Status of House Business
The Status of House Business provides cumulative information on the status of business before the House during a session. The document is updated after each sitting.
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Status of House Business
AT PROROGATION (Tuesday, August 18, 2020)
PART V – Other Business |
| This section contains information on motions which deal with other business of the House, such as the times of sitting of the House and its order of business, amendments to the Standing Orders and emergency debates. The information in this section is grouped and numbered for reference only. |
| No. 1 — Chair Occupants |
| Speaker elected (Mr. Rota (Nipissing—Timiskaming)) — December 5, 2019 |
| Deputy Speaker and Chair of Commitees of the Whole appointed (Mr. Stanton (Simcoe North)) — December 9, 2019 |
| Assistant Deputy Speaker and Deputy Chair of Committees of the Whole appointed (Mrs. Hughes (Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing)) — December 10, 2019 |
| Assistant Deputy Speaker and Assistant Deputy Chair of Committees of the Whole appointed (Mrs. Mendès (Brossard—Saint-Lambert)) — December 10, 2019 |
| No. 2 — Board of Internal Economy |
| Established and membership appointed — December 5, 2019 |
| No. 3 — Standing Orders |
| Provisional changes to Standing Orders 81(5), 81(14)(a) and 54(1) — December 5, 2019 |
| Provisional amendment to Standing Orders 104(1), 104(2) and 108(1)(c), for the duration of the 43rd Parliament — December 11, 2019 |
| Provisional suspension of Standing Orders 104(5), 104(6)(b), 114(2)(e) and 114(2)(f), for the duration of the 43rd Parliament — December 11, 2019 |
| Suspension of the application of Standing Orders 17, 36(8)(b), 39(5)(b) and 56.1 for the sitting of March 24, 2020 — March 24, 2020 |
| Suspension of the application of Standing Orders 15, 17 and 56.1 for the sitting of April 11, 2020 — April 11, 2020 |
| Suspension of the application of Standing Orders 15, 17 and 56.1 for the sitting of April 20, 2020, and suspension of other Standing Orders during a future recall of the House — April 20, 2020 (See also Part I - Government Business No. 3) |
| Provisional amendment to Standing Order 81 for the calendar year 2020 — April 20, 2020 (See PART I — Government Business No. 3) |
| Suspension of the application of Standing Orders 15 and 17 — May 25 and 26, and July 20, 2020 |
| Suspension of the application of Standing Orders 15, 17, 36(8)(b), 39(5)(b) and 56.1 for the sittings of June 17, July 8 and 22, and August 12 and 26, 2020 — May 26, 2020 (See PART I – Government Business No. 7) |
| No. 4 — Sittings and Business of the House |
| Order respecting the bells to call in the members — December 5, 2019 |
| Order respecting proceedings on December 5, 2019 — December 5, 2019 |
| Order respecting the hours of sitting and statements by members on December 6, 2019 — December 5, 2019 |
| Order respecting Statements by Ministers on February 18, 2020 — February 18, 2020 |
| Order respecting the adjournment of the House on March 13, 2020, and a recall of the House — March 13, 2020 |
| Order respecting proceedings and the adjournment of the House on March 24, 2020, and a recall of the House — March 24, 2020 |
| Order respecting proceedings, Statements by Ministers, the adjournment of the House on April 11, 2020, the tabling of electronic documents during the adjournment, and a recall of the House — April 11, 2020 |
| Order respecting proceedings, Statements by Ministers, the adjournment of the House on April 20, 2020, the electronic filing of petitions during the adjournment, and proceedings of future sittings of the House related to COVID-19 — April 20, 2020 (See PART I — Government Business No. 3) |
| Order respecting committees of the House — April 29 and July 20, 2020 |
| Order respecting committee meetings — May 25 and 26, 2020 |
| Order respecting proceedings and the adjournment of the House on May 26, 2020, the sittings of the House in June, July and August 2020, the tabling of electronic documents, and recalls of the House — May 26, 2020 (See PART I – Government Business No. 7) |
| Order respecting debate in committee of the whole — June 17, 2020 |
| Order respecting Statements by Ministers on August 12, 2020 — August 12, 2020 |
| No. 5 — Address in Reply to the Speech from the Throne |
| Debated — December 5, 6, 9, 11, 12 and 13, 2019, and January 27, 2020 |
| Order respecting proceedings on the subamendment and the recorded division deferred to December 10, 2019 — December 9, 2019 |
| Adopted — January 27, 2020 |
| Order to engross address — January 27, 2020 |
| No. 6 — Resolutions |
| First Nations children — December 11, 2019 |
| Flight PS752 — January 27 and June 17, 2020 |
| Decals promoting violence — February 28, 2020 |
| Raif Badawi — March 12, 2020 |
| Support for Canadians — April 11 and 29, 2020 |
| Victims of sexual assault and domestic violence — July 21, 2020 |
| Explosion in Beirut — August 12, 2020 |
| Romani genocide — August 12, 2020 |
| Re-opening businesses and the economy — August 12, 2020 |
| No. 7 — Conflict of Interest Code for the Members of the House of Commons |
| Report of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner entitled "Peschisolido Report" (Sessional Paper No. 8527-431-2) — February 5, 2020 |
| No. 8 — Emergency debates |
| Relations with Indigenous peoples — Leave granted; debated — February 18, 2020 |
| Teck Frontier mine project — Leave granted; debated — February 25, 2020 |
| No. 9 — Privilege |
| Premature disclosure of contents of Bill C-7, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (medical assistance in dying) |
| Debated; adopted — March 10, 2020 (See PART IV — Standing Committees — PROC) |
| No. 10 — Recall of the House |
| Consideration of measures related to the COVID-19 pandemic — March 24, April 11 and 29, May 13, June 10, and July 20, 2020 |
| No. 11 — Certificates of nomination pursuant to Standing Order 111.1 |
| Auditor General |
| Name of the proposed appointee (Karen Hogan) referred to the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Sessional Paper No. 8540-431-20-01) — May 13, 2020 |
| First report of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Sessional Paper No. 8510-431-8) — May 21, 2020 |
| Ratification motion — Notice — May 21, 2020; adopted — May 25, 2020 |
| No. 12 — Casting vote |
| Speaker called upon to exercise a casting vote — May 26, 2020 |
| No. 13 — Naming of a member |
| Mr. Singh (Burnaby South) — June 17, 2020 |