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44th PARLIAMENT, 1st SESSION

Journals No. 184 Tuesday, April 25, 2023 10:00 a.m.

Prayer

Daily Routine Of Business

Tabling of Documents

Pursuant to Standing Order 32(2), Ms. Joly (Minister of Foreign Affairs) laid upon the table, — Copy of the Agreement between the Government of Canada on the one hand and the Government of the Kingdom of Denmark together with the Government of Greenland on the other hand on the maritime and land boundaries in the area between Canada and Greenland, done at Ottawa on June 14, 2022, and Explanatory Memorandum. — Sessional Paper No. 8532-441-33.

Pursuant to Standing Order 32(2), Mr. Sidhu (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs) laid upon the table, — Copy of the Amendments to the 1996 Protocol to the Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter, 1972, adopted in London on October 7, 2022, and Explanatory Memorandum. — Sessional Paper No. 8532-441-34.

Presenting Reports from Committees

Mr. Schiefke (Vaudreuil—Soulanges), from the Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities, presented the 11th report of the committee, "Reducing the Impact of Commercial Shipping on Shoreline Erosion in the Great Lakes-St.Lawrence Corridor". — Sessional Paper No. 8510-441-246.

Pursuant to Standing Order 109, the committee requested that the government table a comprehensive response.

A copy of the relevant Minutes of Proceedings (Meetings Nos. 38, 39 and 61) was tabled.

Presenting Petitions

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

— by Mr. Cooper (St. Albert—Edmonton), one concerning justice (No. 441-01329);

— by Mr. Motz (Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner), one concerning justice (No. 441-01330);

— by Mr. Brassard (Barrie—Innisfil), one concerning justice (No. 441-01331);

— by Mr. Johns (Courtenay—Alberni), one concerning fisheries (No. 441-01332);

— by Ms. Zarrillo (Port Moody—Coquitlam), one concerning awards and honours (No. 441-01333);

— by Mrs. Brière (Sherbrooke), one concerning business and trade (No. 441-01334);

— by Mr. Genuis (Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan), one concerning natural resources and energy (No. 441-01335), one concerning civil and human rights (No. 441-01336), two concerning foreign affairs (Nos. 441-01337 and 441-01338), one concerning justice (No. 441-01339), one concerning social affairs and equality (No. 441-01340) and one concerning national defence and military operations (No. 441-01341).

Questions on the Order Paper

Mr. Lamoureux (Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons) presented the answers to questions Q-1304, Q-1305, Q-1308, Q-1310, Q-1313 and Q-1315 on the Order Paper.

Pursuant to Standing Order 39(7), Mr. Lamoureux (Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons) presented the returns to the following questions made into orders for return:

Q-1302 — — With regard to vacancy rates in government owned office buildings in the National Capital Region with over 100,000 square feet of office space, broken down by building: what is the (i) name, (ii) location, (iii) total square footage, (iv) total square footage of usable office space, (v) current number of employees, (vi) square footage of occupied office space, (vii) square footage of vacant or unoccupied office space? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-441-1302.

Q-1303 — — With regard to the processing of requests made under the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act: (a) what is the policy or standard practice, broken down by department, agency, Crown corporation, or other government entity, with respect to consultations concerning personal or third-party information of former members of Parliament; (b) during the course of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's processing of an access to information request related to their file on the Trudeau Report (A-2021-02029), why were consultations about the information of the former member for Thornhill, the Hon. Peter Kent, referred to the current member for Markham—Thornhill, the Minister of International Trade, Export Promotion, Small Business and Economic Development; and (c) on what date was the Privacy Commissioner of Canada informed about the incident in (b)? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-441-1303.

Q-1306 — — With regard to gloves in the National Emergency Strategic Stockpile (NESS) which are manufactured by Sinopharm International Corporation and its subsidiaries, since November 2019: (a) how many units of these gloves did the NESS, or its parent organization and procuring body, acquire, broken down by month; (b) how many units of these gloves did the NESS contain each month; and (c) how many units of these gloves were shipped to each provincial and territorial government, broken down by month, quarter and year? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-441-1306.

