25. Appendices

1.

In all cases not provided for hereinafter, or by other Order of the House, procedural questions shall be decided by the Speaker or Chairman, whose decisions shall be based on the usages, forms, customs and precedents of the House of Commons of Canada and on parliamentary tradition in Canada and other jurisdictions, so far as they may be applicable to the House.

2.

(1)

At the opening of the first session of a Parliament, and at any other time as determined pursuant to section (2) of this Standing Order, the election of a Speaker shall be the first order of business and shall not be interrupted by any other proceeding.

 

(2)

When there is, or is to be, a vacancy in the Office of the Speaker, whether at the opening of a Parliament, or because the incumbent of that Office has indicated his or her intention to resign the Office of Speaker, or for any other reason, the Members, when they are ready, shall proceed to the election of a Speaker.

 

(3)

The election of a Speaker shall take precedence over all other business and no motion for adjournment nor any other motion shall be accepted while it is proceeding and the House shall continue to sit, if necessary, beyond its ordinary hour of daily adjournment, notwithstanding any other Standing or Special Order, until a Speaker is declared elected, and is installed in the Chair in the usual manner, provided that if the House has continued to sit beyond its ordinary hour of daily adjournment, the Speaker shall thereupon adjourn the House until the next sitting day.

3.

(1)

During an election of a Speaker the Chair shall be taken by:

(a)

at the opening of a Parliament, the Member who has had the longest period of unbroken service as determined by reference to his or her position on the list published in the Canada Gazette, and who is neither a Minister of the Crown, nor holds any office within the House including that of leader of a party; or,

(b)

in the case of the Speaker having indicated his or her intention to resign that office, the Speaker; and

(c)

at other times, in the absence of the Speaker, the Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Committees of the Whole as provided by Statute.

 

(2)

The Member presiding during the election of a Speaker shall be vested with all the powers of the Chair provided that he or she:

(a)

shall be entitled to vote in the election of a Speaker; and

(b)

shall have no casting vote in the event of there being an equality of votes cast for two candidates.

4.

The election of a Speaker shall be conducted by secret ballot as follows:

 

(1)

Any Member who does not wish to be considered for election to the Office of Speaker shall, not later than 6:00 p. m. on the day preceding the day on which the election of a Speaker is expected to take place, in writing, so inform the Clerk of the House who shall prepare a list of such Members’ names together with a list of the names of all Ministers of the Crown and party leaders, and shall provide the same to the Member presiding prior to the taking of the first ballot.

 

(2)

Members present in the Chamber shall be provided with ballot papers by the Clerk of the House.

 

(3)

The Member presiding shall announce from the Chair that the list provided pursuant to section (1) of this Standing Order is available for consultation at the Table.

 

(4)

Members wishing to indicate their choice for the Office of Speaker shall print the first and last name of a Member on the ballot paper.

 

(5)

Members shall deposit their completed ballot papers in a box provided for that purpose on the Table.

 

(6)

The Clerk of the House shall, once all Members wishing to do so have deposited their ballot papers, empty the box and count the ballots and being satisfied as to the accuracy of the count, shall destroy the ballots together with all records of the number of ballots cast for each candidate and the Clerk of the House shall in no way divulge the number of ballots cast for any candidate.

 

(7)

In the event of one Member having received a majority of the votes cast, the Clerk of the House shall provide the Member presiding with the name of that Member, whereupon the Member presiding shall announce the name of the new Speaker.

 

(8)

In the event of no Member having received a majority of the votes cast the procedure shall be as follows:

(a)

the Clerk of the House shall provide the Member presiding the names of the candidates for the next ballot, in alphabetical order, provided that the Clerk of the House shall first determine the number representing the least total number of votes cast and the Clerk shall exclude the names of all Members having received that total number of votes, together with the names of all Members having received five percent or less of the total votes cast, from the list of candidates so provided, and provided that in the event of every candidate receiving the same number of votes no names shall be excluded from the list so provided; and

(b)

whereupon the Member presiding shall announce the names of the candidates, which shall be the only names thereafter accepted, in alphabetical order, provided that prior to the taking of the second ballot, he or she shall ask that any Member, whose name has been so announced and who does not wish to be further considered for election to the Office of Speaker, state his or her reason therefor.

 

(9)

Subsequent ballots shall be conducted in the manner prescribed in sections (4) through (8) of this Standing Order except that following the second and all subsequent ballots the Member presiding shall not ask the candidates to state their reasons for not wishing to be further considered for election to the Office of Speaker but shall forthwith proceed to the taking of that subsequent ballot and the balloting shall continue, in like manner, until such time as a new Speaker is elected.

 

(10)

During the election of a Speaker there shall be no debate and the Member presiding shall not be permitted to entertain any question of privilege.

5.

No Minister of the Crown, nor party leader, shall be eligible for election to the Office of Speaker.

6.

The election of a Speaker shall not be considered to be a question of confidence in the government.

7.

(1)

A Chairman of Committees of the Whole who shall also be Deputy Speaker of the House shall be elected at the commencement of every Parliament; and the Member so elected shall, if in his or her place in the House, take the Chair of all Committees of the Whole.

 

(2)

The Member elected to serve as Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Committees of the Whole shall be required to possess the full and practical knowledge of the official language which is not that of the Speaker for the time being.

 

(3)

The Member so elected as Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Committees of the Whole shall continue to act in that capacity until the end of the Parliament for which he or she is elected, and in the case of a vacancy by death, resignation or otherwise, the House shall proceed forthwith to elect a successor.

 

(4)

In the absence of the Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Committees of the Whole, the Speaker may, in forming a Committee of the Whole, before leaving the Chair, appoint any Member Chairman of the Committee.

8.

At the commencement of every session, or from time to time as necessity may arise, the House may appoint a Deputy Chairman of Committees of the Whole and also an Assistant Deputy Chairman of Committees of the Whole, either of whom shall, whenever the Chairman of Committees of the Whole is absent, be entitled to exercise all the powers vested in the Chairman of Committees of the Whole including his or her powers as Deputy Speaker during the Speaker’s unavoidable absence.

9.

The Speaker shall not take part in any debate before the House. In case of an equality of voices, the Speaker gives a casting vote, and any reasons stated are entered in the Journals.

10.

The Speaker shall preserve order and decorum, and shall decide questions of order.   In deciding a point of order or practice, the Speaker shall state the Standing Order or other authority applicable to the case.   No debate shall be permitted on any such decision, and no such decision shall be subject to an appeal to the House.

11.

(1)

(a)

The Speaker shall be vested with the authority to maintain order by naming individual Members for disregarding the authority of the Chair and, without resort to motion, ordering their withdrawal for the remainder of that sitting, notwithstanding Standing Order 15.

(b)

In the event of a Member disregarding an order of the Chair made pursuant to paragraph (a) of this section, the Speaker shall order the Sergeant-at-Arms to remove the Member.

 

(2)

The Speaker or the Chairman, after having called the attention of the House, or of the Committee, to the conduct of a Member who persists in irrelevance, or repetition, may direct the Member to discontinue his or her speech, and if then the Member still continues to speak, the Speaker shall name the Member or, if in Committee, the Chairman shall report the Member to the House.

12.

The Chairman shall maintain order in Committees of the Whole; deciding all questions of order subject to an appeal to the Speaker; but disorder in a Committee of the Whole can only be censured by the House, on receiving a report thereof.   No debate shall be permitted on any decision.

13.

Whenever the Speaker is of the opinion that a motion offered to the House is contrary to the rules and privileges of Parliament, the Speaker shall apprise the House thereof immediately, before putting the question thereon, and quote the Standing Order or authority applicable to the case.

14.

If any Member takes notice that strangers are present, the Speaker or the Chairman (as the case may be) may put the question “That strangers be ordered to withdraw”, without permitting any debate or amendment; provided that the Speaker or the Chairman may order the withdrawal of strangers.

15.

Every Member, being cognizant of the provisions of the Parliament of Canada Act, is bound to attend the sittings of the House, unless otherwise occupied with parliamentary activities and functions or on public or official business.

16.

(1)

When the Speaker is putting a question, no Member shall enter, walk out of or across the House, or make any noise or disturbance.

 

(2)

When a Member is speaking, no Member shall pass between that Member and the Chair, nor interrupt him or her, except to raise a point of order.

 

(3)

No Member may pass between the Chair and the Table, nor between the Chair and the Mace when the Mace has been taken off the Table by the Sergeant-at-Arms.

 

(4)

When the House adjourns, Members shall keep their seats until the Speaker has left the Chair.

17.

Every Member desiring to speak is to rise in his or her place and address the Speaker.

18.

No Member shall speak disrespectfully of the Sovereign, nor of any of the Royal Family, nor of the Governor General or the person administering the Government of Canada; nor use offensive words against either House, or against any Member thereof.   No Member may reflect upon any vote of the House, except for the purpose of moving that such vote be rescinded.

19.

Any Member addressing the House, if called to order either by the Speaker or on a point raised by another Member, shall sit down while the point is being stated, after which he or she may explain.   The Speaker may permit debate on the point of order before giving a decision, but such debate must be strictly relevant to the point of order taken.

20.

If anything shall come in question touching the conduct, election or right of any Member to hold a seat, that Member may make a statement and shall withdraw during the time the matter is in debate.

21.

No Member is entitled to vote upon any question in which he or she has a direct pecuniary interest, and the vote of any Member so interested will be disallowed.

22.

The Clerk of the House shall maintain a public registry of foreign travel by Members of Parliament in which Members shall register all visits they make outside Canada, arising from or relating to their membership in the House of Commons where the cost of any such travel is not wholly borne by the Consolidated Revenue Fund, the Member personally, any inter-parliamentary association or friendship group recognized by the House of Commons and any recognized party, together with the name of the sponsoring person or organization which paid for travel to and/or from Canada.

23.

(1)

The offer of any money or other advantage to any Member of this House, for the promoting of any matter whatsoever depending or to be transacted in Parliament, is a high crime and misdemeanour, and tends to the subversion of the Constitution.

 

(2)

If it shall appear that any person has been elected and returned a Member of this House, or has endeavoured so to be, by bribery or any other corrupt practices, this House will proceed with the utmost severity against all such persons as shall have been wilfully concerned in such bribery or other corrupt practices.

24.

(1)

The House shall meet on Mondays at 11:00 a. m. , on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays at 10:00  a. m. and on Wednesdays at 2:00 p. m. unless otherwise provided by Standing or Special Order of this House.

 

(2)

At 6:30 p. m. on any sitting day except Friday and at 2:30 p. m. on Fridays, the Speaker shall adjourn the House until the next sitting day.

25.

When it is provided in any Standing or Special Order of this House that any business specified by such Order shall be continued, forthwith disposed of, or concluded in any sitting, the House shall not be adjourned before such proceedings have been completed except pursuant to a motion to adjourn proposed by a Minister of the Crown.

26.

(1)

Except during Private Members’ Business, when the Speaker is in the Chair, a Member may propose a motion, without notice, to continue a sitting through a dinner hour or beyond the ordinary hour of daily adjournment for the purpose of considering a specified item of business or a stage or stages thereof subject to the following conditions:

(a)

the motion must relate to the business then being considered provided that proceedings in any Committee of the Whole may be temporarily interrupted for the purpose of proposing a motion under the provisions of this Standing Order;

(b)

the motion must be proposed in the hour preceding the time at which the business under consideration should be interrupted by a dinner hour, Private Members’ Hour or the ordinary hour of daily adjournment; and

(c)

the motion shall not be subject to debate or amendment.

 

(2)

In putting the question on such motion, the Speaker shall ask those Members who object to rise in their places.   If fifteen or more Members then rise, the motion shall be deemed to have been withdrawn; otherwise, the motion shall have been adopted.

27.

(1)

On the tenth sitting day preceding June 23 a motion to extend the hours of sitting to a specific hour during the last ten sitting days may be proposed, without notice, by any Minister during routine proceedings.

 

(2)

Not more than two hours after the commencement of proceedings thereon, the Speaker shall put every question necessary to dispose of the said motion.

28.

(1)

The House shall not meet on New Year’s Day, Good Friday, the day fixed for the celebration of the birthday of the Sovereign, St. John the Baptist Day, Dominion Day, Labour Day, Thanksgiving Day, Remembrance Day and Christmas Day.   When St. John the Baptist Day and Dominion Day fall on a Tuesday, the House shall not meet the preceding day; when those days fall on a Thursday, the House shall not meet the following day.

 

(2)

When the House meets on a day, or sits after the normal meeting hour on a day, set out in column A, and then adjourns, it shall stand adjourned to the day set out in column B.

A:	B:
The Friday preceding Thanksgiving Day.	The second Monday following that Friday.
The Friday preceding Remembrance Day.	The second Monday following that Friday.
The second Friday preceding Christmas Day.	The first Monday in February.
The Friday preceding the week marking the mid-way point between the first Monday in February and the Friday preceding Good Friday.	The second Monday following that Friday.
The Friday preceding Good Friday.	The Monday following Easter Monday.
The Friday preceding the week marking the mid-way point between the Monday following Easter Monday and June 23.	The second Monday following that Friday or, if that Monday is the day fixed for the celebration of the birthday of the Sovereign, on the Tuesday following that Monday.
June 23 or the Friday preceding if June 23 falls on a Saturday, a Sunday or a Monday.	The second Monday following Labour Day.

 

(3)

Whenever the House stands adjourned, if the Speaker is satisfied, after consultation with the Government, that the public interest requires that the House should meet at an earlier time, the Speaker may give notice that being so satisfied the House shall meet, and thereupon the House shall meet to transact its business as if it had been duly adjourned to that time.   In the event of the Speaker being unable to act owing to illness or other cause, the Deputy Speaker, the Deputy Chairman of Committees or the Assistant Deputy Chairman of Committees shall act in the Speaker’s stead for all the purposes of this section.

 

(4)

During adjournments of the House pursuant to section (2) of this Standing Order, if a bill or bills are awaiting Royal Assent, the Speaker may, at the request of the Government, give notice that the House shall meet at an earlier time for the purposes of Royal Assent.   The House shall meet at the specified time for those purposes only; and immediately thereafter the Speaker shall adjourn the House to the time to which it had formerly been adjourned.   In the event of the Speaker being unable to act owing to illness or other cause, the Deputy Speaker, the Deputy Chairman of Committees or the Assistant Deputy Chairman of Committees shall act in the Speaker’s stead for all the purposes of this section.

29.

(1)

The presence of at least twenty Members of the House, including the Speaker, shall be necessary to constitute a meeting of the House for the exercise of its powers.

 

(2)

If at the time of meeting there be not a quorum, the Speaker may take the Chair and adjourn the House until the next sitting day.

 

(3)

If, during a sitting of the House, the attention of the Speaker is drawn to the lack of a quorum, the Speaker shall, upon determining that a quorum is lacking, order the bells to ring for no longer than fifteen minutes; thereupon a count of the Members present shall be taken, and if a quorum is still lacking, the Speaker shall adjourn the House until the next sitting day.

 

(4)

Whenever the Speaker adjourns the House for want of a quorum, the time of the adjournment, and the names of the Members then present, shall be inserted in the Journals.

 

(5)

When the Sergeant-at-Arms announces that the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod is at the door, the Speaker shall take the Chair, whether there be a quorum present or not.

30.

(1)

The Speaker shall read prayers every day at the meeting of the House before any business is entered upon.

 

(2)

Not more than two minutes after the reading of prayers, the business of the House shall commence.

 

(3)

At 3:00 p. m. on Mondays and Wednesdays, at 10:00 a. m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and at 12:00 noon on Fridays, the House shall proceed to the ordinary daily routine of business, which shall be as follows:

Tabling of Documents (pursuant to Standing Orders 32 or 109)
Statements by Ministers (pursuant to Standing Order 33)
Presenting Reports from Inter-parliamentary Delegations (pursuant to Standing Order 34)
Presenting Reports from Committees (pursuant to Standing Order 35)
Introduction of Government Bills
Introduction of Private Members’ Bills
First Reading of Senate Public Bills
Motions
Presenting Petitions (pursuant to Standing Order 36(6))
Questions on Order Paper.

 

(4)

(a)

When proceedings under “Introduction of Government Bills” are not completed on a Tuesday or Thursday prior to statements by Members, the ordinary daily routine of business shall continue immediately after oral questions are taken up, notwithstanding section (5) of this Standing Order, until the completion of all items under “Introduction of Government Bills”, suspending as much of Private Members’ Business as necessary.

(b)

When proceedings under “Introduction of Government Bills” are not completed before the ordinary hour of daily adjournment, the House shall continue to sit to complete the ordinary daily routine of business up to and including “Introduction of Government Bills”, whereupon the Speaker shall adjourn the House.

 

(5)

At 2:00 p. m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, and at 11:00 a. m. on Fridays, Members, other than Ministers of the Crown, may make statements pursuant to Standing Order 31.   Not later than 2:15 p. m. or 11:15 a. m. , as the case may be, oral questions shall be taken up.   At 3:00 p. m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and after the ordinary daily routine of business has been disposed of on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, the Orders of the Day shall be considered in the order established pursuant to section (6) of this Standing Order.

