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Divorce

    >>Child custody and access arrangements
    >>>Grandparents, access rights see Divorce Act (amdt.--right of spouses' parents to access to or custody of child)(Bill C-340)
    >>>Joint custody see Divorce Act (amdt.--joint custody)(Bill C-285)
    >>>See also Child Custody and Access Special Joint Committee
    >>Marriage counselling required see Divorce Act (amdt.--marriage counselling required before divorce granted)(Bill C-218)

Divorce Act

    >>Petitions
    >>>(Bellemare), (361-1340), 1059, gr, 1253 (8545-361-34A); (361-1588 and 361-1589), 1180, gr, 1403 (8545-361-34D); (361-1810 to 1813), 1333, gr, 1463 (8545-361-34G); (361-2305), 1738, gr, 1792 (8545-361-34S)
    >>>(Benoit), (361-2517), 2039
    >>>(Bevilacqua), (361-2138), 1589, gr, 1728 (8545-361-34P); (361-2311), 1768, gr, 1801 (8545-361-34U); (361-2420), 1900, gr, 2116 (8545-361-34W); (361-2506), 2039, gr, 2116 (8545-361-34W)
    >>>(Breitkreuz, G.), (361-2569), 2064, gr, 2116 (8545-361-34W)
    >>>(Calder), (361-1605), 1185, gr, 1403 (8545-361-34D)
    >>>(Gallaway), (361-2125 to 361-2128), 1589, gr, 1796 (8545-361-34T)
    >>>(Epp), (361-2469), 1948
    >>>(Harb), (361-1323), 1059, gr, 1253 (8545-361-34A); (361-1393 and 361-1394), 1088, gr, 1253 (8545-361-34A); (361-1458), 1119, gr, 1263 (8545-361-34B) (361-1501), 1133; (361-1523), 1144; (361-1578), 1180, gr, 1403 (8545-361-34D); (361-1592), 1185, gr, 1403 (8545-361-34D); (361-1679), 1243, gr, 1403 (8545-361-34D); (361-1762), 1323, gr, 1432 (8545-361-34E); (361-1793), 1333, gr (8545-361-34F); (361-1834), 1398, gr, 1473 (8545-361-34H); (361-1861), 1403, gr, 1483 (8545-361-34I); (361-1958), 1456, gr, 1513 (8545-361-34J); (361-2014), 1499, gr, 1530 (8545-361-34K); (361-2029), 1510, gr, 1553 (8545-361-34L); (361-2086), 1565, gr, 1633 (8545-361-34N); (361-2141), 1589, gr, 1728 (8545-361-34P); (361-2196), 1634, gr, 1737 (8545-361-34Q); (361-2285), 1728, gr, 1760 (8545-361-34R); (361-2294), 1733, gr, 1792 (8545-361-34S); (361-2304), 1738, gr, 1792 (8545-361-34S); (361-2306), 1760, gr, 1792 (8545-361-34S); (361-2313), 1768, gr, 1801 (8545-361-34U); (361-2382), 1839, gr, 2116 (8545-361-34W); (361-2421), 1900, gr, 2116 (8545-361-34W)
    >>>(Johnston), (361-2496), 2039
    >>>(Mills, B.), (361-2611), 2092
    >>>(Myers), (361-2027 and 361-2028), 1510, gr, 1553 (8545-361-34L)
    >>>(O'Brien, P.), (361-2103) 1579, gr, 1796 (8545-361-34T)
    >>>(Pagtakhan), (361-2383), 1839, gr, 2116 (8545-361-34W)
    >>>(Ramsay), (361-2333), 1773, gr, 1833 (8545-361-34V)
    >>>(Schmidt), (361-0118), 153, gr, 443 (8545-361-34)
    >>>(Solomon), (361-2492), 2033
    >>>(Thompson), (361-2530 and 361-2531), 2054
    >>>(Volpe), (361-2134), 1589, gr, 1674 (8545-361-34O)
    >>>(White, T.), (361-2062), 1538, gr, 1630 (8545-361-34M)
    >>>(Wilfert), (361-2013), 1499, gr, 1530 (8545-361-34K)
    >>>(Williams), (361-2499), 2039

Divorce Act (amdt.--definition of "child")(Bill C-330)--Harb

Divorce Act (amdt.--joint custody)(Bill C-285)--Hill, J.

