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42nd PARLIAMENT, 1st SESSION

Journals No. 395 Monday, April 1, 2019 11:00 a.m.

Prayer

Tabling of Documents

laid upon the Table, — Revised supplementary tables in Annex 2 of Budget 2019. — Sessional Paper No. 8570-421-27-01.

Private Members' Business

At 11:04 a.m., pursuant to Standing Order 30(7), the House proceeded to the consideration of Private Members' Business.

The House resumed consideration of the motion of Mr. Marcil (Mirabel), seconded by Mr. Beaulieu (La Pointe-de-l'Île), — That Bill C-420, An Act to amend the Canada Labour Code, the Official Languages Act and the Canada Business Corporations Act, be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities.

The debate continued.

The question was put on the motion and, pursuant to Standing Order 93(1), the recorded division was deferred until Wednesday, April 3, 2019, immediately before the time provided for Private Members' Business.

Interruption

At 11:52 a.m., the sitting was suspended.

At 12:00 p.m., the sitting resumed.

Ways and means

The House resumed the adjourned debate on the motion of Mr. Morneau (Minister of Finance), seconded by Ms. Murray (President of the Treasury Board), — That the House approve in general the budgetary policy of the government. (Ways and Means No. 27)

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.

Daily Routine Of Business

Tabling of Documents

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 responses, pursuant to Standing Order 36(8), to the following petitions:

— No. 421-03207 concerning the elderly. — Sessional Paper No. 8545-421-81-12;

— No. 421-03214 concerning marine transportation. — Sessional Paper No. 8545-421-92-22;

— Nos. 421-03217, 421-03222, 421-03242, 421-03243, 421-03244, 421-03245, 421-03246, 421-03247 and 421-03248 concerning organ transplants. — Sessional Paper No. 8545-421-138-21;

— No. 421-03228 concerning rail transportation. — Sessional Paper No. 8545-421-10-27;

— Nos. 421-03234 and 421-03235 concerning the use of animals in research. — Sessional Paper No. 8545-421-42-11.

laid upon the Table, — Report on sponsored travel by Members of the House of Commons for the year 2018, pursuant to section 15(3) of the Conflict of Interest Code for Members of the House of Commons (including a supplement reflecting changes to the List of Sponsored Travel for 2017). — Sessional Paper No. 8527-421-51.

Pursuant to Standing Order 34(1), presented the report of the parliamentary delegation that travelled to Lebanon and Jordan, from October 8 to 11, 2018. — Sessional Paper No. 8565-421-75-06.

Pursuant to Standing Order 34(1), presented the report of the parliamentary delegation that travelled to the Republic of Croatia and the Czech Republic, from January 12 to 19, 2019. — Sessional Paper No. 8565-421-75-07.

laid upon the Table, — Report of the Chief Electoral Officer of Canada on the 2018 By-elections, pursuant to the Canada Elections Act, S.C. 2000, c. 9, s. 536. — Sessional Paper No. 8560-421-4-05. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs)

Presenting Reports from Interparliamentary Delegations

Pursuant to Standing Order 34(1), presented the report of the Canadian delegation of the Canada-France Interparliamentary Association concerning its participation at the Visit to Paris of the Executive Committee, held in Paris and Lille, France, from October 22 to 25, 2018. — Sessional Paper No. 8565-421-55-06.

Presenting Reports from Committees

Ms. Dabrusin (Toronto—Danforth), from the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage, presented the 18th Report of the Committee (Bill C-91, An Act respecting Indigenous languages, with amendments). — Sessional Paper No. 8510-421-538.

A copy of the relevant Minutes of Proceedings (Meetings Nos. 142 to 149) was tabled.

Motions

Ms. Dabrusin (Toronto—Danforth), seconded by Mr. Fraser (Central Nova), moved, — That the House do now proceed to the Orders of the Day.