 

(6)

Except as otherwise provided in these Standing Orders, the order of business shall be as follows:

(Monday)
(Before the daily routine of business)

Private Members’ Business — from 11:00 a. m. to 12:00 noon:
Public Bills, Private Bills, Notices of Motions and Notices of Motions (Papers).
Government Orders.

(After the daily routine of business)

Government Orders.

(Tuesday and Thursday)
(After the daily routine of business)

Government Orders.
Private Members’ Business — from 5:30 to 6:30 p. m. :
Public Bills, Private Bills, Notices of Motions and Notices of Motions (Papers).

(Wednesday)
(After the daily routine of business)

Notices of Motions for the Production of Papers.
Government Orders.
Private Members’ Business — from 5:30 to 6:30 p. m. :
Public Bills, Private Bills, Notices of Motions and Notices of Motions (Papers).

(Friday)
(Before the daily routine of business)

Government Orders.

(After the daily routine of business)

Government Orders.
Private Members’ Business — from 1:30 to 2:30 p. m. :
Public Bills, Private Bills, Notices of Motions and Notices of Motions (Papers).

 

(7)

If the beginning of Private Members’ Hour is delayed for any reason, or if the Hour is interrupted for any reason, a period of time corresponding to the time of the delay or interruption shall be added to the end of the Hour suspending as much of the business set out in section (6) of this Standing Order as necessary.   If the beginning of Private Members’ Hour is delayed or the interruption continues past thirty minutes after the time at which the Hour would have ordinarily ended, Private Members’ Hour for that day and the business scheduled for consideration at that time, or any remaining portion thereof, shall be added to the business of the House on a day to be fixed, after consultation, by the Speaker, who shall attempt to designate that day within the next ten sitting days, but who, in any case, shall not permit the intervention of more than one adjournment period provided for in Standing Order 28(2). In cases where the Speaker adjourns the House pursuant to Standing Orders 2(3), 30(4)(b) or 83(2), this section shall not apply.

31.

A Member may be recognized, under the provisions of Standing Order 30(5), to make a statement for not more than one minute.   The Speaker may order a Member to resume his or her seat if, in the opinion of the Speaker, improper use is made of this Standing Order.

32.

(1)

Any return, report or other paper required to be laid before the House in accordance with any Act of Parliament or in pursuance of any resolution or Standing Order of this House may be deposited with the Clerk of the House on any sitting day or, when the House stands adjourned, on the Wednesday following the fifteenth day of the month.   Such return, report or other paper shall be deemed for all purposes to have been presented to or laid before the House.

 

(2)

A Minister of the Crown, or a Parliamentary Secretary acting on behalf of a Minister, may, in his or her place in the House, state that he or she proposes to lay upon the Table of the House, any report or other paper dealing with a matter coming within the administrative responsibilities of the government, and, thereupon, the same shall be deemed for all purposes to have been laid before the House.

 

(3)

In either case, a record of any such paper shall be entered in the Journals.

 

(4)

Any document distributed in the House or laid before the House pursuant to sections (1) or (2) of this Standing Order shall be in both official languages.

 

(5)

Reports, returns or other papers laid before the House in accordance with an Act of Parliament shall thereupon be deemed to have been permanently referred to the appropriate standing committee.

 

(6)

Papers required to be laid upon the Table pursuant to Standing Order 110 shall be deemed referred to the appropriate standing committee during the period specified in laying the same upon the Table.

33.

(1)

On Statements by Ministers, as listed in Standing Order 30(3), a Minister of the Crown may make a short factual announcement or statement of government policy.   A Member from each of the parties in opposition to the government may comment briefly thereon.   The time for such proceedings shall be limited as the Speaker deems fit.

 

(2)

A period of time corresponding to the time taken for the proceedings pursuant to section (1) of this Standing Order shall be added to the time provided for government business in the afternoon of the day on which the said proceedings took place. Private Members’ Business, where applicable, and the ordinary time of daily adjournment shall be delayed accordingly, notwithstanding Standing Orders 24, 30 and 38 or any Order made pursuant to Standing Order 27.

34.

(1)

Within twenty sitting days of the return to Canada of an officially recognized inter-parliamentary delegation composed, in any part, of Members of the House, the head of the delegation, or a Member acting on behalf of him or her, shall present a report to the House on the activities of the delegation.

 

(2)

A Member presenting a report, pursuant to section (1) of this Standing Order, shall be permitted to make a succinct oral presentation of its subject-matter.

35.

(1)

Reports to the House from committees may be made by Members standing in their places, at the time provided pursuant to Standing Order 30(3) or 81(4)(c), provided that the Member may be permitted to give a succinct explanation of the subject-matter of the report.

 

(2)

Upon presentation of a report accompanied by supplementary or dissenting opinions or recommendations pursuant to Standing Order 108(1)(a), a committee member of the Official Opposition representing those who supported the opinion or opinions expressed in the appended material may also rise to give a succinct explanation thereof.

36.

(1)

Prior to presentation, the Clerk of Petitions shall examine all petitions, and in order to be presented, they must be certified correct as to form and content by the said Clerk.

 

(2)

In order to be certified, pursuant to section (1) of this Standing Order, every petition shall:

(a)

be addressed to the House of Commons or to the House of Commons in Parliament assembled;

(b)

contain a clear, proper and respectful prayer requesting that Parliament see fit to take some action within its authority;

(c)

be written, typewritten or printed on paper of usual size;

(d)

be free of erasures and interlineations in its text;

(e)

have its subject-matter indicated on every sheet if it consists of more than one sheet of signatures and addresses;

(f)

contain only original signatures and addresses written directly onto the petition and not pasted thereon or otherwise transferred to it; and

(g)

contain at least twenty-five signatures together with the addresses of the signatories, from persons other than Members of Parliament.

 

(3)

Members presenting petitions shall be answerable that they do not contain impertinent or improper matter.

 

(4)

Every Member presenting a petition shall endorse his or her name thereon.

 

(5)

A petition to the House may be presented by a Member at any time during the sitting of the House by filing the same with the Clerk of the House.

 

(6)

Any Member desiring to present a petition, in his or her place in the House, may do so on “Presenting Petitions”, a period not to exceed fifteen minutes, during the ordinary daily routine of business.

 

(7)

On the presentation of a petition no debate on or in relation to the same shall be allowed.

 

(8)

Every petition presented pursuant to this Standing Order shall forthwith be transmitted to the Ministry, which shall, within forty-five days, respond to every petition referred to it; provided that the said response may be tabled pursuant to Standing Order 32(1).

37.

(1)

Questions on matters of urgency may, at the time specified in Standing Order 30(5), be addressed orally to Ministers of the Crown, provided however that, if in the opinion of the Speaker a question is not urgent, he or she may direct that it be placed on the Order Paper.

 

(2)

Questions may also be addressed orally at the time specified in Standing Order 30(5), to a member of the Board of Internal Economy so designated by the Board.

 

(3)

A Member who is not satisfied with the response to a question asked on any day at this stage, or a Member who has been told by the Speaker that the question is not urgent, may give notice that he or she intends to raise the subject-matter of the question on the adjournment of the House. The notice referred to herein, whether or not it is given orally during the oral question period provided pursuant to Standing Order 30(5), must be given in writing to the Speaker not later than one hour following that period the same day.   Unless previously disposed of, the said notice shall be deemed withdrawn after the forty-fifth sitting day from the day of notice.

38.

(1)

Except as otherwise provided in these Standing Orders, at the time of adjournment on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, the Speaker may, notwithstanding the provisions of Standing Orders 24(2) and 67(2), deem that a motion to adjourn the House has been made and seconded, whereupon such motion shall be debatable for not more than thirty minutes.

 

(2)

No matter shall be debated during the thirty minutes herein provided, unless notice thereof has been given by a Member as provided in Standing Order 37(3) or 39(5)(b). No debate on any one matter raised during this period shall last for more than six minutes.

 

(3)

When several Members have given notices of intention to raise matters on the adjournment of the House, the Speaker shall decide the order in which such matters are to be raised.   In doing so, the Speaker shall have regard to the order in which notices were given, to the urgency of the matters raised, and to the apportioning of the opportunities to debate such matters among the Members of the various parties in the House.   The Speaker may, at his or her discretion, consult with representatives of the parties concerning such order and be guided by their advice.

 

(4)

By not later than 5:00 p. m. on any Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday, the Speaker shall indicate to the House the matter or matters to be raised at the time of adjournment that day.

 

(5)

The Member raising the matter may speak for not more than four minutes. A Minister of the Crown, or a Parliamentary Secretary speaking on behalf of a Minister, if he or she wishes to do so, may speak for not more than two minutes.   When debate has lasted for a total of thirty minutes, or when the debate on the matter or matters raised has ended, whichever comes first, the Speaker shall deem the motion to adjourn to have been carried and shall adjourn the House until the next sitting day.

 

(6)

The time required for any questions and answers concerning the future business of the House, whether this item takes place before or after the thirty minute period herein provided, shall not be counted as part of the said thirty minutes.

39.

(1)

Questions may be placed on the Order Paper seeking information from Ministers of the Crown relating to public affairs; and from other Members, relating to any bill, motion or other public matter connected with the business of the House, in which such Members may be concerned; but in putting any such question or in replying to the same no argument or opinion is to be offered, nor any facts stated, except so far as may be necessary to explain the same; and in answering any such question the matter to which the same refers shall not be debated.

 

(2)

The Clerk of the House, acting for the Speaker, shall have full authority to ensure that coherent and concise questions are placed on the Notice Paper in accordance with the practices of the House, and may, on behalf of the Speaker, order certain questions to be posed separately.

 

(3)

(a)

Any Member who requires an oral answer to his or her question may distinguish it by an asterisk, but no Member shall have more than three such questions at a time on the daily Order Paper.

(b)

If a Member does not distinguish his or her question by an asterisk, the Minister to whom the question is addressed hands the answer to the Clerk of the House who causes it to be printed in the official report of the Debates.

 

(4)

No Member shall have more than four questions on the Order Paper at any one time.

 

(5)

(a)

A Member may request that the Ministry respond to a specific question within forty-five days by so indicating when filing his or her question.

(b)

If such a question remains unanswered at the expiration of the said period of forty-five days, the Member who put the question may rise in the House under “Questions on Order Paper” and give notice that he or she intends to transfer the question and raise the subject-matter thereof on the adjournment of the House.

 

(6)

If, in the opinion of the Speaker, a question on the Order Paper put to a Minister of the Crown is of such a nature as to require a lengthy reply, the Speaker may, upon the request of the government, direct the same to stand as a notice of motion, and to be transferred to its proper place as such upon the Order Paper, the Clerk of the House being authorized to amend the same as to matters of form.

 

(7)

If a question is of such a nature that, in the opinion of the Minister who is to furnish the reply, such reply should be in the form of a return, and the Minister states that he or she has no objection to laying such return upon the Table of the House, the Minister’s statement shall, unless otherwise ordered by the House, be deemed an order of the House to that effect and the same shall be entered in the Journals as such.

40.

(1)

All items standing on the Orders of the Day, except Government Orders, shall be taken up according to the precedence assigned to each on the Order Paper.

 

(2)

Government Orders shall be called and considered in such sequence as the government determines.

41.

(1)

Whenever the business before the House is interrupted pursuant to Standing Order or Special Order, unless otherwise provided, the proceedings then under consideration shall stand over until the next sitting day or later the same sitting day after the period provided pursuant to Standing Order 30(5), as the case may be, when it will be taken up at the same stage where its progress was interrupted.

 

(2)

If debate on any Order of the Day be interrupted by the House being adjourned by motion or for want of a quorum, such motion or Order shall be allowed to stand and retain its precedence on the Order Paper for the next sitting, provided that if debate on any item of Private Members’ Business not selected pursuant to Standing Order 92 is so interrupted, it shall thereupon be dropped from the Order Paper.

42.

(1)

Questions put by Members and notices of motions not taken up when called may (upon the request of the government) be allowed to stand and retain their precedence; otherwise they will disappear from the Order Paper.   They may, however, be renewed.

 

(2)

Orders not proceeded with when called, upon the like request, may be allowed to stand retaining their precedence; otherwise they shall be dropped and be placed on the Order Paper for the next sitting after those of the same class at a similar stage.

 

(3)

All orders not disposed of at the adjournment of the House shall be postponed until the next sitting day, without a motion to that effect.

43.

(1)

Unless otherwise provided in these Standing Orders, when the Speaker is in the Chair, no Member, except the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition, or a Minister moving a government order and the Member speaking in reply immediately after such Minister, shall speak for more than twenty minutes at a time in any debate.   Following each twenty-minute speech, a period not exceeding ten minutes shall be made available, if required, to allow Members to ask questions and comment briefly on matters relevant to the speech and to allow responses thereto.

 

(2)

The Whip of a party may indicate to the Speaker at any time during a debate governed by this Standing Order that one or more of the periods of debate limited pursuant to section (1) of this Standing Order and allotted to Members of his or her party are to be divided in two.

44.

(1)

No member, unless otherwise provided by Standing or Special Order, may speak twice to a question except in explanation of a material part of his or her speech which may have been misquoted or misunderstood, and the Member is not to introduce any new matter, but then no debate shall be allowed upon such explanation.

 

(2)

A reply shall be allowed to a Member who has moved a substantive motion, but not to the mover of an amendment, the previous question or an instruction to a committee.

 

(3)

In all cases the Speaker shall inform the House that the reply of the mover of the original motion closes the debate.

44.1.

(1)

The Clerk of the House shall cause to be kept at the Table a Register of Paired Members, in which any Member of the government party and any Member of an Opposition party may have their names entered together by their respective Whips, to indicate that they will not take part in any recorded division held on the date inscribed on that page of the Register; provided that independent Members of Parliament may sign the Register in their own right.

 

(2)

On any day on which one or more recorded divisions have taken place, the names of the Members so entered shall be printed in the Debates and the Journals, immediately following the entry for each of the said divisions.

45.

(1)

Upon a division, the “yeas” and “nays” shall not be entered in the Journals, unless demanded by five members.

 

(2)

When Members have been called in, preparatory to a division, no further debate is to be permitted.

 

(3)

When, under the provisions of any Standing Order or other Order of this House, the Speaker has interrupted any proceeding for the purpose of putting forthwith the question on any business then before the House, the bells to call in the Members shall be sounded for not more than fifteen minutes.

 

(4)

When the Speaker has put the question on any non-debatable motion, the bells to call in the Members shall be sounded for not more than thirty minutes.

 

(5)

(a)

(i)

Except as provided in sections (3) and (6) of this Standing Order, when the Speaker has put the question on a debatable motion and a recorded division has been demanded on the question, the bells to call in the Members are sounded for not more than thirty minutes.

 

(ii)

During the sounding of the bells, either the Chief Government Whip or the Chief Opposition Whip may ask the Speaker to defer the division.   The Speaker then defers it to an appointed time, which must be no later than the ordinary hour of daily adjournment on the next sitting day that is not a Friday. At that time, the bells sound for not more than fifteen minutes.   Exceptions to this method of deferring recorded divisions are found in paragraph (b) of this section, in section (6) of this Standing Order and in Standing Order 126(2).

 

(iii)

In the case of a votable opposition motion proposed by a Member of a party other than the Official Opposition, the Whip of that party also may ask the Speaker to defer the division.

(b)

When the Speaker has put the question on a votable opposition motion on an allotted day and a recorded division has been demanded on the question, a deferral of the division may be requested under the terms of paragraph (a) of this section, except on the last allotted day of a supply period.

(c)

A recorded division can be deferred, under the terms of paragraph (a) of this section or section (6) of this Standing Order, only once.   When a recorded division has been deferred, the House continues with the business before it, as set out in Standing Order 30(6).

(d)

If the Speaker has interrupted debate on any item of business that an Order of the House provides must be disposed of in a particular sitting, and one of the divisions involved has been deferred, no further debate can take place on the item once the deferred division has been taken, but everything necessary to dispose of the item must then be done immediately.

 

(6)

(a)

If, on a Friday, a division is demanded on any debatable motion, the division is deferred until the ordinary hour of daily adjournment on the next sitting day. A division deferred on Thursday is not held on Friday, but is instead deferred to the next sitting day, at the ordinary hour of daily adjournment. The bells for all such deferred divisions sound for not more than fifteen minutes. An exception to this rule is the division on a votable opposition motion on the last allotted day of a supply period, which cannot be deferred, except as provided in Standing Order 81(18)(b). Except as provided in section (7) of this Standing Order, in case of conflict this section will prevail over any other provision of the Standing Orders.

(b)

A recorded division on a non-debatable motion to concur in a bill at the report stage under Standing Order 76(9), 76. 1(9) or 76. 1(12) may be deferred.

