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United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) see Lac Saint-Pierre

United Nations Resolution on Iran

    >>Reports tabled and permanently referred to Foreign Affairs and International Development Standing Committee
    >>>Regulations (P.C. 2008-771 and SOR/JUS-610860), 792-3 (8560-392-592-02)

United Nations Resolution on Lebanon

    >>Reports tabled and permanently referred to Foreign Affairs and International Development Standing Committee
    >>>Regulations (P.C. 2007-1352 and SOR/JUS-609128), 132 (8560-392-592-01)

United States see Canada-United States Interparliamentary Group;Canada-United States relations;Canada-United States Tax Treaty;Energy science and technology;Social security payments (United States)

United States, September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks see 9/11 Commission Report;World Trade Center Families for Proper Burial

Universal Child Care Benefit see Taxation--Families

University of Calgary

    >>Government payments
    >>>Ways and Means No. 10
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Flaherty), 598, agreed to on recorded division (Division No. 74), 598-9
    >>>>Notice, tabled, 560 (8570-392-12)
    >>>>See also Budget Implementation Act, 2008 (Bill C-50)

Uranium see Depleted uranium (DU) weapons

Urban development see Garden City Lands, Richmond, BC

User fees see Explosives User Fees;Passports--Processing fees, Veterans;Telecommunications and Radio Apparatus

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Vacation pay see Correctional Investigator of Canada Office--Stewart

Vaccines see Anthrax vaccine

Vancouver, BC see Evergreen Line (light rail transit project);HIV/AIDS--Aboriginal people;Olympics and Paralympics, 2010 Winter Games (Vancouver);Safe Injection Site (SIS)

Vancouver International Airport see Dziekanski, Robert

Vancouver Port Authority see Access to Information Act;Privacy Act;Roberts Bank Port

Vancouver Quadra constituency see Elections--Certificates of election;House of Commons--Vacancies

Vegetables see Pesticides and herbicides--Fruits

Vehicle Identification Numbers (VIN) see Auto theft

Verner, Hon. Josée (CPC--Louis-Saint-Laurent; Minister of Canadian Heritage, Status of Women and Official Languages; Minister of Canadian Heritage, Status of Women and Official Languages and Minister for La Francophonie as of May 26, 2008; Minister of Canadian Heritage and Status of Women and Minister for La Francophonie as of July 29, 2008)

    >>References see Official Languages Standing Committee--Witnesses

Veterans

    >>Health care see Veterans Affairs Standing Committee--Reports, First
    >>Petitions
    >>>(Godin), (392-0115), 175, gr, 346 (8545-392-48-01)
    >>See also Canadian Volunteer Service Medal;Community Engagement Partnership Fund;Memorial Wall of Names;Passports--Processing fees;Remembrance Day (November 11)

Veterans Affairs Department

    >>Departmental Performance Report
    >>>2006-2007, tabled, 129 (8563-392-89)
    >>Estimates, 2007-2008, Supplementary (A)
    >>>Veterans Affairs Standing Committee referral, 83
    >>Estimates, 2007-2008, Supplementary (B)
    >>>Veterans Affairs Standing Committee referral, 443
    >>Estimates, 2008-2009, Main
    >>>Veterans Affairs Standing Committee referral, 483
    >>Estimates, 2008-2009, Supplementary (A)
    >>>Veterans Affairs Standing Committee referral, 813
    >>See also Access to Information Act;Cenotaph/Monument Restoration Program;Community Engagement Partnership Fund;Estimates, 2008-2009, Main--Reports on Plans and Priorities;Privacy Act

Veterans Affairs Standing Committee

    >>Estimates, 2007-2008, Supplementary (A), referred
    >>>Veterans Affairs, 83
    >>Estimates, 2007-2008, Supplementary (B), referred
    >>>Veterans Affairs, 443
    >>Estimates, 2008-2009, Main, referred
    >>>Veterans Affairs, 483
    >>Estimates, 2008-2009, Supplementary (A)
    >>>Veterans Affairs, 813
    >>Membership, 108-9, 647
    >>Reports
    >>>First (Resetting the Bar for Veterans Health Care: Veterans Independence Program and Veterans Health Care Review), 858-9 (8510-392-131)
    >>Reports permanently referred see Order in Council appointments;Returned Soldiers' Insurance Act;Veterans Insurance Act
    >>Travel, authorization, 323, 399, 600

Veterans Independence Program see Senior citizens--Government initiatives;Veterans Affairs Standing Committee--Reports, First

Veterans Insurance Act

    >>Reports tabled and permanently referred to Veterans Affairs Standing Committee
    >>>2006-2007 annual report, 345 (8560-392-254-01)

Veterans Week (November 5-11, 2007)

    >>Commemorating, Statement by Minister (Thompson), 131

VIA Rail Canada Inc.

