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Communications see Justice system--Witnesses

Communications Security Establishment

    >>Annual report, 1997-1998, tabled, 908 (8525-361-12)
    >>See also Employment Equity Act

Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act see Income Tax Amendments Act (Bill C-28)

Competition

    >>Administration/enforcement see Competition Act (amdt.)(Bill C-20)
    >>Anti-competitive acts see Competition Act (amdt.--abuse of dominant position)(Bill C-472)
    >>Vertically integrated suppliers/retail sales see Competition Act (amdt.--protection of those who purchase products from vertically integrated suppliers who compete with them at retail)(Bill C-235)
    >>See also Canada Post Corporation

Competition Act

    >>Director of Investigation and Research, reports, tabled and permanently referred to Industry Standing Committee
    >>>1995-1996 annual report, 188 (8560-361-112)
    >>>1996-1997 annual report, 678 (8560-361-112A)
    >>>1996-1997 annual report, 1450 (8560-361-112B)
    >>See also Criminal Code, Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and Corrections and Conditional Release Act (amdt.)(Bill C-51)

Competition Act (amdt.)(Bill C-20)--Minister of Industry (Manley)

    >>1st r, 235
    >>2nd r, 569, 571, agreed to on recorded division (Division No. 109), 589-90
    >>Industry Standing Committee
    >>>Referral, 590
    >>>Report, with amdts., 896
    >>Report stage, 1033-6, 1038, 1063-8
    >>>Concurrence, M. (Manley), agreed to on recorded division (Division No. 228), 1067-8
    >>>Divisions deferred, 1038
    >>>Motion No. 1 (Clause 12), (Dubé, A.), 1033, division deferred, 1034, negatived on recorded division (Division No. 226), 1063-4
    >>>Motion No. 2 (Clause 12), (Dubé, A.), 1034, negatived on recorded division (Division No. 227), 1064-5
    >>>Motion No. 3 (Clause 12), (Dubé, A.), 1034, division deferred, 1034, negatived on applied recorded division (Division No. 226), 1064
    >>>Motion No. 4 (Clause 13), (Dubé, A.), 1034, division deferred, 1034, negatived on applied recorded division (Division No. 227), 1065
    >>>Motion No. 5 (Clause 13), (Dubé, A.), 1034, division deferred, 1034, negatived on applied recorded division (Division No. 227), 1065
    >>>Motion No. 6 (Clause 13), (Dubé, A.), 1034-5, division deferred, 1035, negatived on applied recorded division (Division No. 227), 1066
    >>>Motion No. 7 (Clause 13), (Dubé, A.), 1034, division deferred, 1034, negatived on applied recorded division (Division No. 227), 1065
    >>>Motion No. 8 (Clause 13), (Dubé, A.), 1034, negatived on applied recorded division (Division No. 227), 1065-6
    >>>Motion No. 9 (Clause 22), (Dubé, A.), 1035-6, division deferred, 1038, negatived on applied recorded division (Division No. 227), 1066-7
    >>>Motion No. 10 (Clause 22), (Dubé, A.), 1036, negatived on applied recorded division (Division No. 227), 1067
    >>>Motion No. 11 (Clause 22), (Dubé, A.), 1036, division deferred, 1038, negatived on applied recorded division (Division No. 227), 1067
    >>3rd r, 1074, division deferred, agreed to on recorded division (Division No. 229), 1074-5, passed
    >>Senate passage, with amdts., 1447
    >>Senate amdts., consideration, 1471
    >>>Amdts., M. (Manley), 1471-2, 1474, agreed to on division, 1474
    >>Senate passage, without amdt., 1526
    >>Royal Assent, (Chap. 2, S.C. 1999), 1597

Competition Act (amdt.--abuse of dominant position)(Bill C-472)--McTeague

Competition Act (amdt.--protection of those who purchase products from vertically integrated suppliers who compete with them at retail)(Bill C-235)--McTeague