Q-1307 — — With regard to the National Housing Council, since its creation: (a) what was the council's annual budget and expenditures, broken down by year; (b) what is the breakdown of (a) by item and type of expenditure; (c) what were the locations of each council meeting, broken down by the meeting date; (d) for each year, what were the council's total expenditures on (i) travel, (ii) hospitality; and (e) how is the council composed, including (i) how the members and the chairs of the council are chosen, (ii) the number of members, (iii) the financial compensation rates, including annual amounts and per diem rates, if applicable? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-441-1307.

Q-1309 — — With regard to the processing of immigration applications at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, for all streams, broken down by stream and by country of origin: (a) what are the current application processing service standards; (b) what are the actual current application processing times; (c) what percentage of applications are meeting the processing service standards; (d) where standards are not being met, what efforts are being undertaken by the department to improve processing times; (e) what are the acceptance and refusal rates; (f) what accounts for discrepancies in acceptance rates and processing times across geographic regions; and (g) how many applications are currently in the backlog and how long have these applications been in the system? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-441-1309.

Q-1311 — — With regard to the report that Employment and Social Development Canada provided to the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) on November 5, 2021, concerning allegations of forced labour within the supply chains for the production of personal protective equipment: (a) what specific allegations were contained in the report; (b) what is the summary of the report; (c) what is the website link where the report is available; and (d) what actions did the CBSA take in response to the report, broken down by the date the actions were taken? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-441-1311.

Q-1312 — — With regard to the government's plan to increase the tax on alcohol as of April 1, 2023: has Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada or Pacific Economic Development Canada conducted any analysis on the negative impacts this increase will have on British Columbia wineries, and, if so, what are the details, including the findings? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-441-1312.

Q-1314 — — With regard to the government's plan to increase the tax on alcohol as of April 1, 2023: has Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada or the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario conducted any analysis on the negative impacts this increase will have on Niagara wineries, and, if so, what are the details, including the findings? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-441-1314.

Applications for Emergency Debate

Pursuant to Standing Order 52, Mr. Genuis (Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan) asked leave to move the adjournment of the House for the purpose of discussing a specific and important matter requiring urgent consideration, namely, the crisis in Sudan.

The Speaker decided that the matter was proper to be discussed and, pursuant to Standing Order 52(9), directed that it be considered later today, at the ordinary hour of daily adjournment.

Government Orders

The House resumed consideration of the motion of Ms. Freeland (Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance), seconded by Mr. Fraser (Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship), — That Bill C-47, An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on March 28, 2023, be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Finance;

And of the amendment of Mr. Deltell (Louis-Saint-Laurent), seconded by Mr. Perkins (South Shore—St. Margarets), — That the motion be amended by deleting all the words after the word “That” and substituting the following:

“the House decline to give second reading to Bill C-47, An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on March 28, 2023, since the bill fails to end inflationary deficits, high taxes, and the war on work, measures that would allow Canadians to bring home powerful paycheques, lower prices, and affordable homes.”.

The debate continued.

