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Rail system

    >>Passenger service
    >>>Toronto-Quebec City, high speed train service P-25 (Bailey), called and transferred to Notices of Motions (Papers), 930
    >>>See also Transport Standing Committee--Reports, Fourth
    >>Rail line abandonment, dismantlement moratorium see Canada Transportation Act (amdt.--discontinued railway lines)(Bill C-430)
    >>Safety see Railway Safety Act (amdt.)(Bill C-58)

Railway Safety Act (amdt.)(Bill C-58)--Minister of Transport (Collenette)

    >>1st r, 1242
    >>2nd r, 1281-2, agreed to, 1282
    >>Transport Standing Committee
    >>>Referral, 1282
    >>>Report, with amdts., 1358 (8510-361-118)
    >>Report stage, 1399
    >>>Concurrence, M. (Collenette), agreed to on recorded division (Division No. 307), 1420-1
    >>>Motion No. 1 (Clause 19), (Dumas), 1399, division deferred, 1399, negatived on recorded division (Division No. 306), 1418-20
    >>3rd r, 1446, agreed to, 1446, passed
    >>Senate passage, without amdt., 1637
    >>Royal Assent, (Chap. 9, S.C. 1999), 1683

Railways

    >>Petitions
    >>>(Dubé), (361-0311), 384, gr, 419 (8545-361-29); (361-0323), 393, gr, 424 (8545-361-29A); (361-0359 to 361-0364), 420, gr, 621 (8545-361-29C)
    >>>(Guimond), (361-0317), 393, gr, 424 (8545-361-29A)
    >>>(MacKay), (361-0349), 416, gr, 565 (8545-361-29B)
    >>>(Morrison), (361-0775), 703, gr, 928 (8545-361-29D); (361-1002), 909, gr, 1043 (8545-361-29F)
    >>>(Stewart, J.), (361-1294), 1028, gr, 1051 (8545-361-42K)
    >>>(Turp), (361-0801), 720, gr, 946 (8545-361-29E)

Reading materials

    >>Goods and Services Tax (GST), removal, M-93 (Lill), 286, dropped from the Order Paper, under S.O. 96(1), 286

Real property

    >>Goods and Services Tax (GST)/Harmonized Sales Tax (HST)
    >>>Ways and Means No. 28, tabled, 2054 (8570-361-29), concurrence, M. (Martin, Paul), agreed to on division, 2093
    >>>See also Sales Tax and Excise Tax Amendments Act, 1999 (Bill C-88)

Recall Act (Bill C-371)--White, T.

Recognition and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms Act and Constitution Act, 1867 (amdt.)(Bill C-304)--Breitkreuz, G.

    >>1st r, 393
    >>2nd r, 1117, dropped from the Order Paper, under S.O. 96(1), 1117

Recognition and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms Act and Constitution Act, 1867 (amdt.)(Bill C-452)--Breitkreuz, G.

Recognition of Crimes Against Humanity Act (Bill C-479)--Assadourian

Record of Understanding Between the Governments of Canada and the United States of America Regarding Areas of Agricultural Trade see Agriculture industry--Trade

Recorded divisions see Divisions, recorded

Recycling see Beverage containers; Bottle return depots

Referendum Act (amdt.)(Bill C-250)--Ablonczy

Referendum on the Restoration of the Death Penalty Act (Bill C-277)--Elley

Referendums

    >>Citizen-initiated see Citizen-Initiated Referendum Act (Bill C-229); Referendum Act (amdt.)(Bill C-250)
    >>Petitions
    >>>(Meredith), (361-2463), 1948
    >>See also Abortion; Capital punishment; Medically Unnecessary Abortion Referendum Act (Bill C-515); Provinces--Separation

Reflecting Interdependence: Disability, Parliament, Government and the Community see Human Resources Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities Standing Committee--Reports, Sixth

Reform health freedom amendment Natural health products (herbs, botanicals, vitamins and minerals)

Reform Party see Hepatitis C

Reform's Anti-Profiteering Act (Bill C-442)--Grewal

    >>1st r, 1152
    >>2nd r, 1279, dropped from the Order Paper, under S.O. 96(1), 1279

Reform's Territorial Protection Act (Bill C-271)--Grewal

Refugees

    >>Claims process, backlog, Auditor General Report (1997), Chp. 25 see Public Accounts Standing Committee--Reports, Ninth
    >>See also Extradition--Dual criminality principle

