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Estimates, 2004-2005, Main

    >>Document, "Main Estimates for the year 2004-2005", tabled, 115 (8520-373-02)
    >>Governor General, message, 115
    >>Indian Affairs and Northern Development
    >>>Votes 1, 5, 10, 15, L20, L25 and 30 see Aboriginal Affairs, Northern Development and Natural Resources Standing Committee--Reports, Second
    >>Parliament
    >>>Vote 5 see Procedure and House Affairs Standing Committee--Reports, Eighteenth
    >>Privy Council
    >>>Vote 40 see Aboriginal Affairs, Northern Development and Natural Resources Standing Committee--Reports, Second
    >>Standing Committee referral, 115-7
    >>Tabled, 115

Estimates process see Government Operations and Estimates Standing Committee--Reports from 2nd Sess., 37th Parl., Sixth

Ethics see Blind trusts;Business Development Bank of Canada;Expense allowances (government appointees);Export Development Corporation;Liberal government/Liberal Party of Canada;Members of Parliament--Code of conduct;Privacy Commissioner--Radwanski;Small Business Loans Program;Sponsorship program

Ethics Commissioner

    >>Referral of name of proposed appointee to Procedure and House Affairs Standing Committee
    >>>Shapiro, Bernard, nominee
    >>>>Appointment, M. (Saada), 348, agreed to on division, 348
    >>>>Biographical notes, 285 (8530-373-15)
    >>See also Parliament of Canada Act (amdt.--Ethics Commissionerand Senate Ethics Officer)(Bill C-4);Procedure and House Affairs Standing Committee--Reports, Twenty-fourth

Ethics Counsellor see Conflict of interest--Martin

Ethics, Responsibility, Accountability: An Action Plan for Democratic Reform see Democracy--Reform

Ethiopia see United Nations Ethiopia Regulations

Etobicoke Centre constituency see House of Commons--Vacancies

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Act

    >>Reports tabled and permanently referred to Finance Standing Committee
    >>>2003 annual report, 236 (8560-373-485-01)

Euthanasia

    >>And physician-assisted suicide
    >>>Petitions
    >>>>(Strahl), (372-2174), gr, 9 (8545-373-18-01)

Excise Act

    >>Ways and Means No. 7
    >>>Concurrence, M. (Goodale), 239, agreed to on recorded division (Division No. 40), 239-40
    >>>Notice, tabled, 226 (8570-373-09)
    >>>See also Budget Implementation Act, 2004 (Bill C-30)

Excise Act, 2001

    >>Ways and Means No. 7
    >>>Concurrence, M. (Goodale), 239, agreed to on recorded division (Division No. 40), 239-40
    >>>Notice, tabled, 226 (8570-373-09)
    >>>See also Budget Implementation Act, 2004 (Bill C-30)

Excise tax see Literacy

Excise Tax Act

    >>Ways and Means No. 2, notice, tabled, 151 (8570-373-01)
    >>Ways and Means No. 5, notice, tabled, 202 (8570-373-04)
    >>Ways and Means No. 7
    >>>Concurrence, M. (Goodale), 239, agreed to on recorded division (Division No. 40), 239-40
    >>>Notice, tabled, 226 (8570-373-09)
    >>>See also Budget Implementation Act, 2004 (Bill C-30)

Excise Tax Act (amdt.)(Bill C-456)--St-Hilaire

    >>Reinstated after prorogation under S.O. 86.1
    >>2nd r, 412, dropped to bottom of Order of Precedence list under S.O. 93, 412

Excise Tax Act (amdt.)(Bill C-488)--Wasylycia-Leis

Excise Tax Act (amdt.--literacy materials)(Bill C-525)--Wasylycia-Leis

Expense allowances (government appointees)

    >>Quarterly financial statements, M-479 (Meredith), modified, Statement by Speaker, 181
    >>See also Privacy Commissioner--Radwanski

Exploring Canada's Relations with the Countries of the Muslim World see Foreign Affairs and International Trade Standing Committee--Reports, First

