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Smoking see Nicotine

Social programs

    >>Vulnerable Canadians, rights and needs, womens programs/national housing strategy, M. on supply (Minna), 539-41, negatived on recorded division (Division No. 61), 541-3
    >>See also Crime prevention

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

    >>Departmental Performance Report
    >>>2006-2007, tabled, 128 (8563-392-79)
    >>Reports tabled and permanently referred to Industry, Science and Technology Standing Committee
    >>>2006-2007 annual report, with Auditor General's report, 139 (8560-392-36-01)
    >>See also Access to Information Act;Employment Equity Act;Estimates, 2008-2009, Main--Reports on Plans and Priorities;Privacy Act

Social security payments (United States)

    >>Income tax see Income Tax Act (amdt.--exemption from taxation of 50% of United States social security payments to Canadian residents)(Bill C-305)

Solar energy see Electricity--Wind and solar power equipment

Soldiers see Canadian Armed Forces;Child soldiers;Israel

SOR see Statutory Orders and Regulations (SOR)

South Korea see Canada-South Korea free trade negotiations

South Okanagan-Similkameen region see National parks--British Columbia

Southeast Asia see Trade--Arab States

Southwold Earthworks National Historic Site of Canada

    >>Reports tabled and permanently referred to Environment and Sustainable Development Standing Committee
    >>>Management Plan, 38 (8560-392-958-01)

Space industry see MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd.

Spanking see Children--Correction/discipline

Speaker

    >>Documents, tabling
    >>>Access to Information Act
    >>>>Public Sector Integrity Commissioner Office
    >>>>>2007-2008, 1037-8 (8561-392-931-01)
    >>>Auditor General of Canada Office
    >>>>2007 (October), with addendum, 112 (8560-392-64-01)
    >>>>2008 (May), 770 (8560-392-64-02)
    >>>Bills, Government, notice, Government House Leader, October 14, 2007 letter, tabled, 4 (8527-392-01)
    >>>Board of Internal Economy
    >>>>By-laws adopted March 3, 2008, 609 (8527-392-06)
    >>>>By-laws adopted March 31, 2008, 730 (8527-392-08)
    >>>>By-laws adopted June 2, 2008, 948 (8527-392-11)
    >>>>Minutes of Proceedings, (June 4, 7, 11 and October 25, 2007), 288 (8527-392-03)
    >>>>Minutes of Proceedings, (November 19 and 26, 2007), 490 (8527-392-05)
    >>>>Minutes of Proceedings, (December 5, 2007, February 4 and 25, March 3 and 31 and April 14, 2008), 989 (8527-392-12)
    >>>Canadian Human Rights Commission
    >>>>2007 annual report, 612 (8560-392-123-01)
    >>>Canadian Human Rights Tribunal
    >>>>2007 annual report, 613 (8560-392-661-01)
    >>>Chief Electoral Officer of Canada Office (Elections Canada)
    >>>>Report following Outremont, Roberval--Lac-Saint-Jean and Saint-Hyacinthe--Bagot by-elections, September 17, 2007, 613 (8560-392-4-01)
    >>>Committees of the House
    >>>>Committees Activities and Expenditures
    >>>>>2007-2008 annual report, tabled, 989 (8527-392-13)
    >>>Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Office
    >>>>2007-2008 annual report, 985-6 (8560-392-1002-01)
    >>>>2007-2008 annual report, 1031 (8560-392-1004-01)
    >>>>Report, "The Thibault Inquiry", dated May 7, 2008, tabled, 783 (8527-392-09)
    >>>>Report, "Response to the motion adopted by the House of Commons on June 5, 2008 for further consideration of the Thibault Inquiry Report", dated June 17, 2008, tabled, 1000 (8527-392-14)
    >>>Environment and Sustainable Development Commissioner
    >>>>2007 annual report, 112 (8560-392-521-01)
    >>>>2008 annual report, 541 (8560-392-521-02)
    >>>House of Commons, administration, documents
    >>>>2008 Report of the House of Commons to Canadians, tabled, 986 (8563-392-01)
    >>>Information Commissioner of Canada Office
    >>>>2007-2008 annual report, 847 (8560-392-734-01)
    >>>Kyoto Protocol Implementation Act, Climate Change Plan and Statement, National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy response
    >>>>September 2007, 7-8 (8560-392-937-01)
    >>>>July 2008, 1049 (8560-392-937-02)
    >>>Legislation, Private Members' bills, clerical error during drafting, copy of letter from Office of the Law Clerk and Parliamentary Counsel and corrected copy of Bill C-531, tabled, 691 (8527-392-07)
    >>>Members of Parliament
    >>>>Expense allowance, document, "Individual Member's Expenditures"
    >>>>>2006-2007, tabled, 8 (8527-392-02)
    >>>>Travel, sponsored travel
    >>>>>2007 Conflict of Interest Code for Members of the House of Commons report, tabled, 365 (8527-392-04)
    >>>Official Languages Commissioner Office
    >>>>2007-2008 annual report, 869 (8560-392-301-01)
    >>>Parliamentary delegations, reports
    >>>>Canada-Mexico Inter-Parliamentary Meeting, Mazatlán, Mexico, February 17-19, 2008, 685 (8565-392-75-03)
    >>>>Germany, October 8-14, 2007, 269 (8565-392-75-01)
    >>>>Malaysia, November 3-9, 2007, 429 (8565-392-75-02)
    >>>>Peru, March 14-20, 2008, 817 (8565-392-75-04)
    >>>>Republic of Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia, April 18-27, 2008, 917 (8565-392-75-05)
    >>>Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act
    >>>>2007 annual report, 897 (8560-392-789-01)
    >>>Privacy Commissioner of Canada Office
    >>>>2006-2007 annual report, 7 (8560-392-626-01)
    >>>Privacy Act
    >>>>Chief Electoral Officer of Canada Office
    >>>>>2006-2007, 175 (8561-392-645-01)
    >>>>Public Sector Integrity Commissioner Office
    >>>>>2007-2008, 1037-8 (8561-392-931-01)
    >>>Public Sector Integrity Commissioner Office
    >>>>2007-2008 annual report, 857 (8560-392-1000-01)
    >>>RCMP Exempt Data Banks
    >>>>Privacy Commissioner of Canada Special Report (February 2008), 429 (8560-392-997-01)
    >>>Speaker Statements
    >>>>Book, "Selected Decisions of Speaker Gilbert Parent, tabled, 814 (8527-392-10)
    >>Parliament, opening, informing House of message from Governor General, 3-4
    >>Throne Speech
    >>>Consideration later this day, M. (Harper), 4, agreed to, 4
    >>>Reported, 4
    >>>Tabled, 4 (8525-392-01)
    >>Unavoidable absence, 33, 135, 277, 327, 545, 695, 799, 879