    >>1st r, 80
    >>2nd r, 899, dropped to bottom of Order of Precedence list under S.O. 93, 899; 1069, dropped to bottom of Order of Precedence list under S.O. 93, 1069; 1145, division deferred, 1145, agreed to on recorded division (Division No. 244), 1164-5
    >>Industry Standing Committee
    >>>Referral, 1165
    >>>Report, with amdts., 1728
    >>Report stage, 1917-9, dropped to bottom of Order of Precedence list under S.O. 98(2), 1919
    >>>Motion No. 1 (McTeague), 1918
    >>>Motion No. 2 (McTeague), 1918-9
    >>>>Amendment (Peric), 1919
    >>>Motion No. 3 (McTeague), 1919

Competition Act, 1998 (amdt.--negative option marketing)(Bill C-393)--Gallaway

    >>1st r, 697
    >>2nd r, 1591, dropped to bottom of Order of Precedence list under S.O. 93, 1591, 1601, dropped to bottom of Order of Precedence list under S.O. 93, 1601, 1839, division deferred, 1839, agreed to on recorded division (Division No. 422), 1846-7
    >>Industry Standing Committee
    >>>Referral, 1847

Competition Tribunal

    >>Departmental Performance Report
    >>>1996-1997, tabled, 200 (8563-361-21)
    >>>1997-1998, tabled, 1208 (8563-361-102)
    >>Estimates, 1997-1998, main
    >>>Tabled, 63 (8520-361-23)
    >>Estimates, 1998-1999, main
    >>>Tabled, 618 (8520-361-106)
    >>Estimates, 1999-2000, main
    >>>Tabled, 1671 (8520-361-192)

Comprehensive land claims

    >>Indian Affairs and Northern Development Department management, Auditor General Report (1998), Chp. 14 see Public Accounts Standing Committee--Reports, Twenty-second

Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Implementation Act (Bill C-52)--Minister of Foreign Affairs (Axworthy, L.)

    >>1st r, 1072
    >>2nd r, 1124-5, M., agreed to, 1125
    >>Committee of the Whole
    >>>Referral, by unanimous consent, 1125
    >>>Report, with amdts., 1125
    >>Report stage, concurrence, M. agreed to, 1125
    >>3rd r, 1125-6, passed
    >>Senate passage, with amdts., 1310
    >>Senate amdts., consideration, 1321
    >>>2nd r, 1321, agreed to, 1321
    >>Senate passage, 1393
    >>Royal Assent, (Chap. 32, S.C. 1998), 1393

Computers (Year 2000 compliance)

    >>Auditor General Report (1997), Chp. 12 see Public Accounts Standing Committee--Reports, Second
    >>See also Industry Standing Committee--Reports, Sixth--Thirteenth--Eighteenth
    >>See also Government departments, boards, agencies and commissions

Condominiums

    >>Goods and Services Tax (GST)/Harmonized Sales Tax (HST)
    >>>Ways and Means No. 28, tabled, 2054 (8570-361-29), concurrence, M. (Martin, Paul), agreed to on division, 2093
    >>>See also Sales Tax and Excise Tax Amendments Act, 1999 (Bill C-88)

Confederation see Riel, Louis David--Father of Confederation

Conference of Commonwealth Speakers and Presiding Officers

    >>Report of Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago conference, Jan. 2-8, 1998, tabled, 919 (8565-361-56)

Conflict, international

    >>Prevention, multilateral plan, M-338 (Martin, K.), 1731, dropped to bottom of Order of Precedence list under S.O. 93, 1731, 1943-4, dropped to bottom of Order of Precedence list under S.O. 93, 1944
    >>>Amdt., agreed to, 1731

Conflict of interest see Air Canada--Airbus; Nuclear technology--Sales

Conjugal relationships

    >>Common law homosexual and lesbian couples, equal treatment see Equal Treatment For Persons Cohabitating in a Relationship Similar to a Conjugal Relationship Act (Bill C-309); Equal Treatment For Persons Cohabiting in a Relationship Similar to a Conjugal Relationship Act (Bill C-481)

