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44th PARLIAMENT, 1st SESSION

Journals No. 164 Monday, March 6, 2023 11:00 a.m.

The acting clerk informed the House of the unavoidable absence of the Speaker.

Whereupon, Mr. d'Entremont (West Nova), Deputy Speaker and Chair of Committees of the Whole, took the chair, pursuant to subsection 43(1) of the Parliament of Canada Act.

Prayer

Vacancies

The Deputy Speaker informed the House that a vacancy had occurred in the representation in the House of Commons, for the electoral district of Portage—Lisgar, in the Province of Manitoba, by reason of the resignation of the Hon. Candice Bergen, and that, pursuant to paragraph 25(1)(b) of the Parliament of Canada Act, the Speaker had addressed, on Tuesday, February 28, 2023, a warrant to the Chief Electoral Officer for the issue of a writ for the election of a member to fill the vacancy.

Motions

By unanimous consent, it was ordered, — That, notwithstanding any standing order, special order or usual practice of the House:

(a) on Tuesday, March 7, 2023, at the expiry of the time provided for Oral Questions, the House shall adjourn to the next sitting day;

(b) the address by the President of the European Commission, to be delivered in the chamber of the House of Commons on Tuesday, March 7, 2023, before members of the Senate and the House of Commons, together with all introductory and related remarks, be printed as an appendix to the House of Commons Debates for that day and form part of the records of this House;

(c) the media recording and transmission of such address, introductory and related remarks be authorized pursuant to established guidelines for such occasions; and

(d) if a recorded division is requested in respect of a debatable motion after 2:00 p.m. on Monday, March 6, 2023, and before 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, March 7, 2023, it shall stand deferred to Wednesday, March 8, 2023, at the expiry of the time provided for Oral Questions.

Private Members' Business

At 11:04 a.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 S-211, An Act to enact the Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act and to amend the Customs Tariff, as reported by the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development without amendment.

Mr. McKay (Scarborough—Guildwood), seconded by Mr. Zuberi (Pierrefonds—Dollard), moved, — That the bill be concurred in at report stage.

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

Accordingly, the bill was concurred in at report stage.

Pursuant to Standing Order 76.1(11), Mr. McKay (Scarborough—Guildwood), seconded by Mr. Zuberi (Pierrefonds—Dollard), 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.

Government Orders

The House resumed consideration of the motion of Mr. Mendicino (Minister of Public Safety), seconded by Mr. Hussen (Minister of Housing and Diversity and Inclusion), — That Bill C-26, An Act respecting cyber security, amending the Telecommunications Act and making consequential amendments to other Acts, be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security.

The debate continued.