Speaker Statements

    >>Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Standing Committee, Seventh Report, improperly before the House, deemed withdrawn and no subsequent proceeding taken, 827
    >>Book, "Selected Decisions of Speaker Gilbert Parent", tabled, 814 (8527-392-10)
    >>Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (amdt.--certificate and special advocate)(Bill C-3), routine motion by Minister, curtailment of debate under S.O. 56.1, putting of question null and void, question put again, 366
    >>Private Members' Public Bill (Bill C-284)
    >>>Nothing remaining except number, order for consideration at report stage be discharged and Bill dropped from the Order Paper under S.O. 94(1)(a), 192
    >>Private Members' Public Bill (Bill C-418)
    >>>Improperly before House, first reading null and void, Order for second reading discharged and dropped from Order Paper, 224
    >>Private Members' Public Bill (Bill S-204)
    >>>Dropped to bottom of Order of Precedence list to allow Procedure and House Affairs Standing Committee report under S.O. 92, 1019
    >>See also Privilege, prima facie

Speaker's warrants see Mulroney-Schreiber affair

Special debates see Emergency debates (Adjournment motions under S.O. 52);Take note debates

Special Economic Measures (Burma) Regulations

    >>Reports tabled and permanently referred to Foreign Affairs and International Development Standing Committee
    >>>(P.C. 2007-1913 and JUS-610627) and Special Economic Measures Permit Authorization Order (P.C. 2007-1914), 347 (8560-392-495-01)

Special Import Measures Act

    >>Legislation see Canadian International Trade Tribunal Act and Special Import Measures Act (amdt.)(Bill C-472)

Special Import Measures Act (amdt.--domestic prices)(Bill C-411)--Bourgeois

    >>2nd r, after reinstatement under S.O. 86.1, 29, dropped to bottom of Order of Precedence list under S.O. 93, 29, 275, division deferred, 275, negatived on recorded division (Division No. 28), 309-10