    >>Reports tabled and permanently referred to Transport, Infrastructure and Communities Standing Committee
    >>>2006-2007 annual report, with Auditors' Report, 724 (8560-392-128-01)
    >>>2007-2011 amended corporate plan summaries and 2007 operating and capital budgets, 846 (8562-392-803-01)
    >>>2007-2011 corporate plan summaries and 2007 operating and capital budgets, 846 (8562-392-803-02)
    >>See also Access to Information Act;Privacy Act

Victims of crime see Aboriginal women--Victims of violence;Children--Unborn child;Emergency medical services workers;Public transit workers;Trafficking in persons (human trafficking);Weapons--Offence committed with a concealed weapon

Victoria class submarines see Victoria In-Service Support Contract (VISSC)

Victoria constituency see Human Resources and Social Development Canada--Projects

Victoria In-Service Support Contract (VISSC)

    >>Canadian Submarine Management Group bid, r.o. Q-224 (McDonough), 807 (8555-392-224)
    >>Tendering process, r.o. Q-182 (Casey), 570-1 (8555-392-182)

Video lottery terminals and slot machines

    >>Location, limited to casinos, race-courses and betting theatres see Criminal Code (amdt.--lottery schemes)(Bill S-213)

Video recordings see Audio and video recordings

VIN see Vehicle Identification Numbers (VIN)

Violence

    >>Petitions
    >>>(Batters), (392-0437), 514, gr, 705 (8545-392-26-10)
    >>>(Jaffer), (392-0310), 400, gr, 559 (8545-392-56-02)
    >>>(Mills), (392-0175), 264, gr, 347 (8545-392-56-01); (392-0206), 303, gr, 347 (8545-392-56-01); (392-0433), 514, gr, 700 (8545-392-56-03); (392-0525), 639, gr, 710 (8545-392-56-04); (392-0811), 994, gr, 1056 (8545-392-56-05)
    >>>(Silva), (392-0191), 293, gr, 333 (8545-392-32-03)
    >>See also Aboriginal women--Victims of violence;Crime prevention--Social program budget cuts;Domestic violence;Television

Visa bonds

    >>Petitions
    >>>(Malhi), (392-0039), 56, gr, 233 (8545-392-20-2); (392-0114), 167, gr, 233 (8545-392-20-2); (392-0526), 639, gr, 806 (8545-392-20-07)

Visas see Visitor visas

Visitor visas

    >>Applications, statistics, r.o. Q-57 (Malhi), 223-4 (8555-392-57)
    >>Petitions
    >>>(Dewar), (392-0125), 175, gr, 299 (8545-392-42-01)
    >>>(Goldring), (392-0092), 137, gr, 299 (8545-392-42-01)
    >>>(Hanger), (392-0171), 251, gr, 347 (8545-392-42-02)
    >>>(McGuinty), (392-0265), 360, gr, 550 (8545-392-42-3)
    >>>(McTeague), (392-0251), 360, gr, 550 (8545-392-42-3)
    >>>(Paquette), (392-0169), 251, gr, 347 (8545-392-42-02)
    >>>(Poilievre), (392-0133), 187, gr, 299 (8545-392-42-01); (392-0303), 400, gr, 550 (8545-392-42-3)
    >>>(Watson), (392-0350), 431, gr, 550 (8545-392-42-3)
    >>>(Wrzesnewskyj), (392-0172), 251, gr, 347 (8545-392-42-02)
    >>See also Visa bonds

VISSC see Victoria In-Service Support Contract (VISSC)

Volunteer emergency workers

    >>Income tax deduction
    >>>Petitions
    >>>>(Simms), (392-0619), 746, gr, 978 (8545-392-19-20)
    >>>See also Income Tax Act (amdt.--deduction for volunteer emergency service)(Bill C-219)

Volunteer organizations see Literacy

Volunteer Service Medal see Canadian Volunteer Service Medal

Votable items see Private Members' Business

Voter identification see Elections--Voters

Votes see Divisions, recorded;Elections

Voting records see Chan, Hon. Raymond

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Wage Earner Protection Program Act