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 Thursday, June 23, 2022, the House proceeded to the taking of the deferred recorded division on the motion of Mr. Davies (Vancouver Kingsway), seconded by Ms. Zarrillo (Port Moody—Coquitlam), — That, given that,
(i) during the 2021 federal election campaign, the Prime Minister was harshly critical of the Conservative Party of Canada's proposal to encourage “innovation” in the health care sector by expanding for-profit provision of publicly funded services,
(ii) the Prime Minister has now dramatically changed his position and has lauded as ‘’innovation” Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s proposed expansion of for-profit clinics,
(iii) for-profit clinics would poach workers from the public system and lead to longer wait times,
(iv) there are multiple public reports of two-tier health care in Canada, where people are charged for faster access to care, such as family doctors or surgery,
the House call on the government to:
(a) express disappointment that the Prime Minister has promoted Ontario’s for-profit health plans as “innovation”;
(b) ensure that recently announced health care funding is not used for the expansion of for-profit health care, but instead used to rebuild and innovate within the public system by hiring more staff and reducing wait times; and
(c) enforce the Canada Health Act and immediately move to close loopholes that allow for the growth of two-tier health care in Canada.
The question was put on the motion and it was negatived on the following division:
(Division No. 262 -- Vote n^o 262)
YEAS: 26, NAYS: 298
YEAS -- POUR Angus Ashton Bachrach Barron Blaikie Blaney Boulerice Cannings Collins (Victoria) Davies Desjarlais Garrison Green Hughes Idlout Johns Julian Kwan MacGregor Mathyssen May (Saanich—Gulf Islands) McPherson Morrice Singh Vuong Zarrillo Total: -- 26
NAYS -- CONTRE Aboultaif Aitchison Albas Aldag Alghabra Ali Allison Anand Anandasangaree Arnold Arseneault Arya Atwin Bains Baker Baldinelli Barlow Barrett Barsalou-Duval Battiste Beaulieu Beech Bendayan Bennett Bergeron Berthold Bérubé Bezan Bibeau Bittle Blair Blanchet Blanchette-Joncas Block Blois Boissonnault Bradford Bragdon Brassard Brière Brunelle-Duceppe Calkins Caputo Carrie Casey Chabot Chagger Chahal Chambers Champagne Champoux Chatel Chen Chiang Chong Collins (Hamilton East—Stoney Creek) Cooper Cormier Coteau Dabrusin Dalton Damoff Dancho Davidson DeBellefeuille Deltell Desbiens Desilets Dhaliwal Dhillon Diab Doherty Dong Dowdall Dreeshen Drouin Dubourg Duclos Duguid Duncan (Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry) Dzerowicz Ehsassi El-Khoury Ellis Epp Erskine-Smith Falk (Battlefords—Lloydminster) Falk (Provencher) Fast Fergus Ferreri Fillmore Findlay Fisher Fonseca Fortier Fortin Fragiskatos Fraser Freeland Fry Gaheer Gallant Garneau Garon Gaudreau Généreux Genuis Gerretsen Gill Gladu Godin Goodridge Gould Gourde Gray Guilbeault Hajdu Hallan Hanley Hardie Hepfner Hoback Holland Housefather Hussen Hutchings Iacono Ien Jaczek Jeneroux Joly Jowhari Kayabaga Kelloway Kelly Khalid Khera Kitchen Kmiec Koutrakis Kram Kramp-Neuman Kurek Kusie Kusmierczyk Lake Lalonde Lambropoulos Lametti Lamoureux Lantsman Lapointe Larouche Lattanzio Lauzon LeBlanc Lebouthillier Lehoux Lemire Lewis (Essex) Lewis (Haldimand—Norfolk) Liepert Lightbound Lloyd Lobb Long Longfield Louis (Kitchener—Conestoga) MacAulay (Cardigan) MacDonald (Malpeque) MacKinnon (Gatineau) Maguire Maloney Martel Martinez Ferrada May (Cambridge) Mazier McCauley (Edmonton West) McDonald (Avalon) McGuinty McKay McKinnon (Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam) McLean McLeod Melillo Mendès Mendicino Miao Michaud Miller Moore Morantz Morrison Morrissey Motz Murray Muys Naqvi Nater Ng Noormohamed Normandin O'Connell Oliphant O'Regan O'Toole Patzer Paul-Hus Pauzé Perkins Perron Petitpas Taylor Plamondon Poilievre Powlowski Qualtrough Rayes Redekopp Reid Rempel Garner Richards Roberts Robillard Rodriguez Rogers Romanado Rood Ruff Sahota Sajjan Saks Samson Sarai Savard-Tremblay Scarpaleggia Scheer Schiefke Schmale Seeback Serré Sgro Shanahan Sheehan Shields Shipley Sidhu (Brampton East) Sidhu (Brampton South) Simard Sinclair-Desgagné Small Sorbara Soroka Sousa Steinley Ste-Marie Stewart St-Onge Strahl Stubbs Tassi Taylor Roy Thériault Therrien Thomas Thompson Tochor Tolmie Trudeau Trudel Turnbull Uppal Valdez Van Bynen van Koeverden Van Popta Vandal Vandenbeld Vecchio Vidal Vien Viersen Vignola Villemure Virani Vis Wagantall Warkentin Waugh Webber Weiler Wilkinson Williams Williamson Yip Zahid Zimmer Zuberi Total: -- 298
PAIRED -- PAIRÉS Badawey Lawrence Total: -- 2

Daily Routine Of Business

Tabling of Documents

Pursuant to Standing Order 32(2), Mr. Duclos (Minister of Health) laid upon the table, — Report on COVID-19 Rapid Test Procurement and Distribution. — Sessional Paper No. 8525-441-27.

Presenting Reports from Committees

Mr. Casey (Charlottetown), from the Standing Committee on Health, presented the 10th report of the committee, "Addressing Canada’s Health Workforce Crisis". — Sessional Paper No. 8510-441-204.

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. 8, 10, 13, 15, 17, 18, 20, 21, 33, 34, 39, 40, 43 to 45, 47, 50 and 51) was tabled.

Introduction of Private Members' Bills

Pursuant to Standing Orders 68(2) and 69(1), on motion of Mr. McKinnon (Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam), seconded by Ms. Khalid (Mississauga—Erin Mills), Bill C-316, An Act to amend the Department of Canadian Heritage Act (Court Challenges Program), was introduced, read the first time, ordered to be printed and ordered for a second reading at the next sitting of the House.

