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Procedure and House Affairs Standing Committee

    >>Chair, Vice-Chair, election process, 13, 247-8
    >>Co-operative approach, 6715
    >>Membership, M. (Boudria), agreed to, 44
    >>>Changes
    >>>>M. (Catterall), agreed to, 6196
    >>>>M. (Parrish), agreed to, 2950
    >>>>Ms. (Zed), agreed to, 975, 1174, 2314, 4562, 4870, 5749, 9386
    >>Reports, presented
    >>>First (Committee memberships), 188
    >>>>Concurrence
    >>>>>M. (Zed), unanimous consent denied, 189
    >>>>>M. (Boudria), 246-66, agreed to, on division, 266
    >>>>>>Amdt. (Ringma), 248, negatived, on division, 265
    >>>Second (Committee memberships), 275
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Zed), agreed to, 275
    >>>Third (Justice and Legal Affairs Standing Committee membership), 365
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Zed), agreed to, 367
    >>>Fourth (Official Languages Standing Joint Committee membership), 391
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Zed), agreed to, 392
    >>>Fifth (Citizenship and Immigration Standing Committee membership), 535
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Zed), agreed to, 536
    >>>Sixth (Citizenship and Immigration Standing Committee membership), 567
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Zed), agreed to, 568
    >>>Seventh (Private Members' Business votable items), deemed adopted, 769
    >>>Eighth (Citizenship and Immigration Standing Committee, Finance Standing Committee, Natural Resources Standing Committee memberships), 769
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Boudria), agreed to, 770
    >>>Ninth (Committee memberships), 974
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Zed), agreed to, 975
    >>>Tenth (Citizenship and Immigration Standing Committee membership), 1011
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Pagtakhan), agreed to, 1011
    >>>Eleventh (Citizenship and Immigration Standing Committee, Human Rights and the Status of Persons with Disabilities memberships), 1295
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Zed), agreed to, 1296-7
    >>>Twelfth (Committee memberships), 1470
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Zed), agreed to, 1470
    >>>Thirteenth (Fisheries and Oceans Standing Committee and Health Standing Committee memberships), 1593
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Zed), agreed to, 1593
    >>>Fourteenth (Committee memberships), 1773
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Zed), agreed to, 1774
    >>>Fifteenth (Committee memberships), 2313
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Zed), 2314
    >>>Sixteenth (Committee memberships), 2615
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Boudria), agreed to, 2616
    >>>Seventeenth (Private Members' Business, votable items), deemed adopted, 2949
    >>>Eighteenth, (Committee memberships), 2949
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Parrish), agreed to, 2950
    >>>Nineteenth (Human Resources Development Standing Committee membership), 3140
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Zed), agreed to, 3141
    >>>Twentieth (Privy Council Chief Electoral Officer estimates, main, 1996-1997), 3140
    >>>Twenty-first (Fisheries and Oceans Standing Committee membership), 3640
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Zed), agreed to, 3640
    >>>Twenty-second (Canadian Armed Forces, Quebec sovereignty referendum (1995), yes vote impact, Jacob Bloc Québécois communiqué inviting members to join Quebec military, sedition allegations, crime, freedom of speech), 3988-9
    >>>>Dissenting reports, 3988-9
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Strahl), 4144-56, agreed to, on recorded division, 4156
    >>>Twenty-third (Pilot project to produce revised Part III Estimates document), 4083
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Catterall), agreed to 4144
    >>>Twenty-fourth (reform of the Estimates), 4083
    >>>Twenty-fifth (Committee memberships), 4415
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Zed), 4416-47, agreed to, 4447
    >>>Twenty-sixth (Committee memberships), 4506
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Catterall), agreed to, 4507
    >>>Twenty-seventh (Committee memberships), 4562
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Zed), agreed to, 4562
    >>>Twenty-eighth (Committee memberships), 4676
    >>>>Concurrence, Ms. (Zed), agreed to, 6091