Special Import Measures Act (amdt.--environmental costs)(Bill C-574)--Bains

Special Economic Measures Permit Authorization Order see Special Economic Measures (Burma) Regulations

Species at risk

    >>Status of wildlife species, assessment/action see Scrutiny of Regulations Standing Joint Committee--Reports, Third

Specific Claims Tribunal

    >>Establishing see Specific Claims Tribunal Act (Bill C-30)

Specific Claims Tribunal Act (Bill C-30)--Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (Strahl)

    >>1st r, 217
    >>2nd r, 257, agreed to, 284
    >>Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Standing Committee
    >>>Referral, 284
    >>>Report, with amdts., 764
    >>Report stage, 806
    >>>Concurrence, as amended, M. (Strahl), 806, agreed to, 806
    >>3rd r, 806, 808, 813-4, agreed to, 814, passed
    >>Senate passage, without amdt., 983
    >>Royal Assent, 1012 (Chap. 22, S.C. 2008)

Specific land claims see Indian Claims Commission

Specified investment flow-through partnerships (SIFT)

    >>Ways and Means No. 7, notice, tabled, 473 (8570-392-09)
    >>Ways and Means No. 10
    >>>Concurrence, M. (Flaherty), 598, agreed to on recorded division (Division No. 74), 598-9
    >>>Notice, tabled, 560 (8570-392-12)
    >>>See also Budget Implementation Act, 2008 (Bill C-50)

Specified Persons List (SPL)

    >>Process, r.o. Q-30 (Julian), 201-2 (8555-392-30)

Speed limiters see Automobiles/motor vehicles

Spies see Cohen, Eli

Spirits (distilled liquor) see Alcoholic beverages--Imitation spirits

SPL see Specified Persons List (SPL)

Sponsorship program

    >>Petitions
    >>>(Anderson), (392-0801), 987
    >>>(Goodyear), (392-0604), 734, gr, 837 (8545-392-86-01); (392-0835), 994
    >>>(Sweet), (392-0740), 881
    >>>(Thompson, M.), (392-0572), 697, gr, 837 (8545-392-86-01)
    >>See also Gomery Commission

Sport see Child fitness tax credit;Doping (sport);Hockey;Olympics and Paralympics, 2008 Summer Games (Beijing);Olympics and Paralympics, 2010 Winter Games (Vancouver);World Police and Firefighters Games, British Columbia, 2009

Sport Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada

    >>Reports tabled and permanently referred to Canadian Heritage Standing Committee
    >>>2006-2007 annual report, with Auditors' Report, 157 (8560-392-869-01)
    >>>2008-2009 corporate plan summary, 649 (8562-392-864-01)

Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs)

    >>Government purchase or lease, r.o. Q-39 (Cullen, N.), 236 (8555-392-39)

Spouses see Foreign Affairs and International Trade Department;Immigration;Income tax;Passports--Processing fees, Veterans

SR&ED see Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) Tax Incentive Program

Sri Lanka

    >>Petitions
    >>>(Alghabra), (392-0429), 506, gr, 618 (8545-392-63-04)
    >>>(Hanger), (392-0541), 656, gr, 823 (8545-392-63-06)
    >>>(Lee), (392-0253), 360, gr, 460 (8545-392-63-02)
    >>>(McCallum), (392-0205), 303, gr, 334 (8545-392-63-01)
    >>>(Sgro), (392-0278), 377, gr, 569 (8545-392-63-03)
    >>>(Temelkovski), (392-0194), 303, gr, 334 (8545-392-63-01)
    >>>(Tonks), (392-0208), 303, gr, 334 (8545-392-63-01)
    >>>(Wrzesnewskyj), (392-0464), 593, gr, 727 (8545-392-63-05); (392-0630), 758, gr, 986 (8545-392-63-07)

St. John's Port Authority see Access to Information Act;Privacy Act

Standards Council of Canada

    >>Reports tabled and permanently referred to Industry, Science and Technology Standing Committee
    >>>2006-2007 annual report, with Auditor General's report, 139 (8560-392-76-01)
    >>>2008-2009 to 2012-2013 corporate plan summaries and 2008-2009 operating and capital budgets, 809-10 (8562-392-820-01)
    >>See also Access to Information Act;Alternative Fuels Act;Privacy Act

