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Notice Paper

No. 206

Monday, June 5, 2023

11:00 a.m.


Introduction of Government Bills

Introduction of Private Members' Bills

June 2, 2023 — Mr. Soroka (Yellowhead) — Bill entitled “An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Sex Offender Information Registration Act”.

June 2, 2023 — Ms. McPherson (Edmonton Strathcona) — Bill entitled “National Indigenous Teachers Day Act”.

Notices of Motions (Routine Proceedings)

Questions

Q-15682 — June 2, 2023 — Mr. Kram (Regina—Wascana) — With regard to the National Action Plan to End Gender-Based Violence: on what date did the government sign a bilateral funding agreement with the government of Saskatchewan?
Q-15692 — June 2, 2023 — Mr. Barrett (Leeds—Grenville—Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes) — With regard to government protection for whistleblowers: (a) what specific protection is provided for whistleblowers who publicize wrongdoing within the Office of the Prime Minister (PMO); and (b) what mechanisms, if any, are in place to ensure that individuals within the PMO or the Privy Council Office do not punish such whistleblowers?
Q-15702 — June 2, 2023 — Mr. Barrett (Leeds—Grenville—Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes) — With regard to government protection for whistleblowers: (a) what specific protection is provided for whistleblowers who publicize wrongdoing by ministers or ministerial exempt staff; and (b) what mechanisms, if any, are in place to ensure that ministers, exempt staff, or other government officials do not punish such whistleblowers?
Q-15712 — June 2, 2023 — Mrs. Vecchio (Elgin—Middlesex—London) — With regard to Global Affairs Canada (GAC) and the Mission Cultural Fund: (a) (i) why, (ii) on what day, did the program cease operations; (b) did the government conduct any studies on the effectiveness of the program, and, if so, what are the details, including, (i) who conducted it, (ii) when was it completed, (iii) what were the findings; (c) is there any other program or proposed program at GAC that will provide funding for celebrity chefs' airfares or the telling of seniors sex stories abroad, and, if so, what are the details of the replacement program?
Q-15722 — June 2, 2023 — Mr. Melillo (Kenora) — With regard to the Goods and Services Tax (GST) and shrinkflation: (a) will the government be lowering the size or volume threshold for items which are subject to GST when they are under a certain level (eg. 500 ml of ice cream); (b) if the answer to (a) is affirmative, (i) on what items will the threshold be lowered, (ii) what will be the new threshold, (iii) when will the new threshold take effect; and (c) if the answer to (a) is negative or unconfirmed, how much additional GST revenue is the government expected to receive as a result of shrinkflation, and for what will the additional revenue be used?
Q-15732 — June 2, 2023 — Mr. Melillo (Kenora) — With regard to expenditures on hotel rooms by the government during or related to the United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP 15) in Montreal from December 7 to 19, 2022: (a) what was the total amount spent on hotel rooms; (b) what are the details of the spending at each hotel, including the (i) total amount spent, (ii) name of the hotel, (iii) number of rooms rented each night, (iv) rate paid, including the number of rooms at each rate?
Q-15742 — June 2, 2023 — Mr. Nater (Perth—Wellington) — With regard to the 42nd Parliament's Bill C-58, An Act to amend the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts giving the Information Commissioner the power to make binding orders related to access to information requests: (a) how many binding orders has the Information Commissioner made since the bill received Royal Assent in June 2019, in total and broken down by each government institution subject to the Access to Information and Privacy Act (ATIP); (b) how many of the orders in (a) were (i) abided by, (ii) ignored, (iii) appealed or challenged, in court; (c) for each order in (b) that was ignored, what was the (i) order given by the Information Commissioner, (ii) subject of the original ATIP request, (iii) reason for ignoring the order, (iv) title of individual responsible for the decision to ignore the request; and (d) for each order in (b) that was appealed or challenged in court, what was the (i) order given by the Information Commissioner, (ii) subject of the original ATIP request, (iii) title of individual responsible for appealing or challenging the order in court, (iv) total of the legal fees incurred to date by the recipient of the order, (v) outcome or status of the appeal?
Q-15752 — June 2, 2023 — Mr. Muys (Flamborough—Glanbrook) — With regard to applications submitted to the Universal Broadband Fund program that have not been selected for funding within Hamilton, Ontario: (a) how many applications have not been selected for funding for projects located within Hamilton, Ontario; (b) what are the names of the interested parties whose applications have not been selected for funding; (c) what is the location within Hamilton of projects whose applications have not been selected for funding; and (d) what is the amount of funding requested by each interested party that have not been selected for funding?
Q-15762 — June 2, 2023 — Mr. Muys (Flamborough—Glanbrook) — With regard to applications submitted to the Universal Broadband Fund program that have not been selected for funding: what (i) are the names of interested parties, (ii) are the locations of the projects, (iii) is the amount of funding requested for each project?

Notices of Motions for the Production of Papers

Business of Supply

Government Business

Private Members' Notices of Motions

Private Members' Business

C-281 — May 31, 2023 — Mr. Lawrence (Northumberland—Peterborough South) — Third reading of Bill C-281, An Act to amend the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Act, the Justice for Victims of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act (Sergei Magnitsky Law), the Broadcasting Act and the Prohibiting Cluster Munitions Act.
Pursuant to Standing Order 86(3), jointly seconded by:
Mr. Genuis (Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan) — June 15, 2022
Statement by Speaker — see Journals of Thursday, May 18, 2023.
Debate — one hour remaining, pursuant to Standing Order 98(2).
Voting — at the expiry of the time provided for debate, pursuant to Standing Order 98(4).

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