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

Concurrence in Committee Reports

Pursuant to order made Thursday, June 23, 2022, the House proceeded to the taking of the deferred recorded division on the motion of Ms. Kwan (Vancouver East), seconded by Ms. Mathyssen (London—Fanshawe), — That the 15th report of the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration, presented on Tuesday, April 18, 2023, be concurred in. (Concurrence in Committee Reports No. 29)
The question was put on the motion and it was agreed to on the following division:
(Division No. 303 -- Vote n^o 303)
YEAS: 204, NAYS: 113
YEAS -- POUR Alghabra Ali Anand Anandasangaree Angus Arseneault Arya Ashton Atwin Bachrach Badawey Bains Baker Barron Barsalou-Duval Battiste Beaulieu Beech Bendayan Bennett Bérubé Bittle Blaikie Blair Blanchette-Joncas Blaney Blois Boissonnault Boulerice Bradford Brière Brunelle-Duceppe Cannings Casey Chabot Chagger Chahal Champagne Champoux Chatel Chen Chiang Collins (Hamilton East—Stoney Creek) Collins (Victoria) Cormier Coteau Dabrusin Damoff Davies DeBellefeuille Desbiens Desilets Desjarlais Dhaliwal Dhillon Diab Dong Drouin Dubourg Duclos Duguid Dzerowicz Ehsassi El-Khoury Erskine-Smith Fergus Fillmore Fisher Fonseca Fortier Fortin Fragiskatos Fraser Freeland Gaheer Garon Garrison Gaudreau Gazan Gerretsen Gill Gould Green Guilbeault Hajdu Hanley Hardie Hepfner Holland Housefather Hughes Hussen Hutchings Iacono Idlout Ien Jaczek Johns Joly Jowhari Julian Kayabaga Kelloway Khalid Khera Koutrakis Kusmierczyk Kwan Lalonde Lambropoulos Lametti Lamoureux Lapointe Larouche Lattanzio Lauzon Lebouthillier Lemire Lightbound Long Longfield Louis (Kitchener—Conestoga) MacAulay (Cardigan) MacDonald (Malpeque) MacGregor MacKinnon (Gatineau) 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 Oliphant O'Regan Petitpas Taylor Plamondon Powlowski Rayes Robillard Rodriguez Rogers Romanado Sahota Sajjan Saks Samson Sarai Savard-Tremblay Scarpaleggia Schiefke 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 Vuong Weiler Wilkinson Yip Zahid Zarrillo Zuberi Total: -- 204
NAYS -- CONTRE Aboultaif Aitchison Albas Allison Arnold Baldinelli Barlow Barrett Berthold Bezan Block Bragdon Brassard Brock Calkins Caputo Carrie Chambers Chong Cooper Dalton Dancho Davidson Deltell d'Entremont 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 Kelly Kitchen Kmiec Kram Kramp-Neuman Kurek Kusie Lake Lantsman Lawrence Lehoux Lewis (Essex) Lewis (Haldimand—Norfolk) Liepert Lloyd Lobb Maguire Martel Mazier McCauley (Edmonton West) McLean Melillo Moore Morantz Morrison Motz Muys Nater O'Toole Patzer Paul-Hus Perkins Poilievre Redekopp Reid Rempel Garner Richards Roberts Rood Ruff Scheer Seeback Shields Shipley Small Soroka Steinley Stewart Strahl Stubbs Thomas Tochor Tolmie Uppal Van Popta Vecchio Vidal Vien Viersen Vis Wagantall Warkentin Waugh Webber Williams Williamson Total: -- 113
PAIRED -- PAIRÉS Aldag Bergeron Bibeau Maloney Pauzé Perron Qualtrough Schmale Sorbara Zimmer Total: -- 10

Government Orders

The debate continued.

Private Members' Business

At 5:30 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 Finance of Bill C-323, An Act to amend the Excise Tax Act (mental health services).

Mr. Ellis (Cumberland—Colchester), seconded by Mr. Doherty (Cariboo—Prince George), moved, — That the bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Finance.

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

The debate continued.

Emergency Debate

At 10:00 p.m., pursuant to order made Tuesday, November 15, 2022, and to Standing Order 52(10), the House proceeded to the consideration of a motion to adjourn the House for the purpose of discussing an important matter requiring urgent consideration, namely, the crisis in Sudan.

Mr. Genuis (Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan), seconded by Mr. Viersen (Peace River—Westlock), moved, — That this House do now adjourn.

Debate arose thereon.

At midnight, the Speaker declared the motion adopted.

Adjournment

At midnight, the Speaker adjourned the House until later today at 2:00 p.m., pursuant to Standing Order 24(1).