Divorce Act (amdt.--marriage counselling required before divorce granted)(Bill C-218)--Szabo

    >>1st r, 40
    >>2nd r, 355, dropped from the Order Paper, under S.O. 96(1), 355

Divorce Act (amdt.--right of spouses' parents to access to or custody of child)(Bill C-340)--Harb

Divorce Custody and Access Special Joint Committee

    >>Establishing, message from Senate, 162-3

DNA Identification Act (Bill C-3)--Solicitor General of Canada (Scott, A.)

    >>1st r, 27
    >>2nd r, 168
    >>Referral to Committee before 2nd r, M. (Scott, A.), 168, 181, division deferred, 181, agreed to on recorded division (Division No. 22), 187-8
    >>Justice and Human Rights Standing Committee
    >>>Referral, 187-8
    >>>Report, with amdts., 638
    >>Report stage and 2nd r, 735-40, 769-73, 802-15
    >>>Concurrence, M. (Scott, A.), agreed to on recorded division (Division No. 157), 814-5
    >>>Continue to sit beyond the ordinary hour of daily adjournment, M. (Finestone), under S.O. 26(1), deemed adopted under S.O. 26(2), 772-3
    >>>Divisions deferred, 773
    >>>Motion No. 1 (Clause 4), (Marceau), 736, division deferred, 739, negatived on recorded division (Division No. 149), 802-3
    >>>Motion No. 2 (Clause 4), (Mancini), 736, negatived on recorded division (Division No. 150), 803-5
    >>>Motion No. 3 (Clause 5), (Marceau), 736-7, division deferred, 739, negatived on recorded division (Division No. 151), 805-6
    >>>Motion No. 4 (Clause 9), (Marceau), 739, division deferred, 740, negatived on applied recorded division (Division No. 149), 807-8
    >>>Motion No. 5 (Clause 9), (Marceau), 737, division deferred, 739, negatived on recorded division (Division No. 152), 806-7
    >>>Motion No. 6 (Clause 10), (Marceau), 739, division deferred, 740, negatived on applied recorded division (Division No. 149), 808
    >>>Motion No. 7 (Clause 11), (Mancini), 740, 769-70, division deferred, 770, negatived on applied recorded division (Division No. 151), 809
    >>>Motion No. 8 (Clause 12), (Marceau), 770-1, division deferred, 771, negatived on applied recorded division (Division No. 151), 809-10
    >>>Motion No. 9 (Clause 15), (Scott, A.), 771-2, division deferred, 772, agreed to on recorded division (Division No. 154), 810-1
    >>>Motion No. 10 (Clause 17), (Ramsay), 772, division deferred, 773, negatived on recorded division (Division No. 155), 811-3
    >>>Motion No. 11 (Clause 17), (Muise), 772, division deferred, 773, negatived on recorded division (Division No. 156), 813-4
    >>>Motion No. 12 (Clause 20), (Muise), 773, division deferred, 773, negatived on applied recorded division (Division No. 156), 814
    >>>Motion No. 13 (Clause 22), (Marceau), 739, division deferred, 740, agreed to on recorded division (Division No. 153), 808-9
    >>>Motion No. 14 (Clause 22), (Scott, A.), 772, division deferred, 772, agreed to on applied recorded division (Division No. 154), 811
    >>>Motions deemed moved and recorded divisions deemed requested, 736
    >>3rd r, 937, 990, 1038-9, 1091, agreed to on recorded division (Division No. 232), 1093-4, passed
    >>>Amdt. (Ramsay), 937-8, division deferred, 938, 990, negatived on recorded division (Division No. 213), 990-1
    >>>Amdt. (Reynolds), 1039, 1091-2, division deferred, 1092, negatived on recorded division (Division No. 231), 1092-3
    >>>Time allocation under S.O. 78(3)
    >>>>M. (Boudria), 1089-90, agreed to on recorded division (Division No. 230), 1090-91
    >>>>>Notice of Motion, 1082
    >>Senate passage, 1439
    >>Royal Assent, (Chap. 37, S.C. 1998), 1440

DNA testing see Crime; Justice and Human Rights Standing Committee--Reports, Ninth

Dominion Day

    >>Name, changing back see Holidays Act (amdt.)(Bill C-263)
    >>Donkin mine
    >>Crown corporation, establishing, M-136 (Dockrill), 248, dropped from the Order Paper, under S.O. 96(1), 248

