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43rd PARLIAMENT, 2nd SESSION

Journals No. 24 Monday, November 2, 2020 11:00 a.m.

Prayer

Private Members' Business

At 11:00 a.m., pursuant to Standing Order 30(6), the House proceeded to the consideration of Private Members' Business.

The order was read for the second reading and reference to the Standing Committee on Natural Resources of Bill C-229, An Act to repeal certain restrictions on shipping.

Mr. Cumming (Edmonton Centre), seconded by Mr. McLean (Calgary Centre), moved, — That the bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Natural Resources.

Debate arose thereon.

Pursuant to Standing Order 93(1), the order was dropped to the bottom of the order of precedence on the Order Paper.

Government Orders

Ways and Means

The order was read for consideration of a ways and means motion to amend the Income Tax Act (Sessional Paper No. 8570-432-1), notice of which was laid upon the table on Friday, October 30, 2020. (Ways and Means No. 1)

Ms. Freeland (Minister of Finance), seconded by Mr. Miller (Minister of Indigenous Services), moved, — That the motion be concurred in.

Pursuant to Standing Order 83(3), the question was put on the motion and it was agreed to on the following division:
(Division No. 16 -- Vote n^o 16)
YEAS: 322, NAYS: 0
YEAS -- POUR Aboultaif Aitchison Albas Alghabra Alleslev Allison Amos Anand Anandasangaree Angus Arnold Arseneault Arya Ashton Atwin Bachrach Badawey Bagnell Bains Baker Barlow Barrett Barsalou-Duval Battiste Beaulieu Beech Bendayan Bennett Benzen Bergeron Bérubé Bessette Bezan Bibeau Bittle Blaikie Blair Blanchette-Joncas Blaney (North Island—Powell River) Blaney (Bellechasse—Les Etchemins—Lévis) Block Blois Boudrias Boulerice Bragdon Brassard Bratina Brière Brunelle-Duceppe Calkins Cannings Carr Carrie Casey Chabot Chagger Champagne Champoux Charbonneau Chen Chiu Chong Collins Cooper Cormier Dabrusin Dalton Damoff Dancho Davidson Davies DeBellefeuille Deltell d'Entremont Desbiens Desilets Dhaliwal Dhillon Diotte Doherty Dong Dowdall Dreeshen Drouin Dubourg Duclos Duguid Duncan (Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry) Duncan (Etobicoke North) Duvall Dzerowicz Easter Ehsassi El-Khoury Ellis Epp Erskine-Smith Falk (Battlefords—Lloydminster) Falk (Provencher) Fast Fergus Fillmore Findlay (South Surrey—White Rock) Finley (Haldimand—Norfolk) Finnigan Fisher Fonseca Fortier Fortin Fragiskatos Fraser Freeland Fry Gallant Garneau Garrison Gaudreau Gazan Généreux Genuis Gerretsen Gill Gladu Godin Gould Gray Guilbeault Hajdu Hallan Harder Hardie Harris Hoback Holland Housefather Hughes Hussen Hutchings Iacono Jaczek Jansen Jeneroux Johns Joly Jones Jordan Jowhari Julian Kelloway Kelly Kent Khalid Khera Kitchen Kmiec Koutrakis Kram Kurek Kusie Kusmierczyk Kwan Lake Lalonde Lambropoulos Lametti Lamoureux Larouche Lattanzio Lauzon Lawrence LeBlanc Lebouthillier Lefebvre Lehoux Lemire Lewis (Essex) Liepert Lightbound Lloyd Lobb Long Longfield Louis (Kitchener—Conestoga) Lukiwski MacAulay (Cardigan) MacGregor MacKenzie MacKinnon (Gatineau) Maguire Maloney Manly Martel Martinez Ferrada Masse Mathyssen May (Cambridge) May (Saanich—Gulf Islands) Mazier McCauley (Edmonton West) McColeman McCrimmon McDonald McGuinty McKay McKenna McKinnon (Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam) McLean McLeod (Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo) McLeod (Northwest Territories) McPherson Melillo Mendès Mendicino Michaud Miller Monsef Moore Morantz Morrison Morrissey Motz Murray Nater Ng Normandin O'Connell Oliphant O'Regan O'Toole Patzer Paul-Hus Pauzé Perron Petitpas Taylor Plamondon Poilievre Powlowski Qualtrough Ratansi Rayes Redekopp Regan Reid Rempel Garner Richards Robillard Rodriguez Rogers Romanado Rood Ruff Sahota (Calgary Skyview) Sahota (Brampton North) Saini Sajjan Samson Sangha Sarai Saroya Savard-Tremblay Scarpaleggia Schiefke Schmale Schulte Seeback Serré Sgro Shanahan Sheehan Shields Shin Shipley Sidhu (Brampton East) Sidhu (Brampton South) Simard Simms Singh Sloan Sorbara Soroka Spengemann Stanton Steinley Ste-Marie Strahl Stubbs Sweet Tabbara Tassi Thériault Therrien Tochor Trudel Turnbull Uppal Van Bynen van Koeverden Van Popta Vandal Vandenbeld Vaughan Vecchio Vidal Viersen Vignola Virani Vis Warkentin Waugh Webber Weiler Wilkinson Williamson Wilson-Raybould Wong Yip Young Yurdiga Zahid Zann Zimmer Zuberi Total: -- 322
NAYS -- CONTRE Nil--Aucun
PAIRED -- PAIRÉS Nil--Aucun