Standing Orders

    >>S.O. 117 see Environment and Sustainable Development Standing Committee--Reports, Third

State of Canada's Forests

    >>Reports tabled and permanently referred to Natural Resources Standing Committee
    >>>2006-2007 annual report, 15 (8560-392-461-01)

State of Inuit Culture and Society

    >>2005-2006 and 2006-2007 annual reports, tabled, 1011 (8525-392-28)

State of Public Health in Canada

    >>Reports tabled and permanently referred to Health Standing Committee
    >>>2007-2008 annual report, 1010 (8560-392-1003-01)

Statements by Ministers

    >>Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma, political prisoner, honorary Canadian citizenship (Harper), 9
    >>Indian residential schools, apology to former students (Harper), 963
    >>Queen Elizabeth II and H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh, Diamond Wedding Anniversary, Statement by Minister (Kenney), 177
    >>Veterans Week (November 5-11, 2007), commemorating (Thompson), 131

Statistical Survey Operations see Employment Equity Act

Statistics Canada

    >>Departmental Performance Report
    >>>2006-2007, tabled, 128 (8563-392-80)
    >>See also Access to Information Act;Estimates, 2008-2009, Main--Reports on Plans and Priorities;Privacy Act;Quebec--Provincial and local governments

Status of Women Canada

    >>Departmental Performance Report
    >>>2006-2007, tabled, 128 (8563-392-81)
    >>Funding and program changes see Status of Women Standing Committee--Reports from 1st Session, Eighteenth
    >>Womens equality, reinstating goal, M-400 (Barnes), 406, dropped to bottom of Order of Precedence list under S.O. 93, 407, agreed to, 609
    >>Women's Program
    >>>Funding applications, r.o. Q-8 (Mathyssen), 236 (8555-392-8)
    >>>Petitions
    >>>>(Dewar), (392-0599), 728, gr, 886 (8545-392-16-13)
    >>>>(Ratansi), (392-0292), 378, gr, 617 (8545-392-16-07)
    >>>See also Status of Women Standing Committee--Reports, Fifth
    >>See also Access to Information Act;Estimates, 2007-2008, Supplementary (A)--Canadian Heritage, Votes 95a, 100a and 101a;Estimates, 2007-2008, Supplementary (B)--Canadian Heritage, Votes 95b and 100b;Estimates, 2008-2009, Main--Canadian Heritage, Votes 100 and 105--Reports on Plans and Priorities;Estimates, 2008-2009, Supplementary (A)--Canadian Heritage, Votes 100a and 105a;Privacy Act

Status of Women Standing Committee

    >>Estimates, 2007-2008, Supplementary (A), referred
    >>>Canadian Heritage, Votes 95a, 100a and 101a (Status of Women Co-ordinator Office), 83
    >>Estimates, 2007-2008, Supplementary (B), referred
    >>>Canadian Heritage, Votes 95b and 100b (Status of Women Co-ordinator Office), 443
    >>Estimates, 2008-2009, Main, referred
    >>>Canadian Heritage, Votes 100 and 105 (Status of Women Co-ordinator Office), 483
    >>Estimates, 2008-2009, Supplementary (A), referred
    >>>Canadian Heritage, Votes 100a and 105a (Status of Women Co-ordinator Office), 813
    >>Membership, 106-7, 136-7, 356, 646
    >>Reports
    >>>First (trafficking of women and children and the 2010 Olympic Games), 234 (8510-392-09)
    >>>>Concurrence (Concurrence in Committee Reports No. 4), M. (Mathyssen), 365, agreed to, 365
    >>>Second (Women and the Court Challenges Program), 430 (8510-392-54)
    >>>Third (United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples), 430 (8510-392-55)
    >>>>Concurrence (Concurrence in Committee Reports No. 13), M. (Mathyssen), 656, division deferred, 656, agreed to on recorded division (Division No. 82), 667-9
    >>>Fourth (aboriginal women's shelters), 460 (8510-392-61)
    >>>>Concurrence (Concurrence in Committee Reports No. 19), M. (Keeper), 824, agreed to on division, 825
    >>>>Procedure, "That the debate be now adjourned", M. (Bruinooge), 824, negatived on recorded division (Division No. 111), 824-5
    >>>Fifth (aboriginal women's organizations), 460 (8510-392-62)
    >>>Sixth (women's ski jumping at the 2010 Olympic Games), 569 (8510-392-84)
    >>>Seventh (gender analysis legislation), 696 (8510-392-98)
    >>>Eighth (gender based analysis of government policies), 710 (8510-392-100)
    >>>>Concurrence (Concurrence in Committee Reports No. 25), M. (Minna), 1014
    >>>Ninth (Auditor General's review of the implementation of gender-based analysis), 728 (8510-392-106)
    >>>Tenth (Main Estimates 2008-2009 - Votes 100 and 105 under Canadian Heritage), 757 (8510-392-114)
    >>>Eleventh (Towards Gender Responsive Budgeting: Rising to the Challenge of Achieving Gender Equality), 980 (8510-392-149)
    >>>Twelfth (gender-based analysis), 980 (8510-392-150)
    >>Reports from 1st Session, 39th Parliament
    >>>Eighteenth (The Impacts of Funding and Program Changes at Status of Women Canada) (8510-391-228)
    >>>>gr, 19 (8512-392-228)
    >>>Twenty-first (Improving the Economic Security of Women: Time to Act) (8510-391-282)
    >>>>gr, 16 (8512-392-282)