Regional development agencies

    >>Disolving, redirecting funds to tax relief, debt retirement and federal government reduction, M-224 (Schmidt), 760-1, dropped from the Order Paper, under S.O. 96(1), 761
    >>See also Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA); Cape Breton Development Corporation; Federal Office of Regional Development--Quebec; Western Economic Diversification Department

Regional Development Banks

    >>Federal costs and contributions, r.o., Q-154 (Robinson), 1538 (8555-361-154)

Regions

    >>Alienation, "Liberal Alienation Committee", M. on supply (White, T.), 1694-5
    >>>Amdt. (White, R.), 1695-6

Registered Education Savings Plans (RESPs) see Budget Implementation Act 1998 (Bill C-36); Income Tax Amendments Act (Bill C-28); Income Tax Amendments Act, 1998 (Bill C-72)

Registered Retirement Income Funds (RRIF)

    >>Alternative minimum tax see Income Tax Amendments Act, 1998 (Bill C-72)
    >>Foreign content rule see Income Tax Act (amdt.--removal of foreign investment limit for registered retirement savings plans and registered retirement income funds)(Bill C-446)

Registered Retirement Savings Plans (RRSP)

    >>Foreign content rule see Income Tax Act (amdt.--removal of foreign investment limit for registered retirement savings plans and registered retirement income funds)(Bill C-446)
    >>See also Disabled and handicapped persons--Housing

Registrar of Organ Donors see Organ Donation Act (Bill C-511)

Registry of the Federal Court of Canada see instead Federal Court of Canada Registry

Regular Force Death Benefit Account see Canadian Armed Forces--Reports

Regulations (delegated legislation) see Canada Small Business Financing Regulations; Firearms; Food and Drugs Regulations; Goods and Services Tax (GST); Harmonized Sales Tax (HST); Magazines--Advertising; Narcotics Control Regulations; Natural health products (herbs, botanicals, vitamins and minerals); Nuclear technology--Sales; Small business--Financing; Tobacco Regulations; Truck transport

Reid, Hon. John M. see Information Commissioner--Appointment

Religion see Education

Remembrance Day

    >>Petition, (Harvard), (361-2275), 1717, gr, 2054 (8545-361-116)
    >>See also Observance of Two Minutes of Silence on Remembrance Day Act (Bill C-279); Observance of Two Minutes of Silence on Remembrance Day Act (Bill C-279)
    >>See also Veterans--Veterans Week

Renaissance of Passenger Rail in Canada, The see Transport Standing Committee--Reports, Fourth

Report on Plans and Priorities for 1998-1999 of the House of Commons Administration see House of Commons--Administration

Report on Plans and Priorities for 1999-2000 of the House of Commons Administration see House of Commons--Administration

Report on Tied Selling: Section 459.1 of the Bank Act see Finance Standing Committee--Reports, Seventh

"Report to Parliament of Canada's participation during 1996-1997 in the Regional Development Banks" see Banks--Document

Reports on Plans and Priorities see Estimates, 1998-1999, main--Documents; Estimates, 1999-2000, main--Documents

Reproductive technology see Cloning; Genetics

Research and development

    >>Funding see Industry Standing Committee--Reports, Nineteenth
    >>See also Housing; Scientific Research and Experimental Development

Research Funding--Strengthening the Sources of Innovation see Industry Standing Committee--Reports, Nineteenth

Research Plan for Marijuana for Medicinal Purposes: A Status Report see Marijuana--Medical use

Research studies

    >>Costs, contracts, r.o., Q-3 (Venne), 574 (8555-361-3)

Reserve Forces Act (Bill C-232)--Hart

    >>1st r, 80
    >>2nd r, 607, dropped from the Order Paper, under S.O. 96(1), 607

Retirement see Early Retirement Incentive Program (ERI); Registered Retirement Income Funds (RRIF); Registered Retirement Savings Plans (RRSP)

Returned Soldiers' Insurance Act

    >>Reports, tabled and permanently referred to National Defence and Veterans Affairs Standing Committee
    >>>1996-1997 annual report, 254 (8560-361-228)
    >>>1997-1998 statement of operations, 1400 (8560-361-228A)

