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41st PARLIAMENT, 2nd SESSION

Journals No. 168 Tuesday, February 3, 2015 10:00 a.m.

Prayers

Daily Routine Of Business

Statements by Ministers

Pursuant to Standing Order 33(1), Mr. Baird (Minister of Foreign Affairs) made a statement.

Presenting Reports from Committees

Mr. Wallace (Burlington), from the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights, presented the 13th Report of the Committee (extension of time, pursuant to Standing Order 97.1, to consider Bill C-587, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (increasing parole ineligibility)). — Sessional Paper No. 8510-412-174.

A copy of the relevant Minutes of Proceedings (Meeting No. 59) was tabled.

Pursuant to Standing Order 97.1(3), the motion to concur in the Report was deemed moved, the question was deemed put and a recorded division was deemed requested and deferred until Wednesday, February 4, 2015, immediately before the time provided for Private Members' Business. (Concurrence in Committee Reports No. 28)

Mr. Wallace (Burlington), from the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights, presented the 14th Report of the Committee (extension of time, pursuant to Standing Order 97.1, to consider Bill C-590, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (blood alcohol content)). — Sessional Paper No. 8510-412-175.

A copy of the relevant Minutes of Proceedings (Meeting No. 59) was tabled.

Presenting Petitions

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

— by , one concerning the grain industry (No. 412-4821);

— by , one concerning the grain industry (No. 412-4822);

— by , two concerning the grain industry (Nos. 412-4823 and 412-4824) and two concerning the mining industry (Nos. 412-4825 and 412-4826);

— by , one concerning a national day (No. 412-4827);

— by , one concerning the protection of the environment (No. 412-4828);

— by , one concerning the grain industry (No. 412-4829) and one concerning federal programs (No. 412-4830);

— by , one concerning the Parliament of Canada (No. 412-4831).

Government Orders

The Order was read for the second reading and reference to the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs of Bill C-50, An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act.

Mr. Poilievre (Minister of State (Democratic Reform)), seconded by Mr. Rickford (Minister of Natural Resources and Minister for the Federal Economic Development Initiative for Northern Ontario), moved, — That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs.

Debate arose thereon.

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.

Government Orders

The House resumed consideration of the motion of Mr. Clement (President of the Treasury Board), seconded by Mr. Alexander (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration), — That Bill C-21, An Act to control the administrative burden that regulations impose on businesses, be now read a third time and do pass.

The debate continued.

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

Accordingly, the Bill was read the third time and passed.

Deferred Recorded Divisions

Business of Supply

Pursuant to Standing Order 45, the House proceeded to the taking of the deferred recorded division on the motion of Mr. Cleary (St. John's South—Mount Pearl), seconded by Mr. Angus (Timmins—James Bay), — That, in the opinion of the House, the federal government must respect its promise to Newfoundland and Labrador of $400 million for development and renewal, based on a 70/30 federal/provincial cost-share model, through the province’s Fisheries Investment Fund, in exchange for lifting minimum processing requirements as part of the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement.
The question was put on the motion and it was negatived on the following division:
(Division No. 320 -- Vote n^o 320)
YEAS: 116, NAYS: 148
YEAS -- POUR Andrews Angus Atamanenko Aubin Ayala Bélanger Bellavance Bennett Bevington Blanchette Blanchette-Lamothe Boivin Boulerice Boutin-Sweet Brahmi Brison Brosseau Caron Cash Charlton Chicoine Chisholm Choquette Christopherson Cleary Comartin Côté Cotler Crowder Cullen Cuzner Davies (Vancouver Kingsway) Davies (Vancouver East) Day Dewar Dion Dionne Labelle Donnelly Doré Lefebvre Dubé Dubourg Duncan (Etobicoke North) Dusseault Easter Eyking Freeland Freeman Fry Garneau Genest Giguère Goodale Gravelle Groguhé Harris (Scarborough Southwest) Harris (St. John's East) Hsu Hughes Hyer Julian Kellway Lamoureux Lapointe Latendresse Laverdière LeBlanc (Beauséjour) LeBlanc (LaSalle—Émard) Leslie Liu MacAulay Mai Marston Masse Mathyssen May McCallum McGuinty McKay (Scarborough—Guildwood) Michaud Moore (Abitibi—Témiscamingue) Morin (Chicoutimi—Le Fjord) Morin (Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine) Morin (Laurentides—Labelle) Morin (Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot) Mourani Mulcair Nantel Nash Nicholls Nunez-Melo Papillon Péclet Perreault Plamondon Quach Rafferty Rankin Rathgeber Regan Rousseau Scarpaleggia Scott Sellah Sgro Simms (Bonavista—Gander—Grand Falls—Windsor) Sims (Newton—North Delta) Sitsabaiesan St-Denis Stewart Sullivan Toone Tremblay Trudeau Turmel Valeriote Vaughan Total: -- 116
NAYS -- CONTRE Ablonczy Adams Adler Aglukkaq Albas Albrecht Alexander Allen (Tobique—Mactaquac) Allison Ambler Ambrose Anders Anderson Armstrong Aspin Baird Barlow Bateman Benoit Bergen Bezan Blaney Block Boughen Braid Breitkreuz Brown (Newmarket—Aurora) Brown (Barrie) Bruinooge Butt Calandra Calkins Cannan Carmichael Carrie Chisu Chong Clarke Clement Crockatt Daniel Davidson Dechert Dreeshen Duncan (Vancouver Island North) Dykstra Eglinski Falk Fantino Fast Findlay (Delta—Richmond East) Fletcher Galipeau Gallant Gill Glover Goguen Goldring Goodyear Gosal Gourde Grewal Harper Harris (Cariboo—Prince George) Hawn Hayes Hillyer Hoback Holder James Kamp (Pitt Meadows—Maple Ridge—Mission) Keddy (South Shore—St. Margaret's) Kenney (Calgary Southeast) Kent Kerr Komarnicki Kramp (Prince Edward—Hastings) Lake Lauzon Lebel Leef Leitch Lemieux Leung Lizon Lobb Lukiwski Lunney MacKay (Central Nova) MacKenzie Maguire Mayes McColeman McLeod Menegakis Miller Moore (Port Moody—Westwood—Port Coquitlam) Moore (Fundy Royal) Norlock Oliver O'Neill Gordon Opitz Paradis Payne Perkins Poilievre Preston Raitt Rajotte Reid Rempel Richards Rickford Saxton Schellenberger Shea Shipley Shory Smith Sopuck Sorenson Stanton Strahl Sweet Tilson Toet Trost Trottier Truppe Uppal Valcourt Van Kesteren Van Loan Wallace Warawa Warkentin Watson Weston (West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country) Weston (Saint John) Wilks Williamson Wong Woodworth Yelich Young (Oakville) Young (Vancouver South) Yurdiga Zimmer Total: -- 148
PAIRED -- PAIRÉS Nil--Aucun