    >>>>>Unanimous consent denied, 4676, 4679
    >>>Twenty-ninth (Committee memberships), 4713
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Zed), agreed to, 4713
    >>>Thirtieth, 4807
    >>>Thirty-first (Committee memberships), 4807
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Catterall), agreed to, 4807
    >>>Thirty-second (Committee memberships), 4869
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Zed), agreed to, 4870
    >>>Thirty-third (Committee memberships), 4899
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Zed), agreed to, 4899
    >>>Thirty-fourth (Justice and Legal Affairs Standing Committee membership), 4994
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Zed), agreed to, 4994
    >>>Thirty-fifth (Public Accounts Standing Committee membership), 5172
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Zed), agreed to, 5173
    >>>Thirty-sixth (Liaison Committee quorum), 5297
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Zed), agreed to, 5297
    >>>Thirty-seventh (Committee memberships), 5332-3
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Zed), agreed to, 5333
    >>>Thirty-eighth (Justice and Legal Affairs Standing Committee membership), 5486
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Zed), agreed to, 5486
    >>>Thirty-ninth (Committee memberships), 5608
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Zed), agreed to, 5609
    >>>Fortieth (Financial Administration Act (amdt.--session of Parliament)(Bill C-270)), 5608
    >>>Forty-first (Committee memberships), 5890
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Zed), agreed to, 5891
    >>>Forty-second (Committee memberships), 6065
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Catterall), agreed to, 6067
    >>>Forty-third (Private Members' Business, votable items), deemed adopted, 6191
    >>>Forty-fourth (Committee memberships), 6192-3
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Catterall), agreed to, 6196
    >>>Forty-fifth (Canada Elections Act and Referendum Act (amdt.)(Bill C-63)), 6411
    >>>Forty-sixth (Committee memberships), 6498
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Zed), agreed to, 6521
    >>>Forty-seventh (Committee memberships), 6616
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Catterall), agreed to, 6616
    >>>Forty-eighth (Committee memberships), 6999-7000
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Zed), agreed to, 7000
    >>>Forty-ninth, M. (Zed), agreed to, 7585
    >>>Fiftieth (Committee memberships), 7615
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Zed), agreed to, 7615
    >>>Fifty-first (Private Members' Business, votable items), deemed adopted, 7789
    >>>Fifty-second (Committee memberships), 7891
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Zed), agreed to, 7891
    >>>Fifty-third (Committee memberships), 8018
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Zed), agreed to, 8018
    >>>Fifty-fourth (Finance Standing Committee membership), 8045
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Zed), agreed to, 8045
    >>>Fifty-fifth (Industry Standing Committee membership), 8144
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Kilger), agreed to, 8144
    >>>Fifty-sixth (Industry Standing Committee membership), 8315
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Zed), agreed to, 8316
    >>>Fifty-seventh (Committee memberships), 8512-3
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Zed), agreed to, 8514
    >>>Fifty-eighth (Foreign Affairs and International Trade Standing Committee membership), 8842
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Zed), agreed to, 8843
    >>>Fifty-ninth (Votable items), 9224, deemed adopted, 9225
    >>>Sixtieth (Industry Standing Committee and National Defence and Veterans Affairs Standing Committee membership), 9225
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Zed), agreed to, 9225
    >>>Sixty-first (Question period conduct guidelines), 9331
    >>>Sixty-second (Privy Council, Chief Electoral Office estimates, main, 1997-1998), 9331
    >>>Sixty-third (Parliament, House of Commons estimates, 1997-1998, main), 9804
    >>>Sixty-fourth (Business of supply), 9997
    >>>Sixty-fifth (Members' services and facilities), 10123
    >>Subcommittee see Private Members' Business Subcommittee
    >>See also Canadian Armed Forces--Quebec sovereignty referendum (1995); Elections--Federal Elections, Fees, Tariff--Legislation; Electoral boundaries commissions--Reports; Legislation--Previous session