Doubletex see Canadian International Trade Tribunal--Reports

Drinking water see Water

Drinking Water Materials Safety Act (Bill C-14)--Minister of Health (Rock)

Drug research see Patent Act

Drug trafficking

    >>Elementary/high schools see Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (amdt.--trafficking in a controlled drug or substance within five hundred metres of an elementary school or a high school)(Bill C-458)

Drugs see Heroin; LSD; Marijuana

Drugs and pharmaceuticals

    >>Patented Medicines Review Board, P-54 (Jaffer), called and transferred to Notices of Motions (Papers), 1917
    >>Patents
    >>>Time limit see Patent Act (amdt.)(Bill C-248); Patent Act (amdt.--life of patents pertaining to medicine)(Bill C-361)
    >>>See also Budget Implementation Act 1999 (Bill C-71)
    >>Prices see Budget Implementation Act 1999 (Bill C-71); Patent Act (amdt.)(Bill C-248)
    >>See also LSD; Mefloquine, anti-malaria drug; Pharmaceutical industry

Drunk driving see instead Impaired driving

Duhaime, Yvon see Government grants--Saint-Maurice constituency

Dussault, Bernard see Canada Pension Plan (CPP)--Chief actuary

E

Early Retirement Incentive Program (ERI) see Budget Implementation Act 1998 (Bill C-36)

East Coast Report, The see Fisheries and Oceans Standing Committee--Reports, First

East Timor

    >>Petitions (Duncan), (361-0219), 233, gr, 424 (8545-361-30)

École Polytechnique, Montreal, Que. see Violence against women

Economic affairs see Budget 1998 (Feb. 24, 1998)

Economic conditions

    >>Diversity, gap between rich and ordinary Canadian families, reducing, M. on supply, (Nystrom), 457, 464
    >>Petitions
    >>>(Brien), (361-1894), 1436, gr, 1773 (8545-361-114)
    >>>(Crête), (361-1296 and 361-1297), 1037, gr, 1253 (8545-361-94)
    >>>(Gagnon), (361-2036), 1518, gr, 1773 (8545-361-114)
    >>>(Perron), (361-1897), 1436, gr, 1773 (8545-361-114)
    >>>(Tremblay, Stéphan), 1436 (361-1883), gr, 1773 (8545-361-114); (361-2145 and 361-2146), 1589, gr, 1773 (8545-361-114); (361-2164 to 361-2170), 1600, gr, 1773 (8545-361-114)

Economic development see Aboriginal people; Canada Economic Development--Quebec region

Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec see instead Canada Economic Development--Quebec region

Economy see Underground economy

Edmonton East constituency

    >>Name, change to Edmonton Centre-East see Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Act (amdt.)(Bill C-486)

Education

    >>Federal intervention, condemning, M. on supply (Tremblay, Stéphan), 560-2, 578, negatived on applied recorded division (Division No. 102), 579-80
    >>>Amdt. (Brien), 561-2, 578, negatived on recorded division (Division No. 102), 578-9
    >>Lifelong learning plans, Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) withdrawals see Income Tax Amendments Act, 1998 (Bill C-72)
    >>National standards see Education Standards Act
    >>Part-time students
    >>>Education tax credit see Income Tax Amendments Act, 1998 (Bill C-72)
    >>>See also Child care
    >>Quebec denominational school boards, linguistic school boards, replacing, Constitution Act, 1867, Section 93 amendment, M. (Dion), 215-6, 218, division deferred, 218, agreed to on recorded division (Division No. 25), 228-30
    >>Religious education see Newfoundland School System
    >>Right to education see Canadian Bill of Rights (amdt.--right to education)(Bill C-319)
    >>See also Canada Education Savings Grants; Canada Millennium Scholarship Fund; Children--Development, National Head Start Program; Drug trafficking; Mi'kmaq aboriginal communities; Newfoundland School System; Newfoundland School System Special Joint Committee; Photocopies; Quebec School System Special Joint Committee; Registered Education Savings Plans (RESPs); Scholarships; Student loans; W.R. Myers High School

Education, post-secondary

    >>Petitions
    >>>(Alcock), (361-0458 to 361-0461), 502, gr, 658 (8545-361-52)
    >>See also Human Resources Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities Standing Committee--Reports, First

