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Notice Paper

No. 9

Thursday, December 2, 2021

10:00 a.m.


Introduction of Government Bills

Introduction of Private Members' Bills

Notices of Motions (Routine Proceedings)

Questions

Q-1362 — December 1, 2021 — Mr. Champoux (Drummond) — With regard to federal public servants who have been placed on unpaid leave due to their vaccination status: (a) how many are there in total; (b) of the total in (a), what is the breakdown by federal department and agency; and (c) for each federal department and agency in (b), what percentage of total employees do the employees who have been placed on unpaid leave account for?
Q-1372 — December 1, 2021 — Mr. Perkins (South Shore—St. Margarets) — With regard to Marine Protected Areas (MPA) and proposed changes by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, including the Draft Conservation Network Design for the Scotian Shelf-Bay of Fundy Bioregion: (a) for each proposed change or additional MPA, what would be the impact to the lobster fishery and lobster quotas; (b) what would be the impact in Lobster Fishing Areas (LFA) 27 through 34, broken down by LFA; and (c) what are the details of all memorandums, briefing notes, reports, or correspondence related to the MPAs or the proposals since January 1, 2016, including (i) the date, (ii) the type of document, (iii) the sender, (iv) the recipient, (v) the title, (vi) the summary of the contents, (vii) the internal file or tracking number?
Q-1382 — December 1, 2021 — Mr. Vidal (Desnethé—Missinippi—Churchill River) — With regard to payments made to individuals through the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) or the Canada Recover Benefit (CRB), and broken down by each program: (a) how many individuals received their payments via (i) direct deposit, (ii) a paper cheque; (b) of the individuals who received their payments via a paper cheque, how many were mailed to an address outside of Canada; (c) how many of the paper cheques were counter-signed or cashed by a third party; (d) what specific action was taken by the government to ensure that money in the cheques cashed in (c) went to the intended individuals; (e) approximately how many cases of CERB or CRB fraud is the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) aware of involving paper cheques; (f) what specific action is CRA taking to investigate the cases in (e) and recover the money; and (g) how much money has been recovered to date, as a result of the efforts outlined in (f)?
Q-1392 — December 1, 2021 — Mr. Steinley (Regina—Lewvan) — With regard to the job posting which closed in October 2020 where the Privy Council Office was looking for a storyteller to join the Prime Minister and Visual Communications team: (a) how many storytellers are currently working for the Privy Council Office or the Office of the Prime Minister; (b) what is the organizational structure for the storytellers, such as is there a lead storyteller that the other storytellers pitch their stories to; (c) who decides whether or not a story is worth telling; (d) what is the yearly budget of the storytelling department; (e) who does the lead storyteller report to; (f) of the storytellers currently employed, how many have prior experience writing fictional stories; (g) what metrics are used to judge the quality of the storytelling; (h) what is itemized breakdown of the storytelling budget; (i) how many stories have been told by the storytellers; and (j) of the stories in (i), how many were fictional?
Q-1402 — December 1, 2021 — Mr. Williamson (New Brunswick Southwest) — With regard to legal costs incurred by the government in relation to its legal application launched in June 2021 against the Speaker of the House of Commons, as well as any subsequent legal action related to this case: (a) what is the total number of billable hours incurred by outside legal counsel to prepare this application and subsequent legal action; (b) what is the total amount (i) paid out, (ii) scheduled to be paid out, by the government to outside legal counsel to prepare this application and subsequent legal action; (c) what is the total number of federal civil servants that were assigned to assist in the preparation of this application, broken down by department or agency; (d) which ministers, ministerial exempt staff, or senior government officials participated in the preparation of this application; (e) which ministers, ministerial exempt staff, or government officials had outside legal expenses covered by the government in relation to this application or the related order of the House of Commons; (f) what was the total amount (i) paid out, (ii) scheduled to be paid out, in legal expenses related to (e); and (g) which departments or agencies allocated resources to prepare the legal application, and what specific resources did each department or agency allocate?
Q-1412 — December 1, 2021 — Mr. MacKenzie (Oxford) — With regard to the government's purchase of supplemental F-18 aircrafts from Australia: (a) what is the total number of such aircrafts that have been purchased to date; (b) of the aircrafts in (a), how many were (i) flyable, (ii) unflyable; (c) how many of the flyable aircrafts are still currently operational; and (d) what is the total amount that has been spent to date on purchasing the aircrafts?
Q-1422 — December 1, 2021 — Mrs. DeBellefeuille (Salaberry—Suroît) — With regard to the funding granted in 2020 to United Way Centraide Canada, through the Emergency Community Support Fund, to increase response capacity and expand 211 service coverage to all Canadian residents, with said funding coming to an end on March 31, 2021: (a) what amount was spent to expand coverage of the 211 service across Quebec; and (b) how many referrals were made through the 211 service broken down by (i) each region of Quebec, (ii) month, between March 2020 and March 2021?