Proceeds of crime see Crime

Processed foods see Food

Procurement see Government contracts; Prostitution

PROFAC Management Group see Post offices

Professional Institute of the Public Service see Canada Labour Code--Provisions

Profitable corporations see Corporations

Program Cost Declaration Act (Bill C-214)--Shepherd

    >>First reading, 244-5
    >>Second reading, 6212-21, 7535-44, 9045-51
    >>>Agreed to, on division, 9051
    >>>Dropped to bottom of order of precedence on the Order Paper, 6221
    >>Government Operations Standing Committee
    >>>Referral, 9051
    >>See also Government programs and services

Program Expenditure Details: a profile of departmental spending see Government--Documents

Program for Older Worker Adjustment (POWA)

    >>Termination, March 31, 1977, announcement, interim applications, government honouring
    >>>o.q., 6859-60
    >>>Port Hardy, B.C., miners, example, S.O. 31, 7569
    >>>Quebec provincial government, negotiations, o.q., 8448
    >>See also Department of Labour Act (amdt.--eligibility for assistance for long-service employees)(Bill C-283)

Program review see Government programs and services

Progressive Conservative government (Mulroney, Campbell)

    >>Defeat in 1993, 5855-6, 6021, 6739
    >>See also Bombardier Inc.--Liberal government (Chrétien); Dangerous/high-risk offenders; Deficit--Reduction; Employment insurance--Premiums, Reduction; Fisheries--Foreign fishing licences; Fisheries, Atlantic--Cod stocks, Collapse; Goods and Services Tax--Legislation; Government appointments--Patronage; Gun control/guns; Kilgour--References; North American Free Trade Agreement--Negative impacts; Social programs--Safety net; Somalia--Canadian Armed Forces peacekeeping operation; Taxation-Increases; Transportation--Policy; Unemployment insurance--Benefits, Cut-backs

Progressive Conservative Party

    >>Election campaign, Nova Scotia, S.O. 31, 9928-9
    >>See also particular subjects

Promises

    >>Definition, Hoeppner remarks, 5813-4, 5820
    >>See also Election promises; Members of Parliament--Resignations

Propaganda see Canadian Heritage Department; International conflicts--Prevention; Law Commission of Canada; Prime Minister's Office--Liberal Party propaganda

Propane

Property rights

    >>Canadian Bill of Rights and Constitution Act, 1867, amending to include, 3140
    >>>M. (Gilmour), 3527-36, 4829-38, 6172-5, negatived, on recorded division, 6211-2
    >>>>Dropped to bottom of Order Paper, 3536, 4838
    >>>S.O. 31, 3121
    >>Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, relationship, 9464
    >>>See also Recognition and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms Act (amdt.) and Constitution Act, 1867 (amdt.)(Bill C-284)

Prorogation see Estimates--1996-1997; Legislation--Previous session

Prospectors of the Year see Mining industry--Mining Men of the Year

Prostate cancer see Health--Cancer

Prostate Cancer Awareness Week see Health--Cancer, Prostate cancer

Prostitution

    >>Communicating for purposes of prostitution, dual procedure offence, establishing as, increased sentence factor, 1296, 3552, 3570-2
    >>>See also Criminal Code (amdt.--prostitution)(Bill C-248)
    >>Criminal Code amendments re terminology, 3547
    >>Fingerprinting suspects, 3552-3, 3572
    >>Legalizing, regulating, public opinion, 3575-6
    >>New Westminister--Burnaby constituency problem, 3552, 3571
    >>Traffic, impeding, establishing offence, 3552
    >>See also Child prostitution; Sexual assault/offences--Werebecky, Kim

Protectionism see Trade--United States

Protich, Milena see Awards

Proud, George (L--Hillsborough; Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Labour as of Feb. 23, 1996)