The question was put on the motion and it was agreed to on the following division:
(Division No. 1276 -- Vote n^o 1276)
YEAS: 157, NAYS: 108
YEAS -- POUR Aldag Alghabra Amos Anandasangaree Arseneault Arya Ayoub Badawey Bagnell Bains Baylis Beech Bendayan Bennett Bibeau Bittle Blair Boissonnault Bratina Breton Caesar-Chavannes Carr Casey (Charlottetown) Chagger Chen Cormier Cuzner Dabrusin Damoff DeCourcey Dhaliwal Dhillon Drouin Dubourg Duclos Duguid Duncan (Etobicoke North) Dzerowicz Easter Ehsassi El-Khoury Ellis Erskine-Smith Eyking Fergus Finnigan Fisher Fortier Fragiskatos Fraser (Central Nova) Freeland Fuhr Garneau Gerretsen Goldsmith-Jones Goodale Gould Graham Hajdu Hardie Harvey Hébert Hehr Hogg Holland Housefather Hussen Hutchings Iacono Joly Jones Jordan Jowhari Kang Khalid Khera Lambropoulos Lametti Lamoureux Lapointe Lauzon (Argenteuil—La Petite-Nation) Lebouthillier Lefebvre Levitt Lightbound Lockhart Long Longfield Ludwig MacKinnon (Gatineau) Massé (Avignon—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia) May (Cambridge) McCrimmon McDonald McGuinty McKay McKinnon (Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam) McLeod (Northwest Territories) Mendès Mendicino Mihychuk Miller (Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Soeurs) Morrissey Murray Nassif Nault Ng O'Connell Oliphant Oliver Paradis Peschisolido Peterson Petitpas Taylor Picard Poissant Qualtrough Ratansi Rioux Robillard Rogers Romanado Rota Rudd Ruimy Sahota Saini Sajjan Samson Sangha Sarai Scarpaleggia Schiefke Schulte Serré Sgro Shanahan Sheehan Sidhu (Mission—Matsqui—Fraser Canyon) Sikand Simms Sohi Sorbara Spengemann Tabbara Tan Tassi Trudeau Vandal Vandenbeld Vaughan Virani Wilkinson Wilson-Raybould Yip Young Zahid Total: -- 157
NAYS -- CONTRE Aboultaif Albrecht Alleslev Allison Angus Arnold Barlow Barrett Barsalou-Duval Beaulieu Benson Benzen Bergen Berthold Bezan Blaikie Boucher Boudrias Brassard Brosseau Calkins Cannings Carrie Chong Choquette Clarke Clement Cooper Cullen Davidson Deltell Diotte Doherty Dreeshen Dubé Duncan (Edmonton Strathcona) Dusseault Falk (Battlefords—Lloydminster) Falk (Provencher) Fast Finley Fortin Gallant Garrison Généreux Genuis Godin Gourde Hardcastle Harder Hughes Jeneroux Johns Jolibois Kelly Kent Kitchen Kmiec Kusie Laverdière Leitch Liepert Lloyd Lobb Lukiwski MacGregor MacKenzie Maguire Martel Masse (Windsor West) McCauley (Edmonton West) McColeman McLeod (Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo) Miller (Bruce—Grey—Owen Sound) Motz Nantel Nater Nicholson O'Toole Paul-Hus Pauzé Plamondon Poilievre Quach Rankin Rayes Reid Richards Sansoucy Saroya Schmale Shields Sopuck Stanton Stetski Strahl Stubbs Sweet Thériault Tilson Trost Van Kesteren Viersen Wagantall Warkentin Waugh Wong Yurdiga Total: -- 108
PAIRED -- PAIRÉS LeBlanc Moore Total: -- 2

Tabling of Documents

Pursuant to Standing Order 32(2), laid upon the Table, — Answer to question Q-2223 on the Order Paper. — Sessional Paper No. 8530-421-297.

Pursuant to Standing Order 32(2), laid upon the Table, — Answer to question Q-2224 on the Order Paper. — Sessional Paper No. 8530-421-298.

Pursuant to Standing Order 32(2), laid upon the Table, — Answer to question Q-2225 on the Order Paper. — Sessional Paper No. 8530-421-299.

Pursuant to Standing Order 32(2), laid upon the Table, — Answer to question Q-2226 on the Order Paper. — Sessional Paper No. 8530-421-300.

Pursuant to Standing Order 32(2), laid upon the Table, — Answer to question Q-2227 on the Order Paper. — Sessional Paper No. 8530-421-301.

Pursuant to Standing Order 32(2), laid upon the Table, — Answer to question Q-2228 on the Order Paper. — Sessional Paper No. 8530-421-302.

Pursuant to Standing Order 32(2), laid upon the Table, — Answer to question Q-2229 on the Order Paper. — Sessional Paper No. 8530-421-303.

Pursuant to Standing Order 32(2), laid upon the Table, — Answer to question Q-2230 on the Order Paper. — Sessional Paper No. 8530-421-304.

Pursuant to Standing Order 32(2), laid upon the Table, — Answer to question Q-2231 on the Order Paper. — Sessional Paper No. 8530-421-305.

Pursuant to Standing Order 32(2), laid upon the Table, — Answer to question Q-2232 on the Order Paper. — Sessional Paper No. 8530-421-306.

Pursuant to Standing Order 32(2), laid upon the Table, — Answer to question Q-2233 on the Order Paper. — Sessional Paper No. 8530-421-307.