Notices of Motions for the Production of Papers

Business of Supply

Government Business

Private Members' Notices of Motions

M-23 — December 1, 2021 — Mr. van Koeverden (Milton) — That, in the opinion of the House, the government should recognize the important contributions that Hungarian-Canadians have made to Canadian history, society, and culture, and should mark the importance of this community and their efforts for future generations by declaring the 23rd of October as Hungarian Heritage Day.
M-24 — December 1, 2021 — Mr. Davies (Vancouver Kingsway) — That, in the opinion of the House, the government should amend the Live-in Caregiver Program to: (a) provide live-in caregivers permanent residency immediately upon entering Canada; (b) allow live-in caregivers to bring their spouses and children with them upon entering Canada; (c) ensure live-in caregivers have the option of living outside the employer’s home; (d) require live-in caregivers, their spouses, and their children to pass only one medical examination prior to arriving in Canada; and (e) remove caps on the number of permanent resident visas available to live-in caregivers, as well as the requirement for post-secondary education for permanent residency.
M-25 — December 1, 2021 — Mr. Davies (Vancouver Kingsway) — That, in the opinion of the House, the government should establish a dental care plan for uninsured Canadians as a first step towards universal public dental care coverage.
M-26 — December 1, 2021 — Mr. Davies (Vancouver Kingsway) — That, in the opinion of the House, the government should renew and increase federal funding to Heart and Stroke's women's heart and brain health research to $5 million per year over five years.
M-27 — December 1, 2021 — Mr. Davies (Vancouver Kingsway) — That, in the opinion of the House, the federal government should provide funding for 40% of the cost of all major transit infrastructure projects across Canada and create permanent stable mechanisms to provide predicable long-term funding streams to meet this objective.
M-28 — December 1, 2021 — Mr. Davies (Vancouver Kingsway) — That, in the opinion of the House, the government should re-establish the Federal Co-op Housing Program.
M-29 — December 1, 2021 — Mr. Davies (Vancouver Kingsway) — That, in the opinion of the House, the government should establish a legislated guaranteed livable income for all Canadians.
M-30 — December 1, 2021 — Mr. Davies (Vancouver Kingsway) — That, in the opinion of the House, the government should establish a ministry of peace in order to promote peace, democracy and human rights in Canada and globally.
M-31 — December 1, 2021 — Mr. Davies (Vancouver Kingsway) — That, in the opinion of the House, the government should address the decline in elephant populations by introducing a ban on all domestic trade in elephant ivory, and prohibiting the import, export, and re-export of elephant ivory in order to close the existing trade gap, drive down demand, and improve conservation efforts of this endangered species.
M-32 — December 1, 2021 — Mr. Davies (Vancouver Kingsway) — That, in the opinion of the House, the government should work with domestic and international stakeholders to address the decline in the monarch butterfly population by increasing the collection and sharing of scientific data relating to the monarch’s habitats, reproduction, migration, and population levels, and by developing appropriate domestic and international policy responses with the goal of protecting, expanding, and enhancing the reproductive and migratory habitats of monarch butterflies.
M-33 — December 1, 2021 — Mr. Davies (Vancouver Kingsway) — That, in the opinion of the House, the government should: (a) facilitate the involvement of people living with HIV in all decisions made across government that relate to the health, well-being, and dignity of people living with and affected by HIV; (b) encourage people living with HIV to start and stay on treatment; and (c) work towards dismantling HIV stigma at the community, clinical, and personal levels by adopting the Ontario Accord and endorsing the Undetectable = Untransmittable (U=U) campaign.
M-34 — December 1, 2021 — Mr. Davies (Vancouver Kingsway) — That, in the opinion of the House, the government should provide funding to construct a Vietnamese cultural centre in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia.
M-35 — December 1, 2021 — Mr. Davies (Vancouver Kingsway) — That, in the opinion of the House, the government should take immediate steps to address the alarming and dangerous loss of bee colonies and other pollinating insects in Canada and beyond by: (a) recognizing the vital role that bees and other pollinating insects perform ecologically, economically, and for our food security; (b) phasing out the widespread use of neonicotinoid pesticides and ensuring access to safe alternatives; and (c) developing a strategy to address the multiple factors related to bee colony deaths, such as the destruction and disturbance of habitat, as well as the use of pesticides and parasites.
M-36 — December 1, 2021 — Mr. Davies (Vancouver Kingsway) — That, in the opinion of the House, the government should ban the import of dog and cat fur products into Canada, and make it an offense to mislabel any garment product made from dog or cat fur.
M-37 — December 1, 2021 — Mr. Davies (Vancouver Kingsway) — That, in the opinion of the House, the government should work with the provinces and territories, along with key stakeholders including employers and labour unions, to encourage the adoption of a four day work week across Canada in order to increase employment, boost productivity, lower greenhouse gas emissions, reduce commuting hours, cut business operating costs, facilitate tourism, promote better work-life balance, and improve the health and well-being of workers, all especially important as the Canadian economy recovers from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
M-38 — December 1, 2021 — Mr. Davies (Vancouver Kingsway) — That, in the opinion of the House, the government should immediately implement a universal, comprehensive and public pharmacare program based on the final report of the Hoskins Advisory Council on the Implementation of National Pharmacare as part of Canada's COVID-19 economic response plan given that one in five Canadians were uninsured or underinsured prior to the emergence of COVID-19 and layoffs triggered by the pandemic have left millions of Canadians without access to employer-sponsored drug coverage.
M-39 — December 1, 2021 — Mr. Davies (Vancouver Kingsway) — That, in the opinion of the House, the government should adopt a requirement for tobacco companies to pay an annual fee in order to recover the annual costs of the federal government’s tobacco control strategy, with allocation of the fee to each company being based on market share.
M-40 — December 1, 2021 — Mr. Davies (Vancouver Kingsway) — That, in the opinion of the House, the government should establish: (a) a federal Crown corporation to manufacture essential, affordable medicines and vaccines in Canada; and (b) a funding mechanism to develop clinical trial research capacity and infrastructure for supporting end-to-end biomedical research and development of new drugs and vaccines discovered in Canadian universities and other research institutes, including the provision of the necessary venture capital to ensure the viability of this initiative.

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