Returns Ordered

    >>Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA)
    >>>Business expansion, new businesses created, funding, job creation, etc., r.o., Q-151 (Muise), 1437 (8555-361-151)
    >>>Projects, funding, r.o., Q-75 (Wayne), 755 (8555-361-75)
    >>Bovine growth hormone (rBST), licensing, Health Department study, r.o., P-7 (Borotsik), 530 (8550-361-7)
    >>Building restoration, federal government grants or loans, r.o., Q-143 (Forseth), 1667 (8555-361-143)
    >>Business Development Bank of Canada, board of directors/employee salaries, r.o., Q-149 (Jaffer), 1722-3 (8555-361-149)
    >>Canada Economic Development--Quebec region, contributions, 1997-1998 fiscal year, r.o., Q-192 (Jones), 1798 (8555-361-192)
    >>Canada-Nova Scotia Infrastructure Works Program
    >>>Projects, approval, federal contribution, r.o., Q-73 (MacKay), 594-5 (8555-361-73)
    >>>>Revised return, 664 (8555-361-73A)
    >>>Projects, Nova Scotia Regional Municipalities of Cape Breton, assistance, r.o., Q-160 (Dockrill), 1446 (8555-361-160)
    >>Canada Pension Plan (CPP), disability pensions, application and appeal process
    >>>r.o. Q-168 (Dubé, J.), 1797-8 (8555-361-168)
    >>>r.o., Q-212 (Bernier, G.), 2082-3 (8555-361-212)
    >>Canadian International Development Agency, expenses on health care, education, drinking water and sanitary services, r.o., Q-41 (Assad), 544 (8555-361-41)
    >>Cancer, breast cancer/prostate cancer, incidence, federal funding, r.o., Q-126 (Elley), 1153 (8555-361-126)
    >>Cape Breton Development Corporation, board of directors/employee salaries, r.o., Q-149 (Jaffer), 1722-3 (8555-361-149)
    >>Citizenship and Immigration Department, Legislative Review Advisory Group
    >>>Names of those consulted, r.o., Q-71 (Reynolds), 742 (8555-361-71)
    >>>Recommendations, costs, r.o., Q-85 (Reynolds), 1038 (8555-361-85)
    >>Disabled and handicapped persons, Task Force on Disability Report (October 1996), "Equal Citizenship for Canadians with Disabilities - The Will to Act", implementation, r.o., Q-156 (Lill), 1667 (8555-361-156)
    >>Energy, alternative sources, development and promotion, r.o., Q-137 (Chatters), 1589-90 (8555-361-137)
    >>Enterprise Cape Breton Corporation
    >>>Board of directors/employee salaries, r.o., Q-149 (Jaffer), 1722-3 (8555-361-149)
    >>>Projects, funding from 1993-1994 to 1998-1999, r.o., Q-161 (Dockrill), 1446 (8555-361-161)
    >>Environment Department, grants and contributions, distribution, r.o., Q-183 (Casson), 1646 (8555-361-183)
    >>Firearms, global banning, Canadian initiative, government policy, r.o., Q-57 (Breitkreuz, G.), 706-7 (8555-361-57)
    >>Fisheries
    >>>Aboriginal activities, licencing, quotas, waters closed to fishing by Canadians other than designated aboriginal people, r.o., Q-51 (Cummins), 732-3 (8555-361-51)
    >>>Foreign vessels, catch, quotas, r.o., Q-82 (Duncan), 721 (8555-361-82)
    >>Government departments, boards, agencies and commissions, employees, job classification, r.o., Q-11 (White, T.), 218 (8555-361-11)
    >>Government departments, lap top and desk top computers, theft, Public Accounts, Volume II, Part II, allegations, r.o., Q-199 (Williams), 2092 (8555-361-199)
    >>Government grants, Nova Scotia Regional Municipalities of Cape Breton, Town of Port Hawkesbury, counties of Inverness, Richmond and Victoria, r.o., Q-159 (Dockrill), 1922 (8555-361-159)
    >>Greenhouse gas emissions (climate change/global warming), ozone-depleting substances, intelligence and surveillance
    >>>Memorandums of understanding between Environment Department/Customs/RCMP, P-29 (Mayfield), r.o., 1074 (3550-361-29)
    >>>United States Environmental Protection Agency and United States Customs capacity, P-55 (Mayfield), r.o., 1715 (8550-361-55)
    >>Halifax West constituency, government grants, r.o. Q-130 (Earle), 1694 (8555-361-130); r.o., Q-131 (Earle), 1694 (8555-361-131)
    >>Health care, federal-provincial meetings re Health Care Transition Fund, National Blood Agency, National Pharmacare Program, and National Homecare Program, documents pertaining to, P-1 (Thompson, G.), agreed to, r.o., 502 (8550-361-1)
    >>Indian bands/reserves, elections, r.o., Q-124 (Konrad), 1645-6 (8555-361-124); r.o, Q-120 (Scott, M.), 1666 (8555-361-120)
    >>International agreements, political/social/human rights, Canada promoting, r.o., Q-98 (Lowther), 1038 (8555-361-98)
    >>Job creation programs, contributions, 1997-98, fiscal year, r.o., Q-191 (Jones), 1798 (8555-361-191)
    >>LSD, experiments, use of federal inmates, McGill Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law report, r.o., P-56 (Marceau), 1715 (8550-361-56)
    >>Regional Development Banks, federal costs and contributions, r.o., Q-154 (Robinson), 1538 (8555-361-154)
    >>Research studies, contracts, costs, r.o., Q-3 (Venne), 574 (8555-361-3)
    >>Somalia, Canadian Armed Forces peacekeeping operation, Mefloquine, anti-malaria drug, use, side-effects, status, safety study, Health Protection Branch involvement, r.o., Q-91 (Cummins), 1133-5 (8555-361-91)
    >>Sydney Tar Ponds, health effects, clean-up, reports/studies, r.o., Q-142 (Gilmour), 1722 (8555-361-142)

