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Status of House Business

The Status of House Business provides cumulative information on the status of business before the House during a session. The document is updated after each sitting.

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Status of House Business

AT DISSOLUTION (Sunday, August 15, 2021)


PART V – Other Business

This section contains information on motions which deal with other business of the House, such as the times of sitting of the House and its order of business, amendments to the Standing Orders and emergency debates. The information in this section is grouped and numbered for reference only.
No. 1 — Standing Orders
Suspension of the application of Standing Order 17 and of the application of Standing Order 62 for members participating remotely, and provisional amendment to Standing Orders 26(2), 53(4), 56.1(3) and 56.2(2), until December 11, 2020 — September 23, 2020
Provisional amendment to Standing Order 28(2)(b) for the 2020 calendar year — September 30, 2020
Amendment to Standing Order 81(18)(c) for the supply period ending December 10, 2020 — December 4, 2020
Suspension of the application of Standing Order 17 and of the application of Standing Order 62 for members participating remotely, and provisional amendment to Standing Orders 26(2), 53(4), 56.1(3) and 56.2(2), until June 23, 2021 — January 25, 2021
Amendments to Standing Orders 104(2), 108(2) and 108(3), coming into effect at the beginning of the 44th Parliament (Standing Committee on Science and Research) — May 26, 2021 (See PART II — Private Members' Motions — M-38)
No. 2 — Sittings and Business of the House
Order respecting proceedings of the House in person or by videoconference, members participating remotely counting for quorum, the tabling of electronic documents, recorded divisions and deferred recorded divisions in the chamber or by electronic means, the duration of the bells to call in the members, and committee membership, virtual or hybrid committee meetings and the convening of committees' organizational meetings — September 23, 2020
Order respecting proceedings and the time for the statement by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and the adjournment of the House on November 30, 2020 — November 25, 2020
Order respecting proceedings of the House in person or by videoconference, members participating remotely counting for quorum, the tabling of electronic documents, recorded divisions and deferred recorded divisions in the chamber or by electronic means, use of a remote voting application, the duration of the bells to call in the members, and committee membership and virtual or hybrid committee meetings — January 25, 2021
Order respecting proceedings on February 1, 2021 — February 1, 2021
Order respecting the suspension of the sitting — February 3 and 24, 2021
Order respecting proceedings on February 16, 2021 — February 16, 2021
Order respecting votes with the electronic voting system — February 22, 2021
Order respecting proceedings on February 24, 2021 — February 24, 2021
Order respecting recorded divisions on Private Members’ Business — March 22, 2021
Order respecting Statements by Ministers on April 15, 2021 and an Address to Her Majesty the Queen — April 14, 2021; Address to Her Majesty the Queen deemed adopted — April 15, 2021
Order respecting Statements by Members and Oral Questions on May 14, 2021 — May 14, 2021
No. 3 — Board of Internal Economy
Membership of the Board changed — September 23, 2020
No. 4 — Chair Occupants
Assistant Deputy Speaker and Deputy Chair of Committees of the Whole appointed (Mrs. Hughes (Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing)) — September 23, 2020
Assistant Deputy Speaker and Assistant Deputy Chair of Committees of the Whole appointed (Mrs. Mendès (Brossard—Saint-Lambert)) — September 23, 2020
No. 5 — Address in Reply to the Speech from the Throne
Debated — September 23, 24, 25 and 30, and October 1, 5 and 6, 2020
Adopted — October 6, 2020
Order to engross address — October 6, 2020
No. 6 — Conflict of Interest Code for the Members of the House of Commons
Report of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner entitled "Peschisolido Report" (Sessional Paper No. 8527-431-2 ) — February 5, 2020
Motion to concur in the report — Adopted — September 29, 2020
Letter of apology tabled (Sessional Paper No. 8527-432-5 ) — October 19, 2020
