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43rd PARLIAMENT, 2nd SESSION

Journals No. 83 Monday, April 19, 2021 11:00 a.m.

Prayer

Private Members' Business

At 11:00 a.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 Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities of Bill C-265, An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (illness, injury or quarantine).

Mrs. DeBellefeuille (Salaberry—Suroît), seconded by Ms. Chabot (Thérèse-De Blainville), moved, — That the bill 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.

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 House resumed consideration of the motion of Mr. Bains (Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry), seconded by Ms. Bibeau (Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food), — That Bill C-11, An Act to enact the Consumer Privacy Protection Act and the Personal Information and Data Protection Tribunal Act and to make consequential and related amendments to other Acts, be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics.

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

Government Orders

Pursuant to order made Monday, January 25, 2021, the House proceeded to the taking of the deferred recorded division on the motion of Mr. Lametti (Minister of Justice), seconded by Ms. Bibeau (Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food), — That Bill C-15, An Act respecting the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs.
The question was put on the motion and it was agreed to on the following division:
(Division No. 93 -- Vote n^o 93)
YEAS: 214, NAYS: 115
YEAS -- POUR Alghabra Amos Anand Anandasangaree Angus Arseneault Arya Ashton Atwin Bachrach Badawey Bagnell Bains Baker Barsalou-Duval Battiste Beaulieu Beech Bendayan Bennett Bergeron Bérubé Bessette Bibeau Bittle Blaikie Blair Blanchet Blanchette-Joncas Blaney (North Island—Powell River) Blois Boudrias Boulerice Bratina Brière Brunelle-Duceppe Cannings Carr Casey Chabot Chagger Champagne Champoux Charbonneau Chen Collins Cormier Dabrusin Damoff Davies DeBellefeuille Desbiens Desilets Dhaliwal Dhillon Dong Drouin Dubourg Duclos Duguid Duncan (Etobicoke North) Duvall Dzerowicz Easter Ehsassi El-Khoury Ellis Erskine-Smith Fergus Fillmore Finnigan Fisher Fonseca Fortier Fortin Fragiskatos Fraser Fry Garneau Garrison Gaudreau Gazan Gerretsen Gill Gould Green Guilbeault Hajdu Hardie Harris Holland Housefather Hughes Hussen Hutchings Iacono Ien Jaczek Johns Joly Jones Jordan Jowhari Julian Kelloway Khalid Khera Koutrakis Kusmierczyk Kwan Lalonde Lambropoulos Lametti Lamoureux Larouche Lattanzio Lauzon LeBlanc Lebouthillier Lefebvre Lemire Lightbound Long Longfield Louis (Kitchener—Conestoga) MacAulay (Cardigan) MacGregor MacKinnon (Gatineau) Maloney Manly Marcil Martinez Ferrada Masse Mathyssen May (Cambridge) May (Saanich—Gulf Islands) McCrimmon McDonald McGuinty McKay McKenna McKinnon (Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam) McLeod (Northwest Territories) McPherson Mendès Mendicino Michaud Miller Monsef Morrissey Murray Ng Normandin O'Connell Oliphant O'Regan Pauzé Perron Petitpas Taylor Plamondon Powlowski Qaqqaq Qualtrough Ratansi Regan Robillard Rodriguez Rogers Romanado Sahota (Brampton North) Saini Sajjan Saks Samson Sangha Sarai Savard-Tremblay Scarpaleggia Schiefke Schulte Serré Sgro Shanahan Sheehan Sidhu (Brampton East) Sidhu (Brampton South) Simard Simms Singh Sorbara Spengemann Ste-Marie Tabbara Tassi Thériault Therrien Trudeau Trudel Turnbull Van Bynen van Koeverden Vandal Vandenbeld Vaughan Vignola Virani Weiler Wilkinson Wilson-Raybould Yip Young Zahid Zann Zuberi Total: -- 214
NAYS -- CONTRE Aboultaif Aitchison Albas Alleslev Allison Arnold Baldinelli Barlow Barrett Benzen Bergen Bezan Blaney (Bellechasse—Les Etchemins—Lévis) Block Bragdon Brassard Calkins Carrie Chiu Chong Cooper Cumming Dalton Dancho Davidson Deltell d'Entremont Diotte Dowdall Dreeshen Duncan (Stormont—Dundas—South Glengarry) Epp Falk (Battlefords—Lloydminster) Falk (Provencher) Finley (Haldimand—Norfolk) Gallant Généreux Genuis Gladu Godin Gourde Gray Hallan Harder Hoback Jansen Jeneroux Kent Kitchen Kmiec Kram Kurek Kusie Lake Lawrence Lehoux Lewis (Essex) Liepert Lloyd Lobb Lukiwski MacKenzie Maguire Martel Mazier McCauley (Edmonton West) McColeman McLean McLeod (Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo) Melillo Moore Morantz Morrison Motz Nater O'Toole Patzer Paul-Hus Poilievre Rayes Redekopp Reid Rempel Garner Richards Rood Ruff Sahota (Calgary Skyview) Saroya Scheer Schmale Seeback Shields Shin Shipley Sloan Soroka Stanton Steinley Stubbs Sweet Tochor Uppal Van Popta Vecchio Vidal Viersen Vis Wagantall Warkentin Waugh Webber Williamson Wong Yurdiga Zimmer Total: -- 115
PAIRED -- PAIRÉS Nil--Aucun
Accordingly, Bill C-15, An Act respecting the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, was read the second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs.