Pursuant to Standing Orders 83(4) and 69(1), on motion of Ms. Freeland (Minister of Finance), seconded by Mr. Miller (Minister of Indigenous Services), Bill C-9, An Act to amend the Income Tax Act (Canada Emergency Rent Subsidy and Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy), was introduced, read the first time, ordered to be printed and ordered for a second reading at the next sitting of the House.

The order was read for the second reading and reference to the Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs of Bill C-8, An Act to amend the Citizenship Act (Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada's call to action number 94).

Mr. Mendicino (Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship), seconded by Ms. Hajdu (Minister of Health), moved, — That the bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs.

Debate arose thereon.

Statements By Members

Pursuant to Standing Order 31, members made statements.

Oral Questions

Pursuant to Standing Order 30(5), the House proceeded to Oral Questions.

Deferred Recorded Divisions

Business of Supply

Pursuant to order made Wednesday, September 23, 2020, the House proceeded to the taking of the deferred recorded division on the motion of Mr. Blanchet (Beloeil—Chambly), seconded by Mr. Therrien (La Prairie), — That the House demand an official apology from the Prime Minister on behalf of the Government of Canada for the enactment, on October 16, 1970, of the War Measures Act and the use of the army against Quebec’s civilian population to arbitrarily arrest, detain without charge and intimidate nearly 500 innocent Quebeckers.
The question was put on the motion and it was negatived on the following division:
(Division No. 17 -- Vote n^o 17)
YEAS: 56, NAYS: 263
YEAS -- POUR Ashton Atwin Bachrach Barsalou-Duval Beaulieu Bergeron Bérubé Blaikie Blanchet Blanchette-Joncas Blaney (North Island—Powell River) Boudrias Boulerice Brunelle-Duceppe Cannings Chabot Champoux Charbonneau Collins Davies DeBellefeuille Desbiens Desilets Duvall Fortin Garrison Gaudreau Gazan Gill Green Harris Hughes Johns Julian Kwan Larouche Lemire MacGregor Manly Masse Mathyssen May (Saanich—Gulf Islands) McPherson Michaud Normandin Pauzé Perron Plamondon Savard-Tremblay Simard Singh Ste-Marie Thériault Therrien Trudel Vignola Total: -- 56