Revenue Canada see instead National Revenue Department (Revenue Canada)

Review of recommendation regarding certain dyed woven fabrics of rayon and polyester see Canadian International Trade Tribunal--Reports

Review of recommendations regarding certain ring-spun yarns see Canadian International Trade Tribunal--Reports

Review of Recommendation regarding woven cut warp pile fabrics see Canadian International Trade Tribunal--Reports

Reynolds, John (Ref.--West Vancouver--Sunshine Coast)

    >>References see Privilege, Parliamentary--Prima facie

Richmond County, N.S. see Government grants--Nova Scotia Regional Municipalities of Cape Breton

Riel, Louis David

    >>Commemoration, designating Louis Riel Day and revoking treason conviction, M-108 (Tremblay, Suzanne), 464, dropped from the Order Paper, under S.O. 96(1), 464
    >>Commemorative day see Louis Riel Act (Bill C-417); Louis Riel Day Act (Bill C-213)
    >>Father of Confederation and Founder of the Province of Manitoba see Louis Riel Act (Bill C-417)
    >>Petitions
    >>>(Coderre), (361-2605), 2091
    >>Treason, reversal of conviction see Louis Riel Act (Bill C-417)
    >>See also Louis Riel Act (Bill C-417); Louis Riel Day Act (Bill C-213)

Rights of Victims of Crime Commissioner

    >>Role, establishing, M-386 (MacKay), 945

Roads, rural see Highways and roads

Robinson, Svend J. (NDP--Burnaby--Douglas)

    >>References see Procedure--Member, Chair naming

Roman Catholic Epicsopal Corporation of Mackenzie

    >>Petition (Redman), presentation, 1430
    >>>Clerk of Petitions, 1st report, 1437
    >>>Examiner of Petitions, 1st report, 1437

Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of Mackenzie (amdt.)(Bill S-20)

    >>Received from Senate, 1433
    >>1st r, 1433
    >>2nd r, 1636
    >>Committee of the Whole
    >>>Referral, 1636
    >>>Report, without amdt., 1636
    >>Report stage, concurrence, M. (Redman), 1636
    >>3rd r, 1637, passed
    >>Royal Assent, 1683

Roosevelt Campobello International Park Commission

    >>Reports, tabled and permanently referred to Foreign Affairs Standing Committee
    >>>1996 annual report, 15 (8560-361-229)
    >>>1997 annual report, 1153 (8560-361-229A)