Pursuant to Standing Order 32(2), laid upon the Table, — Answer to question Q-2234 on the Order Paper. — Sessional Paper No. 8530-421-308.

Pursuant to Standing Order 32(2), laid upon the Table, — Answer to question Q-2235 on the Order Paper. — Sessional Paper No. 8530-421-309.

Pursuant to Standing Order 32(2), laid upon the Table, — Answer to question Q-2236 on the Order Paper. — Sessional Paper No. 8530-421-310.

Pursuant to Standing Order 32(2), laid upon the Table, — Answer to question Q-2237 on the Order Paper. — Sessional Paper No. 8530-421-311.

Pursuant to Standing Order 32(2), laid upon the Table, — Answer to question Q-2238 on the Order Paper. — Sessional Paper No. 8530-421-312.

Pursuant to Standing Order 32(2), laid upon the Table, — Answer to question Q-2239 on the Order Paper. — Sessional Paper No. 8530-421-313.

Pursuant to Standing Order 32(2), laid upon the Table, — Answer to question Q-2240 on the Order Paper. — Sessional Paper No. 8530-421-314.

Pursuant to Standing Order 32(2), laid upon the Table, — Answer to question Q-2241 on the Order Paper. — Sessional Paper No. 8530-421-315.

Ways and means

The House resumed consideration of the motion of Mr. Morneau (Minister of Finance), seconded by Ms. Murray (President of the Treasury Board). (Ways and Means No. 27)

The debate continued.

Private Members' Business

At 6:30 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 Fisheries and Oceans of Bill S-238, An Act to amend the Fisheries Act and the Wild Animal and Plant Protection and Regulation of International and Interprovincial Trade Act (importation and exportation of shark fins).

Mr. Donnelly (Port Moody—Coquitlam), seconded by Mr. Erskine-Smith (Beaches—East York), moved, — That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans.

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), papers deposited with the Clerk of the House were laid upon the Table as follows:

— by — Report of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal for the year 2018, pursuant to the Canadian Human Rights Act, R.S., 1985, c. H-6, sbs. 61(4). — Sessional Paper No. 8560-421-661-04. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights)

— by — Copies of the Regulations Amending the Special Economic Measures (Russia) Regulations (P.C. 2019-177) and of the Regulations Amending the Special Economic Measures (Ukraine) Regulations (P.C. 2019-178), pursuant to the Special Economic Measures Act, S.C. 1992, c. 17, sbs. 7(1). — Sessional Paper No. 8560-421-495-08. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development)

— by — Service Fees Report of Global Affairs Canada from 2017 to 2018, pursuant to the Service Fees Act, S.C. 2017, c. 20, sbs. 20. — Sessional Paper No. 8560-421-1215-01. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development)

— by — Response of the government, pursuant to Standing Order 109, to the 54th Report of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts, "Report 5, Socio-economic Gaps on First Nations Reserves—Indigenous Services Canada, of the 2018 Spring Reports of the Auditor General of Canada" (Sessional Paper No. 8510-421-483), presented to the House on Tuesday, November 27, 2018. — Sessional Paper No. 8512-421-483.

— by — Service Fees Report of Shared Services Canada from 2017 to 2018, pursuant to the Service Fees Act, S.C. 2017, c. 20, sbs. 20. — Sessional Paper No. 8560-421-1220-01. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates)

— by — Service Fees Report of Public Services and Procurement Canada from 2017 to 2018, pursuant to the Service Fees Act, S.C. 2017, c. 20, sbs. 20. — Sessional Paper No. 8560-421-1221-01. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates)

— by — Service Fees Report of the Military Grievances External Review Committee from 2017 to 2018, pursuant to the Service Fees Act, S.C. 2017, c. 20, sbs. 20. — Sessional Paper No. 8560-421-1216-01. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on National Defence)

— by — Service Fees Report of the Department of National Defence from 2017 to 2018, pursuant to the Service Fees Act, S.C. 2017, c. 20, sbs. 20. — Sessional Paper No. 8560-421-1217-01. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on National Defence)

— by — Service Fees Report of the Military Police Complaints Commission of Canada from 2017 to 2018, pursuant to the Service Fees Act, S.C. 2017, c. 20, sbs. 20. — Sessional Paper No. 8560-421-1218-01. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on National Defence)

— by — Service Fees Report of the Communications Security Establishment from 2017 to 2018, pursuant to the Service Fees Act, S.C. 2017, c. 20, sbs. 20. — Sessional Paper No. 8560-421-1219-01. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on National Defence)

Adjournment Proceedings

At 7:30 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 8:00 p.m., the Speaker adjourned the House until tomorrow at 10:00 a.m., pursuant to Standing Order 24(1).