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Notice Paper

No. 286

Thursday, April 26, 2018

10:00 a.m.


Introduction of Government Bills

Introduction of Private Members' Bills

April 25, 2018 — Mr. Doherty (Cariboo—Prince George) — Bill entitled “An Act to establish Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Awareness Day”.

Notices of Motions (Routine Proceedings)

April 25, 2018 — Mr. Julian (New Westminster—Burnaby) — That it be an instruction to the Standing Committee on Finance that, during its consideration of Bill C-74, An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on February 27, 2018 and other measures, the Committee be granted the power to divide the Bill into two bills, one containing the provisions of the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act, and the other containing the remaining provisions of the Bill.

April 25, 2018 — Mr. Dusseault (Sherbrooke) — That it be an instruction to the Standing Committee on Finance that, during its consideration of Bill C-74, An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on February 27, 2018 and other measures, the Committee be granted the power to divide the Bill into two bills, one containing the provisions of the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act, and the other containing the remaining provisions of the Bill.

April 25, 2018 — Ms. Brosseau (Berthier—Maskinongé) — That it be an instruction to the Standing Committee on Finance that, during its consideration of Bill C-74, An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on February 27, 2018 and other measures, the Committee be granted the power to divide the Bill into two bills, one containing the provisions of the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act, and the other containing the remaining provisions of the Bill.

April 25, 2018 — Mr. Julian (New Westminster—Burnaby) — That it be an instruction to the Standing Committee on Finance that, during its consideration of Bill C-74, An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on February 27, 2018 and other measures, the Committee be granted the power to divide the Bill into two or more pieces of legislation.

April 25, 2018 — Mr. Dusseault (Sherbrooke) — That it be an instruction to the Standing Committee on Finance that, during its consideration of Bill C-74, An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on February 27, 2018 and other measures, the Committee be granted the power to divide the Bill into two or more pieces of legislation.

April 25, 2018 — Ms. Brosseau (Berthier—Maskinongé) — That it be an instruction to the Standing Committee on Finance that, during its consideration of Bill C-74, An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on February 27, 2018 and other measures, the Committee be granted the power to divide the Bill into two or more pieces of legislation.

April 25, 2018 — Mr. Julian (New Westminster—Burnaby) — That it be an instruction to the Standing Committee on Finance that, during its consideration of Bill C-74, An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on February 27, 2018 and other measures, the Committee be granted the power to divide the Bill into two pieces of legislation, one containing the provisions relating to the amendments to the Excise Act, 2001, in connection with cannabis taxation, and the other containing the remaining provisions of the Bill.

April 25, 2018 — Mr. Dusseault (Sherbrooke) — That it be an instruction to the Standing Committee on Finance that, during its consideration of Bill C-74, An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on February 27, 2018 and other measures, the Committee be granted the power to divide the Bill into two pieces of legislation, one containing the provisions relating to the amendments to the Excise Act, 2001, in connection with cannabis taxation, and the other containing the remaining provisions of the Bill.

April 25, 2018 — Ms. Brosseau (Berthier—Maskinongé) — That it be an instruction to the Standing Committee on Finance that, during its consideration of Bill C-74, An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on February 27, 2018 and other measures, the Committee be granted the power to divide the Bill into two pieces of legislation, one containing the provisions relating to the amendments to the Excise Act, 2001, in connection with cannabis taxation, and the other containing the remaining provisions of the Bill.