    >>Administrative Tribunals (Remedial and Disciplinary Measures) Act (Bill C-49), 5576-9
    >>Budget, 793
    >>Budget 1996, M. (P. Martin), 792-5
    >>Budget 1997, M. (P. Martin), 9142-5
    >>Canada, petitions, 6670, 9806
    >>Canada Health and Social Transfer, 793
    >>Canada Labour Code, 8489, 8884
    >>Canada Labour Code (amdt.--minimum wage)(Bill C-35), 5778-9, 5893-5, 7781-2
    >>Canada Labour Code (amdt.--severance pay)(Bill C-219), 1916-7, 1921
    >>Canada Labour Code (Bill C-3), 471-2, 1267-9
    >>Canada Labour Code (Part I) (amdt.)(Bill C-66), 8486, 8489, 8495-6, 8519-20, 8525-6, 8530-2, 8539-41, 8553-4, 8557-8, 8883-5, 8918
    >>Canadian Airlines International, 8557-8, 9788-9
    >>Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, S.O. 31, 3001
    >>Canadian Foundation for Innovation, 9144
    >>Canadian Tourism Commission, 9143
    >>Child labour, M. (Blaikie), 2467-8
    >>Child poverty, 9144-5
    >>Child support payments, 793-4
    >>Deficit, 792-4, 5579, 9142, 9145
    >>Department of Human Resources Development Act (Bill C-11), 1351-2, 1667-8
    >>Employment Equity Act (Bill C-64)(1st Sess., 35th Parl.), 2924-5
    >>Employment equity, M. (T. White), 2279-81
    >>Employment insurance, 5279-80
    >>>S.O. 31, 9599
    >>Employment Insurance Act (Bill C-12), 2259-60
    >>Federal-provincial jurisdiction, 1667-8
    >>Financial Institutions Laws Amendment Act (Bill C-82), 9756
    >>Fire Prevention Week, S.O. 31, 5285
    >>Flour mills, 8486
    >>Government departments, boards, agencies and commissions, 5576-8
    >>Government grants/loans, 5579
    >>Government programs and services, 793
    >>Grain transportation, 8918
    >>Gross Domestic Product, 793
    >>Historic/heritage buildings, sites and monuments, S.O. 31, 7963
    >>Human Resources Development Department, 1667
    >>Interest rates, 9142-3
    >>Job creation, 792, 794, 5578
    >>Labour, 1351-2, 8884
    >>Labour disputes, 8539-41, 8553-4, 8918
    >>>S.O. 31, 6125
    >>Labour relations, 471-2, 8495, 8519-20, 8524-6, 8530-2, 8557-8, 8884
    >>>M. (Johnston), 9788-9
    >>National debt, 792, 795, 9142
    >>Nuclear Liability Act (amdt.)(Bill C-249), 8160-2
    >>Prince Edward Island, 5576-7, 9143
    >>>S.O. 31, 8500-1
    >>Procedure
    >>>Bills, Government, 8520
    >>>Bills, Private Members' Public, 1921
    >>Program Cost Declaration Act (Bill C-214), 7537-8
    >>Public Service, 2925
    >>Senate, M. on supply (Gilmour), 3067-8
    >>Seniors Benefit, 793
    >>Small and medium business, 9143
    >>Taxation, 793, 9143-4
    >>Technology Partnerships Canada, 794
    >>Telecommunications, S.O. 31, 7138
    >>Tourism, 9143-4
    >>Transportation Association of Canada, S.O. 31, 5159
    >>Unemployment insurance, 1281-2, 2259-60, 5279
    >>Volunteers, S.O. 31, 9793
    >>Wages and salaries, 5778-9, 5893-5
    >>Workplace
    >>>M. (Taylor), 1985-6
    >>>S.O. 31, 2001, 3481

