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42nd PARLIAMENT, 1st SESSION

Journals No. 368 Monday, December 10, 2018 11:00 a.m.

Prayer

Private Members' Business

At 11:00 a.m., pursuant to Standing Order 30(6), the House proceeded to the consideration of Private Members' Business.

The House resumed consideration of the motion of Mr. Genuis (Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan), seconded by Mr. Rankin (Victoria), — That Bill S-240, An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (trafficking in human organs), be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development.

The debate continued.

The question was put on the motion and it was agreed to.

Accordingly, Bill S-240, An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (trafficking in human organs), was read the second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development.

Interruption

At 11:47 a.m., the sitting was suspended.

At 12:01 p.m., the sitting resumed.

Government Orders

Notice having been given at a previous sitting under the provisions of Standing Order 78(3), Ms. Chagger (Leader of the Government in the House of Commons), seconded by Ms. Wilson-Raybould (Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada), moved, — That, in relation to Bill C-51, An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Department of Justice Act and to make consequential amendments to another Act, not more than one further sitting day shall be allotted to the stage of consideration of Senate amendments to the Bill; and

That, 15 minutes before the expiry of the time provided for Government Orders on the day allotted to the consideration of the said stage of the said Bill, any proceedings before the House shall be interrupted, if required for the purpose of this Order, and, in turn, every question necessary for the disposal of the said stage of the Bill shall be put forthwith and successively, without further debate or amendment.

Pursuant to Standing Order 67.1, the House proceeded to the question period regarding the moving of the time allocation motion.

The question was put on the motion and it was agreed to on the following division:
(Division No. 976 -- Vote n^o 976)
YEAS: 152, NAYS: 94
YEAS -- POUR Aldag Alghabra Amos Anandasangaree Arseneault Arya Ayoub Badawey Bagnell Baylis Bennett Bibeau Bittle Blair Boissonnault Bossio Bratina Breton Brison Caesar-Chavannes Carr Casey (Cumberland—Colchester) Chagger Champagne Cuzner Dabrusin Damoff DeCourcey Dhaliwal Dhillon Drouin Dubourg Duclos Duguid Duncan (Etobicoke North) Dzerowicz Easter Ehsassi El-Khoury Ellis Erskine-Smith Eyking Eyolfson Fergus Finnigan Fisher Fonseca Fortier Fraser (West Nova) Fraser (Central Nova) Fuhr Garneau Gerretsen Goldsmith-Jones Goodale Gould Graham Hajdu Hardie Harvey Hébert Hehr Hogg Holland Housefather Hutchings Iacono Joly Jordan Jowhari Lambropoulos Lametti Lamoureux Lapointe LeBlanc Lebouthillier Lefebvre Leslie Levitt Lightbound Lockhart Long Longfield Ludwig MacAulay (Cardigan) MacKinnon (Gatineau) Massé (Avignon—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia) May (Cambridge) McCrimmon McDonald McGuinty McKay McKinnon (Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam) McLeod (Northwest Territories) Mendès Mendicino Mihychuk Miller (Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Soeurs) Murray Nassif Ng O'Connell Oliphant Oliver O'Regan Ouellette Paradis Peschisolido Peterson Petitpas Taylor Philpott Picard Poissant Qualtrough Ratansi Rioux Robillard Rogers Romanado Rota Ruimy Rusnak Sahota Saini Sajjan Samson Sarai Scarpaleggia Schiefke Schulte Serré Sgro Shanahan Sheehan Sidhu (Mission—Matsqui—Fraser Canyon) Sikand Sohi Sorbara Spengemann Tabbara Tan Tassi Tootoo Trudeau Vandal Vandenbeld Vaughan Whalen Wilkinson Wilson-Raybould Yip Zahid Total: -- 152
NAYS -- CONTRE Aboultaif Albas Albrecht Alleslev Allison Anderson Angus Arnold Barlow Barsalou-Duval Beaulieu Benson Benzen Bergen Berthold Block Boucher Boudrias Boutin-Sweet Cannings Caron Carrie Choquette Cooper Deltell Diotte Doherty Dreeshen Duncan (Edmonton Strathcona) Eglinski Falk (Battlefords—Lloydminster) Falk (Provencher) Finley Fortin Gallant Garrison Gill Gladu Gourde Hardcastle Hughes Jeneroux Johns Kelly Kent Kitchen Kmiec Kusie Kwan Laverdière Liepert Lloyd Lukiwski MacGregor MacKenzie Maguire Marcil Martel Mathyssen McCauley (Edmonton West) McColeman McLeod (Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo) Motz Nater O'Toole Paul-Hus Poilievre Quach Rankin Rayes Rempel Richards Sansoucy Schmale Shields Shipley Sopuck Stanton Stetski Strahl Stubbs Sweet Thériault Trost Trudel Van Kesteren Vecchio Wagantall Warawa Warkentin Waugh Webber Weir Yurdiga Total: -- 94
PAIRED -- PAIRÉS Nil--Aucun