Export and Import Permits Act

    >>Reports tabled and permanently referred to Foreign Affairs and International Trade Standing Committee
    >>>2002 annual report, 173 (8560-373-137-01)

Export Development Canada

    >>Reports tabled and permanently referred to Foreign Affairs and International Trade Standing Committee
    >>>2003 annual report, with Auditor General's report, 267 (8560-373-289-01)
    >>>2004-2008 corporate plan summaries, 223 (8562-373-851-01)
    >>See also Privacy Act

Export Development Corporation

    >>Martin, former Finance Minister, correspondence, r.o. Q-29 (Hearn), 187 (8555-373-29)

Exports see Biological and chemical weapons;Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)

F

Fair, Dana see Murder

Families see Immigration

Farm Credit Canada

    >>Capital funding
    >>>Ways and Means No. 7
    >>>>Concurrence, M. (Goodale), 239, agreed to on recorded division (Division No. 40), 239-40
    >>>>Notice, tabled, 226 (8570-373-09)
    >>>>See also Budget Implementation Act, 2004 (Bill C-30)
    >>Reports tabled and permanently referred to Agriculture and Agri-Food Standing Committee
    >>>2004-2005 to 2008-2009 corporate plan summaries and 2004-2005 operating and capital budgets, 316-7 (8562-373-818-01)
    >>See also Access to Information Act;Alternative Fuels Act;Privacy Act

Farm Credit Canada Act

    >>Ways and Means No. 7
    >>>Concurrence, M. (Goodale), 239, agreed to on recorded division (Division No. 40), 239-40
    >>>Notice, tabled, 226 (8570-373-09)
    >>>See also Budget Implementation Act, 2004 (Bill C-30)

Farm Income Protection Act (FIPA)

    >>Reports tabled and permanently referred to Agriculture and Agri-Food Standing Committee
    >>>Orders in Council P.C. 2001-2281, P.C 2002-1556, P.C. 2002-2227, P.C. 2003-279, P.C. 2003-448, P.C. 2003-652 to 2003-659, P.C. 2003-878, P.C. 2003-880, P.C. 2003-936, P.C. 2003-1014, P.C. 2003-1053 and P.C. 2003-1054, P.C. 2003-1404 to 2002-1409 and P.C. 2003-1423 concerning federal-provincial and federal-territorial agreements with Manitoba, New Brunswick, British Columbia, Ontario, Saskatchewan, the Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories, 197 (8560-373-719-01)

Farm Income Protection Act (amdt.--crop damage by gophers)(Bill C-519)--Benoit

Federal Bridge Corporation Ltd. see Access to Information Act;Alternative Fuels Act;Privacy Act

Federal Elections Fees Tariff

    >>Reports tabled and permanently referred to Procedure and House Affairs Standing Committee
    >>>Regulations amending (P.C. 2004-272), 276 (8560-373-466-01)

Federal institutions see Official languages policy (Bilingualism)

Federal Law-Civil Law Harmonization Act, No. 2 (Bill C-37)--Minister of Justice (Cotler)

Federal-provincial fiscal arrangements see Equalization payments;Farm Income Protection Act (FIPA);Health care funding

Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act

    >>Ways and Means No. 7
    >>>Concurrence, M. (Goodale), 239, agreed to on recorded division (Division No. 40), 239-40
    >>>Notice, tabled, 226 (8570-373-09)
    >>>See also Budget Implementation Act, 2004 (Bill C-30)

Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act (amdt.)(Bill C-18)--Minister of Finance (Goodale)

    >>1st r, 69-70
    >>Finance Standing Committee
    >>>Referral before second reading, M. (Goodale), 76, agreed to, 77-8
    >>>Report, without amdt., 106
    >>Report stage and second reading, 130-1
    >>>Concurrence, M. (Goodale), 131, division deferred, 131, agreed to on recorded division (Division No. 18), 133-4
    >>3rd r, 141, division deferred, 143, agreed to on recorded division (Division No. 21), 157-8, passed
    >>Senate passage, without amdt., 217-8
    >>Royal Assent, 220 (Chap. 4, S.C. 2004)