    >>Ways and Means No. 1
    >>>Concurrence, M., agreed to, by unanimous consent, 73
    >>>Notice, tabled, 67 (8570-392-01)
    >>>See also Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act, Wage Earner Protection Program Act and chapter 47 of the Statutes of Canada, 2005 (amdt.)(Bill C-12)

Wages and salaries

    >>Corporations, employee or officer remuneration, business expense deduction, limit see Income Tax Act (amdt.--deductibility of remuneration)(Bill C-418)
    >>Hourly rates of pay
    >>>Petitions
    >>>>(Nadeau), (392-0246), 360, gr, 505 (8545-392-6-05)
    >>See also Bankruptcy--Employees;Cabinet Ministers--Ministers without Portfolio;Correctional Investigator of Canada Office--Stewart;Employment insurance--Earnings;Minimum wage;Pay equity;Public Service--Compensation and benefits system

Wapusk National Park of Canada

    >>Reports tabled and permanently referred to Environment and Sustainable Development Standing Committee
    >>>Management Plan, 39 (8560-392-964-01)

War see Conscientious objectors;First Gulf War (1990-1991);Iraq war;World War II

War crimes see Khadr, Omar

War memorials and cenotaphs see Cenotaph/Monument Restoration Program

Water

    >>Bulk water exports, interbasin transfers
    >>>Ban see Canada Water Preservation Act (Bill C-535)
    >>>Policy/negotiations, r.o. Q-9 (Bell, C.), 335 (8555-392-9)
    >>See also Arctic waters;Blue-green algae;Bottled water;Drinking water;Great Lakes;Lake Superior;Navigable Waters Protection Act;Oil spills--British Columbia;Point Clark lakeshore;Toxic waste sites;World Oceans Day

Ways and Means (notice of motions), tabled

    >>1.Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act, Wage Earner Protection Program Act and chapter 47 of the Statutes of Canada, 2005
    >>>Concurrence, M., agreed to, by unanimous consent, 73
    >>>Notice, tabled, 67 (8570-392-01)
    >>>See also Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act, Wage Earner Protection Program Act and chapter 47 of the Statutes of Canada, 2005 (amdt.)(Bill C-12)
    >>2.Income Tax Act
    >>>Concurrence, M., agreed to, by unanimous consent, 73-4
    >>>Notice, tabled, 68 (8570-392-02)
    >>>See also Income Tax Amendments Act, 2006 (Bill C-10)
    >>3.Income Tax Act, Excise Tax Act, Excise Act 2001, Air Travellers Security Charge Act relating to Goods and Services Tax (GST) and Harmonized Sales Tax (HST)
    >>>Concurrence, M. (Flaherty), 119, agreed to on recorded division (Division No. 7), 119-21
    >>>Notice, tabled, 113 (8570-392-03)
    >>>See also Budget and Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2007 (Bill C-28)
    >>4.Budget 2007 (March 19, 2007) implementation
    >>>Concurrence, M. (Flaherty), 152, division deferred, 153, agreed to on recorded division (Division No. 9), 154-6
    >>>Notice, tabled, 144 (8570-392-04)
    >>>See also Budget and Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2007 (Bill C-28)
    >>5.Tsawwassen First Nation Final Agreement
    >>>Concurrence, M. (Strahl), 265, agreed to on division, 265
    >>>Notice, tabled, 255 (8570-392-05)
    >>>See also Tsawwassen First Nation Final Agreement Act (Bill C-34)
    >>6.Budget 2008 (February 26, 2008), approval, M. (Flaherty), 473, 477-8, 485-7, 495, 506, agreed to on recorded division (Division No. 47), 507-8
    >>>Amdt. (McCallum), 477, negatived on recorded division (Division No. 44), 498-9
    >>>>Amdt. to amdt. (Crête), 477-8, negatived on recorded division (Division No. 43), 487-9
    >>>Procedure, "That the debate be now adjourned", M. (McCallum), 473, deemed adopted, 473
    >>7.Income Tax Act, notice, tabled, 473 (8570-392-09)
    >>8.Excise Tax Act, notice, tabled, 473 (8570-392-10)
    >>9.Excise Act, 2001, Excise Act and Customs Tariff, notice, tabled, 473 (8570-392-11)
    >>10.Budget Implementation Act, 2008
    >>>Concurrence, M. (Flaherty), 598, agreed to on recorded division (Division No. 74), 598-9
    >>>Notice, tabled, 560 (8570-392-12)
    >>>See also Budget Implementation Act, 2008 (Bill C-50)
    >>11.Customs Tariff, notice, tabled, 983 (8570-392-13)

