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39th PARLIAMENT, 1st SESSION

Journals No. 54 Wednesday, September 27, 2006 2:00 p.m.

Prayers

National Anthem

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.

Daily Routine Of Business

Presenting Petitions

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

— by , one concerning national parks (No. 391-0357);

— by Mr. Moore (Port Moody—Westwood—Port Coquitlam), one concerning a national child care program (No. 391-0358) and one concerning illicit drug use (No. 391-0359);

— by , one concerning the sexual exploitation of minors (No. 391-0360), one concerning China (No. 391-0361), one concerning the protection of the environment (No. 391-0362) and one concerning unborn children (No. 391-0363);

— by , one concerning China (No. 391-0364) and one concerning the sexual exploitation of minors (No. 391-0365);

— by , one concerning social policies (No. 391-0366);

— by , one concerning the sexual exploitation of minors (No. 391-0367);

— by , one concerning immigration (No. 391-0368);

— by , one concerning transportation (No. 391-0369);

— by , one concerning the sexual exploitation of minors (No. 391-0370).

Questions on the Order Paper

Pursuant to Standing Order 39(7), Mr. Lukiwski (Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons and Minister for Democratic Reform) presented the return to the following question made into an Order for Return:

Q-28 — — With respect to the procedures and practices of the Department of Citizenship and Immigration and the Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness regarding immigrant students: (a) how many schools and school board officials have been approached by either department for information regarding the status of their students; (b) how many students have been apprehended or approached by either department since January 1, 2004; (c) what are the policies and procedures regarding entering educational institutions; and (d) have any officers of either department been reprimanded because policy was not followed? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-391-28.

Government Orders

The House resumed consideration of the motion of Mr. Emerson (Minister of International Trade), seconded by Mr. Flaherty (Minister of Finance), — That Bill C-24, An Act to impose a charge on the export of certain softwood lumber products to the United States and a charge on refunds of certain duty deposits paid to the United States, to authorize certain payments, to amend the Export and Import Permits Act and to amend other Acts as a consequence, be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on International Trade;

And of the amendment of , seconded by , — That the motion be amended by deleting all the words after the word "That" and substituting the following:

“the House decline to proceed with Bill C-24, An Act to impose a charge on the export of certain softwood lumber products to the United States and a charge on refunds of certain duty deposits paid to the United States, to authorize certain payments, to amend the Export and Import Permits Act and to amend other Acts as a consequence, because it opposes the principle of the bill, which is to abrogate the North American Free Trade Agreement, to condone illegal conduct by Americans, to encourage further violations of the North American Free Trade Agreement and to undermine the Canadian softwood sector by leaving at least $ 1 billion in illegally collected duties in American hands, by failing to provide open market access for Canadian producers, by permitting the United States to escape its obligations within three years, by failing to provide necessary support to Canadian workers, employers and communities in the softwood sector and by imposing coercive and punitive taxation in order to crush dissent with this policy”;

And of the subamendment of , seconded by , — That the amendment be amended by adding the following:

“specifically because it fails to immediately provide loan guarantees to softwood companies, because it fails to un-suspend outstanding litigation which is almost concluded and which Canada stands to win, and because it punishes companies by imposing questionable double taxation, a provision which was not in the agreement signed by the Minister of International Trade”.

The debate continued.

