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Wednesday, December 9, 2015 (No. 5)

Orders of the Day

Address in Reply to the Speech from the Throne

Address Debate — maximum of 6 appointed days, pursuant to Standing Order 50(1).
December 11, 2015 — 3rd appointed day.
December 8, 2015 — Resuming debate on the motion of Mr. Massé (Avignon—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia), seconded by Ms. Sahota (Brampton North), — That the following Address be presented to His Excellency the Governor General of Canada:
To His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Chancellor and Principal Companion of the Order of Canada, Chancellor and Commander of the Order of Military Merit, Chancellor and Commander of the Order of Merit of the Police Forces, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada.
MAY IT PLEASE YOUR EXCELLENCY:
We, Her Majesty's most loyal and dutiful subjects, the House of Commons of Canada, in Parliament assembled, beg leave to offer our humble thanks to Your Excellency for the gracious Speech which Your Excellency has addressed to both Houses of Parliament.;
And on the amendment of Ms. Ambrose (Sturgeon River—Parkland), seconded by Mr. Lebel (Lac-Saint-Jean), — That the motion be amended by adding after the words "of Parliament" the following:
"and regrets to inform Your Excellency that your government has not acknowledged that many of its promises do not provide transparent cost estimates, implementation plans, or consider cost burdens to the provinces, and as such your government should put the best interests of Canadians first by reversing its plan to deliberately put Canada back into deficit, since such a move would ultimately lead to a higher tax burden for Canadians, just as it reversed its unrealistic promise to bring 25 000 Syrian refugees to Canada before the end of 2015; and
further regrets to inform Your Excellency that your government has failed to outline a plan to create jobs in Canada's private sector, and has ignored important economic drivers such as the agricultural, energy and manufacturing sectors, despite the billions of dollars in economic activity they produce every year; and your government has also failed to mention Canada's responsibility to stand shoulder to shoulder with our allies against ISIS at a time when they are stepping up their fight against terrorism".
Voting on the amendment — not later than 15 minutes before the end of the time provided for the Address debate, pursuant to Standing Order 50(5).

Government Orders

Business of Supply

December 4, 2015 — The President of the Treasury Board — Consideration of the Business of Supply.
Supply period ending December 10, 2015 — maximum of 1 allotted day, pursuant to Standing Order 81(10)(b).
Thursday, December 10, 2015 — 1st and final allotted day.
Consideration in Committee of the Whole

Wednesday, December 9, 2015 — 1st and final appointed day.

December 7, 2015 — The President of the Treasury Board — Consideration in Committee of the Whole of the Supplementary Estimates (B) for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2016.
Debate — limited to three hours, pursuant to Standing Order 81(5). See Journals of Friday, December 4, 2015.
Supplementary Estimates (B)


December 7, 2015 — The President of the Treasury Board — Consideration of a motion to concur in Supplementary Estimates (B) for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2016.
Text of motion — see “Business of Supply” in today’s Notice Paper.
Voting — not later than 15 minutes before the expiry of the time provided for Government Orders, pursuant to Standing Order 81(17).

Ways and Means

No. 1 — December 7, 2015 — The Minister of Finance — Consideration of a Ways and Means motion to amend the Income Tax Act. — Sessional Paper No. 8570-421-1, tabled on Monday, December 7, 2015.

Government Bills (Commons)

Government Bills (Senate)

Government Business

No. 1 — December 7, 2015 — The Leader of the Government in the House of Commons — That the House consider the current state of the Canadian economy as set out in the Update of Economic and Fiscal Projections 2015 that was released on November 20, 2015, and was tabled in this House on December 7, 2015.