Rosenberg case see Same sex couples--Legislation

Rouyn-Noranda, Que. see Royal Canadian Mounted Police--Detachment building

Royal Assent

Royal Canadian Mint

    >>Winnipeg, Man., coin plating facility, constructing, request for documents, P-16 (Epp), 1115, agreed to on division, 1115
    >>Reports, tabled and permanently referred to Natural Resources and Government Operations Standing Committee
    >>>1997 annual report with Auditor General's report, 673 (8560-361-176)
    >>>1998 annual report with Auditor General's report, 1710 (8560-361-176A)
    >>>1998-2002 corporate plan summaries and 1998 capital budget, 418 (8562-361-810)
    >>>1999-2003 corporate plan summaries and 1999 capital budget, 1559-60 (8562-361-810A)
    >>See also Access to Information Act; Alternative Fuels Act; Currency--Coins; Privacy Act

Royal Canadian Mint Act and Currency Act (amdt.)(Bill C-41)--Minister of Public Works and Government Services (Gagliano)

    >>1st r, 754
    >>2nd r, 1179, 1181, division deferred, 1181, agreed to on recorded division (Division No. 252), 1196-8
    >>Natural Resources and Government Operations Standing Committee
    >>>Referral, 1198
    >>>Report, with amdt., 1312
    >>Report stage, 1330
    >>>Concurrence, M. (Gagliano), agreed to, 1330
    >>3rd r, 1330, division deferred, 1330, agreed to on recorded division (Division No. 297), 1355, passed
    >>Senate passage, without amdt., 1555
    >>Royal Assent, (Chap. 4, S.C. 1999), 1597

Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)

    >>Departmental Performance Report
    >>>1996-1997, tabled, 201 (8563-361-67)
    >>>1997-1998, tabled, 1211 (8563-361-148)
    >>Detachment building, Rouyn-Noranda, Que., construction costs, r.o., 837 (8555-361-68)
    >>Estimates, 1997-1998, main
    >>>Tabled, 65 (8520-361-69)
    >>Estimates, 1998-1999, main
    >>>Tabled, 620 (8520-361-150)
    >>>Vote 35 (Operating expenditures) see Estimates, 1998-1999, main--Solicitor General
    >>Estimates, 1999-2000, main
    >>>Tabled, 1673 (8520-361-239)
    >>Letter to Commissioner from Minister of Human Resources Development, document tabled, 70 (8530-361-1)
    >>Peacekeepers, pensions see Royal Canadian Mounted Police Superannuation Act (amdt.)(Bill C-12)
    >>Pensions see Budget Implementation Act 1999 (Bill C-71); Public Sector Pension Investment Board Act (Bill C-78); Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)--Peacekeepers
    >>Petitions
    >>>(St-Jacques), (361-2477), 1969
    >>Reports, tabled and permanently referred to Finance Standing Committee
    >>>1995-1996, Actuarial Report on the Pension Plan report, 600 (8560-361-580)
    >>Reports, tabled and permanently referred to Justice and Human Rights Standing Committee
    >>>Policing services, agreements of contract, 179 (8560-361-475); 179 (8560-361-475A); 179 (8560-361-475B); 179 (8560-361-475C); 179 (8560-361-475D); 179 (8560-361-475E); 179-80 (8560-361-475F); 180 (8560-361-475G); 180 (8560-361-475H); 514 (8560-361-475I); 951 (8560-361-475J); 951 (8560-361-475K); 951 (8560-361-475L); 1141 (8560-361-475M); 1532 (8560-361-475N); 1716 (8560-361-475O); 1717 (8560-361-475P); 1717 (8560-361-475Q); 1717 (8560-361-475R)
    >>See also Air Canada--Airbus; Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation Group (APEC); Firearms--Statistics; Ozone depleting substances; Scrutiny of Regulations Standing Joint Committee--Reports, Second; Sustainable development

Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act (amdt.--definition of "child")(Bill C-352)--Harb

Royal Canadian Mounted Police Commissioner see Crime--Firearm use

Royal Canadian Mounted Police (Dependants) Pension Fund

    >>Reports, tabled and permanently referred to Finance Standing Committee
    >>>Actuarial Examination as of Mar. 31, a997, 1021 (8560-361-230)
    >>Reports, tabled and permanently referred to Justice and Human Rights Standing Committee
    >>>1996-1997 Auditor General's report, 406 (8560-361-232)
    >>>1997-1998 Auditor General's report, 1239 (8560-361-232A)