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42nd PARLIAMENT, 1st SESSION

Journals No. 369 Tuesday, December 11, 2018 10:00 a.m.

Prayer

Daily Routine Of Business

Tabling of Documents

laid upon the Table, — Report of the Parliamentary Budget Officer entitled "Fall Economic Statement 2018: Issues for Parliamentarians", pursuant to the Parliament of Canada Act, R.S., 1985, c. P-1, sbs. 79.2(2). — Sessional Paper No. 8560-421-1119-27.

Pursuant to Standing Order 32(2), laid upon the Table, — Copy of the Canada-Japan Side-Letter on Motor Vehicle Standards and Regulations under the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, and Explanatory Memorandum, dated November 29, 2018. — Sessional Paper No. 8532-421-77.

Pursuant to Standing Order 32(2), laid upon the Table, — Report of the Taxpayers' Ombudsman for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2018, pursuant to the Terms and Conditions of Employment of the Taxpayers' Ombudsman, P.C. 2007-0828 (JUS - 609751, sbs. 9(2)). — Sessional Paper No. 8560-421-1030-04. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Finance)

Pursuant to Standing Order 32(2), laid upon the Table, — Report of the National Defence and Canadian Forces Ombudsman for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2018. — Sessional Paper No. 8560-421-150-03.

Pursuant to Standing Order 32(2), Mr. Lamoureux (Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons) laid upon the Table, — Government response, pursuant to Standing Order 36(8), to the following petition:

— No. 421-02871 concerning road transportation. — Sessional Paper No. 8545-421-34-10.

Pursuant to Standing Order 32(2), laid upon the Table, — Document entitled "Response to supply day motion on terrorist activity". — Sessional Paper No. 8525-421-85.

Presenting Reports from Committees

Mr. Housefather (Mount Royal), from the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights, presented the 24th Report of the Committee, "Moving Forward in the Fight Against Human Trafficking in Canada". — Sessional Paper No. 8510-421-501.

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. 87 to 90, 97 to 100, 102, 116, 118 and 123) was tabled.

Mr. Zimmer (Prince George—Peace River—Northern Rockies), from the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics, presented the 17th Report of the Committee, "Democracy under Threat: Risks and Solutions in the Era of Disinformation and Data Monopoly". — Sessional Paper No. 8510-421-502.

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. 99 to 102, 104, 106, 108 to 114, 116 to 124 and 127 to 129) was tabled.

Presenting Petitions

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

— by , one concerning Russia (No. 421-03080);

— by , one concerning firearms (No. 421-03081);

— by , six concerning the use of animals in research (Nos. 421-03082 to 421-03087);

— by , one concerning organ transplants (No. 421-03088);

— by , one concerning health care services (No. 421-03089);

— by , one concerning sex selection (No. 421-03090), one concerning impaired driving (No. 421-03091) and one concerning discrimination (No. 421-03092).

Government Orders

Notice having been given at a previous sitting under the provisions of Standing Order 78(3), Ms. Chagger (Leader of the Government in the House of Commons), seconded by Mr. Goodale (Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness), moved, — That, in relation to Bill C-21, An Act to amend the Customs Act, not more than one further sitting day shall be allotted to the stage of consideration of the Senate amendment to the Bill; and

That, 15 minutes before the expiry of the time provided for Government Orders on the day allotted to the consideration of the said stage of the said Bill, any proceedings before the House shall be interrupted, if required for the purpose of this Order, and, in turn, every question necessary for the disposal of the said stage of the Bill shall be put forthwith and successively, without further debate or amendment.

Pursuant to Standing Order 67.1, the House proceeded to the question period regarding the moving of the time allocation motion.