 

(7)

Notwithstanding any other provision of the Standing Orders, at any time after a recorded division has been demanded, the Chief Government Whip, with the agreement of the Whips of all other recognized parties (and, in the case of an item of Private Members’ Business, also with the agreement of the Member sponsoring that item), may ask the Speaker to defer or further defer, as the case may be, the division to an appointed date and time.   The Speaker then defers the division to that time.   The bells for all such divisions sound for not more than fifteen minutes.

 

(8)

If, pursuant to any Standing or Special Order of the House, two or more recorded divisions are to be held successively without intervening debate, the division bells shall be sounded to call in the Members only once.

46.

When the question under discussion does not appear on the Order Paper or has not been printed and distributed, any Member may require it to be read at any time of the debate, but not so as to interrupt a Member while speaking.

47.

Where points of order do not arise during debate or during the times provided for statements pursuant to Standing Order 31 and oral questions pursuant to Standing Order 30(5), such matters may be presented to the Speaker immediately following the ordinary daily routine of business. Points of order which arise during the said periods may be presented to the Speaker immediately after the said period provided pursuant to Standing Order 30(5).

48.

(1)

Whenever any matter of privilege arises, it shall be taken into consideration immediately.

 

(2)

Unless notice of motion has been given under Standing Orders 54 or 86(2), any Member proposing to raise a question of privilege, other than one arising out of proceedings in the Chamber during the course of a sitting, shall give to the Speaker a written statement of the question at least one hour prior to raising the question in the House.

49.

A prorogation of the House shall not have the effect of nullifying an Order or Address of the House for returns or papers, but all papers and returns ordered at one session of the House, if not complied with during the session, shall be brought down during the following session, without renewal of the Order.

50.

(1)

The proceedings on the Order of the Day for resuming debate on the motion for an Address in Reply to the Speech from the Throne and on any amendments proposed thereto shall not exceed six sitting days.

 

(2)

No Member, except the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition, shall speak for more than twenty minutes at a time in the said debate.  Following the speech of each Member a period not exceeding ten minutes shall be made available, if required, to allow Members to ask questions and comment briefly on matters relevant to the speech and to allow responses thereto.

 

(3)

Any day or days to be appointed for the consideration of the said Order shall be announced from time to time by a Minister of the Crown and on any such day or days this Order shall have precedence of all other business except the ordinary daily routine of business.

 

(4)

On any day designated for resuming the Address debate, the consideration of Private Members’ Business, if provided for in such sitting, shall be suspended.

 

(5)

On the second of the said days, if a sub-amendment be under consideration at fifteen minutes before the ordinary hour of daily adjournment, the Speaker shall interrupt the proceedings and forthwith put the question on the said sub-amendment.

 

(6)

On the fourth of the said days, if any amendment be under consideration at thirty minutes before the ordinary hour of daily adjournment, the Speaker shall interrupt the proceedings and forthwith put the question on any amendment or amendments then before the House.

 

(7)

The motion for an Address in Reply shall not be subject to amendment on or after the fifth day of the said debate.

 

(8)

On the sixth of the said days, at fifteen minutes before the ordinary hour of daily adjournment, unless the said debate be previously concluded, the Speaker shall interrupt the proceedings and forthwith put every question necessary to dispose of the main motion.

51.

(1)

Between the sixtieth and ninetieth sitting days of the first session of a Parliament on a day designated by a Minister of the Crown or on the ninetieth sitting day if no day has been designated, an Order of the Day for the consideration of a motion “That this House takes note of the Standing Orders and procedure of the House and its Committees” shall be deemed to be proposed and have precedence over all other business.

 

(2)

Proceedings on the motion shall expire when debate thereon has been concluded or at the ordinary hour of daily adjournment on that day, as the case may be.

 

(3)

No Member shall speak more than once or longer than ten minutes.

52.

(1)

Leave to make a motion for the adjournment of the House for the purpose of discussing a specific and important matter requiring urgent consideration must be asked for after the ordinary daily routine of business as set out in sections (3) and (4) of Standing Order 30 is concluded.

 

(2)

A Member wishing to move, “That this House do now adjourn”, under the provisions of this Standing Order shall give to the Speaker, at least one hour prior to raising it in the House, a written statement of the matter proposed to be discussed.

 

(3)

When requesting leave to propose such a motion, the Member shall rise in his or her place and present without argument the statement referred to in section (2) of this Standing Order.

 

(4)

The Speaker shall decide, without any debate, whether or not the matter is proper to be discussed.

 

(5)

In determining whether a matter should have urgent consideration, the Speaker shall have regard to the extent to which it concerns the administrative responsibilities of the government or could come within the scope of ministerial action and the Speaker also shall have regard to the probability of the matter being brought before the House within reasonable time by other means.

 

(6)

The right to move the adjournment of the House for the above purposes is subject to the following conditions:

(a)

the matter proposed for discussion must relate to a genuine emergency, calling for immediate and urgent consideration;

(b)

not more than one matter can be discussed on the same motion;

(c)

not more than one such motion can be made at the same sitting;

(d)

the motion must not revive discussion on a matter which has been discussed in the same session pursuant to the provisions of this Standing Order;

(e)

the motion must not raise a question of privilege; and

(f)

the discussion under the motion must not raise any question which, according to the Standing Orders of the House, can only be debated on a distinct motion under notice.

 

(7)

In stating whether or not the Speaker is satisfied that the matter is proper to be discussed, the Speaker is not bound to give reasons for the decision.

 

(8)

If the Speaker so desires, he or she may defer the decision upon whether the matter is proper to be discussed until later in the sitting, when the proceedings of the House may be interrupted for the purpose of announcing his or her decision.

 

(9)

If the Speaker is satisfied that the matter is proper to be discussed, the motion shall stand over until 8:00 p. m. on that day, provided that the Speaker, at his or her discretion, may direct that the motion shall be set down for consideration on the following sitting day at an hour specified by the Speaker.

 

(10)

When a request to make such a motion has been made on any day, except Friday, and the Speaker directs that it be considered the same day, the House shall rise at the ordinary hour of daily adjournment and resume at 8:00 p. m.

 

(11)

When a request to make such a motion has been made on any Friday, and the Speaker directs that it be considered the same day, it shall be considered forthwith.

 

(12)

The proceedings on any motion being considered, pursuant to sections (9) or (11) of this Standing Order, may continue beyond the ordinary hour of daily adjournment but, when debate thereon is concluded prior to that hour in any sitting, it shall be deemed withdrawn.   Subject to any motion adopted pursuant to Standing Order 26(2), at 12:00 midnight on any sitting day except Friday, and at 4:00 p. m. on Friday, the Speaker shall declare the motion carried and forthwith adjourn the House until the next sitting day.   In any other case, the Speaker, when satisfied that the debate has been concluded, shall declare the motion carried and forthwith adjourn the House until the next sitting day.

 

(13)

No Member shall speak longer than twenty minutes during debate on any such motion.

 

(14)

Debate on any such motion shall not be interrupted by “Private Members’ Business”.

 

(15)

The provisions of this Standing Order shall not be suspended by the operation of any other Standing Order relating to the hours of sitting or in respect of the consideration of any other business; provided that, in cases of conflict, the Speaker shall determine when such other business shall be considered or disposed of and the Speaker shall make any consequential interpretation of any Standing Order that may be necessary in relation thereto.

53.

(1)

In relation to any matter that the government considers to be of an urgent nature, a Minister of the Crown may, at any time when the Speaker is in the Chair, propose a motion to suspend any Standing or other Order of this House relating to the need for notice and to the hours and days of sitting.

 

(2)

After the Minister has stated reasons for the urgency of such a motion, the Speaker shall propose the question to the House.

 

(3)

Proceedings on any such motion shall be subject to the following conditions:

(a)

the Speaker may permit debate thereon for a period not exceeding one hour;

(b)

the motion shall not be subject to amendment except by a Minister of the Crown;

(c)

no Member may speak more than once nor longer than ten minutes; and

(d)

proceedings on any such motion shall not be interrupted or adjourned by any other proceeding or by the operation of any other Order of this House.

 

(4)

When the Speaker puts the question on any such motion, he or she shall ask those who object to rise in their places.   If ten or more Members then rise, the motion shall be deemed to have been withdrawn; otherwise, the motion shall have been adopted.

 

(5)

The operation of any Order made under the provisions of this Standing Order shall not extend to any proceeding not therein specified.

54.

(1)

Forty-eight hours’ notice shall be given of a motion for leave to present a bill, resolution or address, for the appointment of any committee, for placing a question on the Order Paper or for the consideration of any notice of motion made pursuant to Standing Order 123(4); but this rule shall not apply to bills after their introduction, or to private bills, or to the times of meeting or adjournment of the House.   Such notice shall be laid on the Table, or filed with the Clerk, before 6:00 p. m. (2:00 p. m. on a Friday) and be printed in the Notice Paper of that day, except as provided in section (2) of this Standing Order.   Any notice filed with the Clerk pursuant to this Standing Order shall thereupon be deemed to have been laid on the Table in that sitting.

 

(2)

On any sitting day on which the House adjourns pursuant to Standing Order 28(2), the time specified pursuant to section (1) of this Standing Order for the filing with the Clerk of any notice shall not apply.   Any such notice may be filed with the Clerk no later than 6. 00 p. m. on the Thursday before the next sitting of the House and shall be printed in the Notice Paper to be published for that sitting.

55.

(1)

In the period prior to the first session of a Parliament, during a prorogation or when the House stands adjourned, and the government has represented to the Speaker that any government measure or measures should have immediate consideration by the House, the Speaker shall cause a notice of any such measure or measures to be published on a special Order Paper and the same shall be circulated prior to the opening or the resumption of such session.   The publication and circulation of such notice shall meet the requirements of Standing Order 54.

 

(2)

In the event of the Speaker being unable to act owing to illness or other cause, the Deputy Speaker shall act in his or her stead for the purposes of this order.   In the unavoidable absence of the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker or when the Office of Speaker is vacant, the Clerk of the House shall have the authority to act for the purposes of this Standing Order.

56.

(1)

After notice pursuant to Standing Order 54, a government notice of motion shall be put on the Order Paper as an order of the day under Government Orders.

 

(2)

Proposed motions under Government Orders for the House to go into a Committee of the Whole at the next sitting of the House when put from the Chair shall be decided without debate or amendment.

56.1.

(1)

(a)

In relation to any routine motion for the presentation of which unanimous consent is required and has been denied, a Minister of the Crown may request during Routine Proceedings that the Speaker propose the said question to the House.

(b)

For the purposes of this Standing Order, “routine motion” shall be understood to mean any motion, made upon Routine Proceedings, which may be required for the observance of the proprieties of the House, the maintenance of its authority, the management of its business, the arrangement of its proceedings, the establishing of the powers of its committees, the correctness of its records or the fixing of its sitting days or the times of its meeting or adjournment.

 

(2)

The question on any such motion shall be put forthwith, without debate or amendment.

 

(3)

When the Speaker puts the question on such a motion, he or she shall ask those who object to rise in their places.   If twenty-five or more Members then rise, the motion shall be deemed to have been withdrawn; otherwise, the motion shall have been adopted.

57.

Immediately before the Order of the Day for resuming an adjourned debate is called, or if the House be in Committee of the Whole, any Minister of the Crown who, standing in his or her place, shall have given notice at a previous sitting of his or her intention so to do, may move that the debate shall not be further adjourned, or that the further consideration of any resolution or resolutions, clause or clauses, section or sections, preamble or preambles, title or titles, shall be the first business of the Committee, and shall not further be postponed; and in either case such question shall be decided without debate or amendment; and if the same shall be resolved in the affirmative, no Member shall thereafter speak more than once, or longer than twenty minutes in any such adjourned debate; or, if in Committee, on any such resolution, clause, section, preamble or title; and if such adjourned debate or postponed consideration shall not have been resumed or concluded before 11:00 p. m. , no Member shall rise to speak after that hour, but all such questions as must be decided in order to conclude such adjourned debate or postponed consideration, shall be decided forthwith.

58.

When a question is under debate, no motion is received unless to amend it; to postpone it to a day certain; for the previous question; for reading the Orders of the Day; for proceeding to another order; to adjourn the debate; to continue or extend a sitting of the House; or for the adjournment of the House.

59.

A motion for reading the Orders of the Day shall have preference to any motion before the House.

60.

A motion to adjourn, unless otherwise prohibited in these Standing Orders, shall always be in order, but no second motion to the same effect shall be made until some intermediate proceeding has taken place.

61.

(1)

The previous question, until it is decided, shall preclude all amendment of the main question, and shall be in the following words, “That this question be now put”.

 

(2)

If the previous question be resolved in the affirmative, the original question is to be put forthwith without any amendment or debate.

62.

When two or more Members rise to speak, the Speaker calls upon the Member who first rose in his or her place; but a motion may be made that any Member who has risen “be now heard”, or “do now speak”, which motion shall be forthwith put without debate.

63.

A motion to refer a bill, resolution or any question to any standing, special or legislative committee or to a Committee of the Whole, shall preclude all amendment of the main question.

64.

A Member who has made a motion may withdraw the same only by the unanimous consent of the House.

65.

All motions shall be in writing, and seconded, before being debated or put from the Chair.   When a motion is seconded, it shall be read in English and in French by the Speaker, if he or she be familiar with both languages; if not, the Speaker shall read the motion in one language and direct the Clerk of the Table to read it in the other, before debate.

66.

When a debate on any motion made after the start of the sitting (after 2:00 p. m. on Mondays and after 11:00 a. m. on Fridays) and prior to the reading of an Order of the Day is adjourned or interrupted, the order for resumption of the debate shall be transferred to and considered under Government Orders.

67.

(1)

The following motions are debatable:

Every motion:

(a)

standing on the order of proceedings for the day, except as otherwise provided in these Standing Orders;

(b)

for the concurrence in a report of a standing or special committee;

(c)

for the previous question;

(d)

for the second reading and reference of a bill to a standing, special or legislative committee or to a Committee of the Whole House;

(e)

for the consideration of any amendment to be proposed at the report stage of any bill reported from any standing, special or legislative committee;

(f)

for the third reading and passage of a bill;

(g)

for the consideration of Senate amendments to House of Commons bills;

(h)

for a conference with the Senate;

(i)

for the adjournment of the House when made for the purpose of discussing a specific and important matter requiring urgent consideration;

(j)

for the consideration of a Ways and Means Order (Budget);

(k)

for the consideration of any motion under the order for the consideration of the business of supply;

(l)

for the adoption in Committee of the Whole of the motion, clause, section, preamble or title under consideration;

(m)

for the appointment of a committee;

(n)

for reference to a committee of any report or return laid on the Table of the House;

(o)

for the suspension of any Standing Order unless otherwise provided; and

(p)

such other motion, made upon Routine Proceedings, as may be required for the observance of the proprieties of the House, the maintenance of its authority, the appointment or conduct of its officers, the management of its business, the arrangement of its proceedings, the correctness of its records, the fixing of its sitting days or the times of its meeting or adjournment.

 

(2)

All other motions, unless otherwise provided in these Standing Orders, shall be decided without debate or amendment.

68.

(1)

Every bill is introduced upon motion for leave, specifying the title of the bill; or upon motion to appoint a committee to prepare and bring it in.

 

(2)

A motion for leave to introduce a bill shall be deemed carried, without debate, amendment or question put, provided that any Member moving for such leave may be permitted to give a succinct explanation of the provisions of the said bill.

 

(3)

No bill may be introduced either in blank or in an imperfect shape.

 

(4)

(a)

A motion by a Minister of the Crown to appoint or instruct a standing, special or legislative committee to prepare and bring in a bill, pursuant to section (1) of this Standing Order, shall be considered under Government Orders. During debate on any such motion no Member shall be permitted to speak more than once or for more than ten minutes. After not more than ninety minutes debate on any such motion, the Speaker shall interrupt debate and put all questions necessary to dispose of the motion without further debate or amendment. A motion by a Minister of the Crown to concur in the report of a committee pursuant to this section or to section (4)(b) of this Standing Order shall also be taken up under Government Orders and shall, for the purposes of Standing Order 78, be considered to be a stage of a public bill.

(b)

A motion by a Private Member to appoint or instruct a standing, special or legislative committee to prepare and bring in a bill, pursuant to section (1) of this Standing Order,  shall be considered as a motion under Private Members’ Business and shall be subject to the procedures in that regard set down in Standing Orders 86 to 99, inclusive.   A motion by a Member other than a Minister of the Crown to concur in the report of a committee pursuant to this section or to section (4)(a) of this Standing Order shall also be taken up as a motion under Private Members’ Business pursuant to the aforementioned Standing Orders in that regard.

 

(5)

A committee appointed or instructed to prepare and bring in a bill shall, in its report, recommend the principles, scope and general provisions of the said bill and may, if it deems it appropriate, but not necessarily, include recommendations regarding legislative wording.

 

(6)

The adoption of a motion to concur in a report made pursuant to section (5) of this Standing Order shall be an order to bring in a bill based thereon.