NAYS -- CONTRE Aboultaif Aitchison Albas Alghabra Alleslev Allison Amos Anand Anandasangaree Arnold Arseneault Arya Badawey Bagnell Bains Baker Barlow Barrett Battiste Beech Bendayan Bennett Benzen Bergen Berthold Bessette Bezan Bibeau Bittle Blair Blaney (Bellechasse—Les Etchemins—Lévis) Block Blois Bragdon Brassard Bratina Brière Calkins Carrie Casey Chagger Champagne Chen Chiu Chong Cooper Cormier Cumming Dabrusin Dalton Damoff Dancho Davidson Deltell Dhaliwal Dhillon Diotte Doherty Dong Dowdall Dreeshen Drouin Dubourg Duclos Duguid Duncan (Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry) Duncan (Etobicoke North) Dzerowicz Easter Ehsassi El-Khoury Ellis Epp Falk (Battlefords—Lloydminster) Falk (Provencher) Fast Fergus Fillmore Findlay (South Surrey—White Rock) Finley (Haldimand—Norfolk) Finnigan Fisher Fonseca Fortier Fragiskatos Fraser Freeland Fry Gallant Garneau Généreux Genuis Gerretsen Gladu Godin Gould Gourde Gray Guilbeault Hajdu Hallan Harder Hardie Hoback Holland Housefather Hussen Hutchings Iacono Jaczek Jansen Jeneroux Joly Jones Jordan Jowhari Kelloway Kelly Kent Khalid Khera Kitchen Kmiec Koutrakis Kram Kurek Kusie Kusmierczyk Lake Lalonde Lambropoulos Lametti Lamoureux Lattanzio Lauzon Lawrence LeBlanc Lebouthillier Lehoux Lewis (Essex) Liepert Lloyd Long Longfield Louis (Kitchener—Conestoga) Lukiwski MacAulay (Cardigan) MacKenzie MacKinnon (Gatineau) Maguire Maloney Martel May (Cambridge) Mazier McCauley (Edmonton West) McColeman McCrimmon McDonald McGuinty McKay McKenna McKinnon (Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam) McLean McLeod (Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo) McLeod (Northwest Territories) Melillo Mendès Mendicino Miller Monsef Moore Morantz Morrison Morrissey Motz Murray Nater Ng O'Connell Oliphant O'Regan O'Toole Patzer Paul-Hus Petitpas Taylor Poilievre Powlowski Qualtrough Ratansi Rayes Redekopp Regan Reid Rempel Garner Richards Robillard Rodriguez Rogers Romanado Rood Ruff Sahota (Calgary Skyview) Sahota (Brampton North) Saini Sajjan Samson Sangha Sarai Saroya Scarpaleggia Scheer Schiefke Schmale Schulte Seeback Serré Sgro Shanahan Sheehan Shields Shin Shipley Sidhu (Brampton East) Sidhu (Brampton South) Simms Sloan Sorbara Soroka Spengemann Stanton Steinley Strahl Stubbs Sweet Tabbara Tassi Tochor Turnbull Uppal Van Bynen van Koeverden Van Popta Vandal Vandenbeld Vaughan Vecchio Vidal Virani Vis Waugh Webber Weiler Wilkinson Williamson Wilson-Raybould Wong Yip Young Yurdiga Zahid Zann Zimmer Zuberi Total: -- 263
PAIRED -- PAIRÉS Nil--Aucun

