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38th PARLIAMENT, 1st SESSION

Journals

No. 60

Friday, February 18, 2005

10:00 a.m.



Prayers
Government Orders

Ms. McLellan (Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness) for Mr. Valeri (Leader of the Government in the House of Commons), seconded by Mr. Owen (Minister of Western Economic Diversification and Minister of State (Sport)), moved, — That the Standing Orders be amended by replacing Standing Order 43 with the following:

43. (1)(a) Unless otherwise provided in these Standing Orders, when the Speaker is in the Chair, no Member, except the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition, or a Minister moving a government order and the Member speaking in reply immediately after such Minister, shall speak for more than twenty minutes at a time in any debate.
(b) Following any speech by the Prime Minister, the Leader of the Opposition, a Minister moving a government order, or the Member speaking in reply immediately after such Minister, and following any twenty-minute speech, a period not exceeding ten minutes shall be made available, if required, to allow Members to ask questions and comment briefly on matters relevant to the speech and to allow responses thereto.
(c) Except as provided in Standing Orders 95 and 126(1)(a), following any ten-minute speech, a period not exceeding five minutes shall be made available, if required, to allow Members to ask questions and comment briefly on matters relevant to the speech and to allow responses thereto.
(2)(a) The Whip of a party may indicate to the Speaker at any time during a debate governed by this Standing Order that one or more of the periods of debate limited pursuant to section (1) of this Standing Order to twenty minutes and allotted to Members of his or her party are to be divided in two.
(b) Any Member rising to speak during a debate limited by section (1) of this Standing Order to twenty minute speeches, may indicate to the Speaker that he or she will be dividing his or her time with another Member.
That the Standing Orders be amended by replacing Standing Order 50(2) with the following:
(2) No Member, except the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition, shall speak for more than twenty minutes at a time in the said debate.
That the Standing Orders be amended by replacing Standing Order 66 with the following:
66. (1) When a debate on any motion, except a motion for the concurrence in a report of a standing or special committee, made after the start of the sitting (after 2:00 p.m. on Mondays and after 11:00 a.m. on Fridays) and prior to the reading of an Order of the Day is adjourned or interrupted, the order for resumption of the debate shall be transferred to and considered under Government Orders.
(2) A motion for the concurrence in a report from a standing or special committee shall receive not more than three hours of consideration, after which time, unless previously disposed of, the Speaker shall interrupt and put all questions necessary to dispose of the motion without further debate or amendment, provided that, if debate is adjourned or interrupted:
(a) the motion shall again be considered on a day designated by the Government after consultation with the House Leaders of the other parties, but in any case not later than the tenth sitting day after the interruption;
(b) debate on the motion shall be resumed at the ordinary hour of daily adjournment on the day designated pursuant to paragraph (a) of this section and shall not be further interrupted or adjourned; and
(c) when no Member rises to speak or after three hours of debate, whichever is earlier, the Speaker shall put all questions necessary to dispose of the motion, provided that, if a recorded division is requested on the motion considered on a day designated pursuant to paragraph (a) of this Standing Order, it shall stand deferred to an appointed time on the next Wednesday, no later than the expiry of the time provided for Government Orders on that day.
(3) Not more than one motion for the concurrence in a report from a standing or special committee may be moved on any sitting day.
That the Standing Orders be amended by replacing Standing Order 73(1)(d) with the following:
73. (1)(d) after not more than five hours of debate, the Speaker shall interrupt the debate and the question shall be put and decided without further debate.
That the Standing Orders be amended by replacing Standing Order 74(2) with the following:
74. (2)(a) The Whip of a party may indicate to the Speaker at any time during a debate governed by this Standing Order that one or more of the periods of debate limited pursuant to paragraphs (1)(b) and (c) of this Standing Order, and allotted to Members of his or her party, are to be divided in two.
(b) Any Member rising to speak during a debate governed by paragraphs (1)(b) and (c) of this Standing Order, may indicate to the Speaker that he or she will be dividing his or her time with another Member.
That the Standing Orders be amended by replacing Standing Order 76(7) with the following:
76. (7) When debate is permitted, the first Member from each of the recognized parties speaking during proceedings on the first amendment proposed at report stage may speak for not more than twenty minutes, and no other Member shall speak more than once or longer than ten minutes during proceedings on any amendment at that stage.
That the Standing Orders be amended by replacing Standing Order 81(10)(a) with the following:
81. (10)(a) In any calendar year, seven sitting days shall be allotted to the Business of Supply for the period ending not later than December 10; seven additional days shall be allotted to the Business of Supply in the period ending not later than March 26; and eight additional days shall be allotted to the Business of Supply in the period ending not later than June 23; provided that the number of sitting days so allotted may be altered pursuant to paragraph (b) or (c) of this section. These twenty two days are to be designated as allotted days. In any calendar year, no more than one fifth of all the allotted days shall fall on a Wednesday and no more than one fifth thereof shall fall on a Friday.
That the Standing Orders be amended by replacing Standing Orders 81(14) with the following:
81. (14)(a) Forty-eight hours' written notice shall be given of opposition motions on allotted days, motions to concur in interim supply, main estimates, supplementary or final estimates, to restore or reinstate any item in the estimates. Twenty-four hours' written notice shall be given of a notice to oppose any item in the estimates, provided that for the supply period ending not later than June 23, forty-eight hours' written notice shall be given of a notice to oppose any item in the estimates.
(b) When notice has been given of two or more motions by Members in opposition to the government for consideration on an allotted day, the Speaker shall have power to select which of the proposed motions shall have precedence in that sitting.
That the Standing Orders be amended by replacing Standing Order 81(16) with the following:
81. (16)(a) Every opposition motion is votable unless the sponsor of such a motion designates it as non-votable.
(b) The duration of proceedings on any opposition motion moved on an allotted day shall be stated in the notice relating to the appointing of an allotted day or days for those proceedings.
(c) Except as provided for in section (18) of this Standing Order, on the last day appointed for proceedings on a motion that shall come to a vote, at fifteen minutes before the expiry of the time provided for Government Orders, the Speaker shall interrupt the proceedings and forthwith put, without further debate or amendment, every question necessary to dispose of the said proceedings.
That the Standing Orders be amended by replacing Standing Order 81(22) with the following:
81. (22) During proceedings on any item of business under the provisions of this Standing Order, no Member may speak more than once or longer than twenty minutes.
That the Standing Orders be amended by replacing Standing Order 84(7) with the following:
84. (7) No Member, except the Minister of Finance, the Member speaking first on behalf of the Opposition, the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition, shall speak for more than twenty minutes at a time in the Budget Debate.
That the Standing Orders be amended by replacing Standing Order 106(4) with the following:
106. (4) Within five days of the receipt, by the clerk of a standing committee, of a request signed by any four members of the said committee, the Chair of the said committee shall convene such a meeting provided that forty-eight hours' notice is given of the meeting. For the purposes of this section, the reasons for convening such a meeting shall be stated in the request.
That the Standing Orders be amended by replacing Standing Order 107(1) with the following:
107. (1)(a) The Chair of each standing committee, together with the Member of the House from each standing joint committee who is the Chair of the said joint committee, shall form a Liaison Committee, which is charged with making apportionments of funds from the block of funds authorized by the Board of Internal Economy to meet the expenses of committee activities, subject to ratification by the Board.
(b) The Whip, or his or her designate, of any recognized party not having a member on the Liaison Committee, may take part in the proceedings of the Committee, but may not vote or move any motion, nor be part of any quorum.
That the Standing Orders be amended by replacing Standing Order 109 with the following:
109. Within 120 days of the presentation of a report from a standing or special committee, the government shall, upon the request of the committee, table a comprehensive response thereto, and when such a response has been requested, no motion for the concurrence in the report may be proposed until the comprehensive response has been tabled or the expiration of the said period of 120 days.
That the Clerk of the House be authorized to make necessary editorial and consequential alterations to the Standing Orders.
That these Standing Orders come into effect at 11:00 o’clock a.m. Monday, March 7, 2005 and remain in effect for the duration of the current parliament and during the first sixty sitting days of the succeeding parliament.(Government Business No. 9)