Province House see Historic/heritage buildings, sites and monuments

Provinces

    >>Equality, Reform Party position, 2535
    >>See Canada Health and Social Transfer; Canada Pension Plan--Pension fund; Canada Post Corporation--Board of Directors; Canadian Wheat Board--Modernizing; Confederation--Federal government; Constitutional reform--First Ministers conference; Criminal law--Legislation; Elections--Voters list, Permanent; Federal-provincial jurisdiction; Federalism--Modernizing; Goods and Services Tax--Abolition; Gun control/guns--Legislation--Provincial firearms handling certificates; Health care system--Funding; Law Commission of Canada; Quebec separation/sovereignty--Consent of all provinces; Sexual orientation--Canadian Human Rights Act; Social programs--Reform; Statutes of Canada--Enforcement; Victims of crime

Provincial attorneys general see Child sexual abuse/assault/exploitation--Outside Canada by Canadian residents

Provincial courts of appeal see Judges

Provincial elections see Elections--Provincial

Provincial policing services see Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Provincial sales taxes

    >>Alberta, lack, 9068
    >>Exemptions, provincial differences, 7013-4
    >>Systems, amalgamation, 7014
    >>See also Exports; Goods and Services Tax--Harmonization

Provocation defence see Violence--Women, victims

Psychiatric examinations see Dangerous/high-risk offenders--Sex offenders

Psychiatric institutions

    >>Inmates see Elections--Right to vote
    >>See also Criminals--Psychiatric patients

Psychiatrists see Dangerous/high-risk offenders--Designation

Public accountability see Ports--Commercialization

Public Accounts

    >>Accounting practices, Liberal government (Chrétien), Auditor General statement, o.q., 10180-1
    >>Expenditures recorded in one year, funds paid out in later years, o.q., 10180
    >>Goods and Services Tax, harmonization transition compensation costs, including in year prior to payout, 5606-7, 9075, 9522
    >>>See also Deficit--1995-96
    >>Government financial records, federal-provincial, Fraser Institute Canadian Budget Performance Index, federal government ranking, S.O. 31, 5107
    >>Information, regular publication, 5890
    >>>See also Fiscal Responsibility Act (Bill C-342)

Public Accounts Standing Committee

    >>Auditor General's reports
    >>>Role, 1073-83
    >>>See also Auditor General's reports--1995-1996, Volume I
    >>Chair from Official Opposition, Reform Party opposing, 5749
    >>Membership see Procedure and House Affairs Standing Committee--Reports, Thirty-fifth
    >>Reports, presented
    >>>First (Auditor General's report, Chap 12, Systems under Development: Managing the Risks), 3045
    >>>>Government response requested, 3045
    >>>Second (Auditor General Office, 1996-97 main estimates), 4143
    >>>Third (Auditor General's 1996 Report, private family trusts), 5749
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Guimond), 10125-36
    >>>>>Amdt. (Barnes), 10132
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Williams), 9225-9
    >>>>Dissenting reports, 5749
    >>>>Government response requested, 5749
    >>>Fourth (Auditor General's 1996 Report, income tax evasion), 7890-1
    >>>Fifth (Auditor General's 1996 Report, quality of service), 9386
    >>>Sixth (Auditor General's 1996 Report, Canada Infrastructure Program), 9659
    >>>>See also Infrastructure program--Continuation
    >>>Seventh (Auditor General's 1996 Report, material management), 9701
    >>>>See also Government departments, boards, agencies and commissions--Inventory
    >>>Eighth (1997-98 main estimates, Vote 30, Finance), 9845
    >>>Ninth (Human Resources Development Department, Canada Pension Plan and Canada Pension Plan disability benefits program, Auditor General 1996 report), 10123
    >>Travel, authorization
    >>>M. (Boudria), agreed to, 3497
    >>>M. (Zed), agreed to, 7395
    >>See also Government expenditures--Accountability

Public consultation

Public documents

    >>Destruction
    >>>Information Commissioner powers, o.q., 7782
    >>>See also Blood--Blood management system; Somalia--Canadian Armed Forces peacekeeping operation