The House resumed consideration of the motion of Ms. Wilson-Raybould (Minister of Justice), seconded by Ms. Petitpas Taylor (Minister of Health), — That a Message be sent to the Senate to acquaint Their Honours that the House respectfully disagrees with amendments 1 and 2 made by the Senate to Bill C-51, An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Department of Justice Act and to make consequential amendments to another Act, as they are inconsistent with the Bill’s objective of codifying Supreme Court of Canada jurisprudence on a narrow aspect of the law on sexual assault and instead seek to legislate a different, much more complex legal issue, without the benefit of consistent guidance from appellate courts or a broad range of stakeholder perspectives.

The debate continued.

Statements By Members

Pursuant to Standing Order 31, Members made statements.

Oral Questions

Pursuant to Standing Order 30(5), the House proceeded to Oral Questions.

Daily Routine Of Business

Tabling of Documents

Pursuant to Standing Order 32(2), Mr. Lamoureux (Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons) laid upon the Table, — Government responses, pursuant to Standing Order 36(8), to the following petitions:

— No. 421-02828 concerning refugees. — Sessional Paper No. 8545-421-2-16;

— Nos. 421-02829 and 421-02977 concerning discrimination. — Sessional Paper No. 8545-421-32-34;

— No. 421-02854 concerning road transportation. — Sessional Paper No. 8545-421-34-09;

— No. 421-02856 concerning foreign students. — Sessional Paper No. 8545-421-121-02;

— No. 421-02878 concerning marine transportation. — Sessional Paper No. 8545-421-92-18;

— No. 421-02973 concerning rail transportation. — Sessional Paper No. 8545-421-10-25;

— No. 421-02994 concerning the issuance of visas. — Sessional Paper No. 8545-421-16-13.

Presenting Reports from Interparliamentary Delegations

Pursuant to Standing Order 34(1), presented the report of the Canadian Group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) respecting its participation at the 280th session of the IPU Executive Committee and the 139th IPU Assembly and related meetings, held in Geneva, Switzerland, from October 12 to 18, 2018. — Sessional Paper No. 8565-421-60-19.

Pursuant to Standing Order 34(1), presented the report of the Canadian delegation of the Canada-Europe Parliamentary Association respecting its participation at the 17th Winter Meeting of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA), held in Vienna, Austria, on February 22 and 23, 2018. — Sessional Paper No. 8565-421-61-14.

Pursuant to Standing Order 34(1), presented the report of the Canadian delegation of the Canada-Europe Parliamentary Association respecting its participation at the 27th Annual Session of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA), held in Berlin, Germany, from July 7 to 11, 2018. — Sessional Paper No. 8565-421-61-15.

Presenting Reports from Committees

Mr. Finnigan (Miramichi—Grand Lake), from the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food, presented the 14th Report of the Committee, "Supplementary Estimates (A), 2018-19: Vote 1a under Canadian Dairy Commission, Vote 1a under Canadian Grain Commission, and Votes 1a, 5a and 10a under Department of Agriculture and Agri-Food". — Sessional Paper No. 8510-421-496.

A copy of the relevant Minutes of Proceedings (Meeting No. 121) was tabled.

Mr. Easter (Malpeque), from the Standing Committee on Finance, presented the 27th Report of the Committee, "Cultivating Competitiveness: Helping Canadians Succeed". — Sessional Paper No. 8510-421-497.

A copy of the relevant Minutes of Proceedings (Meetings Nos. 164 to 178 and 190 to 193) was tabled.

Mr. McDonald (Avalon), from the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans, presented the 18th Report of the Committee, "Protection and Recovery of Endangered Whales: The Way Forward". — Sessional Paper No. 8510-421-498.

Pursuant to Standing Order 109, the Committee requested that the government table a comprehensive response.

A copy of the relevant Minutes of Proceedings (Meetings Nos. 113 to 117 and 122 to 124) was tabled.

Mr. McKay (Scarborough—Guildwood), from the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security, presented the 29th Report of the Committee, "Bill C-83, An Act to amend the Corrections and Conditional Release Act and another Act". — Sessional Paper No. 8510-421-499.