Deferred Recorded Divisions

Concurrence in Committee Reports

Pursuant to Order made Thursday, September 21, 2006, the House proceeded to the taking of the deferred recorded division on the motion of Mr. Proulx (Hull—Aylmer), seconded by Mr. Alghabra (Mississauga—Erindale), — That the Second Report of the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates, presented on Wednesday, June 7, 2006, be concurred in. (Concurrence in Committee Reports No. 4)
The question was put on the motion and it was agreed to on the following division:
(Division No. 35 -- Vote n^o 35)
YEAS: 145, NAYS: 119
YEAS -- POUR Alghabra André Angus Asselin Atamanenko Bagnell Bains Barbot Barnes Bélanger Bell (Vancouver Island North) Bellavance Bevington Bigras Blais Bonin Bonsant Boshcoff Bouchard Bourgeois Brison Brown (Oakville) Brunelle Byrne Cardin Carrier Chan Charlton Chow Christopherson Comartin Comuzzi Cotler Crête Crowder Cullen (Skeena—Bulkley Valley) Cullen (Etobicoke North) Cuzner D'Amours Davies DeBellefeuille Demers Deschamps Dewar Dhaliwal Dhalla Dosanjh Duceppe Easter Eyking Faille Folco Gaudet Godfrey Goodale Graham Guarnieri Guimond Holland Hubbard Jennings Julian Kadis Karygiannis Kotto Laforest Laframboise Lapierre Lavallée Layton LeBlanc Lee Lemay Lessard Lévesque Loubier Lussier MacAulay Malhi Malo Maloney Marleau Marston Martin (Esquimalt—Juan de Fuca) Martin (Winnipeg Centre) Martin (Sault Ste. Marie) Masse Matthews McCallum McDonough McGuinty McKay (Scarborough—Guildwood) McTeague Ménard (Hochelaga) Merasty Minna Mourani Murphy (Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe) Murphy (Charlottetown) Nadeau Nash Neville Ouellet Owen Pacetti Paquette Perron Picard Plamondon Priddy Proulx Ratansi Redman Regan Robillard Rodriguez Rota Roy Russell Savage Savoie Scarpaleggia Scott Sgro Siksay Silva Simard Simms St-Cyr St-Hilaire St. Amand St. Denis Steckle Stoffer Stronach Szabo Temelkovski Thibault (Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques) Thibault (West Nova) Valley Vincent Wappel Wasylycia-Leis Wilfert Wilson Total: -- 145
NAYS -- CONTRE Abbott Ablonczy Albrecht Allen Allison Ambrose Anders Anderson Arthur Baird Batters Benoit Bernier Bezan Blackburn Blaney Boucher Breitkreuz Brown (Leeds—Grenville) Brown (Barrie) Bruinooge Calkins Cannan (Kelowna—Lake Country) Cannon (Pontiac) Carrie Casey Casson Chong Clement Cummins Davidson Day Del Mastro Devolin Doyle Dykstra Emerson Epp Fast Finley Fitzpatrick Flaherty Fletcher Gallant Goldring Goodyear Gourde Grewal Guergis Hanger Harris Harvey Hawn Hearn Hiebert Hill Hinton Jaffer Jean Kamp (Pitt Meadows—Maple Ridge—Mission) Keddy (South Shore—St. Margaret's) Kenney (Calgary Southeast) Komarnicki Kramp (Prince Edward—Hastings) Lake Lauzon Lemieux Lukiwski Lunn Lunney MacKay (Central Nova) MacKenzie Manning Mayes Menzies Merrifield Miller Mills Moore (Port Moody—Westwood—Port Coquitlam) Moore (Fundy Royal) Nicholson Norlock Obhrai Oda Pallister Paradis Petit Poilievre Prentice Preston Rajotte Reid Richardson Ritz Scheer Schellenberger Shipley Skelton Smith Solberg Sorenson Stanton Storseth Strahl Sweet Thompson (New Brunswick Southwest) Thompson (Wild Rose) Toews Trost Turner Tweed Van Kesteren Van Loan Wallace Warawa Warkentin Watson Williams Yelich Total: -- 119
PAIRED -- PAIRÉS Bachand Freeman Gagnon Gauthier Lalonde Mark O'Connor Tilson Vellacott Verner

Private Members' Business

At 6:05 p.m., pursuant to Standing Order 30(7), the House proceeded to the consideration of Private Members' Business.

The House resumed consideration of the motion of Mr. Rodriguez (Honoré-Mercier), seconded by Mr. Godfrey (Don Valley West), — That Bill C-288, An Act to ensure Canada meets its global climate change obligations under the Kyoto Protocol, be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development.

The debate continued.

At 7:07 p.m., pursuant to Standing Order 93, the Speaker interrupted the proceedings.

The question was put on the motion and, pursuant to Standing Order 93(1), the recorded division was deferred until Wednesday, October 4, 2006, immediately before the time provided for Private Members' Business.

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 — Report of the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety, together with the Auditor General's Report, for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2006, pursuant to the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety Act, R.S. 1985, c. C-13, sbs. 26(2). — Sessional Paper No. 8560-391-38-01. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities)

— by — Copy of Rules amending the Rules of the Supreme Court of Canada (JUS-607904), pursuant to the Supreme Court Act, R.S. 1985, c. S-26, sbs. 97(4). — Sessional Paper No. 8560-391-784-01. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights)

— by — Reports of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2006, pursuant to the Access to Information Act and to the Privacy Act, R.S. 1985, c. A-1 and P-21, sbs. 72(2). — Sessional Paper No. 8561-391-860-01. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights)

Petitions Filed with the Clerk of the House

Pursuant to Standing Order 36, a petition certified correct by the Clerk of Petitions was filed as follows:

— by , one concerning national holidays (No. 391-0371).

Adjournment Proceedings

At 7:08 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 7:18 p.m., the Speaker adjourned the House until tomorrow at 10:00 a.m., pursuant to Standing Order 24(1).