Government Orders

Pursuant to order made Wednesday, September 23, 2020, the House proceeded to the taking of the deferred recorded division on the motion of Mr. Guilbeault (Minister of Canadian Heritage), seconded by Mrs. Schulte (Minister of Seniors), — That Bill C-5, An Act to amend the Bills of Exchange Act, the Interpretation Act and the Canada Labour Code (National Day for Truth and Reconciliation), be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage.
The question was put on the motion and it was agreed to on the following division:
(Division No. 18 -- Vote n^o 18)
YEAS: 322, NAYS: 0
YEAS -- POUR Aboultaif Aitchison Albas Alghabra Alleslev Allison Amos Anand Anandasangaree Angus Arnold Arseneault Arya Ashton Atwin Bachrach Badawey Bagnell Bains Baker Barlow Barrett Barsalou-Duval Battiste Beaulieu Beech Bendayan Bennett Benzen Bergen Bergeron Berthold Bérubé Bessette Bezan Bibeau Bittle Blaikie Blair Blanchet Blanchette-Joncas Blaney (North Island—Powell River) Blaney (Bellechasse—Les Etchemins—Lévis) Block Blois Boudrias Boulerice Bragdon Brassard Bratina Brière Brunelle-Duceppe Calkins Cannings Carrie Casey Chabot Chagger Champagne Champoux Charbonneau Chen Chiu Chong Collins Cooper Cormier Cumming Dabrusin Dalton Damoff Dancho Davidson Davies DeBellefeuille Deltell Desbiens Desilets Dhaliwal Dhillon Diotte Doherty Dong Dowdall Dreeshen Drouin Dubourg Duclos Duguid Duncan (Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry) Duncan (Etobicoke North) Duvall Dzerowicz Easter Ehsassi El-Khoury Ellis Epp Erskine-Smith Falk (Battlefords—Lloydminster) Falk (Provencher) Fast Fergus Fillmore Findlay (South Surrey—White Rock) Finley (Haldimand—Norfolk) Finnigan Fisher Fonseca Fortier Fortin Fragiskatos Fraser Freeland Fry Gallant Garneau Garrison Gaudreau Gazan Généreux Genuis Gerretsen Gill Gladu Godin Gould Gourde Gray Green Guilbeault Hajdu Hallan Harder Hardie Harris Hoback Holland Housefather Hughes Hussen Hutchings Iacono Jaczek Jansen Jeneroux Johns Joly Jones Jordan Jowhari Julian Kelloway Kelly Kent Khalid Khera Kitchen Kmiec Koutrakis Kram Kurek Kusie Kusmierczyk Kwan Lake Lalonde Lambropoulos Lametti Lamoureux Larouche Lattanzio Lauzon Lawrence LeBlanc Lebouthillier Lehoux Lemire Lewis (Essex) Liepert Lloyd Long Longfield Louis (Kitchener—Conestoga) Lukiwski MacAulay (Cardigan) MacGregor MacKenzie MacKinnon (Gatineau) Maguire Maloney Manly Martel Martinez Ferrada Masse Mathyssen May (Cambridge) May (Saanich—Gulf Islands) Mazier McCauley (Edmonton West) McColeman McCrimmon McDonald McGuinty McKay McKenna McKinnon (Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam) McLean McLeod (Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo) McLeod (Northwest Territories) McPherson Melillo Mendès Mendicino Michaud Miller Monsef Moore Morantz Morrison Morrissey Motz Murray Nater Ng Normandin O'Connell Oliphant O'Regan O'Toole Patzer Paul-Hus Pauzé Perron Petitpas Taylor Plamondon Poilievre Powlowski Qualtrough Ratansi Rayes Redekopp Regan Reid Rempel Garner Richards Robillard Rodriguez Rogers Romanado Rood Ruff Sahota (Calgary Skyview) Sahota (Brampton North) Saini Sajjan Samson Sangha Sarai Saroya Savard-Tremblay Scarpaleggia Scheer Schiefke Schmale Schulte Seeback Serré Sgro Shanahan Sheehan Shields Shin Shipley Sidhu (Brampton East) Sidhu (Brampton South) Simard Simms Singh Sloan Sorbara Soroka Spengemann Stanton Steinley Ste-Marie Strahl Stubbs Sweet Tabbara Tassi Thériault Therrien Tochor Trudel Turnbull Uppal Van Bynen van Koeverden Van Popta Vandal Vandenbeld Vaughan Vecchio Vidal Vignola Virani Vis Waugh Webber Weiler Wilkinson Williamson Wilson-Raybould Wong Yip Young Yurdiga Zahid Zann Zimmer Zuberi Total: -- 322
NAYS -- CONTRE Nil--Aucun
PAIRED -- PAIRÉS Nil--Aucun
Accordingly, Bill C-5, An Act to amend the Bills of Exchange Act, the Interpretation Act and the Canada Labour Code (National Day for Truth and Reconciliation), was read the second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage.