The question was put on the motion and it was agreed to on the following division:
(Division No. 978 -- Vote n^o 978)
YEAS: 164, NAYS: 120
YEAS -- POUR Aldag Alghabra Amos Anandasangaree Arseneault Arya Ayoub Badawey Bagnell Bains Baylis Bennett Bibeau Bittle Blair Boissonnault Bossio Bratina Breton Brison Caesar-Chavannes Carr Casey (Cumberland—Colchester) Chagger Champagne Cuzner Dabrusin Damoff DeCourcey Dhaliwal Dhillon Di Iorio Drouin Dubourg Duclos Duguid Duncan (Etobicoke North) Dzerowicz Easter Ehsassi El-Khoury Ellis Erskine-Smith Eyking Eyolfson Fergus Fillmore Finnigan Fisher Fonseca Fortier Fragiskatos Fraser (West Nova) Fraser (Central Nova) Freeland Fry Fuhr Garneau Gerretsen Goldsmith-Jones Goodale Gould Graham Hajdu Hardie Harvey Hébert Hehr Hogg Holland Housefather Hutchings Iacono Jordan Jowhari Khalid Lambropoulos Lamoureux Lapointe Lauzon (Argenteuil—La Petite-Nation) LeBlanc Lebouthillier Lefebvre Leslie Levitt Lightbound Lockhart Long Longfield Ludwig MacAulay (Cardigan) MacKinnon (Gatineau) Maloney Massé (Avignon—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia) May (Cambridge) McCrimmon McDonald McGuinty McKay McKinnon (Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam) McLeod (Northwest Territories) Mendicino Mihychuk Miller (Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Soeurs) Monsef Morneau Morrissey Murray Nassif Nault Ng O'Connell Oliphant Oliver O'Regan Ouellette Paradis Peschisolido Peterson Petitpas Taylor Philpott Picard Poissant Qualtrough Ratansi Rioux Robillard Rodriguez Rogers Romanado Rota Ruimy Rusnak Sahota Saini Sajjan Samson Sangha Sarai Scarpaleggia Schiefke Schulte Serré Sgro Shanahan Sheehan Sidhu (Brampton South) Simms Sohi Sorbara Spengemann Tabbara Tan Tassi Trudeau Vandal Vandenbeld Vaughan Whalen Wilkinson Wilson-Raybould Yip Young Zahid Total: -- 164
NAYS -- CONTRE Aboultaif Albas Albrecht Alleslev Allison Anderson Angus Arnold Barlow Barsalou-Duval Beaulieu Benson Benzen Bergen Berthold Bezan Blaney (Bellechasse—Les Etchemins—Lévis) Boucher Boutin-Sweet Brassard Brosseau Calkins Cannings Carrie Chong Choquette Clarke Cooper Davies Deltell Diotte Doherty Dreeshen Dubé Duncan (Edmonton Strathcona) Dusseault Duvall Eglinski Falk (Battlefords—Lloydminster) Falk (Provencher) Finley Fortin Gallant Garrison Généreux Genuis Gladu Godin Gourde Hardcastle Hughes Jeneroux Johns Kelly Kent Kitchen Kmiec Kusie Kwan Lauzon (Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry) Laverdière Leitch Liepert Lloyd Lobb Lukiwski MacGregor MacKenzie Maguire Malcolmson Martel Masse (Windsor West) Mathyssen McCauley (Edmonton West) McColeman McLeod (Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo) Moore Motz Nantel Nater Nicholson Nuttall O'Toole Paul-Hus Plamondon Poilievre Quach Ramsey Rankin Rayes Reid Rempel Richards Sansoucy Saroya Scheer Schmale Shields Shipley Sopuck Sorenson Stanton Stetski Strahl Stubbs Sweet Tilson Trost Trudel Van Kesteren Vecchio Viersen Wagantall Warawa Warkentin Waugh Webber Wong Yurdiga Zimmer Total: -- 120
PAIRED -- PAIRÉS Cormier Pauzé Total: -- 2

The House resumed consideration of the motion of Mr. Goodale (Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness), seconded by Ms. Ng (Minister of Small Business and Export Promotion), — That the amendment made by the Senate to Bill C-21, An Act to amend the Customs Act, be now read a second time and concurred in.

The debate continued.

Messages from the Senate

A message was received from the Senate informing this House that the Senate has passed the following Bill to which the concurrence of the House is desired:

Bill S-6, An Act to implement the Convention between Canada and the Republic of Madagascar for the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income.

Government Orders

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.

Tabling of Documents

Pursuant to Standing Order 32(2), laid upon the Table, — Document entitled "Annual Report to Parliament for the 2017 to 2018 Fiscal Year: Federal Management Initiatives" (USB key included). — Sessional Paper No. 8525-421-86.

Motions

By unanimous consent, it was ordered, — That, notwithstanding any Standing Order or usual practice of the House, the deferred recorded division on motion M-163, standing in the name of the Member for Etobicoke Centre, currently scheduled on Wednesday, December 12, 2018, immediately before the time provided for Private Members' Business, be deferred anew to the expiry of the time provided for Oral Questions that day.

Government Orders

The debate continued.

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

Private Members' Business

At 5:09 p.m., by unanimous consent, the House proceeded to the consideration of Private Members' Business.

Mr. Peterson (Newmarket—Aurora), seconded by Mr. Drouin (Glengarry—Prescott—Russell), moved, — That the Standing Committee on Health be instructed to undertake a study on the level of fitness and physical activity of youth in Canada and provide recommendations and report on: (a) strategies to increase the level of fitness and physical activity for youth; (b) the economic, social, cultural, and physical and mental health benefits associated with increased fitness and physical activity among youth; (c) the impact of increased fitness and physical activity in relation to anti-bullying; and (d) that the Committee report its findings and recommendations to the House no later than June 2019. (Private Members' Business M-206)

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.

Messages from the Senate

Messages were received from the Senate as follows:

— ORDERED: That a message be sent to the House of Commons to acquaint that House that the Senate has passed Bill C-86, A second Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on February 27, 2018 and other measures, without amendment.

— ORDERED: That a message be sent to the House of Commons to acquaint that House that the Senate has passed Bill C-90, An Act for granting to Her Majesty certain sums of money for the federal public administration for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2019.

— ORDERED: That a message be sent to the House of Commons to acquaint that House of the following:

That the Senate do not insist on its amendments to Bill C-51, An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Department of Justice Act and to make consequential amendments to another Act, to which the House of Commons has disagreed.

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 — Regulations related to the Justice for Victims of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act (Sergei Magnitsky Law) (P.C. 2018-1464), pursuant to the Justice for Victims of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act (Sergei Magnitsky Law), S.C. 2017, c. 21, sbs. 4(4). — Sessional Paper No. 8560-421-1140-03. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(2), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development)

Adjournment Proceedings

At 6:09 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 6:38 p.m., the Speaker adjourned the House until tomorrow at 2:00 p.m., pursuant to Standing Order 24(1).