By unanimous consent, the motion was agreed to without debate.


The Order was read for the consideration at report stage of Bill C-39, An Act to amend the Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act and to enact An Act respecting the provision of funding for diagnostic and medical equipment, as reported by the Standing Committee on Finance with amendments.

Ms. McLellan (Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness) for Mr. Goodale (Minister of Finance), seconded by Mr. Bélanger (Deputy Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, Minister responsible for Official Languages, Minister responsible for Democratic Reform and Associate Minister of National Defence), moved, — That the Bill, as amended, be concurred in at report stage.

The question was put on the motion and it was agreed to.

Accordingly, the Bill was concurred in at report stage.

Pursuant to Standing Order 76.1(11), Ms. McLellan (Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness) for Mr. Goodale (Minister of Finance), seconded by Mr. Bélanger (Deputy Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, Minister responsible for Official Languages, Minister responsible for Democratic Reform and Associate Minister of National Defence), moved, — That the Bill be now read a third time and do pass.

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.

Daily Routine Of Business

Presenting Petitions

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

— by Mr. Guimond (Montmorency—Charlevoix—Haute-Côte-Nord), one concerning the National Missile Defence Program (No. 381-0261);
— by Mr. Vellacott (Saskatoon—Wanuskewin), one concerning marriage (No. 381-0262);
— by Mrs. Gallant (Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke), one concerning marriage (No. 381-0263);
— by Mr. Warawa (Langley), one concerning marriage (No. 381-0264) and one concerning health care services (No. 381-0265);
— by Mr. Penson (Peace River), one concerning marriage (No. 381-0266).

Questions on Order Paper

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

Q-26 — Mr. Thompson (New Brunswick Southwest) — With regard to the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, what is the detailed breakdown of the projects it has funded for the Atlantic Innovation Fund Program, the Business Development Program, the Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Program, the Strategic Community Investment Fund Program, and the Entrepreneurship and Business Skills Development Partnership Program, from October 1, 2000, to October 25, 2004, including: (a) the name, address and type of the recipient business, post-secondary institution, research institute or community; (b) a complete description of each project; (c) the date(s) and amount(s) of the financial contribution(s); (d) whether each entity funded started to repay its financial contribution(s); (e) the name and constituency of the Member of Parliament or Minister who signed off on each project; and (f) whether the entity funded is still in business? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-381-26.
Government Orders

The House resumed consideration of the motion of Mr. Goodale (Minister of Finance), seconded by Mr. Bélanger (Deputy Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, Minister responsible for Official Languages, Minister responsible for Democratic Reform and Associate Minister of National Defence), — That Bill C-39, An Act to amend the Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act and to enact An Act respecting the provision of funding for diagnostic and medical equipment, be now read a third time and do pass.

The debate continued.

The question was put on the motion and it was agreed to.

Accordingly, the Bill was read the third time and passed.


The House resumed consideration of the motion of Mr. Cotler (Minister of Justice), seconded by Ms. McLellan (Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness), — That Bill C-38, An Act respecting certain aspects of legal capacity for marriage for civil purposes, be now read a second time and referred to a legislative committee;

And of the amendment of Mr. Harper (Calgary Southwest), seconded by Mr. Toews (Provencher), — That the motion be amended by deleting all the words after the word “That” and substituting the following:
“this House declines to give second reading to Bill C-38, An Act respecting certain aspects of legal capacity for marriage for civil purposes, since the principle of the Bill fails to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others and fails to recognize and extend to other civil unions established under the laws of a province the same rights, benefits and obligations as married persons.”.

The debate continued.

Private Members' Business

At 1:30 p.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 Justice, Human Rights, Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness of Bill C-268, An Act to confirm the definition of marriage and to preserve ceremonial rights.

Mr. Moore (Fundy Royal), seconded by Mr. Ritz (Battlefords—Lloydminster), moved, — That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Justice, Human Rights, Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness.

Debate arose thereon.

Pursuant to Standing Order 96(1), the Order was dropped from the Order Paper.

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 Mr. Alcock (President of the Treasury Board and Minister responsible for the Canadian Wheat Board) — Report of the Canadian Wheat Board, together with the Auditors' Report, for the crop year ended July 31, 2004, pursuant to the Canadian Wheat Board Act, R.S. 1985, c. C-24, sbs. 9(2). — Sessional Paper No. 8560-381-259-01. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food)
— by Mr. Dosanjh (Minister of Health) — Report on the administration and operation of the Canada Health Act for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004, pursuant to the Canada Health Act, R.S. 1985, c. C-6, s. 23. — Sessional Paper No. 8560-381-458-01. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Health)
— by Mr. Efford (Minister of Natural Resources) — Report of the Northern Pipeline Agency, together with the Auditor General's Report, for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004, pursuant to the Northern Pipeline Act, R.S. 1985, C. N-26, ss. 13 and 14. — Sessional Paper No. 8560-381-43-01. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Industry, Natural Resources, Science and Technology)
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 Mr. Boshcoff (Thunder Bay—Rainy River), one concerning marriage (No. 381-0267).
Adjournment

At 2:30 p.m., the Speaker adjourned the House until Monday at 11:00 a.m., pursuant to Standing Order 24(1).