I have the honour to inform the House that when the House went up to the Senate Chamber the Deputy Governor General was pleased to give, in Her Majesty's name, the royal assent to the following bills:
Bill C-29, an act to regulate interprovincial trade in and the importation for commercial purposes of certain manganese based substances-Chapter No. 11;
Bill C-5, an act to amend the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act, and the Income Tax Act-Chapter No. 12;
Bill C-71, an act to regulate the manufacture, sale, labelling and promotion of tobacco products and to make consequential amendments to another act and to repeal certain acts-Chapter No. 13;
Bill C-81, an act to implement the Canada-Chile free trade agreement and related agreements-Chapter No. 14;
Bill C-82, an act to amend certain laws relating to financial institutions-Chapter No. 15;
Bill C-27, an act to amend the Criminal Code (child prostitution, child sex tourism, criminal harassment and female genital mutilation)-Chapter No. 16;
Bill C-55, an act to amend the Criminal Code (high risk offenders), the Corrections and Conditional Release Act, the Criminal Records Act, the Prisons and Reformatories Act and the Department of the Solicitor General-Chapter No. 17;
Bill C-17, an act to amend the Criminal Code and certain other acts-ChapterNo. 18;
Bill C-77, an act concerning an order under the International Development (financial institutions) Assistance Act-Chapter No. 19.
Bill C-34, an act to establish programs for the marketing of agricultural products, to repeal the Agricultural Board Act, the Agricultural Products Co-operative Marketing Act, the Advance Payments for Crops Act, and the Prairie Grain Advance Payments Act and to make consequential amendments to other acts-ChapterNo. 20;
Bill C-38, an act to provide for mediation between insolvent farmers and their creditors, to amend the Agriculture and Agri-Food Administrative Monetary Penalties Act and to repeal the Farm Debt Review Act-Chapter No. 21;
Bill C-84, an act to amend the Citizenship Act and the Immigration Act-Chapter No. 22;
Bill C-95, an act to amend the Criminal Code (criminal organizations) and to amend other acts in consequence-Chapter No. 23;
Bill C-32, an act to amend the Copyright Act-Chapter No. 24;
Bill C-92, an act to amend the Income Tax Act, the Income Tax Application Rules and another act related to the Income Tax Act-Chapter No. 25;
Bill C-93, an act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on February 18, 1997-Chapter No. 26;
Bill C-37, an act to implement an agreement between Canada and the Russian Federation, a Convention between Canada and the Republic of South Africa, an agreement between Canada and the United Republic of Tanzania, an agreement between Canada and the Republic of India, and a Convention between Canada and the Ukraine for the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income-Chapter No. 27;
Bill C-39, an act respecting the York Factory First Nation and settlement of matters arising from an agreement relating to the flooding of land-Chapter No. 28;
Bill C-40, an act respecting the Nelson House First Nation and the settlement of matters arising from an agreement relating to the flooding of land-Chapter No. 29;
Bill C-46, an act to amend the Criminal Code (production of records in sexual offence proceedings)-Chapter No. 30;
Bill C-300, an act respecting the establishment and award of a Canadian peacekeeping service medal for Canadians who have served with an international peacekeeping mission-Chapter No. 31;
Bill S-15, an act to amend an act to incorporate the bishop of the Arctic of the Church of England in Canada.