Daily Routine Of Business

Presenting Reports from Committees

Ms. Sahota (Brampton North), from the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs, presented the 15th report of the committee, which was as follows:

The committee recommends, pursuant to Standing Orders 104 and 114, the following changes to the lists of members of the following standing committees:

Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration


Peter Schiefke for Soraya Martinez Ferrada Maninder Sidhu for Marc Serré

Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development


Chris Bittle for Peter Schiefke

Standing Committee on Health


Jennifer O'Connell for Darren Fisher

Standing Committee on Natural Resources


Marc Serré for Maninder Sidhu

Standing Committee on Official Languages


Paul Lefebvre for Terry Duguid

Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security


Darren Fisher for Angelo Iacono

Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities


Angelo Iacono for Maninder Sidhu Soraya Martinez Ferrada for Chris Bittle

The committee further recommends, pursuant to Standing Orders 104 and 114, that the names of the following members be added to the lists of associate members of the following standing committees:

Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development


Maninder Sidhu

Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology


Terry Beech Darren Fisher Marie-France Lalonde

Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs


Greg Fergus

A copy of the relevant Minutes of Proceedings (Meeting No. 1) is tabled.

Introduction of Private Members' Bills

Pursuant to Standing Orders 68(2) and 69(1), on motion of Mr. Lefebvre (Sudbury), seconded by Mr. Serré (Nickel Belt), Bill C-288, An Act to amend the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act, was introduced, read the first time, ordered to be printed and ordered for a second reading at the next sitting of the House.

Motions

By unanimous consent, it was resolved, — That the 15th report of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs, presented earlier today, be concurred in.

Mr. Poilievre (Carleton), seconded by Mr. Seeback (Dufferin—Caledon), moved, — That the first report of the Standing Committee on Finance, presented on Tuesday, February 16, 2021, be concurred in. (Concurrence in Committee Reports No. 4)

Debate arose thereon.

Government Orders

At 4:05 p.m., pursuant to Standing Order 83(2), the House proceeded to the consideration of ways and means motion No. 2 for the budget presentation.

Ms. Freeland (Minister of Finance), seconded by Mrs. Fortier (Minister of Middle Class Prosperity and Associate Minister of Finance), moved, — That this House approve in general the budgetary policy of the government. (Ways and Means No. 2)

Debate arose thereon.

Ms. Freeland (Minister of Finance) laid upon the table, —

(1) “Budget 2021” — Sessional Paper No. 8570-432-2.

(2) Notice of a ways and means motion to amend the Income Tax Act and other related legislation. — Sessional Paper No. 8570-432-3.

(3) Notice of a ways and means motion to amend the Excise Tax Act. — Sessional Paper No. 8570-432-4.

(4) Notice of a ways and means motion to amend the Excise Act, 2001 and other legislation. — Sessional Paper No. 8570-432-5.

(5) Notice of a ways and means motion to introduce an Act to implement a Tax on Select Luxury Goods. — Sessional Paper No. 8570-432-6.

(6) Notice of a ways and means motion to introduce an Act to implement a Digital Services Tax. — Sessional Paper No. 8570-432-7.

(7) Notice of a ways and means motion to introduce an Act to implement a Tax on Unproductive Use of Canadian Housing by Foreign Non-resident Owners. — Sessional Paper No. 8570-432-8.

Pursuant to Standing Order 83(2), at the request of Ms. Freeland (Minister of Finance), an order of the day was designated for the consideration of each ways and means motion, notice of which was laid upon the table earlier today.

The House resumed consideration of the motion of Ms. Freeland (Minister of Finance), seconded by Mrs. Fortier (Minister of Middle Class Prosperity and Associate Minister of Finance). (Ways and Means No. 2)

The debate continued.

Mr. Fast (Abbotsford), seconded by Mr. Dalton (Pitt Meadows—Maple Ridge), moved, — That the debate be now adjourned.

Pursuant to Standing Order 83(2), the motion was deemed adopted.

Adjournment

At 4:58 p.m., pursuant to Standing Order 83(2), the Speaker adjourned the House until tomorrow at 10:00 a.m., pursuant to Standing Order 24(1).