A copy of the relevant Minutes of Proceedings (Meetings Nos. 135 to 137, 139 and 141) was tabled.

Ms. Mihychuk (Kildonan—St. Paul), from the Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs, presented the 17th Report of the Committee, "The Challenges of Delivering Continuing Care in First Nation Communities". — Sessional Paper No. 8510-421-500.

Pursuant to Standing Order 109, the Committee requested that the government table a comprehensive response.

A copy of the relevant Minutes of Proceedings (Meetings Nos. 109, 111 to 113, 115, 118 to 120, 130 and 132) was tabled.

Presenting Petitions

Pursuant to Standing Order 36, petitions certified by the Clerk of Petitions were presented as follows:

— by , one concerning organ transplants (No. 421-03062);

— by , one concerning health care services (No. 421-03063);

— by , one concerning organ transplants (No. 421-03064);

— by , one concerning firearms (No. 421-03065);

— by , one concerning blood donations (No. 421-03066);

— by , two concerning organ transplants (Nos. 421-03067 and 421-03068);

— by , one concerning marine transportation (No. 421-03069);

— by , one concerning the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (No. 421-03070);

— by , one concerning navigable waters (No. 421-03071) and one concerning military medals and decorations (No. 421-03072);

— by , one concerning cruelty to animals (No. 421-03073);

— by , one concerning the protection of the environment (No. 421-03074);

— by , one concerning organ transplants (No. 421-03075);

— by , two concerning immigration (Nos. 421-03076 and 421-03077), one concerning refugees (No. 421-03078) and one concerning the protection of the environment (No. 421-03079).

Questions on the Order Paper

Mr. Lamoureux (Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons) presented the answers to questions Q-2012 to Q-2014, Q-2019 to Q-2021, and Q-2023 on the Order Paper.

Pursuant to Standing Order 39(7), Mr. Lamoureux (Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons) presented the returns to the following questions made into Orders for Return:

Q-2011 — — With regard to the government’s Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) tax incentive program, broken down by each of the last three fiscal years: (a) what is the number of businesses which applied for tax incentives under the program; (b) what is the average time between the receipt of an application and a decision; (c) what is the average time between the receipt of an application and the funding actually being delivered to the business; (d) what is the number of applicants who have received notice of an audit under the program; (e) what is the average length of time between the notice of an audit and the applicant being audited actually receiving funding under the program; and (f) does the government pay the applicant interest in the case that an audit delays payment or does the government simply put the interest towards general revenue? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-421-2011.

Q-2015 — — With regard to the number of individuals placed under a lifetime non-disclosure or gag order since November 4, 2015, broken down by department and agency: (a) what is the total number of (i) government employees, (ii) contractors, vendors or their employees, (iii) others, who are under such an order; and (b) what is the number of individuals who have been found to violate such an order since November 4, 2015? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-421-2015.

Q-2016 — — With regard to requests made to government ministers: (a) did any minister, including the Prime Minister, ever receive a request, including via email, text message, written, or oral communication, from members of the Irving family, or representatives of the Irving Group of Companies, that an investigation take place, or that charges be laid, in relation to the November 2015 alleged leak of information from a Cabinet committee meeting; and (b) if the answer to (a) is affirmative, what are the details of all such requests, including (i) sender, (ii) recipient, (iii) date, (iv) form (email, text, etc.), (v) summary or nature of request? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-421-2016.

Q-2017 — — With regard to the meetings which took place at the Halifax International Security Forum, in November 2015, involving ministers and representatives from the Irving Group of Companies: what are the details of all such meetings, including (i) date, (ii) attendees, (iii) whether attendees were in person, or connected via teleconference, (iv) topics discussed? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-421-2017.

Q-2018 — — With regard to government expenditures on sporting event tickets since December 1, 2017: what was the (i) date, (ii) location, (iii) ticket cost, (iv) title of persons using the tickets, (v) name or title of event for tickets purchased by, or billed to, any department, agency, Crown corporation, or other government entity? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-421-2018.

Q-2022 — — With regard to government sponsorships: (a) what is the complete list of conferences or conventions which were sponsored by any department, agency, or other government entity, since November 4, 2015; and (b) what are the details of each sponsorship in (a), including (i) name of event, (ii) location, (iii) amount of sponsorship, (iv) date of event? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-421-2022.

Q-2024 — — With regard to the increase in fuel costs for school buses as a direct result of the federal carbon tax: does the government have any plans to compensate every local school board which will have to pay increased fuel costs and, if so, how much will each local school board receive in compensation funding? — Sessional Paper No. 8555-421-2024.