Weapons

    >>Offence committed with a concealed weapon, punishment/victims' rights see Criminal Code and Corrections and Conditional Release Act (amdt.--punishment and hearing)(Bill C-393)
    >>See also Cluster munitions;Conductive Energy Weapons (CEW);Depleted uranium (DU) weapons;Lac Saint-Pierre;Nuclear weapons;Tasers

Weapons and materials of mass destruction (WMD) see Global Partnership Program

Westbank First Nation Self-Government

    >>2006 annual report, tabled, 949 (8525-392-25)

Western Arctic constituency

    >>Name, change to Northwest Territories see Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Act (Bill C-573)

Western Economic Diversification Department

    >>Departmental Performance Report
    >>>2006-2007, tabled, 129 (8563-392-90)
    >>Estimates, 2007-2008, Supplementary (A)
    >>>Industry, Science and Technology Standing Committee referral, 83
    >>Estimates, 2007-2008, Supplementary (B)
    >>>Industry, Science and Technology Standing Committee referral, 442
    >>Estimates, 2008-2009, Main
    >>>Industry, Science and Technology Standing Committee referral, 482
    >>See also Access to Information Act;Estimates, 2008-2009, Main--Reports on Plans and Priorities;Privacy Act

Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC)

    >>Canadian Armed Forces, officer training
    >>>Petitions
    >>>>(Silva), (392-0258), 360, gr, 559 (8545-392-69-01)

Westmount--Ville-Marie constituency see House of Commons--Vacancies

WHINSEC see Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC)

Wikanis Mamiwinnik (La Sarre)

    >>Métis community, Indian Act recognition
    >>>Petitions
    >>>>(Lemay), (392-0685), 819, gr, 1046 (8545-392-4-07)

Wild Animal and Plant Protection and Regulation of International and Interprovincial Trade Act

    >>Reports tabled and permanently referred to Environment and Sustainable Development Standing Committee
    >>>2002, 2003 and 2004 annual reports, 157 (8560-392-104-01)

Wildlife see Electricity--Tsawwassen;National Fish and Wildlife Heritage Commission;National parks--British Columbia;Oil spills--British Columbia;Roberts Bank Port--Farmland/wildlife habitat;Seal hunt;Species at risk;Survey on the Importance of Nature to Canadians

Wildlife habitat

    >>Oil and gas development rights
    >>>Petitions
    >>>>(Cannan), (392-0862), 1026
    >>See also Fisheries Act (fish habitat protection and pollution prevention administration and enforcement provisions);Roberts Bank Port--Farmland/wildlife habitat

Willowdale constituency see Elections--Certificates of election;House of Commons--Vacancies

Wind energy see Electricity

Windsor Port Authority see Access to Information Act;Privacy Act

Winnipeg, MB see The Forks National Historic Site of Canada

WIPO see World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

Wireless phones see Cellular telephones

Withholding taxes see Aircraft--And air navigation equipment;Interest rates--Cross-border interest payments

Witness Protection Program

    >>Reports tabled and permanently referred to Public Safety and National Security Standing Committee
    >>>2006-2007 annual report, 1023 (8560-392-7-01)
    >>>2007-2008 annual report, 1040 (8560-392-7-02)
    >>See also Public Safety and National Security Standing Committee--Reports, Second

Witnesses (justice system)

    >>See also Impaired driving--Alcohol

WMD see Weapons and materials of mass destruction (WMD)

Wolverton Rail Yard see Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd.

Women

    >>Court Challenges Program, importance see Status of Women Standing Committee--Reports, Second
    >>Economic security
    >>>Strategy, developing, M. on supply (Minna), 130, division deferred, 131, agreed to, by unanimous consent, 144
    >>>See also Status of Women Standing Committee--Reports from 1st Session, Twenty-first
    >>See also Aboriginal women;Comfort women;Indian bands/reserves--Family homes;Kambaksh, Sayed Pervez;Olympics and Paralympics, 2010 Winter Games (Vancouver)--Trafficking--Women's ski jumping;Pay equity;Pregnancy;Prostitution;Social programs--Vulnerable Canadians;Status of Women Canada;Strippers

Women and the Court Challenges Program see Status of Women Standing Committee--Reports, Second

Women's rights

    >>Petitions
    >>>(Cotler), (392-0629), 758, gr, 992 (8545-392-5-12)
    >>See also Kambaksh, Sayed Pervez