Education Standards Act (Bill C-325)--Harb

Elections

    >>Ballot papers see Canada Elections Act (amdt.--ballot papers)(Bill C-405)
    >>Campaign contributors, disclosure see Canada Elections Act (Bill C-83)
    >>Certificates of election
    >>>Port Moody--Coquitlam (Sekora), 682
    >>>Sherbrooke (Cardin), 1086
    >>>Windsor-St.Clair (Limoges), 1749
    >>Choice not to support any candidate see Canada Elections Act (amdt.)(Bill C-379)
    >>Contraventions see see Canada Elections Act (Bill C-83)
    >>Electronic voting see Canada Elections Act (amdt.--electronic voting)(Bill C-274)
    >>Expenses, reimbursement
    >>>Women candidates, 30% of registered political party total see Canada Elections Act (amdt.--reimbursement of election expenses)(Bill C-497)
    >>>See also Canada Elections Act (amdt.)(Bill C-411); Canada Elections Act (amdt.--election expenses)(Bill C-230)
    >>Fixed dates see Parliament of Canada Act and Canada Elections Act (amdt.)(Bill C-451)
    >>Irregularities see Canada Elections Act (Bill C-83)
    >>Multiple-residential buildings, campaigning hours see Canada Elections Act (Bill C-83)
    >>Nomination deposits, refund see Canada Elections Act (Bill C-83)
    >>Political parties, registration see Canada Elections Act (amdt.--registration of political parties)(Bill C-280)
    >>Political tax credit see Canada Elections Act (Bill C-83)
    >>Polling day, advertising and public opinion polls blackout see Canada Elections Act (Bill C-83)
    >>Polls, elsewhere than British Columbia, closure see Canada Elections Act (amdt.)(Bill C-478)
    >>Public opinion polls, methodology see Canada Elections Act (Bill C-83)
    >>Reports, tabled and permanently referred to Procedure and House Affairs Standing Committee
    >>>Registered Party Return in Respect to Election Expenses, 26 (8560-361-567)
    >>Returning officers
    >>>Appointment see Canada Elections Act (amdt.--appointment of election officers)(Bill C-399)
    >>>Right to vote see Canada Elections Act (Bill C-83)
    >>Signage see Canada Elections Act (Bill C-83)
    >>Third party advertising see Canada Elections Act (Bill C-83)
    >>Voting age see Canada Elections Act (amdt.)(Bill C-437)
    >>Voting hours see Canada Elections Act (Bill C-83)
    >>See also Members of Parliament

Elections Act (amdt.--appointment of election officers)(Bill C-399) see Canada Elections Act (amdt.--appointment of election officers)(Bill C-399)

Elections Canada see instead Chief Electoral Officer of Canada Office (Elections Canada)

Electoral boundaries

    >>Name changes see Argenteuil-Papineau constituency; Edmonton East constituency; Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Act (amdt.)(Bill C-410); Sackville-Eastern Shore constituency; Stormont-Dundas constituency

Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Act (amdt.)(Bill C-410)--Catterall

    >>1st r, 902
    >>2nd r, 902
    >>Committee of the Whole
    >>>Referral, 902
    >>>Report, without amdt., 902
    >>Report stage, concurrence, M. agreed to, 902
    >>3rd r, agreed to 902, passed
    >>Senate passage, with amdts., 994
    >>Senate amdts., consideration, 1020
    >>>2nd r, 1020, agreed to, 1020
    >>Royal Assent, (Chap. 27, S.C. 1998), 1031

Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Act (amdt.)(Bill C-445)--Kilger

    >>1st r, 1169
    >>Deemed read the second time, referred to Committee of the Whole, deemed reported without amdt., deemed concurred in at report stage, and deemed read the third time, and passed, M. (Kilger), agreed to, 1397
    >>Senate passage, without amdt, 1502
    >>Royal Assent, (Chap. 7, S.C. 1999), 1597

Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Act (amdt.)(Bill C-464)--Stoffer

    >>Deemed intorduced, read the first time, read the second time, referred to Committee of the Whole, deemed reported without amdt., deemed concurred in at report stage, and deemed read the third time, and passed, M. (Kilger), agreed to, 1397-8
    >>Senate passage, without amdt, 1502
    >>Royal Assent, (Chap. 8, S.C. 1999), 1597

Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Act (amdt.) (Bill C-465)--Dumas

    >>Deemed introduced, read the first time, read the second time, referred to Committee of the Whole, deemed reported without amdt., deemed concurred in at report stage, and deemed read the third time, and passed, M. (Kilger), agreed to, 1397-8
    >>Senate passage, without amdt., 1488
    >>Royal Assent, (Chap. 6, S.C. 1999), 1597

Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Act (amdt.)(Bill C-486)--Goldring

Electoral system see Procedure and House Affairs Standing Committee, Reports, Thirty-fifth

Electricity industry

    >>Goods and Services Tax (GST)/Harmonized Sales Tax (HST)
    >>>Ways and Means No. 28, tabled, 2054 (8570-361-29), concurrence, M. (Martin, Paul), agreed to on division, 2093
    >>>See also Sales Tax and Excise Tax Amendments Act, 1999 (Bill C-88)

Electronic commerce

    >>Personal information, protection see Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (Bill C-54)
    >>See also Carriage By Air Act (amdt.)(Bill S-23)
    >>Electronic publishing see Canada Gazette; Child pornography; Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (Bill C-54)

Emergencies/disasters

    >>Profiteering see Reform's Anti-Profiteering Act (Bill C-442)
    >>See also Agriculture; Air India; Ice storm, 1998; Swissair; Westray mine disaster

Emergency debates see Adjournment motions under S.O. 52 (Emergency debates)

Emergency response workers

    >>Volunteers, income tax deduction see Income Tax Amendments Act, 1998 (Bill C-72)
    >>See also Blood supply system--Samples; Infectious disease

Employers see Apprenticeship

Employment

    >>Job applicants, evaluated on basis of merit, M-7 (Johnston), 1200, dropped from the Order Paper, under S.O. 96(1), 1200
    >>See also Fisheries; Job creation programs; Labour force; Tools

Employment Development Program: Program Report--January 1997 to September 1997 of the Community Fisheries Development Centre see Fisheries

Employment equity

    >>Designated groups and numerical goals see Employment Equity Act (amdt.--elimination of designated groups and numerical goals)(Bill C-257)
    >>Reporting requirements see Employment Equity Act (amdt.--elimination of designated groups and numerical goals)(Bill C-257)

Employment Equity Act

    >>Implementation, reports, tabled and permanently referred to Human Resources Development and Status of Persons with Disabilities Standing Committee
    >>>1997 annual report, 404 (8560-361-539)
    >>>1998 annual report, 1511 (8560-361-539A)
    >>Repeal, requesting, M-104 (Pankiw), 181, dropped from the Order Paper, under S.O. 96(1), 181
    >>Reports, tabled and permanently referred to Human Resources Development and Status of Persons with Disabilities Standing Committee
    >>>Atomic Energy Control Board
    >>>>1996-1997, 378 (8560-361-15)
    >>>>1997-1998, 1519 (8560-361-15A)
    >>>Auditor General of Canada Office
    >>>>1996-1997, 379 (8560-361-28)
    >>>>1997-1998, 1520 (8560-361-28A)
    >>>Canadian Food Inspection Agency
    >>>>1997-1998, 1521 (8560-361-658)
    >>>Canadian Forces Personnel Support Agency
    >>>>1996-1997, 378 (8560-361-18)
    >>>>1997-1998, 1519 (8560-361-18A)
    >>>Canadian Security Intelligence Service
    >>>>1996-1997, 378 (8560-361-19)
    >>>>1997-1998, 1519 (8560-361-19A)
    >>>Communications Security Establishment
    >>>>1996-1997, 379 (8560-361-21)
    >>>>1997-1998, 1519 (8560-361-21A)
    >>>National Energy Board
    >>>>1996-1997, 379 (8560-361-22)
    >>>>1997-1998, 1520 (8560-361-22A)
    >>>National Film Board
    >>>>1996-1997, 379 (8560-361-24)
    >>>>1997-1998, 1520 (8560-361-24A)
    >>>National Research Council
    >>>>1996-1997, 379 (8560-361-26)
    >>>>1997-1998, 1520 (8560-361-26A)
    >>>Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
    >>>>1996-1997, 379 (8560-361-27)
    >>>>1997-1998, 1520 (8560-361-27A)
    >>>Public Service Commission
    >>>>1996-1997, 378 (8560-361-333)
    >>>>1997-1998, 1519 (8560-361-333A)
    >>>Superintendent of Financial Institutions Office
    >>>>1996-1997, 379 (8560-361-29)
    >>>>1997-1998, 1520 (8560-361-29A)

Employment Equity Act (amdt.--elimination of designated groups and numerical goals)(Bill C-257)--White, T.