 

(7)

(a)

When a Minister of the Crown, in proposing a motion for first reading of a bill, has stated that the bill is in response to an order made pursuant to section (6) of this Standing Order, notwithstanding any Standing Order, the bill shall not be set down for consideration at the second reading stage before the third sitting day after having been read a first time.   The second reading and any subsequent stages of such a bill shall be considered under Government Orders.   When a motion for second reading of such a bill is proposed, notwithstanding any Standing Order, the Speaker shall immediately put all questions necessary to dispose of the second reading stage of the bill without debate or amendment.

(b)

When a Member other than a Minister of the Crown, in proposing a motion for first reading of a bill, has stated that the bill is in response to an order made pursuant to section (6) of this Standing Order, and if the bill is subsequently selected pursuant to Standing Order 92, when a motion for second reading of such a bill has been proposed, notwithstanding any Standing Order, the Speaker shall immediately put all questions necessary to dispose of the second reading stage of the bill without debate or amendment.

 

(8)

A Minister of the Crown may propose a motion for first reading of a bill based on an order made pursuant to section (6) of this Standing Order, whether that order was the result of a motion by a Minister or of a private Member, and notwithstanding the provisions of section (4)(b) of this Standing Order, any such bill shall thereafter be considered under Government Orders.

69.

(1)

When any bill is presented by a Member, in pursuance of an Order of the House, the question “That this bill be read a first time and be printed” shall be deemed carried, without debate, amendment or question put.

 

(2)

When any bill is brought from the Senate, the question “That this bill be read a first time&rdquo

70.

All bills shall be printed before the second reading in the English and French languages.

71.

Every bill shall receive three several readings, on different days, previously to being passed.   On urgent or extraordinary occasions, a bill may be read twice or thrice, or advanced two or more stages in one day.

72.

When a bill is read in the House, the Clerk shall certify upon it the readings and the time thereof.   After it has passed, the Clerk shall certify the same, with the date, at the foot of the bill.

73.

(1)

Immediately after the reading of the Order of the Day for the second reading of any government bill, a Minister of the Crown may, after notifying representatives of the opposition parties, propose a motion that the said bill be forthwith referred to a standing, special or legislative committee.   The Speaker shall immediately propose the question to the House and proceedings thereon shall be subject to the following conditions:

(a)

the Speaker shall recognize for debate a Member from the party forming the Government, followed by a Member from the party forming the Official Opposition, followed by a Member from each officially recognized party in the House, in order of the number of Members in that party, provided that, if no Member from the party whose turn has been reached rises, a Member of the next party in the rotation or a Member who is not a Member of an officially recognized party may be recognized;

(b)

the motion shall not be subject to any amendment;

(c)

no Member may speak more than once nor longer than ten minutes.

(d)

after not more than 180 minutes of debate, the Speaker shall interrupt the debate and the question shall be put and decided without further debate.

 

(2)

Every public bill, except for bills referred to a committee before being read a second time pursuant to section (1) of this Standing Order, shall be read twice and referred to a committee before any amendment may be made thereto.

 

(3)

Unless otherwise ordered and except for bills referred to a committee before being read a second time pursuant to section (1) of this Standing Order, in giving a bill second reading, the same shall be referred to a standing, special or legislative committee.

 

(4)

Any bill based on a Supply motion shall, after second reading, stand referred to a Committee of the Whole.

 

(5)

When an Order of the Day is read for the consideration of any bill respecting borrowing authority, a maximum of two sitting days shall be set aside for the consideration of the bill at second reading.   On the second of the said days, at fifteen minutes before the expiry of the time provided for Government Orders, the Speaker shall interrupt the proceedings then in progress and shall put forthwith and successively, without further debate or amendment, every question necessary for the passage of the second reading stage of the bill.

74.

(1)

Unless otherwise provided by Standing Order or Special Order, when second reading or third reading of a government bill is being considered, no Member except the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition shall speak for more than:

(a)

forty minutes if that Member is the first, second or third speaker;

(b)

twenty minutes following the first three speakers, if that Member begins to speak within the next five hours of consideration; and following the speech of each Member a period not exceeding ten minutes shall be made available, if required, to allow Members to ask questions and comment briefly on matters relevant to the speech and to allow responses thereto; and

(c)

ten minutes if a Member speaks thereafter.

 

(2)

The Whip of a party may indicate to the Speaker at any time during a debate governed by this Standing Order that one or more of the periods of debate limited pursuant to paragraphs (1)(b) and (c) of this Standing Order, and allotted to Members of his or her party, are to be divided in two.

75.

(1)

In proceedings in any committee of the House upon bills, the preamble is first postponed, and if the first clause contains only a short title it is also postponed; then every other clause is considered by the committee in its proper order; the first clause (if it contains only a short title), the preamble and the title are to be last considered.

 

(2)

All amendments made in any committee shall be reported to the House. Every bill reported from any committee, whether amended or not, shall be received by the House on report thereof.

76.

(1)

The report stage of any bill reported by any standing, special or legislative committee before the bill has been read a second time shall not be taken into consideration prior to the third sitting day following the presentation of the said report, unless otherwise ordered by the House.

 

(2)

If, not later than the second sitting day prior to the consideration of the report stage of a bill that has not yet been read a second time, written notice is given of any motion to amend, delete, insert or restore any clause in a bill, it shall be printed on the Notice Paper.   When the same amendment is put on notice by more than one Member, that notice shall be printed once, under the name of each Member who has submitted it.   If the Speaker decides that an amendment is out of order, it shall be returned to the Member without having appeared on the Notice Paper.

 

(3)

When a recommendation of the Governor General is required in relation to any amendment of which notice has been given pursuant to section (2) of this Standing Order, notice shall be given of the said Recommendation no later than the sitting day before the day on which the report stage is to commence and such notice shall be printed on the Notice Paper along with the amendment to which it pertains.

 

(4)

An amendment, in relation to form only in a government bill, may be proposed by a Minister of the Crown without notice, but debate thereon may not be extended to the provisions of the clause or clauses to be amended.

NOTE: The purpose of this section is to facilitate the incorporation into a bill of amendments of a strictly consequential nature flowing from the acceptance of other amendments.   No waiver of notice would be permitted in relation to any amendment which would change the intent of the bill, no matter how slightly, beyond the effect of the initial amendment.

 

(5)

The Speaker shall have the power to select or combine amendments or clauses to be proposed at the report stage and may, if he or she thinks fit, call upon any Member who has given notice of an amendment to give such explanation of the subject of the amendment as may enable the Speaker to form a judgement upon it. If an amendment has been selected that has been submitted by more than one Member, the Speaker, after consultation, shall designate which Member shall propose it.

NOTE: The Speaker will not normally select for consideration any motion previously ruled out of order in committee, unless the reason for its being ruled out of order was that it required a recommendation of the Governor General, in which case the amendment may be selected only if such Recommendation has been placed on notice pursuant to this Standing Order. The Speaker will normally only select motions that were not or could not be presented in committee.   A motion, previously defeated in committee, will only be selected if the Speaker judges it to be of such exceptional significance as to warrant a further consideration at the report stage.   The Speaker will not normally select for separate debate a repetitive series of motions which are interrelated and, in making the selection, shall consider whether individual Members will be able to express their concerns during the debate on another motion.

For greater certainty, the purpose of this Standing Order is, primarily, to provide Members who were not members of the committee with an opportunity to have the House consider specific amendments they wish to propose. It is not meant to be a reconsideration of the committee stage.

 

(6)

When the Order of the Day for the consideration of a report stage is called, any amendment proposed pursuant to this Standing Order shall be open to debate and amendment.

 

(7)

When debate is permitted, no Member shall speak more than once or longer than ten minutes during proceedings on any amendment at that stage.

 

(8)

When a recorded division has been demanded on any amendment proposed during the report stage of a bill, the Speaker may defer the calling in of the Members for the purpose of recording the “yeas” and “nays” until more or all subsequent amendments to the bill have been considered.   A recorded division or divisions may be so deferred from sitting to sitting.

NOTE: In cases when there are an unusually great number of amendments for consideration at the report stage, the Speaker may, after consultation with the representatives of the parties, direct that deferred divisions be held before all amendments have been taken into consideration.

 

(9)

When proceedings at the report stage on any bill that has not been read a second time have been concluded, a motion “That the bill, as amended, be concurred in and be read a second time” or “That the bill be concurred in and read a second time” shall be put and forthwith disposed of, without amendment or debate.

 

(10)

The report stage of a bill pursuant to this Standing Order shall be deemed to be an integral part of the second reading stage of the bill. When a bill has been concurred in and read a second time in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Standing Order, it shall be set down for a third reading and passage at the next sitting of the House.

76.1.

(1)

The report stage of any bill reported by any standing, special or legislative committee after the bill has been read a second time shall not be taken into consideration prior to the second sitting day following the presentation of the said report, unless otherwise ordered by the House.

 

(2)

If, not later than the sitting day prior to the consideration of the report stage of a bill that has been read a second time, written notice is given of any motion to amend, delete, insert or restore any clause in a bill, it shall be printed on the Notice Paper.   When the same amendment is put on notice by more than one Member, that notice shall be printed once, under the name of each Member who has submitted it.   If the Speaker decides that an amendment is out of order, it shall be returned to the Member without having appeared on the Notice Paper.

 

(3)

When a recommendation of the Governor General is required in relation to any amendment to be proposed at the report stage of a bill that has been read a second time, at least twenty-four hours’ written notice shall be given of the said Recommendation and proposed amendment.

 

(4)

An amendment, in relation to form only in a government bill, may be proposed by a Minister of the Crown without notice, but debate thereon may not be extended to the provisions of the clause or clauses to be amended.

NOTE: The purpose of the section is to facilitate the incorporation into a bill of amendments of a strictly consequential nature flowing from the acceptance of other amendments.   No waiver of notice would be permitted in relation to any amendment which would change the intent of the bill, no matter how slightly, beyond the effect of the initial amendment.

 

(5)

The Speaker shall have power to select or combine amendments or clauses to be proposed at the report stage and may, if he or she thinks fit, call upon any Member who has given notice of an amendment to give such explanation of the subject of the amendment as may enable the Speaker to form a judgement upon it.   If an amendment has been selected that has been submitted by more than one Member, the Speaker, after consultation, shall designate which Member shall propose it.

NOTE: The Speaker will not normally select for consideration by the House any motion previously ruled out of order in committee and will normally only select motions which were not or could not be presented in committee. A motion, previously defeated in committee, will only be selected if the Speaker judges it to be of such exceptional significance as to warrant a further consideration at the report stage. The Speaker will not normally select for separate debate a repetitive series of motions which are interrelated and, in making the selection, shall consider whether individual Members will be able to express their concerns during the debate on another motion.

For greater certainty, the purpose of this Standing Order is, primarily, to provide Members who were not members of the committee, with an opportunity to have the House consider specific amendments they wish to propose.   It is not meant to be a reconsideration of the committee stage of a bill.

 

(6)

When the Order of the Day for the consideration of a report stage is called, any amendment of which notice has been given in accordance with this Standing Order shall be open to debate and amendment.

 

(7)

When debate is permitted, no Member shall speak more than once or longer than ten minutes during proceedings on any amendment at that stage.

 

(8)

When a recorded division has been demanded on any amendment proposed during the report stage of a bill, the Speaker may defer the calling in of the Members for the purpose of recording the “yeas” and “nays” until more or all subsequent amendments to the bill have been considered.   A recorded division or divisions may be so deferred from sitting to sitting.

NOTE: In cases when there are an unusually great number of amendments for consideration at the report stage, the Speaker may, after consultation with the representatives of the parties, direct that deferred divisions be held before all amendments have been taken into consideration.

 

(9)

When proceedings at the report stage on any bill that has been read a second time have been concluded, a motion “That the bill, as amended, be concurred in” or “That the bill be concurred in” shall be put and forthwith disposed of, without amendment or debate.

 

(10)

When a bill that has been read a second time has been amended or debate has taken place thereon at the report stage, the same shall be set down for a third reading and passage at the next sitting of the House.

 

(11)

When a bill that has been read a second time has been reported from a standing, special or legislative committee, and no amendment has been proposed thereto at the report stage, and in the case of a bill reported from a Committee of the Whole, with or without amendment, a motion, “That the bill be now read a third time and passed”, may be made in the same sitting.

 

(12)

The consideration of the report stage of a bill from a Committee of the Whole shall be received and forthwith disposed of, without amendment or debate.

77.

(1)

Twenty-four hours’ written notice shall be given by a Member proposing any motion respecting Senate amendments to a bill.

 

(2)

In cases in which the Senate disagrees to any amendments made by the House of Commons, or insists upon any amendments to which the House has disagreed, the House is willing to receive the reasons of the Senate for their disagreeing or insisting (as the case may be) by message, without a conference, unless at any time the Senate should desire to communicate the same at a conference.

 

(3)

Any conference between the two Houses may be a free conference.

 

(4)

When the House requests a conference with the Senate, the reasons to be given by this House at the same shall be prepared and agreed to by the House before a message be sent therewith.

78.

(1)

When a Minister of the Crown, from his or her place in the House, states that there is agreement among the representatives of all parties to allot a specified number of days or hours to the proceedings at one or more stages of any public bill, the Minister may propose a motion, without notice, setting forth the terms of such agreed allocation; and every such motion shall be decided forthwith, without debate or amendment.

 

(2)

(a)

When a Minister of the Crown, from his or her place in the House, states that a majority of the representatives of the several parties have come to an agreement in respect of a proposed allotment of days or hours for the proceedings at any stage of the passing of a public bill, the Minister may propose a motion, without notice, during proceedings under Government Orders, setting forth the terms of the said proposed allocation; provided that for the purposes of this section of this Standing Order an allocation may be proposed in one motion to cover the proceedings at both the report and the third reading stages of a bill if that motion is consistent with the provisions of Standing Order 76. 1(10).   The motion shall not be subject to debate or amendment, and the Speaker shall put the question on the said motion forthwith. Any proceeding interrupted pursuant to this section of this Standing Order shall be deemed adjourned.

(b)

If a motion pursuant to this section regarding any bill is moved and carried at the beginning of Government Orders on any day and if the order for the said bill is then called and debated for the remainder of the sitting day, the length of that debate shall be deemed to be one sitting day for the purposes of paragraph (a) of this section.

 

(3)

(a)

A Minister of the Crown who from his or her place in the House, at a previous sitting, has stated that an agreement could not be reached under the provisions of sections (1) or (2) of this Standing Order in respect of proceedings at the stage at which a public bill was then under consideration either in the House or in any committee, and has given notice of his or her intention so to do, may propose a motion during proceedings under Government Orders, for the purpose of allotting a specified number of days or hours for the consideration and disposal of proceedings at that stage; provided that the time allotted for any stage is not to be less than one sitting day and provided that for the purposes of this paragraph an allocation may be proposed in one motion to cover the proceedings at both the report and the third reading stages on a bill if that motion is consistent with the provisions of Standing Order 76. 1(10). The motion shall not be subject to debate or amendment, and the Speaker shall put the question on the said motion forthwith.   Any proceedings interrupted pursuant to this section of this Standing Order shall be deemed adjourned.

(b)

If a motion pursuant to this section regarding any bill is moved and carried at the beginning of Government Orders on any day and if the order for the said bill is then called and debated for the remainder of the sitting day, the length of that debate shall be deemed to be one sitting day for the purposes of paragraph (a) of this section.

79.

(1)

This House shall not adopt or pass any vote, resolution, address or bill for the appropriation of any part of the public revenue, or of any tax or impost, to any purpose that has not been first recommended to the House by a message from the Governor General in the session in which such vote, resolution, address or bill is proposed.

 

(2)

The message and recommendation of the Governor General in relation to any bill for the appropriation of any part of the public revenue or of any tax or impost shall be printed on the Notice Paper, printed in or annexed to the bill and recorded in the Journals.

 

(3)

When estimates are brought in, the message from the Governor General shall be presented to and read by the Speaker in the House.

80.

(1)

All aids and supplies granted to the Sovereign by the Parliament of Canada are the sole gift of the House of Commons, and all bills for granting such aids and supplies ought to begin with the House, as it is the undoubted right of the House to direct, limit, and appoint in all such bills, the ends, purposes, considerations, conditions, limitations and qualifications of such grants, which are not alterable by the Senate.

 

(2)

In order to expedite the business of Parliament, the House will not insist on the privilege claimed and exercised by them of laying aside bills sent from the Senate because they impose pecuniary penalties nor of laying aside amendments made by the Senate because they introduce into or alter pecuniary penalties in bills sent to them by this House; provided that all such penalties thereby imposed are only to punish or prevent crimes and offences, and do not tend to lay a burden on the subject, either as aid or supply to the Sovereign, or for any general or special purposes, by rates, tolls, assessments or otherwise.

81.

(1)

At the commencement of each session, the House shall designate, by motion, a continuing Order of the Day for the consideration of the business of supply.