Conscientious objection

    >>Petitions
    >>>(Robinson), (361-0868), 742, gr, 933 (8545-361-70); (361-0934), 828, gr, 1042 (8545-361-70A); (361-1713), 1274, gr, 1863 (8545-361-70B); (361-1994), 1482, gr, 1863 (8545-361-70B)
    >>See also Income tax--Military/defence purposes

Conscientious Objection Act (Bill C-272)--Robinson

Conservation see Fisheries

Constitution see Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms; Newfoundland School System; Nisga'a Agreement

Constitution Act, 1867

    >>Section 93 see Education--Quebec denominational school boards
    >>See also Nunavut Act and Constitution Act, 1867 (amdt.)(Bill C-39); Recognition and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms Act and Constitution Act, 1867 (amdt.)(Bill C-304); Recognition and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms Act and Constitution Act, 1867 (amdt.)(Bill C-452)

Constitution Act, 1997 (representation)(Bill C-372)--O'Brien, P.

Constitutional Amendment (Amendment to Term 17) Special Joint Committee see Newfoundland School System Special Joint Committee

Constitutional Amendment (Quebec School System) Special Joint Committee see Quebec School System Special Joint Committee

Construction services

    >>Goods and Services Tax (GST)/Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) application
    >>>Ways and Means No. 28, tabled, 2054 (8570-361-29), concurrence, M. (Martin, Paul), agreed to on division, 2093
    >>>See also Sales Tax and Excise Tax Amendments Act, 1999 (Bill C-88)

Consultation by the Federal Government on the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) see Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI)--Document

Consumer Packaging and Labelling Act (amdt.--nutritional value of food)(Bill C-389)--Bellemare

Consumer Packaging and Labelling Act (amdt.--recombinant hormones)(Bill C-239)--Hill, G.

    >>1st r, 84

Consumer products

    >>Toxic contaminants, phthalates, cadmium and lead see Hazardous Products Act (amdt.)(Bill C-482)

Consumers see Negative option marketing

Contests, lotteries, games of chance

    >>Letter indicating prize conditional on prior payment, transmittal by Canada Post Corporation see Canada Post Corporation Act (amdt.--letter that cannot be transmitted by post)(Bill C-409)

Contraventions Act and Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (amdt.-marihuana)(Bill C-503)--Martin, K.

Controlled Drugs and Substances Act

    >>Petitions
    >>>(Jaffer), (361-0167), 213, gr, 541 (8545-361-40)
    >>See also Contraventions Act and Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (amdt.-marihuana)(Bill C-503); Criminal Code, Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and Corrections and Conditional Release Act (amdt.)(Bill C-51)

Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (amdt.--trafficking in a controlled drug or substance within five hundred metres of an elementary school or a high school)(Bill C-458)--Gilmour

Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage, 1969, Protocol of 1992 see Canada Shipping Act (amdt.--maritime liability)(Bill S-4)

Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions see Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (Bill S-21)

Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims, 1976 see Canada Shipping Act (amdt.--maritime liability)(Bill S-4)

Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage see Canada Shipping Act (amdt.--maritime liability)(Bill S-4)

Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction see Anti-Personnel Mines Convention Implementation Act (Bill C-22)

Conventions (conferences)

    >>Food and beverages, non-residents, Goods and Services Tax (GST)/Harmonized Sales Tax (HST)
    >>>Ways and Means No. 28, tabled, 2054 (8570-361-29), concurrence, M. (Martin, Paul), agreed to on division, 2093
    >>>See also Sales Tax and Excise Tax Amendments Act, 1999 (Bill C-88)

Co-operatives

    >>Corporate governance/financing vehicles see Canada Cooperatives Act (Bill C-5)

Copps, Hon. Sheila (Lib.--Hamilton East; Minister of Canadian Heritage)