Federal Republic of Yugoslavia see United Nations Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Regulations

Feminine hygiene products

    >>Goods and Services Tax (GST) exemption see Excise Tax Act (amdt.)(Bill C-488)

Fetal alcohol syndrome see Alcoholic beverages

Final Offer Arbitration in Respect of West Coast Ports Operations Act (Bill C-312)--Johnston

    >>Deemed introduced, read the first time, pursuant to S.O. 86.1
    >>2nd r, 79, division deferred, 79, further deferred, 85, negatived on recorded division (Division No. 11), 91-2

Final Report on the August 14, 2003 Blackout in the United States and Canada: Causes and Recommendations see Electricity

Final Report to Parliament on Actions Arising from the Auditor General's Report on the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada see Privacy Commissioner--Radwanski

Finance Department

    >>Estimates, 2003-2004, Supplementary (B)
    >>>Referred to Finance Standing Committee, 100
    >>>Referred to Public Accounts Standing Committee, 101
    >>Estimates, 2004-2005, Main
    >>>Referred to Finance Standing Committee, 116
    >>>Referred to Public Accounts Standing Committee, 117
    >>See also Sustainable development strategies

Finance Standing Committee

    >>Bills referred
    >>>Budget Implementation Act, 2004 (Bill C-30), 292
    >>>Chief Actuary Act (Bill C-421), 3
    >>>Customs Tariff (amdt.)(Bill C-21), 133
    >>>Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act (amdt.)(Bill C-18), 77-8
    >>>Income Tax Act (amdt.--child adoption expenses)(Bill C-246), 282
    >>Estimates referred
    >>>2003-2004, Supplementary (B)
    >>>>Canada Customs and Revenue Agency, 100
    >>>>Finance, 100
    >>>2004-2005, Main
    >>>>Canada Customs and Revenue Agency, 116
    >>>>Finance, 116
    >>Membership, 50
    >>Questions on the Order Paper, deemed referred, 313-4
    >>Reports
    >>>First (Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act (amdt.)(Bill C-18)), 106 (8510-373-04)
    >>>Second (Customs Tariff (amdt.)(Bill C-21)), 164 (8510-373-11)
    >>>Third (Chief Actuary Act (Bill C-421)), 167 (8510-373-12)
    >>>Fourth (Duty Remission and the Zero-Rating of Tariffs on Textile Inputs: The Canadian Apparel Industry), 247 (8510-373-20)
    >>>Fifth (Budget Implementation Act, 2004 (Bill C-30)), 330 (8510-373-42)
    >>Reports permanently referred see Bank of Canada;Bretton Woods and Related Agreements;Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation;Canada Development Investment Corporation (including Canada Hibernia Holding Corporation);Canada Pension Plan (CPP);Canada Pension Plan Investment Board;Canadian International Trade Tribunal;Customs Tariff;Debt Management Report;Debt Management Strategy;European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Act;Mobile Offshore Drilling Units Remission Order, 2004;Order in Council appointments;Pension Benefits Standards Act, 1985

Financial Administration Act

    >>Legislation see Criminal Code (amdt.)(Bill C-14)

Financial institutions see Banks

Financial services see Intellectual property rights-based-secured lending

Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada see Employment Equity Act

Fines, levies or penalties

    >>Income tax, business expense deduction
    >>>Petitions
    >>>>(Lincoln), (373-0575), 221, gr, 304 (8545-373-11-04)
    >>>>(Vellacott), (373-0495), 177, gr, 304 (8545-373-11-04)
    >>>See also Income Tax Act (amdt.--deductibility of fines)(Bill C-472)

FIPA see Farm Income Protection Act (FIPA)

Fire safety see Tobacco/cigarettes--Flammability standard

Firearms

    >>Reports tabled and permanently referred to Justice, Human Rights, Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Standing Committee
    >>>Regulations Amending the Public Agents Firearms Regulations (JUS-605456); Regulations Amending the Importation and Exportation of Firearms Regulations (Individuals) (JUS-605437); Regulations Amending the Authorization to Export or Import Firearms Regulations (Businesses) (JUS-605436); Regulations Amending the Gun Shows Regulations (JUS-605463), 223 (8560-373-492-01)