 

(2)

On any day or days appointed for the consideration of any business under the provisions of this Standing Order, that order of business shall have precedence over all other government business in such sitting or sittings.

 

(3)

For the purposes of this Order, the business of supply shall consist of motions to concur in interim supply, main estimates and supplementary or final estimates; motions to restore or reinstate any item in the estimates; motions to introduce or pass at all stages any bill or bills based thereon; and opposition motions that under this order may be considered on allotted days.

 

(4)

In every session the main estimates to cover the incoming fiscal year for every department of government shall be referred to standing committees on or before March 1 of the then expiring fiscal year.   Each such committee shall consider and shall report, or shall be deemed to have reported, the same back to the House not later than May 31 in the then current fiscal year, provided that:

(a)

not later than the third sitting day prior to May 31, the Leader of the Opposition may give notice during the time specified in Standing Order 54 of a motion to extend consideration of the main estimates of a named department or agency and the said motion shall be deemed adopted when called on “Motions” on the last sitting day prior to May 31;

(b)

on the sitting day immediately preceding the final allotted day, but in any case not later than ten sitting days following the day on which any motion made pursuant to paragraph (a) of this section is adopted, at not later than the ordinary hour of daily adjournment, the said committee shall report, or shall be deemed to have reported, the main estimates for the said department or agency; and

(c)

if the committee shall make a report, the Chairman or a member of the committee acting for the Chairman may so indicate, on a point of order, prior to the hours indicated in paragraph (b) of this section, and the House shall immediately revert to “Presenting Reports from Committees” for the purpose of receiving the said report.

 

(5)

Supplementary estimates shall be referred to a standing committee or committees immediately they are presented in the House.   Each such committee shall consider and shall report, or shall be deemed to have reported, the same back to the House not later than three sitting days before the final sitting or the last allotted day in the current period.

 

(6)

A motion, to be decided without debate or amendment, may be moved during Routine Proceedings by a Minister of the Crown to refer any item or items in the main estimates or in supplementary estimates to any standing committee or committees and, upon report from any such committees, the same shall lie upon the Table of the House.

 

(7)

When main estimates are referred to a standing committee, the committee shall also be empowered to consider and report upon the expenditure plans and priorities in future fiscal years of the departments and agencies whose main estimates are before it.

 

(8)

Any report made in accordance with section (7) of this Standing Order may be made up to and including the last normal sitting day in June, as set forth in Standing Order 28(2), and shall be deemed to be subject to the provisions of section (9) of this Standing Order.

 

(9)

There shall be no debate on any motion to concur in the report of any standing committee on estimates which have been referred to it except on an allotted day.

 

(10)

(a)

In any calendar year, seven sitting days shall be allotted to the business of supply for the period ending not later than December 10; seven additional days shall be allotted to the business of supply in the period ending not later than March 26; and seven additional days shall be allotted to the business of supply in the period ending not later than June 23; provided that the number of sitting days so allotted may be altered pursuant to paragraph (b) or (c) of this section. These twenty-one days are to be designated as allotted days. In any calendar year, no more than one fifth of all the allotted days shall fall on a Wednesday and no more than one fifth thereof shall fall on a Friday.

(b)

Notwithstanding paragraph (a), if the House does not sit on days designated as sitting days pursuant to Standing Order 28(2), the total number of allotted days in that supply period shall be reduced by a number of days proportionate to the number of sitting days on which the House stood adjourned, provided that the number of days of the said reduction shall be determined by the Speaker and announced from the Chair.

(c)

Notwithstanding paragraph (a), if the House sits, for purposes other than those set out in Standing Order 28(4), on days designated as days on which the House shall stand adjourned pursuant to Standing Order 28(2), the total number of allotted days in that supply period shall be increased by one day for every five such days during which the House sits.

 

(11)

When any day or days allotted to the Address Debate or to the Budget Debate are not used for those debates, such day or days may be added to the number of allotted days in the period in which they occur.

 

(12)

When concurrence in any final supplementary estimates relating to the fiscal year that ended on March 31 is sought in the period ending not later than June 23, three days for the consideration of the motion that the House concur in those estimates and for the passage at all stages of any bill to be based thereon shall be added to the days for the business of supply in that period.

 

(13)

Opposition motions on allotted days may be moved only by Members in opposition to the government and may relate to any matter within the jurisdiction of the Parliament of Canada and also may be used for the purpose of considering reports from standing committees relating to the consideration of estimates therein.

 

(14)

(a)

Forty-eight hours’ written notice shall be given of motions to concur in interim supply, main estimates, supplementary or final estimates, to restore or reinstate any item in the estimates. Twenty-four hours’ written notice shall be given of an opposition motion on an allotted day or of a notice to oppose any item in the estimates, provided that for the supply period ending not later than June 23, forty-eight hours’ written notice shall be given of a notice to oppose any item in the estimates.

(b)

When notice has been given of two or more motions by Members in opposition to the government for consideration on an allotted day, the Speaker shall have power to select which of the proposed motions shall have precedence in that sitting.

 

(15)

Opposition motions shall have precedence over all government supply motions on allotted days and shall be disposed of as provided in sections (16), (17), (18) and (19) of this Standing Order.

 

(16)

Not more than fourteen opposition motions in total shall be motions that shall come to a vote during the three supply periods provided pursuant to section (10) of this Standing Order. The duration of proceedings on any such motion shall be stated in the notice relating to the appointing of an allotted day or days for those proceedigs. Except as provided for in section (18) of this Standing Order, on the last day appointed for proceedings on a motion that shall come to a vote, at fifteen minutes before the expiry of the time provided for Government Orders, the Speaker shall interrupt the proceedings and forthwith put, without further debate or amendment, every question necessary to dispose of the said proceedings.

 

(17)

On the last allotted day in the supply periods ending December 10 and March 26, but, in any case, not later than the last sitting day in each of the said periods, at fifteen minutes before the expiry of the time provided for Government Orders, the Speaker shall interrupt the proceedings then in progress and,

(a)

if those proceedings are not in relation to a motion that shall come to a vote, the Speaker shall put forthwith and successively, without debate or amendment, every question necessary to dispose of any item of business relating to interim supply and supplementary estimates, the restoration or reinstatement of any item in the estimates or any opposed item in the estimates and, notwithstanding Standing Order 71, for the passage at all stages of any bill or bills based thereon; or

(b)

if those proceedings are in relation to a motion that shall come to a vote, the Speaker shall first put forthwith, without further debate or amendment, every question necessary to dispose of that proceeding, and forthwith thereafter put successively, without debate or amendment, every question necessary to dispose of any item of business relating to interim supply and supplementary estimates, the restoration or reinstatement of any item in the estimates, or of any opposed item in the estimates and, notwithstanding the provisions of Standing Order 71, for the passage at all stages of any bill or bills based thereon.

 

 

The Standing Orders relating to the ordinary hour of daily adjournment shall remain suspended until all such questions have been decided.

 

(18)

On the last allotted day in the period ending June 23, the House shall consider an opposition motion and any motion or motions to concur in the Main Estimates, provided that:

(a)

if the opposition motion is not a motion that shall come to a vote, proceedings on the motion shall expire when debate thereon has been concluded or at 6:30 p. m. , as the case may be, notwithstanding Standing Order 33(2) and the House shall proceed to consider a motion or motions relating to the Main Estimates; or

(b)

if the opposition motion is a motion that shall come to a vote, unless previously disposed of, at 6:30 p. m. the Speaker shall interrupt the proceedings and put forthwith, without further debate or amendment, every question necessary to dispose of the proceedings and any recorded division requested shall be deferred to the conclusion of consideration of a motion or motions relating to the Main Estimates as set out in section (18)(c); and

(c)

when proceedings on the opposition motion have been concluded, but in any case not later than 6:30 p. m. , the House shall proceed to the consideration of a motion or motions to concur in the Main Estimates, provided that, unless previously disposed of, at not later than 10:00 p. m. , the Speaker shall interrupt any proceedings then before the House, and the House shallproceed to the taking of any division or divisions necessary to dispose of the opposition motion deferred pursuant to paragraph (b) of this Standing Order, and the Speaker shall then put forthwith and successively, without further debate or amendment, every question necessary to dispose of the motion or motions to concur in the Main Estimates, and forthwith thereafter put successively, without debate or amendment, every question necessary to dispose of any business relating to the final estimates for the preceding fiscal year or for any supplementary estimates, the restoration or reinstatement of any item in the final or supplementary estimates or any opposed item in the final or supplementary estimates and, notwithstanding Standing Order 71, for the passage at all stages of any bill or bills based on the final, main or supplementary estimates; and

(d)

the Standing Orders relating to the ordinary hour of daily adjournment shall remain suspended until all such questions pursuant to paragraph (c) have been decided.

 

(19)

Proceedings on an opposition motion, which is not a motion that shall come to a vote, shall expire when debate thereon has been concluded or at the expiry of the time provided for Government Orders, as the case may be, provided that the expiry of the said time may be delayed pursuant to Standing Order 33(2).

 

(20)

The adoption of all unopposed items in any set of estimates may be proposed in one or more motions.

 

(21)

The adoption of any motion to concur in any estimate or estimates or interim supply shall be an Order of the House to bring in a bill or bills based thereon.

 

(22)

During proceedings on any item of business under the provisions of this Standing Order, no Member may speak more than once or longer than twenty minutes. Following the speech of each Member, a period not exceeding ten minutes shall be made available, if required, to allow Members to ask questions and comment briefly on matters relevant to the speech and to allow responses thereto.

82.

In the event of urgency in relation to any estimate or estimates, the proceedings of the House on a motion to concur therein and on the subsequent bill are to be taken under Government Orders and not on days allotted pursuant to Standing Order 81.

83.

(1)

A notice of a Ways and Means motion may be laid upon the Table of the House at any time during a sitting by a Minister of the Crown, but such a motion may not be proposed in the same sitting.

 

(2)

An Order of the Day for the consideration of a Ways and Means motion or motions shall be designated at the request of a Minister rising in his or her place in the House.   When such an Order is designated for a Budget presentation, the Minister shall specify the date and time thereof and the Order shall be deemed to be an Order of the House to sit beyond the ordinary hour of daily adjournment, if required.   At the specified time, the Speaker shall interrupt any proceedings then before the House and such proceedings shall be deemed adjourned; and the House shall proceed forthwith to the consideration of the Ways and Means motion for the Budget presentation. When a motion for the adjournment of the debate on the Ways and Means motion has been made by a Member of the Official Opposition, it shall be deemed adopted without question put; whereupon the Speaker shall adjourn the House to the next sitting day.

 

(3)

When an Order of the Day is read for the consideration of any motion of which notice has been given in accordance with section (1) of this Standing Order, a motion to concur in the same shall be forthwith decided without debate or amendment, but no such motion may be proposed during the Budget Debate.

 

(4)

The adoption of any Ways and Means motion shall be an order to bring in a bill or bills based on the provisions of any such motion or to propose an amendment or amendments to a bill then before the House, provided that such amendment or amendments are otherwise admissible.

83.1.

Commencing on the first sitting day in September of each year, the Standing Committee on Finance shall be authorized to consider and make reports upon proposals regarding the budgetary policy of the government.   Any report or reports thereon may be made no later than the tenth sitting day before the last normal sitting day in December, as set forth in Standing Order 28(2).

84.

(1)

When an Order of the Day is designated pursuant to Standing Order 83(2) for the purpose of enabling a Minister of the Crown to make a Budget presentation, a motion “That this House approves in general the budgetary policy of the Government” shall be proposed.

 

(2)

The proceedings on the Order of the Day for resuming debate on such Budget motion and on any amendments proposed thereto shall not exceed four sitting days.

 

(3)

When the Order of the Day for resuming the said Budget Debate is called, it must stand as the first Order of the Day and, unless it be disposed of, no other Government Order shall be considered in the same sitting.

 

(4)

On the second of the said days, if a sub-amendment be under consideration at fifteen minutes before the expiry of the time provided for government business in such sitting, the Speaker shall interrupt the proceedings and forthwith put the question on the said sub-amendment.

 

(5)

On the third of the said days, if an amendment be under consideration at fifteen minutes before the expiry of the time provided for government business in such sitting, the Speaker shall interrupt the proceedings and forthwith put the question on the said amendment.

 

(6)

On the fourth of the said days, at fifteen minutes before the expiry of the time provided for government business in such sitting, unless the debate be previously concluded, the Speaker shall interrupt the proceedings and forthwith put the question on the main motion.

 

(7)

No Member, except the Minister of Finance, the Member speaking first on behalf of the Opposition, the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition, shall speak for more than twenty minutes at a time in the Budget Debate.   Following the speech of each Member a period not exceeding ten minutes shall be made available, if required, to allow Members to ask questions and comment briefly on matters relevant to the speech and to allow responses thereto.

85.

Only one amendment and one sub-amendment may be made to a motion proposed in the Budget Debate or to a motion proposed under an Order of the Day for the consideration of the business of supply on an allotted day.

86.

(1)

Any one Member may give notice of an item of Private Member’ Business.

 

(2)

In the case of Private Members’ Notices of Motions, at least two weeks’ notice shall be given.

 

(3)

Notwithstanding the usual practices of the House, not more than twenty Members may jointly second an item under Private Members’ Business and may indicate their desire to second any motion in conjunction with the Member in whose name it first appeared on the Notice Paper, by so indicating, in writing to the Clerk of the House, at any time prior to the item being proposed.

 

(4)

Any names received, pursuant to section (3) of this Standing Order, shall be appended to the notice or order as the case may be.   Once proposed to the House, Members’ names shall not be added to the list of those seconding the said motion or order.

 

(5)

The Speaker shall be responsible for determining whether two or more items are so similar as to be substantially the same, in which case he or she shall so inform the Member or Members whose items were received last and the same shall be returned to the Member or Members without having appeared on the Notice Paper.

86.1.

During the first thirty sitting days of the second or subsequent Session of a Parliament, whenever a private Member, when proposing a motion for first reading of a public bill, states that the said bill is in the same form as a private Member’s bill that he or she introduced in the previous Session, if the Speaker is satisfied that the said bill is in the same form as at prorogation, notwithstanding Standing Order 71, the said bill shall be deemed to have been considered and approved at all stages completed at the time of prorogation and shall stand, if necessary, on the Order Paper pursuant to Standing Order 87 after those of the same class, at the same stage at which it stood at the time of prorogation or, as the case may be, referred to committee, and with the designation accorded to it pursuant to Standing Order 92(1) during the previous Session.

87.

(1)

(a)

At the beginning of a Session, the Clerk of the House, acting on behalf of the Speaker, shall, within two sitting days of the placing on the Order Paper of separate items of Private Members’ Business from at least thirty Members, notify the Members involved, of the time, date and place of a random draw of thirty Members’ names to establish the order of precedence for thirty separate items.

(b)

To the extent that there is a sufficient number of eligible motions and bills, the draw shall be conducted so that there shall be in the order of precedence an equal number of motions and public bills originating in the House of Commons.

(c)

The names of Members with bills and those of Members with motions shall be drawn separately to produce the appropriate number of bills and motions.   The names first drawn separately shall then be combined and drawn out again to determine the order of precedence for those items.

(d)

Not later than the ordinary hour of daily adjournment on the second sitting day after the day on which the draw is conducted, each Member whose name has been drawn, and who has given notice of more than one motion, shall file with the Clerk an indication as to which motion is to be placed in the order of precedence.   If a Member does not file such an indication within the time specified, the first motion standing on the Order Paper in the name of that Member under Private Members’ Business will be included in the order of precedence.   This requirement applies equally to each Member whose name has been drawn for a public bill.

 

(2)

The Clerk of the House, acting on behalf of the Speaker, shall, when necessary during a Session, conduct a random draw to establish an order of precedence for not more than fifteen additional items of Private Members’ Business, in the manner set down in section (1) of this Standing Order. No Member having an item listed in the order of precedence at the time of the draw shall be eligible to have his or her name chosen.   Not later than two sitting days prior to the conduct of the draw the Clerk shall inform the Members involved of the time, date and place of the said draw.

 

(3)

Notwithstanding sections (1) and (2) of this Standing Order, the order of precedence shall not contain, at any time, more than thirty motions and public bills originating in the House of Commons at second reading placed there as a result of a draw or draws, nor fewer than fifteen items, when there are sufficient items contained in the list which have not been given a position on the order of precedence.

 

(4)

The establishment of an order of precedence for Private Members’ Business shall not be construed so as to prevent Members from giving notice of items of Private Members’ Business.

 

(5)

The House shall not consider any order for the second reading and reference to a standing, special or legislative committee or for reference to a Committee of the Whole House of any bill, nor any Notices of Motions or Notices of Motions (Papers) unless the said item has been placed in the order of precedence.

 

(6)

(a)

At any time after the holding of the first draw in a Session, a Member may file with the Clerk a list containing the signatures of one hundred Members, including at least ten Members each from a majority of the recognized parties in the House, who support a specific item, sponsored by the Member, eligible to be placed in the order of precedence.

