Pursuant to Standing Order 45, the House resumed consideration of the motion of Mr. Oliver (Minister of Finance), seconded by Mr. Duncan (Minister of State), — That Bill C-59, An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on April 21, 2015 and other measures, be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Finance.
The House proceeded to the taking of the deferred recorded division on the amendment of Mr. Cullen (Skeena—Bulkley Valley), seconded by Mr. Caron (Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques), — That the motion be amended by deleting all the words after the word “That” and substituting the following:
“this House decline to give second reading to Bill C-59, An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on April 21, 2015 and other measures, because it:
(a) fails to support working- and middle-class families through the introduction of affordable childcare and a $15-per-hour federal minimum wage;
(b) imposes wasteful and unfair income-splitting measures which primarily benefit the wealthy and offer nothing to 85% of Canadian families;
(c) fails to protect interns against workplace sexual harassment or unreasonable hours of work;
(d) implements expanded Tax-Free Savings Account measures which benefit the wealthiest households while leaving major fiscal problems to our grandchildren;
(e) rolls a separate, stand-alone, and supportable piece of legislation concerning Canada’s veterans into an omnibus bill that contains vastly unrelated, unsupportable measures; and
(f) attacks the right to free and fair collective bargaining for hundreds of thousands of Canadian workers.”.
The question was put on the amendment and it was negatived on the following division:
YEAS: 117, NAYS: 150