Firearms Act

    >>Search and seizure warrants see Criminal Code (amdt.)(Bill C-14)

Firearms registry (Canadian Firearms Program)

    >>Cost overruns, disclosure, inadequate, Auditor General Report (2002),Chapter 10 see Public Accounts Standing Committee--Reports from 2nd Session, Twenty-fourth
    >>Petitions
    >>>(Anders), (373-0140), 63, gr, 213 (8545-373-25-03); (373-0192), 82, gr, 226 (8545-373-25-04); (373-0891), 407
    >>>(Hill, J.), (373-0258), 102, gr, 226 (8545-373-25-04); (373-0758 and 373-0759), 320
    >>>(Mark), (372-2267), gr, 9 (8545-373-25-01); (372-2350), gr, 9 (8545-373-25-01)
    >>>(Reid), (372-2272), gr, 9 (8545-373-25-01); (373-0323 and 373-0324), 130, gr, 272 (8545-373-25-05)
    >>>(Steckle), (373-0127 to 373-0130), 63, gr, 213 (8545-373-25-02)

First Nations

    >>Economic development see First Nations Fiscal and Statistical Management Act (Bill C-23)

First Nations Finance Authority (FNFA) see First Nations Fiscal and Statistical Management Act (Bill C-23)

First Nations Fiscal and Statistical Management Act (Bill C-19)(2nd Sess., 37th Parl.)

    >>Reinstated as First Nations Fiscal and Statistical Management Act (Bill C-23)

First Nations Fiscal and Statistical Management Act (Bill C-23)--Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (Mitchell)

    >>1st r, 161-2
    >>Deemed read the second time and referred to a committee, considered in committee and reported, 162
    >>Report stage, 314-6, 350-4
    >>>Concurrence, as amended, M. (Mitchell), deemed moved, division deemed deferred, 355, agreed to on recorded division (Division No. 68), 373-4
    >>>Motion No. 1 (Clause 2), (Mitchell), 315, 351, agreed to on division, 352
    >>>Motion No. 2 (new clause, 13.1), (Mitchell), 315, 351, agreed to on division, 352
    >>>Motion No. 3 (Clause 30), (Mitchell), 352, division deferred, 354, deemed agreed to on division, 355
    >>>Motion No. 4 (Clause 31), (Mitchell), 352, division deferred, 354, deemed agreed to on division, 355
    >>>Motion No. 5 (Clause 34), (Mitchell), 353, division deferred, 354, deemed agreed to on division, 355
    >>>Motion No. 6 (Clause 83), (Mitchell), 353, agreed to on division, 354
    >>>Motion No. 7 (Clause 87), (Mitchell), 353, agreed to on division, 354
    >>>Motion No. 8 (Clause 103), (Mitchell), 353, division deferred, 354, agreed to on division, 355
    >>>Motion No. 9 (Clause 105), (Mitchell), 353-4, division deferred, 354, agreed to on division, 355
    >>>Motion No. 10 (Clause 105), (Mitchell), 354, division deferred, 354, agreed to on division, 355
    >>>Motion No. 11 (Clause 141), (Mitchell), 315, 351, agreed to on division, 352
    >>>Motion No. 12 (Clause 148), (Mitchell), 315, 351, agreed to on division, 352
    >>>Motion No. 13 (Clause 149), (Mitchell), 315, 351, agreed to on division, 352
    >>>Motion No. 14 (Clause 150), (Mitchell), 315, 351, agreed to on division, 352
    >>>Motion No. 15 (Clause 150.1), (Mitchell), 316, 351, agreed to on division, 352
    >>>Motion No. 16 (Clause 151), (Mitchell), 316, 351-2, agreed to on division, 352
    >>>Motion No. 17 (Clause 154), (Mitchell), 354, division deferred, 354, agreed to on division, 355
    >>>Motion No. 18 (Schedule), (Mitchell), 316, 352, agreed to on division, 352
    >>3rd r, 379, 394, 397-8, 399-400
    >>>Amdt. (Loubier), 379
    >>>>Amdt. to amdt. (Caccia), 400