Daily Routine Of Business

Presenting Petitions

Pursuant to Standing Order 36, petitions certified by the Clerk of Petitions were presented as follows:

— by , one concerning social affairs and equality (No. 432-00194);

— by , one concerning health (No. 432-00195);

— by , one concerning the democratic process (No. 432-00196), two concerning justice (Nos. 432-00197 and 432-00200) and two concerning foreign affairs (Nos. 432-00198 and 432-00199);

— by , one concerning public safety (No. 432-00201).

Government Orders

The House resumed consideration of the motion of Mr. Mendicino (Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship), seconded by Ms. Hajdu (Minister of Health), — That Bill C-8, An Act to amend the Citizenship Act (Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada's call to action number 94), be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs.

The debate continued.

Motions

Pursuant to Standing Order 81(4)(a), the following motion, standing on the Order Paper in the name of Mr. O'Toole (Leader of the Opposition), was deemed adopted, — That, pursuant to order made Monday, April 20, 2020, and Standing Order 81(4)(a), all votes under Department of Fisheries and Oceans, and all votes under Department of Health, in the Main Estimates for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2021, be referred to committees of the whole.

Accordingly, the said votes were deemed withdrawn from the standing committees to which they were originally referred.

Returns and Reports Deposited with the Clerk of the House

Pursuant to Standing Order 32(1), papers deposited with the Clerk of the House were laid upon the table as follows:

— by — Summary of the Corporate Plan for 2020-2021 to 2024-2025 of the Canada Lands Company Limited, pursuant to the Financial Administration Act, R.S. 1985, c. F-11, sbs. 125(4). — Sessional Paper No. 8562-432-840-01. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates)

— by — Summaries of the Amended Corporate Plan for the period 2019-2020 to 2023-2024 and of the Operating and Capital Budgets of the Canadian Dairy Commission for the dairy year ending July 31, 2020, pursuant to the Financial Administration Act, R.S. 1985, c. F-11, sbs. 125(4). — Sessional Paper No. 8562-432-836-01. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food)

— by — Summary of the Corporate Plan of the Canadian Dairy Commission for the period 2020-2021 to 2024-2025 and of the operating and capital budgets for the dairy year ending July 31, 2021, pursuant to the Financial Administration Act, R.S. 1985, c. F-11, sbs. 125(4). — Sessional Paper No. 8562-432-836-02. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food)

— by Ms. Hajdu (Minister of Health) — Copy of Order in Council P.C. 2020-810 concerning minimizing the risk of exposure to COVID-19 in Canada, pursuant to the Quarantine Act, S.C. 2005, c. 20, sbs. 61(2). — Sessional Paper No. 8560-432-1079-04. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Health)

— by Mr. Lametti (Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada) — Charter Statement — Bill C-5, An Act to amend the Bills of Exchange Act, the Interpretation Act and the Canada Labour Code (National Day for Truth and Reconciliation), pursuant to the Department of Justice Act, R.S.C., 1985, c. J-2, sbs. 4.2(1). — Sessional Paper No. 8560-432-1232-06. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage)

Adjournment Proceedings

At 7:15 p.m., pursuant to Standing Order 38(1), the question “That this House do now adjourn” was deemed to have been proposed.

After debate, the question was deemed to have been adopted.

Accordingly, at 7:43 p.m., the Speaker adjourned the House until tomorrow at 10:00 a.m., pursuant to Standing Order 24(1).