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44th PARLIAMENT, 1st SESSION

Journals No. 301 Wednesday, April 17, 2024 2:00 p.m.

Prayer

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.

Privilege

Pursuant to order made Monday, April 8, 2024, Mr. Kristian Firth appeared at the bar of the House, received an admonishment by the Speaker and answered questions.

At 4:17 p.m., the sitting was suspended.

At 4:28 p.m., the sitting resumed.

Pursuant to order made Monday, April 8, 2024, the House resumed the questioning of Mr. Firth.

At 5:07 p.m., the sitting was suspended.

At 5:17 p.m., the sitting resumed.

Pursuant to order made Monday, April 8, 2024, the House resumed the questioning of Mr. Firth.

Pursuant to order made Monday, April 8, 2024, Mr. Firth was excused.

Deferred Recorded Divisions

Private Members' Business

Pursuant to Standing Order 98(4), the House proceeded to the taking of the deferred recorded division on the motion of Ms. Fry (Vancouver Centre), seconded by Mr. Arya (Nepean), — That Bill S-209, An Act respecting Pandemic Observance Day, be now read a third time and do pass.
The question was put on the motion and it was agreed to on the following division:
(Division No. 740 -- Vote n^o 740)
YEAS: 198, NAYS: 116
YEAS -- POUR Aldag Alghabra Ali Anand Anandasangaree Angus Arseneault Arya Ashton Atwin Bachrach Badawey Bains Baker Barron Barsalou-Duval Battiste Beaulieu Beech Bérubé Bibeau Bittle Blanchette-Joncas Blaney Blois Boissonnault Boulerice Bradford Brière Brunelle-Duceppe Cannings Carr Casey Chabot Chagger Chahal Champagne Champoux Chatel Chen Chiang Collins (Hamilton East—Stoney Creek) Collins (Victoria) Cormier Coteau Dabrusin Damoff Davies DeBellefeuille Desbiens Desjarlais Dhaliwal Dhillon Diab Dong Drouin Dubourg Duclos Duguid Dzerowicz Ehsassi El-Khoury Erskine-Smith Fillmore Fisher Fonseca Fortier Fortin Fragiskatos Fraser Freeland Fry Gaheer Gainey Garon Garrison Gaudreau Gazan Gerretsen Gill Gould Green Guilbeault Hajdu Hanley Hardie Hepfner Holland Housefather Hughes Hussen Hutchings Iacono Idlout Jaczek Johns Jones Jowhari Julian Kayabaga Kelloway Khalid Koutrakis Kusmierczyk Kwan Lalonde Lambropoulos Lamoureux Lapointe Larouche Lattanzio Lebouthillier Lemire Lightbound Long Longfield Louis (Kitchener—Conestoga) MacAulay (Cardigan) MacDonald (Malpeque) MacGregor MacKinnon (Gatineau) Maloney Martinez Ferrada Masse Mathyssen May (Cambridge) May (Saanich—Gulf Islands) McDonald (Avalon) McGuinty McKay McKinnon (Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam) McLeod McPherson Mendès Mendicino Miao Michaud Miller Morrice Morrissey Murray Naqvi Ng Noormohamed Normandin O'Connell O'Regan Pauzé Perron Petitpas Taylor Plamondon Powlowski Qualtrough Robillard Rodriguez Rogers Romanado Rota Sahota Sajjan Saks Samson Savard-Tremblay Scarpaleggia Serré Sgro Shanahan Sheehan Sidhu (Brampton East) Sidhu (Brampton South) Simard Sinclair-Desgagné Singh Sousa Ste-Marie St-Onge Sudds Tassi Taylor Roy Thériault Therrien Thompson Trudeau Trudel Turnbull Valdez Van Bynen van Koeverden Vandal Vandenbeld Vignola Villemure Virani Wilkinson Yip Zahid Zarrillo Zuberi Total: -- 198
NAYS -- CONTRE Aboultaif Aitchison Albas Allison Arnold Baldinelli Barlow Barrett Berthold Bezan Block Bragdon Brassard Calkins Caputo Carrie Chambers Chong Cooper Dalton Dancho Davidson Deltell Doherty Dowdall Dreeshen Duncan (Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry) Ellis Epp Falk (Battlefords—Lloydminster) Falk (Provencher) Fast Ferreri Findlay Gallant Généreux Genuis Gladu Godin Goodridge Gourde Gray Hallan Hoback Jeneroux Jivani Kelly Khanna Kitchen Kmiec Kram Kramp-Neuman Kurek Kusie Lake Lantsman Lawrence Lehoux Leslie Lewis (Essex) Lewis (Haldimand—Norfolk) Liepert Lloyd Lobb Maguire Majumdar Martel Mazier McCauley (Edmonton West) McLean Melillo Moore Morantz Morrison Motz Muys Nater Patzer Paul-Hus Perkins Poilievre Rayes Redekopp Reid Rempel Garner Richards Roberts Rood Ruff Scheer Schmale Seeback Shields Shipley Small Soroka Steinley Stewart Strahl Stubbs Thomas Tolmie Uppal Van Popta Vecchio Vidal Vien Viersen Vis Wagantall Warkentin Waugh Webber Williams Williamson Zimmer Total: -- 116
PAIRED -- PAIRÉS Bergeron Sorbara Total: -- 2
Accordingly, the bill was read the third time and passed.

Presenting Reports from Committees

By unanimous consent, Ms. Chagger (Waterloo), from the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs, presented the 64th report of the committee, which was as follows:

The committee recommends, pursuant to Standing Orders 104 and 114, the following changes to the lists of members of the following standing committees:

Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights


Jamil Jivani for Frank Caputo

Standing Committee on National Defence


Dean Allison for Shelby Kramp-Neuman

Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security


Frank Caputo for Damien Kurek

Standing Committee on the Status of Women


Shelby Kramp-Neuman for Karen Vecchio

Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities


Scot Davidson for Chris Lewis

The committee further recommends, pursuant to Standing Orders 104 and 114, that the names of the following members be added to the lists of associate members of the following standing committees:

Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights


Frank Caputo

Standing Committee on National Defence


Shelby Kramp-Neuman

Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security


Damien Kurek

Standing Committee on the Status of Women


Karen Vecchio

Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities


Chris Lewis

The committee further recommends, pursuant to Standing Orders 104 and 114, the following change to the list of members of the Standing Joint Committee for the Scrutiny of Regulations:


Colin Carrie for Dean Allison

The committee further recommends, pursuant to Standing Orders 104 and 114, that the name of the following member be added to the list of associate members of the Standing Joint Committee for the Scrutiny of Regulations:


Dean Allison

A copy of the relevant Minutes of Proceedings (Meeting No. 1) is tabled.

Motions

By unanimous consent, it was resolved, — That the 64th report of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs, presented earlier today, be concurred in.

Private Members' Business

At 6:17 p.m., pursuant to Standing Order 30(7), 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 Justice and Human Rights of Bill C-381, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (extortion).

Mr. Uppal (Edmonton Mill Woods), seconded by Mr. Soroka (Yellowhead), moved, — That the bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights.

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.

Returns and Reports Deposited with the Clerk of the House

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

— by Ms. Freeland (Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance) — Impacts report in terms of gender and diversity of all new budget measures in Budget 2024, pursuant to the Canadian Gender Budgeting Act 2018, c. 27, s. 314 "3". — Sessional Paper No. 8560-441-1384-01. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Finance)

Adjournment Proceedings

At 7:17 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 7:47 p.m., the Speaker adjourned the House until tomorrow at 10:00 a.m., pursuant to Standing Order 24(1).