Questions

Q-17042 — April 25, 2018 — Mr. Bezan (Selkirk—Interlake—Eastman) — With regard to the government’s decision to deploy Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) equipment and personnel to the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali: (a) how many CAF personnel will be deployed to the mission, (i) what unit do these personnel belong to, (ii) what trade do these personnel belong to in the CAF; (b) what CAF assets will be deployed to the mission; (c) what is the estimated cost of the mission; (d) what is the duration of Canada’s military commitment to the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali; (e) will CAF personnel or assets be assisting in G5 Sahel operations within Mali; (f) will CAF personnel or equipment assist in counter-terrorism operations while in Mali; and (g) will Canadian personnel deployed to the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali ever be in the position to receive orders from individuals outside the CAF chain of command?
Q-17052 — April 25, 2018 — Mr. Cannings (South Okanagan—West Kootenay) — With regard to the approval of the Trans Mountain Pipeline Project and the work of the Ministerial Review Panel appointed by the government in this matter: (a) can construction of a new Trans Mountain Pipeline be reconciled with Canada’s climate change commitments; (b) in the absence of a comprehensive national energy strategy, how can policy-makers effectively assess projects such as the Trans Mountain Pipeline; (c) how might Cabinet square approval of the Trans Mountain Pipeline with its commitment to reconciliation with First Nations and to the UNDRIP principles of “free, prior, and informed consent”; (d) given the changed economic and political circumstances, the perceived flaws in the National Energy Board process, and also the criticism of the Ministerial Panel’s own review, how can Canada be confident in its assessment of the project’s economic rewards and risks; (e) if approved, what route would best serve aquifer, municipal, aquatic and marine safety; and (f) how does federal policy define the terms “social licence” and “Canadian public interest” and their inter-relationships?
Q-17062 — April 25, 2018 — Mr. Maguire (Brandon—Souris) — With regard to authorizations to transport firearms issued in each province and territory by Chief Firearms Officers, for the last ten years, broken down by year: (a) how many authorizations to transport were (i) issued, (ii) refused, (iii) revoked, (iv) resulted in criminal charges, (v) resulted in firearms licenses being revoked, (vi) resulted in firearms being seized; and (b) how many full time equivalents were involved in the processing, administration and enforcement?
Q-17072 — April 25, 2018 — Mr. Maguire (Brandon—Souris) — With regard to statistics on firearms seized by police for the last five years, broken down by province or territory: (a) what was the total number of firearms seized, broken down by classification (non-restricted, restricted, prohibited); (b) of the firearms in (a), how many were identified as used in the commission of an indictable offence, broken down by classification; (c) for the firearms in (a) and (b), how many were (i) registered, (ii) unregistered, (iii) domestically sourced, (iv) smuggled into Canada, (v) located and identified using the Canadian Firearms Information System (CFIS), (vi) traced to their source by the Canadian National Firearms Tracing Centre (CNFTC); (d) of the number of firearms identified in (a), how many were seized from a licenced firearms owner; and (e) of the number of licenced firearms owners identified in (b), how many were (i) charged with the indictable offence for which the firearm was used, (ii) charged with providing a firearm to the persons charged with the indictable offence for which the firearm was used, (iii) charged with ‘careless storage’ of their firearm after having their firearm stolen from them?
Q-17082 — April 25, 2018 — Mr. Maguire (Brandon—Souris) — With regard to firearms licences issued in each province and territory for the last ten years, broken down by year: (a) how many Possession and Acquisition Licences (PAL) were (i) issued, (ii) revoked by reason for revocation; (b) how many Restricted Possession and Acquisition Licences (RPAL) were (i) issued, (ii) revoked by reason for revocation; (c) what is the average time for government or police to confiscate revoked firearms licences for (i) PAL, (ii) RPAL; and (d) what is the average time for government or police to confiscate the firearms possessed by revoked firearms licence holders for (i) PAL, (ii) RPAL?
Q-17092 — April 25, 2018 — Mr. Kelly (Calgary Rocky Ridge) — With regard to the Canada Revenue Agency’s (CRA) practice of withholding transfer or benefit payments from the Government of Canada or provincial or territorial governments to taxpayers who owe taxes payable (tax debts), and instead applying the balances of such payments to such tax debts: (a) for 2016, 2017, and 2018, broken down by year, how many federal transfer or benefit payments were applied to tax debts; (b) for each year in (a), how many provincial or territorial transfer or benefit payments were applied to tax debts; (c) which federal transfer or benefit payments may CRA withhold and apply to tax debts; (d) which provincial or territorial transfer or benefit payments may CRA withhold and apply to tax debts; (e) which, if any, federal or provincial or territorial transfer or benefit payments are exempt from withholding and application to tax debt; (f) for each year in (a) what total amount of overall