Presenting Petitions

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

— by Ms. Zarrillo (Port Moody—Coquitlam), one concerning health (No. 441-01164);

— by Ms. Mathyssen (London—Fanshawe), one concerning taxation (No. 441-01165);

— by Mr. Gerretsen (Kingston and the Islands), one concerning foreign affairs (No. 441-01166);

— by Mr. Davies (Vancouver Kingsway), one concerning transportation (No. 441-01167).

Questions on the Order Paper

Pursuant to Standing Order 39(7), Mr. Lamoureux (Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons) presented the revised return to the following question made into an order for return:

Q-1134 — — With regard to government policies on funding directed towards First Nations, Inuit and Métis people, broken down by department since fiscal year 2015-16: (a) what policies, processes, and protocols exist to validate claims of Indigenous ancestry or Indigenous community; (b) what reviews or audits have been conducted to ensure that government funding has not been delivered to individuals, organizations, or companies that falsely claim an Indigenous identity; (c) is the government aware of any funding that has been allocated to individuals, organizations, or companies that falsely claimed an Indigenous identity; and (d) for each funding allocation in (c), how much funding has been recalled on the basis of false claims of Indigenous identity? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-441-1134-01.

Government Orders

The debate continued.

Returns and Reports Deposited with the Acting Clerk of the House

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

— by the Speaker — Report of the Parliamentary Budget Officer entitled "Supplementary Estimates (C) 2022-23", pursuant to the Parliament of Canada Act, R.S. 1985, c. P-1, sbs. 79.2(2). — Sessional Paper No. 8560-441-1119-64. (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 "Economic and Fiscal Outlook – March 2023", pursuant to the Parliament of Canada Act, R.S. 1985, c. P-1, sbs. 79.2(2). — Sessional Paper No. 8560-441-1119-65. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Finance)

— by the Speaker — Report of the Parliamentary Budget Officer entitled "The Government’s Expenditure Plan and Main Estimates for 2023-24", pursuant to the Parliament of Canada Act, R.S. 1985, c. P-1, sbs. 79.2(2). — Sessional Paper No. 8560-441-1119-66. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates)

— by Mr. Alghabra (Minister of Transport) — Interim Order No. 78 Respecting Certain Requirements for Civil Aviation Due to COVID-19, pursuant to the Aeronautics Act, R.S. 1985, c. A-2, sbs. 6.41(5) and (6). — Sessional Paper No. 8560-441-926-28. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities)

— by Ms. Joly (Minister of Foreign Affairs) — Copies of the Regulations Amending the Special Economic Measures (Russia) Regulations (P.C. 2023-176 and P.C. 2023-177) and of the Regulations Amending the Special Economic Measures (Iran) Regulations (P.C. 2023-178), pursuant to the Special Economic Measures Act, S.C. 1992, c. 17, sbs. 7(1). — Sessional Paper No. 8560-441-495-37. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development)

— by Ms. Ng (Minister of International Trade, Export Promotion, Small Business and Economic Development) — Response of the government, pursuant to Standing Order 109, to the second report of the Standing Committee on International Trade, "Canada–United States Relationship and its Impacts on the Electric Vehicle, and Softwood Lumber and Other Sectors" (Sessional Paper No. 8510-441-141), presented to the House on Thursday, October 27, 2022. — Sessional Paper No. 8512-441-141.

— by Ms. Ng (Minister of International Trade, Export Promotion, Small Business and Economic Development) — Response of the government, pursuant to Standing Order 109, to the third report of the Standing Committee on International Trade, "Canada’s Environmental and Clean Technology Goods and Services: Selected International Trade Considerations" (Sessional Paper No. 8510-441-149), presented to the House on Thursday, November 17, 2022. — Sessional Paper No. 8512-441-149.

— by Mr. Sajjan (Minister of International Development and Minister responsible for the Pacific Economic Development Agency of Canada) — Response of the government, pursuant to Standing Order 109, to the fifth report of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development, "Overcoming the Barriers to Global Vaccine Equity and Ending the Pandemic" (Sessional Paper No. 8510-441-136), presented to the House on Monday, October 24, 2022. — Sessional Paper No. 8512-441-136.

— by Mr. Wilkinson (Minister of Natural Resources) — Response of the government, pursuant to Standing Order 109, to the 21st report of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts, "Just Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy" (Sessional Paper No. 8510-441-140), presented to the House on Wednesday, October 26, 2022. — Sessional Paper No. 8512-441-140.

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 7:13 p.m., the Deputy Speaker adjourned the House until tomorrow at 10:00 a.m., pursuant to Standing Order 24(1).