(b)

Notwithstanding section (3) of this Standing Order, the item for which the list referred to in paragraph (a) of this section has been filed shall be added to the bottom of the order of precedence, provided that the Member filing the list does not have an item in the order of precedence and that there shall be only one such item in the order of precedence at any one time.

88.

Subject to Standing Order 71, at least two weeks shall elapse between first and second reading of Private Members’ Public Bills.

89.

The order for the first consideration of any subsequent stages of a bill already considered during Private Members’ Business, of second reading of a private bill and of second reading of a private Member’s public bill originating in the Senate shall be placed at the bottom of the order of precedence.

90.

Except as provided pursuant to Standing Order 96, after any bill or other order standing in the name of a private Member has been considered in the House or in any Committee of the Whole and any proceeding thereon has been adjourned or interrupted, the said bill or order shall be placed on the Order Paper for the next sitting at the bottom of the order of precedence under the respective heading for such bills or orders.

91.

Notwithstanding Standing Order 30(6), the consideration of Private Members’ Business shall be suspended and the House shall continue to consider any business before it at the time otherwise provided for the consideration of Private Members’ Business until an order of precedence is established pursuant to sections (1) and (2) of Standing Order 87 and the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs has made a report on its selection of votable items, pursuant to Standing Order 92(1).

92.

(1)

The Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs shall meet as soon as practicable after the order of precedence being established pursuant to sections (1) and (2) of Standing Order 87, but in any case not later than ten sitting days after that day, and from time to time thereafter, and may select after consultation with, among others, the Members proposing the items, not more than ten items from among the items in the order of precedence, excluding those items added to it pursuant to Standing Order 86. 1, and an appropriate number from among any subsequent items for which the order of precedence is established  and such  selecteditems shall  be designated as “votable items”.   In making its selection, the Committee shall not take into account the number of Members jointly seconding an item, but shall allow the merits of the items alone to determine the selection and shall report thereon, from time to time.   At no time shall there be more than ten selected items on the order of precedence placed there as a result of a draw or draws.

 

(2)

Reports of the Committee made pursuant to section (1) of this Standing Order shall be deemed adopted when laid upon the Table.

 

(3)

Notwithstanding section (1) of this Standing Order, every private bill which has been placed on the order of precedence shall be deemed to have been selected and designated a “votable item”.

93.

Unless previously disposed of, selected bills at the second reading stage or selected motions shall receive not more than three hours of consideration and, unless previously disposed of, an item having been once considered, shall be dropped to the bottom of the order of precedence and again considered only when it reaches the top of the said order.

Provided that, unless otherwise disposed of, at not later than fifteen minutes before the end of the time provided for the consideration of the said item, any proceedings then before the House shall be interrupted and every question necessary to dispose of the selected motion or of the selected bill at the second reading stage, shall be put forthwith and successively without further debate or amendment.

94.

(1)

(a)

The Speaker shall make all arrangements necessary to ensure the orderly conduct of Private Members’ Business including:

 

(i)

ensuring that all Members have not less than twenty-four hours’ notice of items to be considered during “Private Members’ Hour”; and

 

(ii)

ensuring that the notice required by sub-paragraph (i) of this paragraph is published in the Notice Paper.

(b)

In the event of it not being possible to provide the twenty-four hours’ notice required by subparagraph (i) of this section, “Private Members’ Hour” shall be suspended for that day and the House shall continue with or revert to the business before it prior to “Private Members’ Hour” until the ordinary hour of daily adjournment.

 

(2)

(a)

When a Member has given at least forty-eight hours’ written notice that he or she is unable to be present to move his or her motion under Private Members’ Business on the date required by the order of precedence, the Speaker, with permission of the Members involved, may arrange for an exchange of positions in the order of precedence with a Member whose motion or bill has been placed in the order of precedence.

(b)

In the event that the Speaker has been unable to arrange an exchange, the House shall continue with the business before it prior to “Private Members’ Hour”.

95.

(1)

When an item of Private Members’ Business that is votable is under consideration, no Member shall speak for more than ten minutes, provided that the Member moving the item may speak for not more than twenty minutes.

 

(2)

When an item of Private Members’ Business that is not votable is proposed, the Member moving the item shall speak for not more than fifteen minutes. Thereafter, no Member shall speak for more than ten minutes for a period not exceeding forty minutes. After forty minutes, or earlier if no other Member rises in debate, the Member moving the said item shall, if he or she chooses, speak again for not more than five minutes and thereby conclude the debate.

96.

(1)

The proceedings on any item of Private Members’ Business which is not a votable item selected pursuant to Standing Order 92 shall expire when debate thereon has been concluded or at the end of the time provided for the consideration of such business and that item shall be dropped from the Order Paper.

 

(2)

The dropping of an item pursuant to section (1) of this Standing Order shall not be considered a decision of the House.

 

(3)

This Standing Order shall not apply to the consideration of Notices of Motions for the Production of Papers or of Notices of Motions (Papers).

97.

(1)

Notices of motions for the production of papers shall be placed on the Order Paper under the heading “Notices of Motions for the Production of Papers”.   All such notices, when called, shall be forthwith disposed of; but if on any such motion a debate be desired by the Member proposing it or by a Minister of the Crown, the motion will be transferred by the Clerk to the order of “Notices of Motions (Papers)”.

 

(2)

When debate on a motion for the production of papers, under the order “Notices of Motions (Papers)”, has taken place for a total time of one hour and thirty minutes, the Speaker shall at that point interrupt the debate, whereupon a Minister of the Crown, whether or not such Minister has already spoken, may speak for not more than five minutes, following which the mover of the motion may close the debate by speaking for not more than five minutes.   Unless the motion is withdrawn, as provided by Standing Order 64, the Speaker shall forthwith put the question.

97.1.

A standing, special or legislative committee to which a Private Member’s public bill has been referred shall in every case, within sixty sitting days from the date of the bill’s reference to the committee, either report the bill to the House with or without amendment or present to the House a report containing a recommendation not to proceed further with the bill and giving the reasons therefor or requesting a single extension of thirty sitting days to consider the bill, and giving the reasons therefor. If no bill or report is presented by the end of the sixty sitting days, or the thirty sitting day extension if approved by the House, the bill shall be deemed to have been reported without amendment.

98.

(1)

When a Private Member’s bill is reported from a standing, special or legislative committee or a Committee of the Whole House, or is deemed to have been reported pursuant to Standing Orders 86. 1 and 97. 1, the order for consideration of the report stage shall be placed at the bottom of the order of precedence notwithstanding Standing Order 87(3).

 

(2)

The report and third reading stages of a Private Member’s bill shall be taken up on two sitting days, unless previously disposed of, provided that once consideration has been interrupted on the first such day the order for the remaining stage or stages shall be placed at the bottom of the order of precedence, notwithstanding Standing Orders 87(3) and 96 and shall be again considered when the said bill reaches the top of the said order.

 

(3)

When the report or third reading stages of the said bill are before the House on the first of the sitting days provided pursuant to section (2) of this Standing Order, and if the said bill has not been disposed of prior to the end of the first thirty minutes of consideration, during any time then remaining, any one Member may propose a motion to extend the time for the consideration of any remaining stages on the second of the said sitting days during a period not exceeding five consecutive hours, which shall begin at the end of the time provided for Private Members’ Business, except on a Monday when the period shall begin at the ordinary hour of daily adjournment, on the second sitting day, provided that:

(a)

the motion shall be put forthwith without debate or amendment and shall be deemed withdrawn if fewer than twenty members rise in support thereof; and

(b)

a subsequent such motion shall not be put unless there has been an intervening proceeding.

 

(4)

On the second sitting day provided pursuant to section (2) of this Standing Order, unless previously disposed of, at not later than fifteen minutes before the end of the time provided for the consideration thereof, any proceedings then before the House shall be interrupted and every question necessary to dispose of the then remaining stage or stages of the said bill shall be put forthwith and successively without further debate or amendment.

 

(5)

If consideration has been extended pursuant to section (3) of this Standing Order, the Standing Orders relating to the ordinary hour of daily adjournment shall be suspended until all questions necessary to dispose of the said bill have been put.

99.

(1)

The proceedings on Private Members’ Business shall not be suspended except as provided for in Standing Orders 2(3), 30(4), 50(4), 52(14), 83(2), 91 and 94(1)(b) or as otherwise specified by Special Order of this House.   No Private Members’ Business shall be taken up on days appointed for the consideration of business pursuant to Standing Orders 53 and 84(2) nor on days, other than Mondays, appointed for the consideration of business pursuant to Standing Order 81(18).

 

(2)

Whenever Private Members’ Business is suspended or not taken up on a Monday, the House shall meet from 11:00 a. m. to 12:00  noon for the consideration of Government Orders.

100.

When an Order of the Day is read for the House to go into a Committee of the Whole or when it is ordered that a bill be considered in a Committee of the Whole, the Speaker shall leave the Chair without question put.

101.

(1)

The Standing Orders of the House shall be observed in Committees of the Whole so far as may be applicable, except the Standing Orders as to the seconding of motions, limiting the number of times of speaking and the length of speeches.

 

(2)

Speeches in Committees of the Whole must be strictly relevant to the item or clause under consideration.

 

(3)

No Member, except the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition, shall speak for more than twenty minutes at a time in any Committee of the Whole.

102.

(1)

A motion that the Chairman leave the Chair is always in order, shall take precedence of any other motion, and shall not be debatable.

 

(2)

Such motion, if rejected, cannot be renewed unless some intermediate proceeding has taken place.

103.

Whenever a resolution is reported from any Committee of the Whole, a motion to concur in the same shall be forthwith put and decided without debate or amendment.

104.

(1)

At the commencement of the first session of each Parliament, the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs, which, notwithstanding section (2) of this Standing Order, shall consist of sixteen Members, and the membership of which shall continue from session to session, shall be appointed to act, among its other duties, as a striking committee.   The said Committee shall prepare and report to the House within the first ten sitting days after its appointment, and thereafter, within the first ten sitting days after the commencement of each session and within the first ten sitting days after the second Monday following Labour Day, lists of Members to compose the standing committees of the House pursuant to Standing Order 104(2), and to act for the House on standing joint committees; provided that the Committee shall not present a second report pursuant to this Standing Order between the second Monday following Labour Day and the end of that calendar year.

 

(2)

The standing committees, which shall consist of the number of Members stipulated below, and for which the lists of members are to be prepared, except as provided in section (1) of this Standing Order, shall be on:

(a)

Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development (sixteen Members);

(b)

Agriculture and Agri-Food (sixteen Members);

(c)

Canadian Heritage (sixteen Members);

(d)

Citizenship and Immigration (sixteen Members);

(e)

Environment and Sustainable Development (sixteen Members);

(f)

Finance (sixteen Members);

(g)

Fisheries and Oceans (sixteen Members);

(h)

Foreign Affairs and International Trade (eighteen Members);

(i)

Health (sixteen Members);

(j)

Human Resources Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities (eighteen Members);

(k)

Industry (sixteen Members);

(l)

Justice and Human Rights (sixteen Members);

(m)

National Defence and Veterans Affairs (sixteen Members);

(n)

Natural Resources and Government Operations (sixteen Members);

(o)

Procedure and House Affairs (sixteen Members);

(p)

Public Accounts (seventeen Members); and

(q)

Transport (sixteen Members).

 

(3)

The Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs shall also prepare and report lists of Members to act for the House on the Standing Joint Committees on:

(a)

the Library of Parliament;

(b)

Official Languages; and

(c)

Scrutiny of Regulations;

 

 

Provided that a sufficient number of Members shall be appointed so as to keep the same proportion therein as between the memberships of both Houses.

 

(4)

The Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs shall also prepare lists of associate members for each Standing Committee and Standing Joint Committee referred to in this Standing Order, who shall be deemed to be members of that committee for the purposes of Standing Orders 108(1)(b) and 114(2)(a) and who shall be eligible to act as substitutes on that committee pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order 114(2)(b).

105.

A special committee shall consist of not more than fifteen members.

106.

(1)

Within ten sitting days following the adoption by the House of a report of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs pursuant to Standing Order 104(1), the Clerk of the House shall convene a meeting of each standing committee whose membership is contained in that report for the purpose of electing a Chairman, provided that forty-eight hours’ notice is given of any such meeting.

 

(2)

Each standing or special committee shall elect a Chairman and two Vice-Chairmen, of whom two shall be Members of the government party and the third a Member in opposition to the government, in accordance with the provisions of Standing Order 116, at the commencement of every session and, if necessary, during the course of a session.

 

(3)

Within ten sitting days of the receipt, by the clerk of a standing committee, of a request signed by any four members of the said committee, the Chairman of the said committee shall convene such a meeting provided that forty-eight hours’ notice is given of the meeting.   For the purposes of this section, the reasons for convening such a meeting shall be stated in the request.

107.

(1)

The Chairman of each standing committee, together with the Member of the House from each standing joint committee who is the Chairman of the said joint committee, shall form a Liaison Committee, which is charged with making apportionments of funds from the block of funds authorized by the Board of Internal Economy to meet the expenses of committee activities, subject to ratification by the Board.

 

(2)

Within five sitting days of the meeting of the last standing committee to elect its Chairman pursuant to Standing Order 106(2), but in any event no later than the twentieth sitting day after the adoption of the report of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs presented pursuant to Standing Order 104(1), the Clerk of the House shall convene a meeting of the Chairmen, together with any Members of the House elected as Chairman of any joint committees for which such elections have then been held, for the purpose of electing a Chairman and a Vice-Chairman of the Liaison Committee.

 

(3)

The Liaison Committee shall be empowered to report from time to time to the House.

 

(4)

Seven members of the Liaison Committee shall constitute a quorum.

 

(5)

The Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs shall, at the request of the Chairman of the Liaison Committee, prepare and report to the House a list of associate members of that Committee, who shall be deemed to be members thereof for the purposes of section (6) of this Standing Order.

 

(6)

The Liaison Committee shall be empowered to create sub-committees of which the membership may be drawn from among both the list of members of the Committee and the list of associate members provided for in section (5) of this Standing Order.

108.

(1)

(a)

Standing committees shall be severally empowered to examine and enquire into all such matters as may be referred to them by the House, to report from time to time and to print a brief appendix to any report, after the signature of the Chairman, containing such opinions or recommendations, dissenting from the report or supplementary to it, as may be proposed by committee members, and except when the House otherwise orders, to send for persons, papers and records, to sit while the House is sitting, to sit during periods when the House stands adjourned, to sit jointly with other standing committees, to print from day to day such papers and evidence as may be ordered by them, and to delegate to sub-committees all or any of their powers except the power to report directly to the House.

(b)

Standing Committees shall be empowered to create sub-committees of which the membership may be drawn from among both the list of members and the list of associate members provided for in Standing Order 104, who shall be deemed to be members of that committee for the purposes of this Standing Order.

 

(2)

The standing committees, except those set out in sections (3)(a), (3)(e) and (4) of this Standing Order, shall, in addition to the powers granted to them pursuant to section (1) of this Standing Order and pursuant to Standing Order 81, be empowered to study and report on all matters relating to the mandate, management and operation of the department or departments of government which are assigned to them from time to time by the House. In general, the committees shall be severally empowered to review and report on:

(a)

the statute law relating to the department assigned to them;

(b)

the program and policy objectives of the department and its effectiveness in the implementation of same;

(c)

the immediate, medium and long-term expenditure plans and the effectiveness of implementation of same by the department;

(d)

an analysis of the relative success of the department, as measured by the results obtained as compared with its stated objectives; and

(e)

other matters, relating to the mandate, management, organization or operation of the department, as the committee deems fit.

 

(3)

The mandate of the Standing Committee on:

(a)

Procedure and House Affairs shall include, in addition to the duties set forth in Standing Order 104, and among other matters:

(i)

the review of and report on, to the Speaker as well as the Board of Internal Economy, the administration of the House and the provision of services and facilities to Members provided that all matters related thereto shall be deemed to have been permanently referred to the Committee upon its membership having been established;

(ii)

the review of and report on the effectiveness, management and operation, together with the operational and expenditure plans of all operations which are under the joint administration and control of the two Houses except with regard to the Library of Parliament and other related matters as the Committee deems fit;

(iii)

the review of and report on the Standing Orders, procedure and practice in the House and its committees;

(iv)

the selection of items of Private Members’ Business pursuant to Standing Order 92, and the consideration of business related to Private Bills;

(v)

the review of and report on the radio and television broadcasting of the proceedings of the House and its committees; and

(vi)

the review of and report on all matters relating to the election of Members to the House of Commons;

(b)

Standing Committees shall be empowered to create sub-committees of which the membership may be drawn from among both the list of members and the list of associate members provided for in Standing Order 104, who shall be deemed to be members of that committee for the purposes of this Standing Order.