Government Orders

The debate continued.

At 6:45 p.m., pursuant to Order made earlier today under the provisions of Standing Order 78(3), the Speaker interrupted the proceedings.

The question was put on the motion and it was agreed to on the following division:
(Division No. 977 -- Vote n^o 977)
YEAS: 240, NAYS: 35
YEAS -- POUR Aboultaif Albas Albrecht Aldag Alghabra Alleslev Allison Amos Anandasangaree Anderson Arnold Arseneault Arya Ayoub Badawey Bagnell Barlow Baylis Bennett Benzen Bergen Berthold Bezan Bibeau Bittle Blair Block Boissonnault Bossio Boucher Bratina Breton Brison Caesar-Chavannes Calkins Carr Carrie Casey (Cumberland—Colchester) Chagger Champagne Chong Clarke Cooper Cuzner Dabrusin Damoff DeCourcey Deltell Dhaliwal Dhillon Diotte Doherty Dreeshen Drouin Dubourg Duclos Duguid Duncan (Etobicoke North) Dzerowicz Easter Eglinski Ehsassi El-Khoury Ellis Erskine-Smith Eyking Eyolfson Falk (Battlefords—Lloydminster) Falk (Provencher) Fergus Finley Finnigan Fisher Fonseca Fortier Fragiskatos Fraser (West Nova) Fraser (Central Nova) Fry Fuhr Gallant Garneau Généreux Genuis Gerretsen Gladu Godin Goldsmith-Jones Goodale Gould Graham Hajdu Hardie Harvey Hébert Hehr Hogg Holland Housefather Hutchings Iacono Jeneroux Joly Jordan Jowhari Kelly Kent Khalid Kitchen Kmiec Kusie Lambropoulos Lametti Lamoureux Lapointe LeBlanc Lebouthillier Lefebvre Leitch Leslie Levitt Liepert Lightbound Lloyd Lobb Lockhart Long Longfield Ludwig Lukiwski MacAulay (Cardigan) MacKenzie MacKinnon (Gatineau) Maguire Martel Massé (Avignon—La Mitis—Matane—Matapédia) May (Cambridge) McCauley (Edmonton West) McColeman McCrimmon McDonald McGuinty McKay McKinnon (Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam) McLeod (Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo) McLeod (Northwest Territories) Mendès Mendicino Mihychuk Miller (Ville-Marie—Le Sud-Ouest—Île-des-Soeurs) Monsef Motz Murray Nassif Nater Nault Ng Nicholson Nuttall O'Connell Oliphant Oliver O'Regan O'Toole Ouellette Paradis Paul-Hus Peschisolido Peterson Petitpas Taylor Philpott Picard Poilievre Poissant Qualtrough Ratansi Rayes Reid Rempel Richards Rioux Robillard Rogers Romanado Rota Ruimy Rusnak Sahota Saini Sajjan Samson Sangha Sarai Scarpaleggia Schiefke Schmale Schulte Serré Sgro Shanahan Sheehan Shields Shipley Sidhu (Brampton South) Sikand Simms Sohi Sopuck Sorbara Sorenson Spengemann Stanton Strahl Stubbs Sweet Tabbara Tan Tassi Tilson Trost Van Kesteren Vandal Vandenbeld Vaughan Vecchio Viersen Wagantall Warawa Warkentin Waugh Webber Whalen Wilkinson Wilson-Raybould Wong Yip Young Yurdiga Zahid Zimmer Total: -- 240
NAYS -- CONTRE Angus Ashton Barsalou-Duval Beaulieu Benson Boutin-Sweet Brosseau Cannings Caron Davies Dubé Duncan (Edmonton Strathcona) Dusseault Fortin Garrison Gill Hardcastle Hughes Johns Julian Kwan Laverdière MacGregor Malcolmson Marcil Masse (Windsor West) Mathyssen Moore Nantel Quach Ramsey Rankin Stetski Trudel Weir Total: -- 35
PAIRED -- PAIRÉS Chen Cormier Pauzé Plamondon Total: -- 4

Take-note Debates

At 7:13 p.m., pursuant to Order made Thursday, December 6, 2018, and Standing Order 53.1, the House resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole for the consideration of the following motion, — That the House take note of the opioid crisis in Canada. (Government Business No. 26)

At 11:13 p.m., the Committee rose.