    >>References see Magazines--Advertising regulations

Copyright see Photocopies

Copyright Act

    >>Petitions
    >>>(Abbott), (361-1653), 1228, gr, 1714 (8545-361-81A), gr, 1773 (8545-361-81A) (revised)
    >>>(Bélanger), (361-1433), 1098, gr, 1714 (8545-361-81A), gr, 1773 (8545-361-81A) (revised)
    >>>(Godfrey), (361-1347), 1069, gr, 1714 (8545-361-81A), gr, 1773 (8545-361-81A) (revised)
    >>>(Lill), (361-2271), 1715, gr, 1852 (8545-361-81B)
    >>>(McKay), (361-1279), 1026, gr, 1087 (8545-361-81)
    >>>(Tremblay, Suzanne), (361-1229), 1026, gr, 1087 (8545-361-81)
    >>See also Criminal Code and Copyright Act (amdt.--profit from authorship respecting a crime)(Bill C-220)

Copyright Act (amdt.)(Bill C-358)--Mahoney

Copyright Board Canada

    >>Departmental Performance Report
    >>>1996-1997, tabled, 200 (8563-361-22)
    >>>1997-1998, tabled, 1208 (8563-361-103)
    >>Estimates
    >>>1997-1998
    >>>>Main, tabled, 63 (8520-361-12)
    >>>1998-1999
    >>>>Main, tabled, 618 (8520-361-107)
    >>>1999-2000
    >>>>Main, tabled, 1671 (8520-361-193)
    >>Reports, permanently referred to Industry Standing Committee
    >>>1996-1997 annual report, 122 (8560-361-555)
    >>>1997-1998 annual report, 1155 (8560-361-555A)
    >>See also Access to Information Act; Privacy Act

Corporal punishment

    >>Petitions
    >>>(Davies), (361-0155), 193, gr, 501 (8545-361-37)

Corporate taxation see Income Tax Amendments Act (Bill C-28)

Corporations

    >>Boards of directors
    >>>And executives see Westray mine disaster
    >>>Due diligence defence see Canada Business Corporations Act (amdt.)(Bill C-221)
    >>Criminal acts or omissions/unsafe working conditions, liability of officers and staff see Criminal Code (amdt.--criminal liability of corporations, directors and officers)(Bill C-468)
    >>Mergers see Competition Act (amdt.)(Bill C-20)

Corporations and Labour Unions Returns Act

    >>Reports, permanently referred to Industry Standing Committee
    >>>Part I--Corporations
    >>>>1996 annual report, 1154 (8560-361-115)

Correctional Investigator Office

    >>Departmental Performance Report
    >>>1996-1997, tabled, 201 (8563-361-55)
    >>>1997-1998, tabled, 1210 (8563-361-136)
    >>Estimates
    >>>1997-1998
    >>>>Main, tabled, 64 (8520-361-57)
    >>>1998-1999
    >>>>Main, tabled, 619 (8520-361-140)
    >>>1999-2000
    >>>>Main, tabled, 1672 (8520-361-226)
    >>Reports, tabled and permanently referred to Justice and Human Rights Standing Committee
    >>>1996-1997 annual report, 214 (8560-361-72)
    >>>1997-1998 annual report, 1240 (8560-361-72A)

Correctional Service of Canada

    >>Departmental Performance Report
    >>>1996-1997, tabled, 200 (8563-361-23)
    >>>1997-1998, tabled, 1208 (8563-361-104)
    >>Estimates, 1997-1998, main
    >>>Tabled, 63 (8520-361-25)
    >>Estimates, 1998-1999, main
    >>>Tabled, 618 (8520-361-108)
    >>>Vote 15 (Penitentiary Service and National Parole Service--Operating expenditures) see Estimates, 1998-1999, Solicitor General
    >>Estimates, 1999-2000, main
    >>>Tabled, 1671 (8520-361-194)
    >>See also Sustainable development; Union of Solicitor General Employees and the Correctional Service of Canada

Corrections and Conditional Release Act see Criminal Code and Corrections and Conditional Release Act (amdt.--cumulative sentencing)(Bill C-251); Criminal Code and Corrections and Conditional Release Act (amdt.--victims' rights)(Bill C-294); Criminal Code, Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and Corrections and Conditional Release Act (amdt.)(Bill C-51)