—

to encourage the departments and agencies of the federal government to reflect the multicultural diversity of the nation; and

—

to examine existing and new programs and policies of federal departments and agencies to encourage sensitivity to multicultural concerns and to preserve and enhance the multicultural reality of Canada;

(c)

Human Resources Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities shall include, among other matters, the proposing, promoting, monitoring and assessing of initiatives aimed at the integration and equality of disabled persons in all sectors of Canadian society;

(d)

Justice and Human Rights shall include, among other matters, the review and report on reports of the Canadian Human Rights Commission, which shall be deemed permanently referred to the Committee immediately after they are laid upon the Table;

(e)

Public Accounts shall include, among other matters, review of and report on the Public Accounts of Canada and all reports of the Auditor General of Canada, which shall be severally deemed permanently referred to the Committee immediately after they are laid upon the Table;

 

 

and any other matter which the House shall, from time to time, refer to the Standing Committee.

 

(4)

So far as this House is concerned, the mandates of the Standing Joint Committee on

(a)

the Library of Parliament shall include the review of the effectiveness, management and operation of the Library of Parliament;

(b)

Official Languages shall include, among other matters, the review of and report on official languages policies and programs including Reports of the Commissioner of Official Languages, which shall be deemed permanently referred to the Committee immediately after they are laid upon the Table;

(c)

Scrutiny of Regulations shall include, among other matters, the review and scrutiny of statutory instruments which are permanently referred to the Committee pursuant to section 19 of the Statutory Instruments Act;

 

 

Provided that both Houses may, from time to time, refer any other matter to any of the aforementioned Standing Joint Committees.

109.

 

Within 150 days of the presentation of a report from a standing or special committee, the government shall, upon the request of the committee, table a comprehensive response thereto.

110.

(1)

A Minister of the Crown shall lay upon the Table a certified copy of an Order in Council, stating that a certain individual has been appointed to a certain non-judicial post, not later than five sitting days after the Order in Council is published in the Canada Gazette.   The same shall be deemed to have been referred to a standing committee specified at the time of tabling, pursuant to Standing Order 32(6), for its consideration during a period not exceeding thirty sitting days.

 

(2)

A Minister of the Crown may, from time to time, lay upon the Table a certificate stating that a specified individual has been nominated for appointment to a specified non-judicial post.   The same shall be deemed to have been referred to a standing committee specified at the time of tabling, pursuant to Standing Order 32(6), for its consideration during a period not exceeding thirty sitting days.

111.

(1)

The committee specified pursuant to Standing Orders 32(6) and 110, during the period of thirty sitting days provided pursuant to Standing Order 110, shall if it deems it appropriate, call the so named appointee or nominee to appear before it during a period not exceeding ten sitting days.

 

(2)

The committee, if it should call an appointee or nominee to appear pursuant to section (1) of this Standing Order, shall examine the qualifications and competence of the appointee or nominee to perform the duties of the post to which he or she has been appointed or nominated.

 

(3)

The committee shall complete its examination of the appointee or nominee not later than the end of the ten sitting day period indicated in section (1) of this Standing Order.

 

(4)

The office of the Minister who recommended the appointment shall provide the curriculum vitae of such an appointee or nominee to the committee upon written application from the clerk of the committee.

112.

At the commencement of each session, the Speaker shall appoint as many as twelve Members, and from time to time additional Members as required, to act as Chairmen of legislative committees, provided that a proportionate number of Members from both the government party and the opposition parties shall be so appointed.   The Members appointed under the provisions of this Standing Order, together with the Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Committees of the Whole, the Deputy Chairman of Committees of the Whole and the Assistant Deputy Chairman of Committees of the Whole, shall constitute the Panel of Chairmen for the legislative committees.

113.

(1)

Without anticipating the decision of the House, within five sitting days after the commencement of debate on a motion to appoint a legislative committee or to refer a bill thereto, the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs shall meet to prepare, and shall report not later than the following Thursday, a list of members of such a legislative committee, which shall consist of not more than fifteen Members. Such a committee shall be organized only in the event that the House adopts the motion for appointment or referral.   Upon presentation of such a report of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs, the same shall be deemed adopted.

 

(2)

Once the said report is adopted, the Speaker shall forthwith appoint the Chairman of the said committee from the Panel of Chairmen established pursuant to Standing Order 112.

 

(3)

A legislative committee constituted pursuant to sections (1) and (2) of this Standing Order shall meet within two sitting days of the naming of the Chairman and the adoption of the motion appointing or referring the bill to the committee of which the membership has been reported.

 

(4)

When the Chairman appointed pursuant to section (2) of this Standing Order is unable to act in that capacity at or during a meeting of the legislative committee, the Chairman shall designate a member of the committee to act as Chairman at or during the said meeting and such an acting Chairman shall be vested with all the powers of the Chairman at or during the said meeting.

 

(5)

Any legislative committee shall be empowered to examine and enquire into the bills referred to it by the House and to report the same with or without amendments, to prepare a bill pursuant to Standing Order 68 and to report thereon and, except when the House otherwise orders, to send for officials from government departments and agencies and crown corporations and for other persons whom the committee deems to be competent to appear as witnesses on technical matters, to send for papers and records, to sit when the House is sitting, to sit when the House stands adjourned, and to print from day to day such papers and evidence as may be ordered by it.

 

(6)

Any legislative committee may delegate to a sub-committee on agenda and procedure, its power to schedule meetings of the committee and to call for officials from government departments and agencies and crown corporations and for other persons whom the committee deems competent to appear before it as witnesses on technical matters, or to send for papers and records to be presented to the committee in relation to the bill before the committee, provided that the committee shall retain the power to approve such arrangements.

114.

(1)

The membership of standing and standing joint committees shall be set out in the report of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs, which shall prepare lists of members in accordance with Standing Order 104.   Once the report of the Committee is concurred in, the membership shall continue from session to session within a Parliament, subject to such changes as may be effected from time to time.

 

(2)

(a)

Within five sitting days of the organization of any standing or standing joint committee, and from time to time thereafter, any member of every such committee may file with the clerk of the committee a list of not more than fourteen Members selected from Members of his or her own party, who may substitute for him or her during a meeting of the said committee, according to the procedure set out in paragraph (b) of this section, provided that they shall not become permanent members of the committee.

(b)

Substitutions in the membership of any standing committee or, so far as the House is represented, on any standing joint committee shall be effective the day after notification thereof is forwarded, by a permanent member of the committee who has filed a list pursuant to paragraph (a) of this section, to the Chief Whip of his or her party (or, in the case of independent Members, the Chief Whip of the Official Opposition) for signature who, in turn, will forward the substitution to the clerk of the committee.

(c)

At any time when no list has been filed with the clerk of the committee pursuant to paragraph (a) of this section or when no notice has been received by the clerk of the committee pursuant to paragraph (b) of this section, the Chief Whip of any recognized party may effect substitutions by filing notice thereof with the clerk of the committee, having selected the substitutes from among all the Members of his or her party and/or the independent members listed as associate members of the committee pursuant to Standing Order 104(4); and such substitutions shall be effective immediately they are received by the clerk of the committee.

(d)

When a permanent member of a standing or standing joint committee gives notice in writing to the Chairman of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs of his or her intention to give up his or her membership, that Member’s resignation shall be effective when a report of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs naming a replacement for him or her has been concurred in by the House.

 

(3)

Changes in the membership of any legislative committee shall be effective immediately after notification thereof, signed by the Chief Whip of any recognized party, has been filed with the clerk of the committee.

 

(4)

Changes in the membership of standing committees shall be effective when a report of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs to that effect is concurred in by the House.

115.

(1)

Notwithstanding Standing Order 108(1)(a), no standing or standing joint committee shall sit at the same time as a legislative committee on a bill emanating from or principally affecting the same department or agency.

 

(2)

During periods coinciding with the hours of sittings of the House, priority shall be given to the meetings of committees considering legislation or Estimates over meetings of committees considering other matters.

 

(3)

During periods when the House stands adjourned, priority shall be given to meetings of standing, special and joint committees, according to the schedule established from time to time by the Chief Government Whip, in consultation with representatives of the other parties.

 

(4)

Priority of use in committee rooms shall be established from time to time by the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs.

116.

In a standing, special or legislative committee, the Standing Orders shall apply so far as may be applicable, except the Standing Orders as to the election of a Speaker, seconding of motions, limiting the number of times of speaking and the length of speeches.

117.

The Chairman of a standing, special or legislative committee shall maintain order in the committee, deciding all questions of order subject to an appeal to the committee; but disorder in a committee can only be censured by the House, on receiving a report thereof.

118.

(1)

A majority of the members of a standing, special or legislative committee shall constitute a quorum; provided that, in the case of a legislative committee, the Chairman is not included in the number of members constituting a quorum.   In the case of a joint committee, the number of members constituting a quorum shall be such as the House of Commons acting in consultation with the Senate may determine.

 

(2)

The presence of a quorum shall be required whenever a vote, resolution or other decision is taken by a standing, special or legislative committee, provided that any such committee, by resolution thereof, may authorize the Chairman to hold meetings in order to receive evidence and may authorize its printing when a quorum is not present.

119.

Any Member of the House who is not a member of a standing, special or legislative committee, may, unless the House or the committee concerned otherwise orders, take part in the public proceedings of the committee, but may not vote or move any motion, nor be part of any quorum.

119.1.

(1)

Any committee wishing to have its proceedings televised, other than by means of those facilities provided for that purpose by the House of Commons, shall first obtain the consent of the House thereto.

 

(2)

The Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs shall establish, by report to the House of Commons, experimental guidelines governing the broadcasting of committee meetings.   After concurrence by the House in such a report, any committee may permit the presence of the electronic media at its meetings, subject to the said guidelines.

120.

Standing, special or legislative committees shall be severally empowered to retain the services of expert, professional, technical and clerical staff as may be deemed necessary.

121.

(1)

The Board of Internal Economy may give interim spending authority to standing, special and legislative committees. The committees shall be empowered to expend any amount up to the full spending authority so granted but shall not incur any further expenses until the Chairman of that committee, or a member of the committee acting for the Chairman, has presented to the Board a budget setting forth, in reasonable detail, estimates of its proposed expenditures for a specific period of time together with an account of its expenditures to that date, and until the said budget has been approved by the Board.

 

(2)

Notwithstanding any spending authority granted by the Board of Internal Economy pursuant to section (1) of this Standing Order, the Chairman of each such committee, or a member of the committee acting for the Chairman shall, as soon as practicable, present the budget and statement of expenditures of the committee pursuant to section (1) of this Standing Order for the consideration by the Board.

 

(3)

When the expenditures of any such committee have reached the limits set forth in any such budget, the committee shall not incur any further expenses until a supplementary budget or budgets has or have been presented to the Board of Internal Economy pursuant to section (1) of this Standing Order, and until the said budgets have been approved in whole or in part by the Board.

 

(4)

The Board of Internal Economy shall cause to be tabled in the House an annual comprehensive financial report, outlining the individual expenditures of every standing, special and legislative committee, provided that the Board may cause such reports to be so tabled at any time with respect to a specific committee.

122.

If any Member files a certificate with the Chairman of a committee of the House, stating that the evidence to be obtained from a particular person is, in his or her opinion, material and important, the Chairman shall apprise the committee thereof.

123.

(1)

In addition to the powers granted, so far as this House is concerned, to the Standing Joint Committee for the Scrutiny of Regulations, pursuant to Standing Order 108(4), the said Committee shall be empowered to make a report to the House containing only a resolution which, if the report is concurred in, would be an Order of this House to the Ministry to revoke a statutory instrument, or a portion thereof, which the Governor in Council or a Minister of the Crown has the authority to revoke.

 

(2)

Not more than one report pursuant to section (1) of this Standing Order shall be received during any sitting.

 

(3)

When any report is made pursuant to section (1) of this Standing Order, the Member presenting it shall state that it contains a resolution pursuant to section (1) of this Standing Order, shall identify the statutory instrument, or portion thereof, in relation to which the said report is made, and shall indicate that the relevant text is included in the report.

 

(4)

Immediately after the said report is received and laid upon the Table, the Clerk of the House shall cause to be placed on the Notice Paper, a notice of motion for concurrence in the report, which shall stand in the name of the Member presenting the report. No other notice of motion for concurrence in the report shall be placed on the Notice Paper.

124.

When a notice given pursuant to Standing Order 123(4) is transferred to the Order Paper under “Motions”, it shall be set down for consideration only pursuant to Standing Order 128(1) and shall be considered only at the request of a Minister of the Crown, provided that any other Member shall be permitted to propose the motion on behalf of the Member in whose name it stands, notwithstanding the usual practices of the House.

125.

Except as otherwise provided in any Standing or Special Order of the House, and unless otherwise disposed of, at not later than the ordinary hour of daily adjournment on the fifteenth sitting day following the date on which a notice of motion made pursuant to Standing Order 123(4) appeared on the Order Paper, the same shall be deemed to have been moved and adopted by the House.

126.

(1)

A notice given pursuant to Standing Order 123(4) shall be taken up and considered for a period not exceeding one hour, provided that:

(a)

during the consideration of any such motion or motions, no Member shall speak more than once or for more than ten minutes;

(b)

for the purposes of this Standing Order and notwithstanding the usual practices of the House, no consideration of the procedural acceptability of any report, for which a notice of motion for concurrence has been given pursuant to Standing Order 123(4), shall be entertained until all such notices of motions of which notice of consideration had previously been given pursuant to Standing Order 54, have been put to the House for its consideration.   If any report is thereafter found to be irreceivable, the motion for concurrence in the report shall be deemed to have been withdrawn; and

(c)

unless the motion or motions be previously disposed of, not later than the end of the said hour of consideration, the Speaker shall interrupt any proceedings then before the House and put forthwith and successively, without further debate or amendment, every question necessary to dispose of the said motion or motions, provided that any division or divisions demanded in relation thereto shall stand deferred until no later than the ordinary hour of daily adjournment in that sitting, when the bells to call in the Members shall be sounded for not more than fifteen minutes. Any remaining questions necessary to dispose of proceedings in relation to such motion or motions, on which a decision has been deferred until after the taking of such a division, shall be put forthwith and successively, without further debate or amendment.

 

(2)

The provisions of Standing Order 45(5) shall be suspended in the case of any division demanded pursuant to paragraph (c) of section (1) of this Standing Order.

 

(3)

The Standing Orders relating to the ordinary hour of daily adjournment shall be suspended until all questions have been decided pursuant to paragraph (c) of section (1) of this Standing Order.

127.

The House shall undertake consideration of any motion or motions made pursuant to Standing Order 123(4) in the order in which they may be set down for consideration at the request of a Minister of the Crown, provided that all such motions shall be grouped together for debate.

128.

(1)

When a notice or notices of motion for concurrence given pursuant to Standing Order 123(4) has or have been set down for consideration pursuant to Standing Order 124, the House shall meet at 1:00 p. m. on the Wednesday next, at which time the order of business shall be the consideration of the said notice or notices.

 

(2)

When the House meets at 1:00 p. m. on any Wednesday pursuant to section (1) of this Standing Order, the House shall not consider any other item but those provided pursuant to that section, provided that:

(a)

if such proceedings are concluded prior to 2:00 p. m. on any such day, the Speaker shall suspend the sitting until that hour; and

(b)

all such proceedings shall be concluded except as provided pursuant to Standing Order 126(1)(c) at 2:00 p. m. on the same day.

129.

At the beginning of a session, the Clerk of the House shall publish in the Canada Gazette the Standing Order respecting notices of intended applications for private bills. Thereafter, the Clerk of the House shall publish weekly in the Canada Gazette a notice referring to the previous publication of the aforementioned Standing Order.

130.

(1)

All applications to Parliament for private bills, of any nature whatsoever, shall be advertised by a notice published in the Canada Gazette; such notice shall clearly and distinctly state the nature and objects of the application, and shall be signed by or on behalf of the applicants, with the address of the party signing the same; and when the application is for an Act of incorporation, the name of the proposed company shall be stated in the notice.   If the works of any company (incorporated, or to be incorporated) are to be declared to be for the general advantage of Canada, such intention shall be specifically mentioned in the notice; and the applicants shall cause a copy of such notice to be sent by registered letter to the clerk of each county or municipality which may be specially affected by the construction or operation of such works, and also to the secretary of the province in which such works are, or may be located.   Every such notice sent by registered letter shall be mailed in time to reach its destination not later than two weeks before the consideration of the proposed bill by the committee to which it may be referred; and proof of compliance with this requirement by the applicants shall be established by statutory declaration.

 

(2)

In addition to the notice in the Canada Gazette aforesaid, a similar notice shall also be published in some leading newspaper as follows:

(a)

when the application is for an Act to incorporate:

 

(i)

a railway or canal company: in the principal city, town or village in each county or district, through which the proposed railway or canal is to be constructed;

 

(ii)

a telegraph or telephone company: in the principal city or town in each province or territory in which the company proposes to operate;

 

(iii)

a company for the construction of any works which in their construction or operation might specially affect the particular locality; or obtaining any exclusive rights or privileges; or for doing any matter or thing which in its operation would affect the rights or property of others: in the particular locality or localities in which the business, rights or property of other persons or corporations may be affected by the proposed Act; and

 

(iv)

a banking company; an insurance company; a trust company; a loan company; or an industrial company without any exclusive powers: in the Canada Gazette only.