Messages from the Senate

Messages were received from the Senate as follows:

— ORDERED: That a message be sent to the House of Commons to acquaint that House that the Senate has passed Bill C-76, An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act and other Acts and to make certain consequential amendments, with the following amendment:

1. Clause 223, page 119: Replace line 9 with the following:

“tivity, for advertising, for election advertising or for an election survey if the”.

— ORDERED: That a message be sent to the House of Commons to acquaint that House that the Senate has passed Bill C-64, An Act respecting wrecks, abandoned, dilapidated or hazardous vessels and salvage operations, with the following amendments:

1. Clause 5, page 3:

(a) Replace lines 7 and 8 with the following:

“5 (1) Except as otherwise provided by regulations made under paragraph 130(1)(c) or subsection 131(1) and despite subsection (3), this Act does not apply in respect of”;

(b) replace line 13 with the following:

“(2) Except as otherwise provided by regulations made under subsection 131(1), this Act, other than Parts 3 and 4, does not apply in”; and

“(3) Except as otherwise provided by regulations made under subsection 131(1), this Act, other than Parts 3 and 4,”.

2. Clause 131, pages 64 and 65:

(a) On page 64,

(i) replace line 23 with the following:

“heritage value, including ocean war graves;”,

(ii) replace line 26 with the following:

“including ocean war graves, and providing for the issuance of permits to access”, and

(iii) replace line 42 with the following:

“heritage value, including ocean war graves, from the application of any provision of”; and

(b) on page 65,

(i) delete line 3, and

(ii) replace line 7 with the following:

“made under this subsection;

(i) extending the application of paragraph 110(1)(f), subsections 110(5) and (7), section 111, paragraph 113(d), subsection 119(1) and section 120 to wrecks or classes of wrecks that are specified in regulations made under paragraph (b);

(j) extending to wrecks or classes of wrecks that are specified in regulations made under paragraph (b) the application of paragraph 110(1)(b), in respect of a contravention of subsection 58(1) or (3) or section 60, and of paragraph 110(1)(d), in respect of a contravention of a direction given under paragraph 58(4)(b); and

(k) extending the application of any provision of the regulations made under this subsection to wrecked vessels or aircraft — or classes of wrecked vessels or aircraft — that are referred to in subsection 5(1) and paragraphs 5(2)(a) and (b) and that are specified in regulations made under paragraph (b).”.

Returns and Reports Deposited with the Clerk of the House

Pursuant to Standing Order 32(1), papers deposited with the Clerk of the House were laid upon the Table as follows:

— by — Amendments to the Management Plan for Signal Hill National Historic Site of Canada, pursuant to the Canada National Parks Act, S.C. 2000, c. 32, sbs. 11(2) and to the Parks Canada Agency Act, S.C. 1998, c. 31, sbs. 32(2). — Sessional Paper No. 8560-421-566-15. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development)

— by — Amendments to the Management Plan for the Chambly Canal National Historic Site of Canada, pursuant to the Canada National Parks Act, S.C. 2000, c. 32, sbs. 11(2) and to the Parks Canada Agency Act, S.C. 1998, c. 31, sbs. 32(2). — Sessional Paper No. 8560-421-566-16. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development)

— by — Amendments to the Management Plan for the Sir Wilfrid Laurier National Historic Site of Canada, pursuant to the Canada National Parks Act, S.C. 2000, c. 32, sbs. 11(2) and to the Parks Canada Agency Act, S.C. 1998, c. 31, sbs. 32(2). — Sessional Paper No. 8560-421-566-17. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development)

— by — Amendments to the Management Plan for the Niagara National Historic Site of Canada, pursuant to the Canada National Parks Act, S.C. 2000, c. 32, sbs. 11(2) and to the Parks Canada Agency Act, S.C. 1998, c. 31, sbs. 32(2). — Sessional Paper No. 8560-421-566-18. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development)

— by — Amendments to the Management Plan for the Sir George-Étienne Cartier National Historic Site of Canada, pursuant to the Canada National Parks Act, S.C. 2000, c. 32, sbs. 11(2) and to the Parks Canada Agency Act, S.C. 1998, c. 31, sbs. 32(2). — Sessional Paper No. 8560-421-566-19. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development)

— by — Reports by Federal Authorities with Obligations under Section 71 of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012 for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2018, pursuant to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012, S.C. 2012, c. 19, s. 52 "71(2)" . — Sessional Paper No. 8560-421-1072-04. (Pursuant to Standing Order 32(5), permanently referred to the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development)

Adjournment

At 11:13 p.m., the Speaker adjourned the House until tomorrow at 10:00 a.m., pursuant to Standing Order 24(1).