transfer or benefit payments did CRA withhold and apply to tax debts; (g) for each year in (a), how many transfer or benefit payments did CRA withhold and apply to tax debts before the deadline for paying taxes owing; (h) is the practice in (g) of withholding and applying transfer or benefit payments to tax debts before the deadline for paying taxes owing legal; (i) if the practice in (g) of withholding and applying transfer or benefit payments to tax debts before the deadline for paying taxes owing is legal, which section of which statute permits it; (j) for each year in (a) in which CRA withheld and applied transfer or benefit payments to tax debts before the deadline for paying taxes owing, how many tax debts to which such payments were applied did taxpayers pay in full by or on the deadline, such that an overpayment resulted; (k) for each year in (a), how many overpayments in (j) did CRA refund to the applicable taxpayers; and (l) for each year in (a), how many transfer or benefit payments which CRA withheld and applied to a tax debt which resulted in an overpayment in (j) did CRA retain to apply to taxes owing in the future?
Q-17102 — April 25, 2018 — Mr. Kelly (Calgary Rocky Ridge) — With regard to the testimony at the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance on March 1, 2018, by the Assistant Commissioner, International, Large Business and Investigations Branch of the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), regarding monetary incentives and debt collection at the CRA: (a) what percentage and what absolute value of assessed taxes, including personal, corporate, and excise taxes, did CRA not collect between 2007 and 2017 inclusively, broken down by year; (b) of the taxes owing but not collected in (a), what percentage of debts (i) were collected in the following year, (ii) were collected within two years, (iii) were collected within five years, (iv) were collected after five years, (v) have not been collected to date; (c) what options or authorized measures can CRA deploy to recover tax debts; (d) of the debts in (a) which were eventually collected, what percentage were recovered by each of the measures in (c), broken down by year; (e) by what criteria are CRA employees evaluated with respect to success or failure to collect debts owing; (f) for auditors, assessors, and collectors at CRA, what performance metrics are considered for employee evaluations and how are they ranked or weighted; (g) on what evidence is the audit change rate of 75% based; (h) what is the acceptable error rate for audits and assessments respectively; (i) what measures exist at CRA to reduce the error rate of individual auditors and assessors; and (j) what protocols exist at CRA to correct errors made by auditors or assessors before objections or appeals are filed by affected taxpayers?
Q-17112 — April 25, 2018 — Mrs. Wagantall (Yorkton—Melville) — With regard to materials prepared for Associate Deputy Ministers and Assistant Deputy Ministers from December 1, 2017, to present: for every briefing document prepared, what is the (i) date on the document, (ii) title or subject matter of the document, (iii) department’s internal tracking number, (iv) title of individual for whom the material was prepared, (v) sender?
Q-17122 — April 25, 2018 — Mrs. Wagantall (Yorkton—Melville) — With regard to materials prepared for Deputy Ministers from December 1, 2017, to present: for every briefing document prepared, what is the (i) date on the document, (ii) title or subject matter of the document, (iii) department’s internal tracking number, (iv) sender?
Q-17132 — April 25, 2018 — Mrs. Wagantall (Yorkton—Melville) — With regard to all expenditures on hospitality (Treasury Board Object Code 0822), since December 6, 2017, and broken down by department or agency: what are the details of all expenditures, including (i) vendor, (ii) amount, (iii) date of expenditure, (iv) start and end date of contract, (v) description of goods or services provided, (vi) file number, (vii) number of government employees in attendance, (viii) number of other attendees?
Q-17142 — April 25, 2018 — Mrs. Wagantall (Yorkton—Melville) — With regard to materials prepared for Ministers from December 6, 2017, to present: for every briefing document prepared, what is the (i) date on the document, (ii) title or subject matter of the document, (iii) department’s internal tracking number, (iv) sender?
Q-17152 — April 25, 2018 — Mr. Nater (Perth—Wellington) — With regard to designations of Her Majesty’s counsel learned in the law: who has been conferred a Queen’s Counsel designation since November 4, 2015?
Q-17162 — April 25, 2018 — Mr. Lloyd (Sturgeon River—Parkland) — With regard to overtime pay for departmental communications staff since January 1, 2016, broken down by year: what is the total cost of this overtime, broken down by (i) department, agency, or other government entity, (ii) individual communication staff title?

Notices of Motions for the Production of Papers

Business of Supply

Government Business

Private Members' Notices of Motions

Private Members' Business

C-391 — February 1, 2018 — Mr. Casey (Cumberland—Colchester) — Second reading and reference to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage of Bill C-391, An Act respecting a national strategy for the repatriation of Aboriginal cultural property.
Pursuant to Standing Order 86(3), jointly seconded by:
Mr. Vandal (Saint Boniface—Saint Vital) and Mr. Serré (Nickel Belt) — February 1, 2018
Ms. May (Saanich—Gulf Islands) — February 5, 2018

2 Response requested within 45 days