(b)

when the application is for the purpose of amending an existing Act:

 

(i)

for an extension of any line of railway, or of any canal; or for the construction of branches thereto: in the place where the head office of the company is situated, and in the principal city, town or village in each county or district through which such extension or branch is to be constructed;

 

(ii)

for an extension of time for the construction or completion of any line of railway or of any branch or extension thereof, or of any canal, or of any telegraph or telephone line, or of any other works already authorized: at the place where the head office of the company is situated and in the principal city or town of the districts affected; and

 

(iii)

for the continuation of a charter or for an extension of the powers of the company (when not involving the granting of any exclusive rights) or for the increase or reduction of the capital stock of any company; or for increasing or altering its bonding or other borrowing powers; or for any amendment which would in any way affect the rights or interests of the shareholders or bondholders or creditors of the company: in the place where the head office of the company is situated or authorized to be.

(c)

when the application is for the purpose of obtaining for any person or existing corporation any exclusive rights or privileges or the power to do any matter or thing which in its operation would affect the rights or property of others: in the particular locality or localities in which the business, rights or property of others may be specially affected by the proposed Act.

 

(3)

All such notices, whether inserted in the Canada Gazette or in a newspaper, shall be published at least once a week for a period of four consecutive weeks; and when originating in the Province of Quebec or in the Province of Manitoba shall be published in English in an English newspaper and in French in a French newspaper, and in both languages in the Canada Gazette, and if there is no newspaper in a locality where a notice is required to be given, such notice shall be given in the next nearest locality wherein a newspaper is published; and proof of the due publication of notice shall be established in each case by statutory declaration; and all such declarations shall be sent to the Clerk of the House endorsed “Private Bill Notice”.

131.

(1)

A petition for a private bill may be presented by a Member at any time during the sitting of the House by filing the same with the Clerk of the House.

 

(2)

Members presenting petitions for private bills shall be answerable that such petitions do not contain impertinent or improper matter.

 

(3)

Every Member presenting a petition for a private bill shall sign his or her name on the back thereof.

 

(4)

Petitions for private bills may be either written or printed; provided always that when there are three or more petitioners the signatures of at least three petitioners shall be subscribed on the sheet containing the prayer of the petition.

 

(5)

On the next day following the presentation of a petition for a private bill, the Clerk of the House shall lay upon the Table the report of the Clerk of Petitions thereon and such report shall be printed in the Journals.   Every petition so reported upon, not containing matter in breach of the privileges of this House and which, according to the Standing Orders or practice of this House, can be received, shall then be deemed to be read and received.

 

(6)

No debate shall be permitted on the report but a petition referred to therein may be read by the Clerk of the House at the Table, if required.

132.

Deleted (June 10, 1994).

133.

(1)

The Chief Clerk of Private Bills shall be the Examiner of Petitions for Private Bills.

 

(2)

Petitions for private bills, when received by the House, are to be taken into consideration by the Examiner who shall report to the House in each case the extent to which the requirements of the Standing Orders regarding notice have been complied with; and in every case where the notice is reported by the Examiner to have been insufficient or otherwise defective, or if the Examiner reports that there is any doubt as to the sufficiency of the notice as published, the petition, together with the report of the Examiner thereon, shall be taken into consideration, without special reference, by the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs, which shall report to the House as to the sufficiency or insufficiency of the notice, and where the notice is deemed insufficient or otherwise defective, shall recommend to the House the course to be taken in consequence of such deficiency or other defect.

 

(3)

All private bills from the Senate (not being based on a petition which has already been so reported on) shall be first taken into consideration and reported on by the Examiner of Petitions, and when necessary by the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs in like manner, after the first reading of such bills, and before their consideration by any other legislative committee.

 

(4)

No petition praying for the incorporation of a railway company, or of a canal company, or for an extension of the line of any existing or authorized railway or canal, or for the construction of branches thereto, shall be considered by the Examiner, or by the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs, until there has been filed with the said Examiner a map or plan, showing the proposed location of the works, and each county, township, municipality or district through which the proposed railway or canal, or any branch or extension thereof, is to be constructed.

134.

(1)

Any person desiring to obtain any private bill shall deposit with the Clerk of the House not later than the first day of each session, a copy of such bill in the English or French language, with a sum sufficient to pay for translating and printing the same; the translation to be done by the officers of the House, and the printing by the Department of Public Printing.

 

(2)

After the second reading of a bill, and before its consideration by the committee to which it is referred, the applicant shall in every case pay the cost of printing the Act in the Statutes, and a fee of $500.

 

(3)

The following charges shall also be levied and paid in addition to the foregoing:

(a)

when any Standing Order of the House is suspended in reference to a bill or the petition therefor, for each such suspension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $100

(b)

when a bill is presented in the House after the eighth week of the session and not later than the twelfth week . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $100

(c)

when a bill is presented in the House after the twelfth week of the session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $200

(d)

when the proposed capital stock of a company does not exceed $250,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $100

(e)

when the proposed capital stock of a company is over $250,000 and does not exceed $500,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $200

(f)

when the proposed capital stock of a company is over $500,000 and does not exceed $750,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $300

(g)

when the proposed capital stock of a company is over $750,000 and does not exceed $1,000,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $400

(h)

when the proposed capital stock of a company is over $1,000,000 and does not exceed $1,500,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $600

(i)

when the proposed capital stock of a company is over $1,500,000 and does not exceed $2,000,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $800

(j)

for every additional million dollars or fractional part thereof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $200

 

(4)

When a bill increases the capital stock of an existing company, the additional charge shall be according to the foregoing tariff, upon the amount of the increase only.

 

(5)

(a)

When a bill increases or involves an increase in the borrowing powers of a company without any increase in the capital stock, the additional charge shall be $300.

(b)

When a bill increases both the capital stock and the borrowing powers of a company, the additional charge shall be made upon both.

 

(6)

If any increase in the amount of the proposed capital stock or borrowing powers of a company be made at any stage of a bill, such bill shall not be advanced to the next stage until the charges consequent upon such change have been paid.

 

(7)

In this Standing Order the term “proposed capital stock” includes any increase thereto provided for in the bill; and where power is taken in a bill to increase at any time the amount of the proposed capital stock, the additional charge shall be levied on the maximum amount of such proposed increase which shall be stated in the bill.

 

(8)

The additional charges provided for in this Standing Order shall also apply to private bills originating in the Senate; provided, however, that if a petition for any such bill has been filed with this House, the additional charges made under paragraphs (b) or (c) of section (3) shall not be levied thereon.

 

(9)

The Chief Clerk of Private Bills shall prepare and send to the promoter or parliamentary agent in charge of every private bill a statement of fees and charges payable under this Standing Order, and shall collect all such fees and charges and deposit the same with the accountant of the House and shall send a copy of each such deposit slip to the Clerk of the House.

135.

(1)

All private bills are introduced on petition, and after such petition has been favourably reported upon by the Examiner of Petitions or by the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs, such bills shall be laid upon the Table of the House by the Clerk, and shall be deemed to have been read a first time and ordered to be printed, and to have been ordered for a second reading when so laid upon the Table, and so recorded in the Journals.

 

(2)

When the Speaker informs the House that any private bill has been brought from the Senate, the bill shall be deemed to have been read a first time and ordered for a second reading and reference to a legislative committee at the next sitting of the House and so recorded in the Journals.

136.

(1)

The Chief Clerk of Private Bills shall be the Examiner of Private Bills, and, as such, shall examine and revise all private bills before they are printed, for the purpose of insuring uniformity where possible and of seeing that they are drawn in accordance with the Standing Orders of the House respecting private bills.

 

(2)

Every bill for an Act of incorporation, where a form of model bill has been adopted, shall be drawn in accordance with a model bill (copies of model bills may be obtained from the Clerk of the House).   Any provisions contained in any such bill which are not in accord with the model bill shall be inserted between brackets or underlined, and shall be so printed.

 

(3)

Where a private bill amends any section, subsection or paragraph of an existing Act, such section, subsection or paragraph shall be repealed in the text of the bill and re-enacted as proposed to be amended, the new matter being indicated by underlining; and the section, subsection or paragraph which is to be so repealed, or so much thereof as is essential, shall be printed in the right-hand page opposite such section, subsection or paragraph.

 

(4)

When a private bill repeals an existing section, subsection, or other minor division of a section, that section, subsection or division, or so much thereof as is essential, shall be printed opposite the clause.

 

(5)

A brief explanatory note giving the reasons for any clause of an unusual nature or which differs from the model bill clauses or standard clauses shall be printed opposite the clause in the bill.

137.

No bill for the incorporation of a railway or canal company, or for authorizing the construction of branch lines or extensions of existing lines of railways or of canals, or for changing the route of the railway or of the canal of any company already incorporated, shall be considered by a legislative committee, until there has been filed with the committee, at least one week before the consideration of the bill, a map or plan drawn upon a scale of not less than half an inch to the mile, showing the location upon which it is intended to construct the proposed work, and showing also the lines of existing or authorized works of a similar character within, or in any way affecting the district, or any part thereof, which the proposed work is intended to serve; and such map or plan shall be signed by the engineer or other person making same.

138.

When any bill for confirming any agreement is presented to the House, a true copy of such agreement must be attached to it.

139.

That it be an instruction to all committees on private bills, in the event of promoters not being ready to proceed with their measures when the same have been twice called on two separate occasions for consideration by the committee, that such measures shall be reported back to the House forthwith, together with a statement of the facts and with the recommendation that such bills be withdrawn.

140.

No motion for the suspension or modification of any provision of the Standing Orders applying to private bills or to petitions for private bills shall be entertained by the House until after reference is made to the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs, and a report made thereon by the Committee and, in its report, the Committee shall state the grounds for recommending such suspension or modification.

141.

(1)

Every private bill, when read a second time stands referred to a legislative committee, and all petitions for or against the bills are considered as referred to the same committee.

 

(2)

(a)

No committee on any private bill originating in this House is to consider the same until after one week’s notice of the sitting of such committee has been first affixed in the lobby; nor, in the case of any such bill originating in the Senate, until after twenty-four hours’ like notice.

(b)

On the day of the posting of any bill under this section, the Clerk of the House shall cause a notice of such posting to be appended to the Journals.

 

(3)

All questions before committees on private bills are decided by a majority of voices including the voice of the Chairman; and whenever the voices are equal, the Chairman has a second or casting vote.

 

(4)

It is the duty of the committee to which any private bill may be referred by the House, to call the attention of the House specially to any provisions inserted in such bill that do not appear to have been contemplated in the notice or petition for the same, as reported upon by the Examiner of Petitions or by the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs; and any private bill so reported shall not be placed on the Order Paper for consideration until a report has been made by the Examiner as to the sufficiency or otherwise of the notice to cover such provisions.

 

(5)

The committee to which a private bill may have been referred shall report the same to the House in every case.

 

(6)

When the committee on any private bill reports to the House that they have made any material change in the preamble of a bill, the reasons for making such change shall be stated in their report; and if they report that the preamble of a bill has not been proved to their satisfaction, they must also state the grounds upon which they have arrived at such a decision; and no bill, the preamble of which has been reported as not proven shall be placed upon the Orders of the Day unless by special Order of the House.

 

(7)

The Chairman of the committee shall sign with his or her name at length a printed copy of the bill, and shall also sign with the initials of his or her name, the preamble and the various sections of the bill and also any amendments which may be made or clauses added in committee; and another copy of the bill with the amendments, if any, written thereon shall be prepared by the clerk of the committee, who shall sign the bill with his or her name at length and shall also sign with the initials of his or her name the preamble and the various sections adopted by the committee, and any amendments which may have been made thereto, and shall file the same with the Clerk of the House or attach it to the report of the committee.

 

(8)

Private bills amended by any committee may be reprinted by order of such committee; or after being reported, and before consideration in the House, may be reprinted in whole or in part as the Clerk of the House may direct; and the cost of such reprinting shall, in either case, be added to the cost of the first printing of the bill and be payable by the promoter of the same.

142.

No important amendment may be proposed to any private bill in the House unless one day’s notice of the same has been given.

143.

When any private bill is returned from the Senate with amendments, the same not being merely verbal or unimportant, such amendments are, previous to the second reading, referred to the committee to which such bill was originally referred.

144.

A record shall be kept in the private bills office of the name, description, and place of residence of the parties applying for a private bill or of their agent, the amount of fees paid, and all the proceedings thereon, from the time of the deposit of the bill with the Clerk of the House to the passage of the bill; such record to specify briefly each proceeding in the House or in any committee to which the bill or the petition may be referred, and the day on which the committee is appointed to sit; such record shall be open to public inspection during office hours.

145.

(1)

Lists of all private bills which have been referred to any committee shall be prepared daily by the Chief Clerk of Private Bills, specifying the committee to which each bill has been referred and the date on or after which the bill may be considered by such committee, and shall cause the same to be hung up in the lobby.

 

(2)

A list of committee meetings shall be prepared from time to time as arranged, by the Chief Clerk of Private Bills, stating the day and hour of each such meeting, and the room in which it is to be held, which list shall be hung up in the lobby on the day previous to that on which the meeting is to be held.

146.

(1)

No person shall act as parliamentary agent conducting proceedings before the House of Commons or its committees without the express sanction and authority of the Speaker, and all such agents shall be personally responsible to the House and to the Speaker, for the observance of the rules, orders and practice of Parliament and rules prescribed by the Speaker, and also for the payment of all fees and charges.

 

(2)

A list of such persons shall be kept by the Chief Clerk of Private Bills and a copy filed with the Clerk of the House.

 

(3)

No person shall be allowed to be registered as a parliamentary agent during any session unless he or she has paid a fee of twenty-five dollars for such session and is actually employed in promoting or opposing some private bill or petition pending in Parliament during that session.

 

(4)

Any parliamentary agent who wilfully acts in violation of the Standing Orders and practice of Parliament, or of any rules to be prescribed by the Speaker, or who wilfully misconducts himself or herself in prosecuting any proceedings before Parliament, shall be liable to an absolute or temporary prohibition to practice as a parliamentary agent, at the pleasure of the Speaker; provided, that upon the application of such agent, the Speaker shall state in writing the ground for such prohibition.

147.

Except as herein otherwise provided, the Standing Orders relating to public bills shall apply to private bills.

148.

(1)

The Speaker shall, within ten days after the opening of each session, lay upon the Table of the House a report of the proceedings for the preceding session of the Board of Internal Economy.

 

(2)

The Speaker shall, as soon as the Board of Internal Economy has reached a decision concerning any budget or supplementary budget presented to it pursuant to sections (1) and (2) of Standing Order 121, lay upon the Table the record of the Board’s decision.

149.

Deleted (June 10, 1994).

150.

Deleted (June 10, 1994).

151.

The Clerk of the House is responsible for the safe-keeping of all the papers and records of the House, and has the direction and control over all the officers and clerks employed in the offices, subject to such orders as the Clerk may, from time to time, receive from the Speaker or the House.

152.

The Clerk of the House shall place on the Speaker’s table, every morning, previous to the meeting of the House, the order of the proceedings for the day.

153.

It is the duty of the Clerk of the House to make and cause to be printed and delivered to each Member, at the commencement of every session of Parliament, a list of the reports or other periodical statements which it is the duty of any officer or department of the government,  or any bank or other corporate body to make to the House, referring to the Act or resolution, and page of the volume of the laws or Journals wherein the same may be ordered; and placing under the name of each officer or corporation a list of reports or returns required to be made, and the time when the report or periodical statement may be expected.

154.

A Clerk of this House may be the bearer of messages from this House to the Senate.   Messages from the Senate may be received at the bar by a Clerk of this House, as soon as announced by the Sergeant-at-Arms, at any time while the House is sitting, or in committee, without interrupting the business then proceeding.

155.

Deleted (June 10, 1994).

156.

Deleted (June 10, 1994).

157.

(1)

The Sergeant-at-Arms is responsible for the safe-keeping of the Mace.

 

(2)

The Sergeant-at-Arms serves all Orders of the House upon those whom they may concern and is entrusted with the execution of warrants issued by the Speaker.   The Sergeant-at-Arms issues cards of admission to, and preserves order in, the galleries, corridors, lobbies and other parts of the House of Commons.

158.

(1)

Any stranger admitted into any part of the House or gallery who misconducts himself or herself, or does not withdraw when strangers are directed to withdraw, while the House or any Committee of the Whole House is sitting, shall be taken into custody by the Sergeant-at-Arms; and no person so taken into custody shall be discharged without the special Order of the House.

 

(2)

No stranger who has been committed, by Order of the House, to the custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms, shall be released from such custody until he or she has paid a fee of four dollars to the Sergeant-at-Arms.

159.

It is the duty of the officers of this House to complete and finish the work remaining at the close of the session.