallum McColeman McKay (Scarborough—Guildwood) Ménard Mendes Menzies Merrifield Minna Moore (Port Moody—Westwood—Port Coquitlam) Moore (Fundy Royal) Murphy (Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe) Murphy (Charlottetown) Nadeau Neville Nicholson Norlock O'Connor O'Neill-Gordon Obhrai Oda Ouellet Paillé (Hochelaga) Paquette Paradis Payne Pearson Petit Poilievre Pomerleau Preston Proulx Rae Raitt Rajotte Rathgeber Rickford Rodriguez Rota Russell Scarpaleggia Scheer Sgro Shea Shipley Shory Simms Sorenson St-Cyr Stanton Strahl Sweet Tilson Toews Tonks Trost Trudeau Tweed Uppal Valeriote Van Kesteren Van Loan Vellacott Vincent Volpe Wallace Warawa Warkentin Watson Weston (Saint John) Woodworth Wrzesnewskyj Yelich Zarac Total: -- 192
NAYS -- CONTRE Allen (Welland) Angus Ashton Atamanenko Bevington Charlton Chow Christopherson Comartin Crowder Davies (Vancouver Kingsway) Davies (Vancouver East) Dewar Donnelly Duncan (Edmonton—Strathcona) Godin Gravelle Harris (St. John's East) Hughes Hyer Layton Leslie Maloway Marston Martin (Winnipeg Centre) Masse Mathyssen Mulcair Rafferty Savoie Siksay Wasylycia-Leis Total: -- 32
PAIRED -- PAIRÉS Allison André Asselin Bellavance Cadman Cannon (Pontiac) Carrier Day Dechert Dorion Guimond (Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques) Kent Kramp (Prince Edward—Hastings) Lessard Mark Mourani Paillé (Louis-Hébert) Plamondon Ritz Roy Saxton Thi Lac Weston (West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country) Wong

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.

Statements by Ministers

Pursuant to Order made Wednesday, December 2, 2009 and to Standing Order 33(1), Mrs. Guergis (Minister of State (Status of Women)) made a statement.

Motions

By unanimous consent, it was resolved, — That this House mark the 20th anniversary of the Montreal massacre at École Polytechnique and the adoption in 1991 of the National Day of Remembrance Act to commemorate the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women in response to this tragedy.

Presenting Reports from Committees

By unanimous consent, Mr. Lukiwski (Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons), from the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs, presented the 27th Report of the Committee, which was as follows:

The Committee recommends, pursuant to Standing Order 113(1), that the list of members for the Legislative Committee on Bill C-31 be as follows:

Members (11)
Joe Comartin Ed Fast Shelly Glover Brian Jean Marlene Jennings Dominic LeBlanc	Marc Lemay Serge Ménard Rob Moore Brian Murphy Daniel Petit

A copy of the relevant Minutes of Proceedings (Meeting No. 1) was tabled.

Pursuant to Standing Order 113(1), the report was deemed concurred in.

Government Orders

Mr. Hill (Leader of the Government in the House of Commons), seconded by Mr. Prentice (Minister of the Environment), moved, — That, notwithstanding any Standing Order or usual practice of the House, a bill in the name of the Minister of Finance, entitled An Act to amend the Excise Tax Act, shall be disposed of as follows:

1. not more than one sitting day shall be allotted to the second reading stage of the bill and, 15 minutes before the expiry of the time provided for Government Orders on the day of the consideration of the said stage of the said bill, any proceedings before the House shall be interrupted, if required for the purpose of this Order and, in turn, every question necessary for the disposal of the said stage of the bill shall be put forthwith and successively, without further debate or amendment;

2. not more than four hours following the adoption of the second reading motion, any proceedings before the Committee to which the bill stands referred shall be interrupted, if required for the purpose of this Order, and in turn every question necessary for the disposal of the committee stage of the bill shall be put forthwith and successively without further debate or amendment; a representative of the Committee may report the bill to the House by depositing the said report with the Clerk of the House, whereupon it shall be deemed to have been duly presented to the House, provided that if the bill is not reported from the Committee by 11:00 p.m. on the day of the adoption of the second reading motion, the bill shall immediately be deemed to have been reported from the Committee without amendment; that for the sole purposes of this Order, the deadline for notice of report stage motions shall be 3:00 a.m. the day following the adoption of the second reading motion;

3. the bill may be taken up at report stage at the next sitting of the House following the notice deadline for the presentation of report stage motions, provided that a motion for third reading may be made immediately after the bill has been concurred in at report stage;

4. not more than one sitting day shall be allotted to the consideration at report stage and third reading stage of the bill and, 15 minutes before the expiry of the time provided for Government Orders on the day of the consideration of the said stages of the said bill, any proceedings before the House shall be interrupted, if required for the purpose of this Order, and in turn every question necessary for the disposal of the said stages of the bill shall be put forthwith and successively, without further debate or amendment;

5. should a recorded division be requested on any motion in relation to any stage of the bill and such a division is eligible to be deferred pursuant to Standing Order 45, the division may be deferred to a time not later than the end of Government Orders on the day that stage is under consideration and the operation of Standing Order 45(6) shall be suspended in relation to this bill; and

6. if the bill is not read a third time and passed by Friday, December 11, 2009, when the House adjourns on Friday, December 11, 2009, it shall stand adjourned until Saturday, December 12, 2009, at 10:00 a.m.; commencing on December 12, 2009, and concluding on the day on which a motion that the House stands adjourned pursuant to this Order is adopted the hours of sitting, the Order of Business of the House and the provisions of Standing Order 54 shall be those provided in the Standing Orders for a Tuesday; at any time on or after December 12, 2009, a Minister of the Crown may propose, without notice, a motion that, upon adjournment on the day on which the said motion is proposed, the House shall stand adjourned until Monday, January 25, 2010; the said motion shall immediately be deemed to have been adopted provided that for the purposes of Standing Order 81(10)(c), the House shall be deemed to have been adjourned on December 11, 2009, and provided that, during the adjournment, for the purposes of any other Standing Order, the House shall be deemed to stand adjourned pursuant to Standing Order 28. (Government Business No. 8)

Debate arose thereon.

Notice of Motion

Mr. Hill (Leader of the Government in the House of Commons) gave notice of intention to move at the next sitting of the House, pursuant to Standing Order 57, that, in relation to the consideration of Government Business No. 8, the debate not be further adjourned.

Government Orders

The House resumed consideration of the motion of Mr. Hill (Leader of the Government in the House of Commons), seconded by Mr. Prentice (Minister of the Environment). (Government Business No. 8)

The debate continued.

Private Members' Business

At 5:43 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 Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities of Bill C-386, An Act to amend the Canada Labour Code (replacement workers).

Mr. Laframboise (Argenteuil—Papineau—Mirabel), seconded by Mrs. Lavallée (Saint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert), moved, — That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities.

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.

Panel of Chairs

Pursuant to Standing Order 113(2), the Speaker appointed Mr. Scheer (Deputy Speaker and Chair of Committees of the Whole), from the Panel of Chairs, Chair of the Legislative Committee on Bill C-31, An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act and the Identification of Criminals Act and to make a consequential amendment to another Act.

Adjournment Proceedings

At 6:43 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 7:12 p.m., the Speaker adjourned the House until tomorrow at 10:00 a.m., pursuant to Standing Order 24(1).