Statutes of Canada, 1998

    >>Legislation see Canadian Wheat Board Act and chapter 17 of Statutes of Canada, 1998 (amdt.)(Bill C-46)

Statutes of Canada, 2005

    >>Chapter 47
    >>>Ways and Means No. 1
    >>>>Concurrence, M., agreed to, by unanimous consent, 73
    >>>>Notice, tabled, 67 (8570-392-01)
    >>>>See also Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act, Wage Earner Protection Program Act and chapter 47 of the Statutes of Canada, 2005 (amdt.)(Bill C-12)

Statutes of the Northwest Territories

    >>Reports tabled and permanently referred to Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Standing Committee
    >>>June 2007, 17 (8560-392-388-01)
    >>>September 2007, 215 (8560-392-388-02)

Statutes Repeal Act (Bill S-207)--Szabo

    >>Senate passage, 294
    >>1st r, 302
    >>Deemed read second time, 302
    >>Justice and Human Rights Standing Committee
    >>>Referral, 302
    >>>Report, deemed reported, 901
    >>Report stage, 901
    >>>Concurrence, M. (Szabo), agreed to, 901
    >>3rd r, agreed to, 901, passed
    >>Royal Assent, 1012 (Chap. 20, S.C. 2008)
    >>Note: previously Bill S-202, 1st Session, 39th Parliament

Statutory Orders and Regulations (SOR)

    >>JUS-10000-1001 see Aeronatics Act
    >>JUS-610627 see Special Economic Measures (Burma) Regulations
    >>SOR/2005-240 see Firearms Act
    >>SOR/2005-241 see Firearms Act
    >>SOR/2005-242 see Firearms Act
    >>SOR/2006-96 see Firearms Act
    >>SOR/2006-258 see Firearms Act
    >>SOR/2006-292 see Firearms Act
    >>SOR/2007-256 see Eligible Financial Contract General Rules (Bankruptcy and Insolvency)
    >>SOR/2007-257 see Eligible Financial Contract General Rules (Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act)
    >>SOR/2007-266 see Firearms Act
    >>SOR/JUS-607498 see Federal Court Rules
    >>SOR/JUS-608390 see Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)
    >>SOR/JUS-608761 see Federal Courts Rules
    >>SOR/JUS-609128 see United Nations Resolution on Lebanon
    >>SOR/JUS-610715 see Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission--Reports, Directive
    >>SOR/JUS-610860 see United Nations Resolution on Iran
    >>See also Legislative Instruments Re-enactment Act

Statutory Parliamentary Review of the 10-Year Plan to Strengthen Health Care see Health Standing Committee--Reports, Sixth

Statutory Review of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) see Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Standing Committee--Reports from 1st Session, Fourth

Steel Import Permit Information

    >>Reports tabled and permanently referred to International Trade Standing Committee
    >>>2007 Annual Summary, 428 (8560-392-525-01)

Stewart, Ron see Correctional Investigator of Canada Office

Stock exchanges

    >>Prescribed stock exchange designation
    >>>Ways and Means No. 4
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Flaherty), 152, division deferred, 153, agreed to on recorded division (Division No. 9), 154-6
    >>>>Notice, tabled, 144 (8570-392-04)

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