Notices of Motions

Mr. Van Loan (Leader of the Government in the House of Commons) gave notice of the intention to move a motion at the next sitting of the House, pursuant to Standing Order 78(3), for the purpose of allotting a specified number of days or hours for the consideration and disposal of the report stage and third reading stage of Bill C-32, An Act to enact the Canadian Victims Bill of Rights and to amend certain Acts.

Private Members' Business

At 6:23 p.m., pursuant to Standing Order 30(7), the House proceeded to the consideration of Private Members' Business.

The Order was read for the consideration at report stage of Bill C-586, An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act and the Parliament of Canada Act (candidacy and caucus reforms), as reported by the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs with amendments.

Mr. Chong (Wellington—Halton Hills), seconded by Mr. Williamson (New Brunswick Southwest), moved, — That the Bill, as amended, be concurred in at report stage.

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

Accordingly, the Bill, as amended, was concurred in at report stage.

Pursuant to Standing Order 98(4), Mr. Chong (Wellington—Halton Hills), seconded by Mr. Williamson (New Brunswick Southwest), moved, — That the Bill be now read a third time and do pass.

Debate arose thereon.

Pursuant to Standing Order 98(2), the Order was dropped to the bottom of the order of precedence on the Order Paper.

At 7:23 p.m., pursuant to Standing Order 30(7), the House resumed consideration at report stage of Bill C-518, An Act to amend the Members of Parliament Retiring Allowances Act (withdrawal allowance), as reported by the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs with amendments;

And of the motions in Group No. 1 (Motions Nos. 1 and 2).

Group No. 1

Motion No. 1 of Mr. Julian (Burnaby—New Westminster), seconded by Mr. Chisholm (Dartmouth—Cole Harbour), — That Bill C-518, in Clause 2, be amended by replacing lines 12 to 16 on page 1 with the following:

“ceases or has ceased to be a member and who, on or after the day on which this subsection comes into force, is either convicted of an offence under the Criminal Code mentioned in subsection (4) or sentenced to a term of imprisonment of five years or more for an offence under any other Act of Parliament, if the offence arose out of conduct that in whole or in part occurred while the person was a member, a”

Motion No. 2 of Mr. Julian (Burnaby—New Westminster), seconded by Mr. Chisholm (Dartmouth—Cole Harbour), — That Bill C-518, in Clause 3, be amended by replacing lines 20 to 25 on page 3 with the following:

“ceases or has ceased to be a member and who, on or after the day on which this subsection comes into force, is either convicted of an offence under the Criminal Code mentioned in subsection 19(4) or sentenced to a term of imprisonment of five years or more for an offence under any other Act of Parliament, if the offence arose out of conduct that in whole or in part occurred while the person was a member, a withdrawal”

The debate continued on the motions in Group No. 1.

The question was put on Motion No. 1, and, pursuant to Standing Order 98(4), the recorded division, which also applies to Motion No. 2, was deferred until Wednesday, February 4, 2015, immediately before the time provided for Private Members' Business.

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 — Minutes of Proceedings of the Board of Internal Economy of the House of Commons for November 4, 18 and 25, 2014, pursuant to Standing Order 148(1). — Sessional Paper No. 8527-412-18.

— by — Report of the National Arts Centre, together with the Auditor General's Report, for the fiscal year ended August 31, 2014, pursuant to the National Arts Centre Act, R.S. 1985, c. N-3, sbs. 17(2). — Sessional Paper No. 8560-412-179-02. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage)

Petitions Filed with the Clerk of the House

Pursuant to Standing Order 36, a petition certified correct by the Clerk of Petitions was filed as follows:

— by , one concerning the grain industry (No. 412-4832).

Adjournment Proceedings

At 7:56 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 8:16 p.m., the Speaker adjourned the House until tomorrow at 2:00 p.m., pursuant to Standing Order 24(1).