First Nations Financial Management Board (FMB) see First Nations Fiscal and Statistical Management Act (Bill C-23)

First Nations Land Management Act

    >>Legislation see First Nations Fiscal and Statistical Management Act (Bill C-23)

First Nations Lands Advisory Board

    >>Reports tabled and permanently referred to Aboriginal Affairs, Northern Development and Natural Resources Standing Committee
    >>>Report pursuant to section 41.1, 329-30 (8560-373-862-01)

First Nations Statistics (FNS) see First Nations Fiscal and Statistical Management Act (Bill C-23)

First Nations Tax Commission (FNTC) see First Nations Fiscal and Statistical Management Act (Bill C-23)

Fisheries see Aboriginal Communal Fishing Licences Regulations (ACFLR);Aboriginal fishing rights;Aquaculture;Fraser River Salmon Fishery;Freshwater Fish Marketing Corporation;Salmon farming

Fisheries Act

    >>Reports tabled and permanently referred to Fisheries and Oceans Standing Committee
    >>>Fish habitat protection and pollution prevention administration and enforcement, 2001-2002 annual report, 144 (8560-373-325-01)

Fisheries Act (amdt.)(Bill C-33)--Minister of Fisheries and Oceans (Regan)

    >>1st r, 359
    >>2nd r, 365, 408
    >>Document, correspondence between Minister of Fisheries and Oceans and Joint Chairs of Standing Joint Committee for the Scrutiny of Regulations, tabled, 370 (8530-373-20)

Fisheries and Oceans Department

    >>Estimates, 2003-2004, Supplementary (B)
    >>>Referred to Fisheries and Oceans Standing Committee, 100
    >>Estimates, 2004-2005, Main
    >>>Referred to Fisheries and Oceans Standing Committee, 116
    >>See also Sustainable development strategies

Fisheries and Oceans Standing Committee

    >>Estimates referred
    >>>2003-2004, Supplementary (B)
    >>>>Fisheries and Oceans, 100
    >>>2004-2005, Main
    >>>>Fisheries and Oceans, 116
    >>Membership, 51, 221
    >>Reports
    >>>First (Safe, Secure, Sovereign: Reinventing the Canadian Coast Guard), 248 (8510-373-22)
    >>Reports from 2nd Session, 37th Parliament
    >>>Seventh ("Atlantic Fisheries Issues: May 2003"), (8510-372-169), gr, 267 (8512-373-169)
    >>Reports permanently referred see Fisheries Act;Fisheries Development Act;Freshwater Fish Marketing Corporation;Order in Council appointments

Fisheries, Atlantic

    >>Grand Banks Nose and Tail/Flemish Cap
    >>>Foreign trawlers, illegal fishing, citations issued, r.o. Q-58 (Doyle), 288 (8555-373-58)
    >>>Management, M-136 (Hearn), 18, dropped to bottom of Order of Precedence list under S.O. 93, 18, 164, division deferred, 164, agreed to on recorded division (Division No. 36), 209-10
    >>See also Fisheries and Oceans Standing Committee--Reports from 2nd Session, Seventh

Fisheries Development Act

    >>Reports tabled and permanently referred to Fisheries and Oceans Standing Committee
    >>>2002-2003 annual report, 13 (8560-373-292-01)

Flag see Canadian flag

Flag Outlet

    >>Document, tabled, 285 (8530-373-17)

Flemish Cap see Fisheries, Atlantic

FMB see First Nations Financial Management Board (FMB)

FNFA see First Nations Finance Authority (FNFA)

FNS see First Nations Statistics (FNS)

FNTC see First Nations Tax Commission (FNTC)

Food

    >>Fat content see Trans fats (trans fatty acids)
    >>Labelling
    >>>Mandatory nutrition labelling see Food and Drugs act (amdt.--food labelling)(Bill C-398)
    >>>See also Beef industry;Dairy products