Vote #98 on April 8th, 2014

C-31 An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on February 11, 2014 and other measures

That the motion be amended by deleting all the words after the word “That” and substituting the following:

“the House decline to give second reading to Bill C-31, An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on February 11, 2014 and other measures, because it:

( a) amends more than sixty Acts without adequate parliamentary debate and oversight;

( b) does nothing to create quality, good-paying jobs for Canadians and fails to extend the hiring credit for small business;

( c) fails to reverse devastating cuts to infrastructure and healthcare;

( d) hands over private financial information of hundreds of thousands of Canadians to the US Internal Revenue Service under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act;

( e) reduces transparency at the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency;

        (f) imposes tolls on the Champlain Bridge;

( g) jeopardizes the independence of eleven federal administrative tribunals; and

( h) enables the government to weaken regulations affecting rail safety and the transport of dangerous goods without notifying the public.”.

See context in the Debates.