Corrections and Conditional Release Act (Bill C-292)--Marceau

Corrections and Conditional Release Act (amdt.--accelerated parole reviews)(Bill C-416)--Marceau

Corrections and Conditional Release Act (amdt.--definition of "child")(Bill C-337--Harb

Corrections and Conditional Release Act (amdt.--withdrawal of applications for full parole by offenders serving two or more years)(Bill C-388)--Cadman

Corrections and Conditional Release Act Subcommittee

Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (Bill S-21)

    >>Received from Senate, 1395
    >>1st r, 1402
    >>2nd r, 1402, agreed to, 1404
    >>Committee of the Whole
    >>>Referral, 1404
    >>>Report without amdt.,1404
    >>Report stage, agreed to, 1404
    >>3rd r, agreed to on division, 1404-5
    >>Royal Assent, (Chap. 34, S.C. 1998), 1440

Countervailing duties see Imports

Cowichan Tribes

    >>Tobacco tax see Budget Implementation Act 1998 (Bill C-36)

Crab see Snow crab

Credit Card Interest Limitation Act (Bill C-301)--de Savoye

Credit cards

    >>Bad debt relief, Goods and Services Tax (GST)/Harmonized Sales Tax (HST)
    >>>Ways and Means No. 28, tabled, 2054 (8570-361-29), concurrence, M. (Martin, Paul), agreed to on division, 2093
    >>>See also Sales Tax and Excise Tax Amendments Act, 1999 (Bill C-88)
    >>Interest rates see Credit Card Interest Limitation Act (Bill C-301)

Credit Ombudsman Act (Bill C-396)--Nystrom

Credit Ombudsman Office

    >>Establishing see Credit Ombudsman Act (Bill C-396)

Cree-Naskapi Commission

    >>Reports tabled and permanently referred to Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Standing Committee
    >>>1998 report, 1143 (8560-361-615)

Cree-Naskapi (of Quebec) Act see Canadian Forces Superannuation Act, Carriage by Air Act, Cree-Naskapi (of Quebec) Act, Criminal Code, Pension Act and Royal Canadian Mounted Police Superannuation Act (amdt.)(Bill C-345)

Crime

    >>Break and enter, minimum two year sentence see Criminal Code (amdt.--breaking and entering)(Bill C-475)
    >>Firearm use
    >>>Sentencing see Criminal Code (amdt.--consecutive sentences for use of firearms in commission of offence)(Bill C-484); Criminal Code (amdt.--consecutive sentence for use of firearms in commission of offence)(Bill C-516); Firearms Act (repeal)(Bill C-236)
    >>>Statistics of firearms involved in crime, letter from Royal Canadian Mounted Police Commissioner to Justice Deputy Minister and Deputy Attorney General of Canada, tabled, 576 (8530-361-16)
    >>Investigation, national DNA data bank see DNA Identification Act (Bill C-3)
    >>Offences committed outside Canada see Criminal Code (amdt.--offence committed outside Canada)(Bill C-224)
    >>Organized crime, combatting, government commitment
    >>>Statement by Minister (MacAulay), 1372, 1388
    >>>Statement by Minister (Scott, A.), 275
    >>Profits of crime Offence to sell or authorize sale of story see Criminal Code and Copyright Act (amdt.--profit from authorship respecting a crime)(Bill C-220)
    >>>See also Money laundering (proceeds of crime)
    >>Victims of crime
    >>>Petitions
    >>>>(White, R.), (361-0659), 609, gr, 1227 (8545-361-92)
    >>>See also Criminal Code and Corrections and Conditional Release Act (amdt.--victims' rights)(Bill C-294)
    >>See also Automobiles; Corporations; Crimes against humanity; Currency--Bank notes--Thousand dollar note; Firearms--Statistics; Forgery; Fraud; Organized crime; Parole--Accelerated parole review; Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) Act (Bill C-81); Theft; War crimes