Report of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner entitled "Maloney Report" (Sessional Paper No. 8527-432-7 ) — November 19, 2020
Motion to concur in the report — Debated — December 11, 2020 (See PART I — Government Business No. 3)
Motion to concur in the report pursuant to section 28(12) of the Code — Deemed moved; negatived — February 19, 2021
Disclosure of private interest by Ms. McPherson (Edmonton Strathcona) pursuant to section 12 of the Code — March 22, 2021
Report of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner entitled "Ratansi Report" (Sessional Paper No.  8527-432-22 ) — June 15, 2021
Statement by Ms. Ratansi (Don Valley East) — June 22, 2021
No. 7 — Emergency debates
Fisheries in Nova Scotia — Leave granted — October 19, 2020
Order respecting proceedings; debated — October 19, 2020
Keystone XL — Leave granted — January 25, 2021
Order respecting proceedings; debated — January 25, 2021
COVID-19 vaccine — Leave granted — January 25, 2021
Order respecting proceedings — January 25, 2021
Debated — January 26, 2021
Future of Laurentian University — Leave granted — April 14, 2021
Order respecting proceedings; debated — April 14, 2021
Government response to the COVID-19 pandemic — Leave granted — April 21, 2021
Order respecting proceedings; debated — April 21, 2021
COVID-19 situation in Alberta — Leave granted — May 5, 2021
Order respecting proceedings; debated — May 5, 2021
Line 5 pipeline shutdown — Leave granted — May 5, 2021
Order respecting proceedings — May 5, 2021
Debated — May 6, 2021
No. 8 — Resolutions
Terrorist attack in France — October 27, 2020
Situation in Algeria — October 28, 2020
Flight PS752 victims — October 29, 2020
Employment Insurance — November 6, 2020
Whole Foods Market Inc.'s poppy policy — November 6, 2020
Veterans Week — November 6, 2020
Invitation to the President-elect and Vice-President-elect of the United States — November 16, 2020
Use of French in Canada — November 18, 2020
Student loan repayment — November 24, 2020
Financial compensation for farmers and processors — November 26, 2020
Member for Cariboo—Prince George — December 2, 2020
Impact of COVID-19 on people who are homeless or unhoused — December 9, 2020
National suicide prevention hotline — December 11, 2020
Designation of Proud Boys as a terrorist entity — January 25, 2021
Raif Badawi — January 27, 2021
Mamadi Fara Camara — February 16, 2021
Health and safety of interpreters — February 17, 2021
Farah Alibay — February 17, 2021
Indexation of UK state pensions in Canada — March 9, 2021
Anti-Asian racism — March 22, 2021
Racism in the RCMP — March 23, 2021
Anti-Asian racism — March 24, 2021
Laurentian University in Sudbury — April 13, 2021
Halifax International Security Forum — April 14, 2021
Suspension of non-essential passenger flights — April 22, 2021
High performance athletes — April 28, 2021
Taxation of Netflix — May 5, 2021
Perinatal mental health — May 5, 2021
Construction of the Lac-Mégantic bypass — May 25, 2021
Bonuses of 20 million dollars to the executive officers of Air Canada — June 3, 2021
Emergency National Action Summit on Islamophobia — June 11, 2021
Indigenous languages — June 16, 2021
Indigenous peoples — June 21, 2021
No. 9 — Bills sponsored by private members which originated in the Senate
S-204Mr. Genuis (Sherwood Park—Fort Saskatchewan)
S-205Ms. Zann (Cumberland—Colchester)
S-211Mr. Hardie (Fleetwood—Port Kells)
S-222Mr. Lawrence (Northumberland—Peterborough South)
S-223Mr. Barrett (Leeds—Grenville—Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes)
S-1001Mrs. Mendès (Brossard—Saint-Lambert)
No. 10 — Debate on Standing Orders and procedure pursuant to Standing Order 51
Debate — February 1, 2021 (See PART IV — Standing Committees — PROC)
No. 11 — Certificates of nomination pursuant to Standing Order 111.1
Privacy Commissioner
Name of the proposed appointee (Daniel Therrien) referred to the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics (Sessional Paper No.  8540-432-25-01 ) — May 27, 2021
Ratification motion — Notice — May 31, 2021; adopted — June 3, 2021
No. 12 — Privilege
Conduct of the member for Pontiac
Debated; adopted — June 7, 2021 (See PART IV — Standing Committees — PROC)
Public Health Agency of Canada's failure to obey the order of the House adopted on June 2, 2021 — June 16, 2021
Debated — June 16, 2021
Adopted — June 17, 2021
Appearance of the president of the Public Health Agency of Canada at the bar of the House — June 21, 2021