Work permits see Strippers

Workers see Air Canada;Elections;Emergency medical services workers;Health care workers;Immigrants--Undocumented workers;Occupational health and safety;Psychological harassment;Public transit workers;Replacement workers;Strippers;Temporary Foreign Worker Program;Temporary personnel services;Training programs;Volunteer emergency workers

Working Income Tax Benefit

    >>Ways and Means No. 4
    >>>Concurrence, M. (Flaherty), 152, division deferred, 153, agreed to on recorded division (Division No. 9), 154-6
    >>>Notice, tabled, 144 (8570-392-04)
    >>>See also Budget and Economic Statement Implementation Act, 2007 (Bill C-28)

Workplace Psychological Harassment Prevention Act (Bill C-487)--Masse

Workplace skills

    >>Government funding, r.o. Q-17 (Savoie), 243-4 (8555-392-17)

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) see Copyright--Internet

World Oceans Day

    >>June 8th, establishing, resolution, M., agreed to, by unanimous consent, 848

World Police and Firefighters Games, British Columbia, 2009

    >>Petitions
    >>>(Julian), (392-0270), 366, gr, 617 (8545-392-70-01)
    >>>(Priddy), (392-0848), 1022

World Trade Center see 9/11 Commission Report

World Trade Center Families for Proper Burial

    >>Petitions
    >>>(Davidson), (392-0178), 278, gr, 333 (8545-392-66-01)

World War II see Comfort women;Holocaust Monument

WTC Families for Proper Burial see World Trade Center Families for Proper Burial

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Yonge Street subway

    >>Petitions
    >>>(Kadis), (392-0255), 360, gr, 511 (8545-392-11-03)

York Factory National Historic Site of Canada

    >>Reports tabled and permanently referred to Environment and Sustainable Development Standing Committee
    >>>Management Plan, 38 (8560-392-952-01)

Young offenders

    >>Petitions
    >>>(Komarnicki), (392-0110), 160, gr, 346 (8545-392-47-01)
    >>>(Skelton), (392-0439), 546, gr, 672 (8545-392-68-02)
    >>Sentences
    >>>Adult sentence see Criminal Code (amdt.--criminal procedure, language of the accused, sentencing and other amendments)(Bill C-13)
    >>>Deterrence and denunciation objectives/pre-trial detention see Youth Criminal Justice Act (amdt.)(Bill C-25)
    >>>Petitions
    >>>>(Benoit), (392-0360), 431, gr, 483 (8545-392-55-02)
    >>Substance abuse, addiction specialist referral see Youth Criminal Justice Act (amdt.--treatment for substance abuse)(Bill C-423)

Youth

    >>Petitions
    >>>(Paquette), (392-0435), 514, gr, 721 (8545-392-82-01)
    >>See also Canada Summer Jobs

Youth Criminal Justice Act

    >>Public protection goal, measures re detention, obligations and non-residential program time limits see Youth Criminal Justice Act (amdt.--protection of the public)(Bill C-525)

Youth Criminal Justice Act (amdt.)(Bill C-25)--Minister of Justice (Nicholson)

    >>1st r, 174
    >>2nd r, 189, 203, 212, 375, 378, 385, agreed to on recorded division (Division No. 35), 387-9
    >>>Procedure, "That this question be now put", M. (Casson), 204, division deferred, 378, agreed to on recorded division (Division No. 34), 386-7
    >>Justice and Human Rights Standing Committee
    >>>Referral, 389

Youth Criminal Justice Act (amdt.--protection of the public)(Bill C-525)--Regan

Youth Criminal Justice Act (amdt.--treatment for substance abuse)(Bill C-423)--Lake

    >>2nd r, after reinstatement under S.O. 86.1, 156, dropped to bottom of Order of Precedence list under S.O. 93, 156, agreed to, 281
    >>Justice and Human Rights Standing Committee
    >>>Referral, 281, 834
    >>Report stage, as deemed reported without amdt. under S.O. 97.1(1), 834
    >>>Concurrence, M. (Lake), 834, agreed to, 834
    >>3rd r, 834
    >>>Amdt. (Hinton), 834, agreed to, 834

Yukon Surface Rights Board see Access to Information Act;Privacy Act

Yukon Territory see Farm Income Protection Act

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Zhao, Wei Amanda

    >>Murder, Ang Li, suspected killer, return to Canada from China
    >>>Petitions
    >>>>(Davies), (392-0132), 178, gr, 346 (8545-392-12-03)
    >>>>(Siksay), (392-0129), 178, gr, 346 (8545-392-12-03)

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